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Karen B. Peetz
Vice Chairman and CEO, Financial Markets and Treasury Services BNY Mellon
Karen Peetz oversees some 17,000 employees located in 115 cities, fifty of which are outside of the United States. She is vice chairman of BNY Mellon and chief executive officer of the company’s financial markets and treasury services, which include treasury services, corporate trust, depositary receipts, shareowner services, broker-dealer clearing, collateral management and alternative investment services.
Collectively, Peetz’s businesses represent approximately 40 percent of the 2010 revenue and over 50 percent of pretax income in 2010. Additionally, each BNY Mellon business commands a leading global market position and ranks among the company’s most visible and best performing franchises serving clients worldwide.
gage loans for the Resolution Trust Corporation and other federal agencies. She also worked as vice president at Bear Stearns and started her career at Lehman Brothers in corpo- rate finance.
Patricia E. Yarrington Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Chevron
At a time when job-hopping has become the norm, Patricia Yarrington has enjoyed a lengthy partnership with Chevron. Since coming aboard in 1980, she has held various financial and analytical positions in the corporation and with Chevron U.S.A. Inc. In 1986, she was named manager of
Donna Sims Wilson
Executive Vice President CastleOak Securities L.P.
In January 2011, the veteran rainmaker, who knows how to boost revenue with private corporations, institutional investors and public pension plans, joined CastleOak. The five-year-old boutique investment company was attracted to the special skills the graduate of Yale University possesses. Sims has worked in equity sales and corporate finance
for more than 25 years. She also has a wealth of experience dealing with federal government departments and agencies that deal with mortgage-lending-related laws. Prior to joining CastleOak, Wilson was president of M.R. Beal & Company. She had been in that post, at the investment bank that specializes in municipal and corporate finance—as well as equity and fixed-income sales and trading—since 2009. Previously, Wilson was M.R. Beal’s executive vice president and head of equity sales and trading. She also served as the firm’s senior vice president and director of the Federal Finance Group, where she had responsibility for the securiti- zation of single-family, multi-family and commercial mort-
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investor relations for the corporation, before going on to hold supervisory positions of increasing responsibility in Chevron Products Co., Chevron U.S.A. Production Co., and Chevron Research and Technology Co. The promotions kept on coming, and in August 2000, Yarrington was named Vice President of Strategic Planning for Chevron. Just two years later, she was named vice president of policy, government, and public affairs. In this capacity, she oversaw U.S. and inter- national government relations, all aspects of corporate communications, and the company’s worldwide efforts in community outreach. In 2008, she assumed her current position. Ms. Yarrington also serves on the San Francisco Federal Reserve’s board of directors.
Maritza Villanueva
Treasurer CITGO
Maritza Villanueva became CITGO’s treasurer in June 2006. She joined the company in 2003 and worked at the CITGO parent company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), where she held several positions of financial responsibility, includ- ing functional manager of treasury and
manager of financial operations. As treasurer for CITGO, her responsibilities include cash management activities, debt negotiations, and debt compliance reporting. She is a true veteran of the finance industry, with 20 years of financial management experience in the energy business. Villanueva holds a bachelor’s degree in public accounting from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, and a master’s degree in administrative sciences from the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.
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