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.