Diana Pagliarini
Executive Vice President, General Auditor

Diana Pagliarini is an executive vice president (EVP) and general auditor at State Street Corporation. In this role, she leads the internal audit function to ensure the company’s operations, financial reporting and compliance with requirements are effective and reliable. To maintain independence, she has a direct reporting line to the Board of Director’s Examining and Audit Committee. She has an administrative reporting line to the Chief Executive Officer. She also participates in the company’s Executive Committee and Operating Group meetings.

With 36 years of experience in the banking industry, including 17 years in board-visible roles, Diana’s transformational leadership has improved processes, functions and departments while influencing policy changes and risk practices at the enterprise level. She has a credible voice in challenging process vulnerabilities, designing risk management strategies and driving improved compliance results. She is known for assembling strong teams, leading process improvement and demonstrating commitment to career development.

Diana joined State Street in 2018. Prior to her appointment as general auditor in 2020, she was a senior vice president and head of Financial and Regulatory Assurance in the Finance division. She provided oversight for the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program, Regulatory Reporting Assurance and Regulation Assurance teams, which were focused on strengthening internal controls and risk governance practices through assurance activities including control, data integrity and conformance testing.

Before joining State Street, Diana was an EVP at Citizens Financial Group, Inc., where she was the head of Risk for the Finance division and led programs and initiatives for sound risk management practices across the Finance division. She joined Citizens as audit director in 2012 with internal audit oversight of the customer-facing businesses and Internal Audit's operations. As the department’s chief operating officer, she positioned the function for initial public offering readiness.

Diana held the positions of general auditor and chief operating risk officer at Webster Financial Corporation. As general auditor, she established and executed plans that improved the regulatory rating of the function from “Weak” to “Strong”. She held various leadership roles at the Bank of America in Internal Audit and Risk, designing and implementing process improvement programs that elevated risk management effectiveness, reduced operating costs and was awarded a United States patent.

Diana resides in Rhode Island (RI) and holds professional designations as a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Bank Auditor and Six Sigma Green Belt. She holds a Bachelor of Business Management degree from the University of Rhode Island. She served as a board member and Governance Committee chair for Big Sisters of RI, where she led a transformational change in board membership and served as a mentor to young women and girls in high-risk circumstances. More recently, she serves as an advisory board member for Scholars of Finance, which is a non-profit organization focused on inspiring the character and integrity in the finance leaders of tomorrow.