James Killerlane

James J. Killerlane III was the previous Corporate Secretary, Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel of BNY Mellon. Jim oversaw all corporate and board governance at BNY Mellon and served as the company's Chief Securities Officer. In this role, he supported the Board of Directors for the BNY Parent, Institutional Bank and Wealth Bank, as well as the Boards for all material international subsidiaries. Jim was a member of the Legal Department's Senior Staff and Senior Sponsor of the BNY Mellon Pro Bono Program.

Before joining BNY Mellon in April 2019, Jim was an Assistant Secretary and Associate General Counsel at AIG where he was the Head of Securities and Corporate Governance. Jim's principal areas of oversight included SEC and other public disclosure, corporate governance, Dodd Frank and Sarbanes Oxley related matters. Before joining AIG, Jim served as an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, where he served as an Assistant Secretary for the parent company with respect to SEC, corporate governance and other disclosure matters, as well as the Corporate Secretary of the three Morgan Stanley banks. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Jim was a Senior Vice President and Assistant Secretary at Lehman Brothers. He began his career at Winston & Strawn and Battle Fowler. Jim graduated from Princeton University and received a JD from Fordham University Law School, where he was the Business Editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and a member of Fordham’s Moot Court Board.

Jim currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Roundtable, as a Governance & Sustainability Center Fellow to the Conference Board, as a Fellow to the Salzburg Center for Corporate Governance, as a Contributing Member to the Stockholder Relations Society and on the Board of the Red Bull Theater and several non-profit institutions. He is a former member of the National Board of the Society for Corporate Governance, where he served on each of the Audit and Membership and Education Committees, and previously served as the President of the New York Chapter.