Diana Pagliarini
Executive Vice President, General Auditor

Diana Pagliarini is executive vice president and general auditor at State Street Corporation. In this role, she establishes, manages and evolves the company-wide corporate audit plan to ensure that risk is appropriately managed and governed. To maintain independence, which is a critical component of the general auditor’s role, 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 and 18 years in board-visible roles, Diana’s transformational leadership in developing and executing strategic plans has improved processes, functions and departments while influencing policy changes and risk practices at the enterprise level. Through routine interactions with executive leadership and the board of directors, she has a credible voice in challenging process vulnerabilities, designing risk management strategies and driving improved compliance results. She is known for her leadership impact, process effectiveness and passionate commitment to career development and performance coaching.

Diana joined us in 2018 and prior to her appointment as general auditor, she was head of Financial and Regulatory Assurance in the Finance division. She provided oversight for the Sarbanes-Oxley program and Regulatory Reporting Assurance teams which were focused on strengthening internal controls and risk governance practices.

Prior to State Street, Diana was an executive vice president at Citizens Financial Group, Inc., where she was the head of Risk for the Finance division; she held the positions of general auditor and chief operating risk officer at Webster Financial Corporation; and she held various leadership roles at the Bank of America in Internal Audit and Risk.

Diana holds professional designations as a certified internal auditor, certified bank auditor and is Six Sigma certified. She holds a Bachelor of Business Management degree from the University of Rhode Island. She is an Advisory Board member for the Scholars of Finance, which is focused on developing the future leaders of finance with strong ethical practices. She previously served as a board member and Governance Committee chair for Big Sisters of Rhode Island, where she led a transformational change in board membership and served as a mentor to young women and girls in high-risk circumstances.