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Rob McClenaghan-Harrop
Head of Global Liquidity Operations at BNY Mellon
About
Bio: Rob McClenaghan-Harrop is a Senior Vice President, Head of Global Liquidity Operations at BNY Mellon, based in Manchester. His global team span 5 global locations and are responsible for providing back office liquidity management services for Corporate Treasury and other internal stakeholders, ensuring funding is in place to facilitate client activity in over 30 international markets.
Rob has over 17 years of financial services experience having joined BNY Mellon in 2006 as a Junior Fund Accountant. During his career, he has worked in Manchester, Edinburgh and Pune, India. Rob has extensive experience in leading teams to deliver excellent client service while navigating change at a rapid pace, and for formulating and delivering a strategic vision for his group.
When not working, Rob is a keen fan of rugby union and is a season ticket holder for Sale Sharks. He was previously a Director and Treasury for the Manchester Village Spartans, an inclusive rugby team. He is also an avid Lego collector and runner, taking part in various distance runs to raise funds for a number of LGBTQ+ charities. Most of his downtime is now spent raising his two sons who he adopted with his husband in 2019.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community already, Rob uses his position of privilege as a cis-gendered white gay men, to advocate for further equality and inclusion particularly in relation to trans and gender non-conforming people. He is passionate about advancing a culture of true diversity, equity and inclusion where every colleague can feel psychologically safe and able to live their authentic truths.
Rob has over 17 years of financial services experience having joined BNY Mellon in 2006 as a Junior Fund Accountant. During his career, he has worked in Manchester, Edinburgh and Pune, India. Rob has extensive experience in leading teams to deliver excellent client service while navigating change at a rapid pace, and for formulating and delivering a strategic vision for his group.
When not working, Rob is a keen fan of rugby union and is a season ticket holder for Sale Sharks. He was previously a Director and Treasury for the Manchester Village Spartans, an inclusive rugby team. He is also an avid Lego collector and runner, taking part in various distance runs to raise funds for a number of LGBTQ+ charities. Most of his downtime is now spent raising his two sons who he adopted with his husband in 2019.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community already, Rob uses his position of privilege as a cis-gendered white gay men, to advocate for further equality and inclusion particularly in relation to trans and gender non-conforming people. He is passionate about advancing a culture of true diversity, equity and inclusion where every colleague can feel psychologically safe and able to live their authentic truths.
Rob has held a number of DEI related roles including Chair of the Manchester DEI Action Group, Manchester Chair for PRISM, BNY Mellon's LGBTQ+ Employee and Business Resource Group and most recently as EMEA Co Chair. In these roles he has worked to advance LGBTQ+ education and awareness within the organisation, contributing to the creation of trans guidelines for managers, advocating for the inclusion of pronouns in emails and corporate profiles, and helping to roll out Allyship training to a large number of colleagues. He is a regular panellist on diversity topics and talks often about the need for an intersectional view of DEI. As an adoptive parents, Rob also speaks at events, both internally and externally, to encourage others, particularly members of the LGBTQ+ community, to consider adoption.
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