James J. Killerlane III is the corporate secretary, managing director and deputy
general counsel of BNY Mellon. Jim oversees all corporate and board
governance at BNY Mellon and serves as the chief securities officer. He is also
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. Before joining AIG, Jim
served as an executive director at Morgan Stanley, where he served as an
assistant secretary 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. He currently serves on
the national board of the Society for Corporate Governance, where he serves
on each of the audit and membership and education committees, and
previously served as the president of the New York Chapter. Jim also serves on
the advisory council of the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance
Roundtable and on the board of the Red Bull Theater and several non-profit
institutions.