State Street Corporation has announced that Eric Aboaf, vice chairman and chief financial officer, has made the decision to accept a new opportunity outside of banking and is expected to leave State Street in February of 2025. State Street has commenced its succession plan with a formal internal and external search process and Aboaf will stay on and work closely with the State Street team into February to ensure an orderly transition.
JPMorganChase has elected Brad D. Smith as a director of the company, effective January 21, 2025. Smith has been the President of Marshall University since January 2022. Before returning to serve his alma mater, he was the CEO of Intuit for 11 years where he helped redefine the company from a North American desktop software company to a global cloud-based platform, growing its customer base worldwide through offerings including TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint. He also served as Chair and Executive Chair of Intuit and held several leadership positions at ADP, PepsiCo, 7UP, and ADVO. He currently serves on the boards of Amazon.com Inc., Humana Inc. and the Marshall Health Network.
Gurbir S. Grewal, most recently Director of the Division of Enforcement of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Milbank as a partner in New York. Prior to serving as Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, Grewal served as Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, Bergen County Prosecutor, and a federal criminal prosecutor for both the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the US Attorney’s Office for New Jersey.
Katherine Keefe will be joining Kroll as Managing Director and Global Cyber Insurance Industry Lead for Kroll’s cyber insurance capabilities worldwide. She previously served as the US Cyber Incident Management Leader at Marsh where she was responsible for leading cyber response and event management, including data breaches and ransomware attacks.
J.P. Morgan Private Capital has hired Paris Heymann as a new Co-Managing Partner. Heymann joins from Index Ventures where he served as Partner and helped establish the firm’s New York office, focusing on software, data, and AI companies across horizontal and vertical markets. Prior to that he was Partner at Arena Holdings where he invested globally in public and private technology companies.
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