Robert J. McCann is Vice Chairman and President of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.’s Global Private Client Group. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Management and Operating Committees.

Since joining the firm in 1982, McCann has served in a variety of leadership positions including head of Global Equities, head of Global Securities Research &Economics, Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets & Investment Banking and Vice Chairman of the Wealth Management Group.

McCann is a member of the Board of Trustees of Bethany College and the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The American Ireland Fund and as a consultant to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostle See (A.P.S.A).

McCann, whose family roots are in County Armagh, is also chairman of the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) Executive Advisory Board. He is married with two children.