Ron O'Hanley

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, State Street

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Ron O'Hanley is chairman, president and chief executive officer of State Street Corporation, the Boston custody bank and asset manager. He has run the company since 2019.

Profile

O'Hanley became State Street's president and chief executive in 2019 and added the chairman's title in 2020, according to the company's 2026 proxy statement. He joined State Street in 2015 to run State Street Global Advisors, its asset management arm, as chief executive and president, and moved to the parent company in 2017 as vice chairman and then president and chief operating officer.

Before State Street he was president of asset management and corporate services at Fidelity Investments from 2010 to 2014. Earlier he spent more than a decade at BNY Mellon, where he was chief executive and president of BNY Mellon Asset Management from 2007 to 2010.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and an MBA from Harvard. Outside State Street he is a director of Unum Group and of The Ireland Funds and a trustee of Beth Israel Lahey Health. State Street's 13F report for June 30, 2026, filed as an amendment in September 2026, listed $3.38 trillion of U.S.-listed securities.

Worth knowing

Before taking over State Street he ran asset management at two rivals, BNY Mellon and Fidelity.
State Street's proxy lists him as the only non-independent member of its 13-person director slate.

Sources · written 23 October 2026