State Street Corp. announced that David Puth has been named to a newly created position as head of State Street’s investment research, securities finance and trading activities worldwide. Puth will report to Jay Hooley, president and chief operating officer of State Street. He will also join the company’s operating group, State Street’s senior-most strategy and policy-making team.
Puth has more than two decades of experience managing and leading capital markets and trading businesses within global financial firms in Europe and the United States including Citigroup and JP Morgan heritage corporations. Puth is a member of the boards of the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in New York City, and the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. He is also a trustee of the Berkshire School, a preparatory school in Sheffield, Mass. Puth holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University.-Business Wire
