David Polansky

Board of Visitors

David Polansky
Managing Director
The Bank of New York Mellon

David Polansky, '87, is a Managing Director of The Bank of New York Mellon.  He heads National (US, Puerto Rico and the USVI) Business Development for the Public Finance group within Corporate Trust. 

Prior to this, David held a wide variety of positions in the financial services industry, including working as a consultant/trainer to large financial institutions, where he helped employees with consultative selling and sales management skills.  David was formerly a Metro New York City Executive at US Trust in New York.  In this role, David was responsible for helping to build the Firm’s high net worth business.  He also was a Managing Director and Head of the JP Morgan (JPM) Private Bank’s effort to develop and target owners and key executives of middle market businesses in New York City and Westchester County, New York.  Before this role, David was the Head of the Multi-Manager Investment Advisory Group at the JPM Private Bank.  In this capacity, he was charged with the merging of the three heritage firms’ (JPM, Chase, H&Q) “open architecture” teams into a cohesive operating unit. He was also responsible for the oversight and management of all the marketing/client advisory, investment, and infrastructure functions.

Before joining JPM, David worked in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Private Wealth Management Group and Morgan Stanley Asset Management.

David serves on The Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business Board of Visitors.  He was also Chairman of The Smeal MBA Alumni Advisory Board.  David has been named Alumni Advisor to the Professional Management Group, a student organization at Penn State.

David earned his B.S. from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University.