Thomas P. (Todd) Gibbons currently serves as the interim Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon and a member of the company’s Board of Directors.
Since 2017, Todd has been a Vice Chairman of BNY Mellon and CEO of Clearing, Markets and Client Management. In that role he oversaw the Pershing clearing business; the trading, financing, collateral and liquidity management solutions delivered through the Markets business; treasury services and commercial payment activities; the U.S. government securities clearance and U.S. tri-party repo businesses delivered through BNY Mellon Government Securities Services Corp; credit services; global client management; and regional area management. From 2008 through 2017, he served as CFO. Previously, for nearly a decade he was Chief Risk Officer, overseeing credit, operational and market risk management of the company and The Bank of New York.
Todd also served as CFO of The Bank of New York for almost a year prior to the merger. He first joined The Bank of New York in 1986 and held top management positions in the capital markets business, including head of global treasury, with responsibility for asset and liability management, funding, money market trading, swaps and derivative products. Prior to joining The Bank of New York, he was assistant treasurer at Handy and Harman, a leading refiner, processor and fabricator of precious metals.
Todd is a member of BNY Mellon's Executive Committee, the organization's most senior management body. He is also a director of BNY Mellon's European Bank, The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, and serves on the advisory board of Wake Forest University's Business School.
He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Wake Forest University and an MBA from Pace University
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, doing business as BNY Mellon, is an American worldwide banking and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. It was formed on July 1, 2007, as a result of the merger of The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation. It is by far the world's largest custodian bank and asset servicing company, with $1.9 trillion in assets under management and $35.8 trillion in assets under custody as of the third quarter of 2019. BNY Mellon is incorporated in New York.
Through its Bank of New York predecessor, it is one of the three oldest banking corporations in the United States, and among the oldest banks in the world, having been established in June 1784 by a group that included American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and Aaron Burr. Mellon had been founded in 1869 by the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, which included Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon.
