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 Senior ESG 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.