Pershing names Hardwick COO as Dolly steps into CEO role

Pershing names Hardwick COO as Dolly steps into CEO role
Lori Hardwick is joining from Envestnet and will start at the end of the month.
FEB 04, 2016
Pershing has named Lori Hardwick chief operating officer of the Bank of New York Mellon Corp.-owned brokerage and custody services business. Ms. Hardwick is joining Pershing from Envestnet Inc., a wealth management technology company, and will begin her new role on Feb. 29, according to a company statement Tuesday. She's replacing Lisa Dolly, who last week was appointed Jersey City, N.J.-based Pershing's chief executive officer. Ms. Hardwick worked for Evestnet for almost 16 years, most recently as president of advisory services for the Chicago-based company, overseeing enterprise relationship management, sales and strategic partnerships, according to the statement. Before that, she was a regional vice president at Nuveen Investments, where she worked with independent advisers in 10 Midwestern states. (More: Hardwick: Women need support at work and at home in order to succeed)

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