Rich Brueckner

   Richard Brueckner
   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
   Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

 

 

Richard Brueckner is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. Mr. Brueckner is also a Senior Executive Vice President of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Brueckner joined The Bank of New York in May 2003, when the company acquired Pershing from Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). He served as Chief Executive Officer of Pershing, and as a member of the CSFB Executive Board after CSFB's acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) Securities Corporation and Pershing in November 2000. Mr. Brueckner joined DLJ in 1978 and served as Treasurer of DLJ and Chief Financial Officer of Pershing, where he has held a variety of senior management positions in administration, finance, marketing, and operations. Prior to that, he was a member of the management group of the Investment Services Department of KPMG Peat Marwick.  

Mr. Brueckner currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority® (FINRATM, formerly known as the NASDTM), the primary regulator of firms in the securities industry in the United States. Mr. Brueckner has served as a Governor for the NASD and a Director for NASD Regulation, where he was Presiding Governor, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee and the Governance Committee. He has previously served as Chairman of the NASD's National Adjudicatory Council and as Chairman of the NASD's New York District Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and has served as SIFMA's Co-Treasurer, as Co-Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. He is also a Trustee of SIFMA's Foundation for Investor Education. He has been active in SIFMA, serving as the founding Chairman of the Clearing Firms Committee, Chairman of the Membership Committee, Chairman of the New York District, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education.

Mr. Brueckner has also served on the Board of Archipelago LLC and as a Trustee for the Frontier Trust Company in Fargo, North Dakota, and the United Way of Hudson County, New Jersey. Mr. Brueckner is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Muhlenberg College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, and in 1973 became a Certified Public Accountant in New York.