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Mellon Boosts Asset Servicing Business with Two Senior Appointments
LONDON, 11 December 2006 — Mellon Financial Corporation's asset servicing business has strengthened its client relationship management team with the appointments of Stephen Trott and Chris Cecil.
Trott joins Mellon as Senior Client Relationship Executive, based at the firm's Brentwood office, and will focus on managing clients of Mellon's transfer agency and fund accounting businesses. With over 25 years experience in the financial services industry, Trott most recently held the position of UK Asset Management Sales Director at financial software provider DST International.
Based in Edinburgh as a Client Relationship Executive, Cecil will be responsible for managing and growing Mellon's relationships with a number of key UK clients ensuring Mellon continues to focus on providing exceptional service and specialist knowledge. Cecil has over 12 years of third party administration experience, including five years with Mellon at the firm's Brentwood office. Most recently, he was Head of Client Service Delivery at Mellon, where he oversaw the implementation of the Transfer Agency Service Delivery team and the creation of the Institutional Client Services team.
Lawrence Langenhan, Head of Client Relations within Mellon's asset servicing business development team, comments: "These appointments will strengthen our world class asset servicing capability and underline our determination to invest and attract the best specialists to achieve our vision. Stephen and Chris are both very talented individuals with a wealth of experience — we are delighted they have chosen to join our teams in Brentwood and Edinburgh."
Mellon has over 30 years of international experience in providing transfer agency and investor servicing solutions to leading fund providers, and currently administers approximately two million investor accounts. The business continues to exhibit strong growth in its traditional mutual fund administration business as well as diversification into areas such as Child Trust Funds and structured products.
Mellon Financial Corporation is a global financial services company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Mellon is one of the world's leading providers of financial services for institutions, corporations and high net worth individuals, providing asset management, private wealth management, asset servicing, and payment solutions and investor services. Mellon has approximately $5.3 trillion in assets under management, administration or custody, including