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Ben Slavin joined BNY Mellon in 2020, as the Global Head of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Ben joined the bank with over 25 years of experience in asset management, focused on ETFs. Recently, Ben expanded his mandate to drive the Commercial Strategy across other financial products including Mutual Funds, Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs), Collective Investment Trusts (CITs), alongside ETFs. Role includes BNY’s proprietary Growth Dynamics team which provides distribution insights to clients globally.

After graduating from Columbia University, Ben began his career with PwC which included an extended role with Barclays Global Investors, assisting the firm with the initial launch and development of the iShares business.

Subsequently, he joined SEI Investments where he was responsible for the development of the Company’s ETF distribution platform designed for the iShares business. He subsequently joined ProShares (now a Top 10 ETF platform) as a start-up focused on building the firm’s leveraged/inverse ETF business. Ben returned to New York with Morgan Stanley Investment Management, responsible for product management for the firm’s open and closed-end mutual fund business.

In 2007, Ben returned to ETFs joining WisdomTree as a start-up serving as the Global Head of Product & Business Development playing a key role in building the firm into another Top 10 global ETF platform. He focused on a wide range of responsibilities, which including leading global product for U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan. He also worked to develop distribution relationships in Latin America, Asia, and Australia, and managed all key global firm-wide relationships including asset servicing. Ben served as a member of the WisdomTree Global Risk committee, Europe Operating Executive Committee, various corporate boards, and chairman of the ESG committee. Ben also established his own ETF consulting and advisory business, servicing large asset manager and start-ups on ETFs and digital assets. Ben frequently a appears on several media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo talking about markets, flows, and key trends in asset management