Charles van der Merwe

   Charles van derMerwe
   Chief Executive Officer, Pershing Limited
   Managing Director, Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

 

Charles van der Merwe is Chief Executive Officer of Pershing Limited, an affiliate of Pershing LLC and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Mr. Van der Merwe is also a Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee for Pershing LLC. He joined Pershing from The Bank of New York following the company’s acquisition by the Bank in May 2003. Previously, as Managing Director of BNY Global Clearing in Europe, Mr. Van der Merwe had overall responsibility for growing the business and developing products, and services for both the private wealth and retail brokerage and institutional broker-dealer market segments. Prior to that, Mr. Van der Merwe was responsible for the interest rate derivatives, structured products and fixed income middle offices at J.P. Morgan Securities. He has also held financial management positions at Standard Bank of South Africa and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Van der Merwe is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK).