Gary is Head of Global Strategic Solutions for Northern Trust's asset servicing business.

His primary focus is on working with current and prospective clients to understand their foremost challenges and to help them implement solutions thereto. This includes collaborating with executives in front office investment management roles on their use of tools and technology that support their efficiency and decision-making.

Gary is the author of Northern Trust thought leadership including The Weekender, his weekly perspective on global market developments and their potential broader implications, and Outside-in Thinking, a series sharing ideas for how the asset servicing industry can design solutions bringing clients closer to achieving their objectives.

Prior to taking up his current role, Gary was Global Head of Integrated Trading Solutions, Northern Trust’s outsourced trading service. He joined Northern Trust in May 2016 with the acquisition of brokerage firm Aviate Global, where he was a co-founder and responsible for its Research offering.

Gary has a Law Degree from Victoria University in New Zealand and a degree in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University. Prior to founding Aviate Global in 2007, Gary worked at Merrill Lynch in London in Equity Sales. He is also a registered representative with the FCA and FINRA and holds his Series 17 and 63 license.