Catherine O'Hara

Director - Consultant Relationships, State Street Corporation

Cate O'Hara was appointed head of State Street's US-based IIS Consultant Relationship team effective January 2004. Cate is responsible for building relationships with consultants who work with plan sponsors on trust, custody and ancillary products for their benefit plans.

Cate has more than 25 years of experience in client relationship management. She began her career as a benefit plan counselor at TIAA-CREF in the early 1980's. She moved to Bankers Trust in 1986, where she honed her relationship management skills in the defined benefit/defined contribution arena. Chase Manhattan Bank was her next stop, where she continued working on large corporate relationships in Chase's Global Securities Services division. Cate returned to Bankers Trust in 1996 as a Managing Director and Team Leader of the Corporate Retirement Services team. Deutsche Bank acquired Bankers Trust Company in 1999 and Cate stayed on until 2002. In September 2003, Cate joined the State Street Institutional Investor Services sales team, working for Wendy LaBonte in the company's New York office.

Cate resides in New York City with her husband, Ed, and her two daughters, Margaret and Helen. In her spare time, she serves as Chairperson of the Board of New York Theatre Ballet and is a member of the Financial Womens' Association.