Craig Messinger

   Craig Messinger
   Managing Director
   Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

 

Craig Messinger is a Managing Director and a member of the Executive Committee for Pershing LLC, where he is responsible for the management of Pershing Trading Services and Pershing Prime Services. He has senior management responsibility for Pershing's global agency trading, principal trading, and prime brokerage activities. Mr. Messinger is a leader in the financial services industry, bringing more than 25 years of trading services expertise to Pershing.

Before joining Pershing in 2005, he was President of Fidelity Capital Markets, and was responsible for leading the growth of the trade execution business and prime brokerage, providing execution services to institutional and retail introducing broker-dealers, and hedge funds, as well as registered investment advisors. Prior to that, he held numerous senior management positions at Lehman Brothers Inc., including President of Lehman Brothers Canada, and Head of Trading and Products for Lehman Brothers Asia. Currently, he serves on the board of the American Bankers Association securities organization. Mr. Messinger has served on REDIBook ECN, and on the boards of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange, the Archipelago Exchange, and as a member of the Executive Committee at the Bond Market Association, where he also served as Treasurer. Mr. Messinger earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.