Fast Facts about Ash

Name: Ash Brace 

Hometown Mount Olive, New Jersey, United States  

Current location/office: Tempe, Arizona, United States  

Years at Northern Trust: 3 years  

Role: Site Business Manager

Business Unit: Asset Servicing  

Organizations you are involved with: 

Arizona Humane Society, Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), Feed My Starving Children, Ryan House

Fast Facts about Murugan

Name: Murugan Sunder

Hometown & Current Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India 

Years at Northern Trust: 12 years  

Role: Operations Manager, Team Hedge Fund Services 

Business Unit: GFS (Asset Servicing) 

Organizations you are involved with:  

SKID -The Deaf Aid Society, Mylos Foundation, Food Bank Bangalore, and government schools – I volunteer throughout the year at multiple charities. 

Fast Facts about Callum

Hometown: Edinburgh, Scotland 

Current location/office: Melbourne, Australia 

Years at Northern Trust: 6 years 

Role: Consultant 

Business Unit: Corporate 

Organizations you are involved with: 

Food for Change, Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Fast Facts about Shahin

Name: Shahin Awan 

Hometown: Toronto, Canada

Current location/office: London, United Kingdom 

Years at Northern Trust: 25 

Role: Head of EMEA Account Management 

Business Unit: Northern Trust Asset Management 

Organizations you are involved with: 

Various causes close to my heart: working with domestic violence survivors, food and period poverty 

Fast Facts about Maria

Name Maria Hernandez

Hometown: Miami, Florida, United States 

Current location/office: Chicago, Illinois, United States 

Years at Northern Trust: 8 years 

Role: Portfolio Advisor 

Business Unit: Wealth Management 

Fast Facts about Ryan

Name: Ryan Schwaar

Hometown: Mundelein, Illinois, United States 

Current location/office: Chicago, Illinois, United States 

Years at Northern Trust: 3.5 years 

Role: Training Consultant, Hedge Fund Services Learning & Development 

Business Unit: Asset Servicing 

Organizations you are involved with:  

I tutor a middle school student weekly through Tutoring Chicago, which I’ve been doing since September 2023, prior to which I tutored through Working in the Schools. I also work with college students through One Million Degrees. 

Fast Facts about Saikat

Name Saikat Maji

Hometown: Asansol, West Bengal, India 

Current location/office: Bangalore, Karnataka, India 

Years at Northern Trust: 14 years 

Role: Section Manager, Payment Ops 

Business Unit: Asset Servicing  

Organizations you’re involved with: 

Shishu Mandir, Wildlife SOS, Diya Ghar 

Achieving Greater Together 2025 Results

Thank you to our employees around the world for making the 2025 annual month of service – Achieving Greater Together – truly extraordinary. Together, we showed up to make meaningful impact in our communities. In October, we volunteered more than 63,000 hours, supported 1,500 nonprofits and donated more than 3 million meals to those in need.

Watch our 2025 AGT Recap video here