BNY Mellon has appointed Thom Fisher as General Manager of the company's Tokyo Branch and Country Executive for Japan. In his role as Country Executive, Fisher is the chief strategist, leader and senior representative for the company's business groups with regulators and clients. He will report to Christopher Sturdy, Chairman of Asia Pacific, based at the company’s regional Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

Malcolm Podmore, who has been serving as General Manager since March, will assume the role of Deputy General Manager, in addition to his role as Head of Global Operations for Japan, and locally report to Fisher.

Fisher has over 35 years experience in the asset management and securities servicing industry having held a wide range of senior management roles at Deutsche Bank, Natwest Securities Limited, Tiger Management, BPB Associates and Morgan Stanley. He was most recently a consultant to Blue Sky Strategy Limited, a UK-based hedge fund manager, specializing in the Middle East.

Fisher has worked extensively in Asia-Pacific during his long career including three years in Singapore as Chief Infrastructure Officer for Asia-Pacific at Deutsche Bank (2003-2006). Whilst at Morgan Stanley in the 1980s, Fisher spent two years in Hong Kong and three years in Tokyo where he was responsible for directing the initiative to be the first foreign firm to trade and self-clear on the Tokyo Stock exchange.