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Carolyn Weinberg is the Chief Product & Innovation Officer at BNY and a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Prior to joining BNY, Carolyn served as Chief Product Innovation Officer of BlackRock, where she was responsible for driving the product innovation, development, and commercialization of products globally for the world's largest asset manager. Carolyn and her teams mobilized the firm to build new product lines, forge strategic partnerships, and create thought leadership in support of BlackRock’s growth priorities such as digital assets, fixed income, transition finance and private markets.

Earlier in her career at BlackRock, Carolyn was Global Head of Product, iShares and Index Investments and drove the product strategy, development, and commercialization globally. In this role, she was instrumental in driving BlackRock’s growth in fixed income ETFs and sustainable indexing. She also grew strategic long-term partnerships, envisioned and created a sustainable index research team, and conceived and built new data and trading ventures.

She has four times been included on Barron's list of "100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance."

Before joining BlackRock in 2018, Carolyn created structured derivatives solutions for corporations at Citibank, where she was Head of the North America Corporate Solutions Group. Previously, she was Deutsche Bank's Head of Risk Solutions Structuring, a member of Morgan Stanley's Corporate Derivatives Group, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Carolyn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in applied mathematics and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Carolyn lives in New York City with her family and dog Gus, a Lagotto Romagnolo. She is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Carolyn also serves on the Board of The Allen-Stevenson School, on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and as an Ambassador of the Board of the US Ski and Snowboard Foundation.

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