Brian Ruane

'96, M.B.A.
Executive Vice President, Bank of New York

Brian is an Executive Vice President with global responsibility for Financial Institutions (Broker/Dealers, Hedge Funds and U.S. Bank’s). He is a member of The Bank of New York’s Risk Management Oversight Committee; The Board of Directors of Pershing, the Bank’s NYSE broker/dealer affiliate and has overall responsibility for the Bank’s Hedge Funds servicing business - BNY Alternative Investment Services. In 2003, he was co-opted onto The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Working Committee on The Future of The U.S. Government Securities Markets.

Brian is a member of The Advisory Board of The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business in Dublin Ireland and a member of the CEO Advisory Council of the Economic Intelligence Unit, an economic and business strategy think tank. In 2007 Brian joined The Advisory Board of The Frank G. Zarb School of Business, New York.

Brian is a graduate of The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in the UK and Ireland and received his MBA in International Banking and Finance from The Frank G. Zarb School of Business, New York in 1995. Brian and his wife Anna live in New York with their four children.