Donohue’s background
She brings 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, having held a number of senior roles at State Street that covered Asset Owners in addition to other client segments and were global in scope. Donohue was also a global head of performance and analytics and head of State Street Associates, State Street’s academic partnership. She also established and led State Street’s data and analytics business – the Advisory and Information Solutions business for Global Exchange. She and her team created several new business lines including investable indices and advisory solutions.
Donohue has also worked at Global Exchange, where she served as chief innovation officer. At that position, she used academic and industry knowledge to drive new solutions in the areas of portfolio analytics and data science to boost returns, control risk, optimize performance, manage liquidity, and monitor market conditions.
In her new role, Donohue will lead an experienced team of financial services professionals such as Rob Baillie, head of asset owners for North America, Benjie Fraser head of asset owners for EMEA, and Babloo Sarin, head of asset owners for APAC.
Jessica Donohue said:
Source LinkedIn
I’m excited to be leading State Street’s Asset Owner segment at such a critical time for many of our clients. Asset Owners are mission-driven organizations and require a unique level of care that the State Street team is well suited to meet. Given State Street supports some of the industry’s largest and most complex institutions with diverse portfolios and products across multiple asset classes, we are uniquely positioned to offer the Asset Owner client a truly differentiated servicing and solutioning model leveraging our global, integrated platform. Partnering with our clients to confront today’s challenges as well as being by their side to anticipate and navigate future issues that could impact their ability to achieve their investment objectives is where we perform at our best.
