Saverio Mirarchi is Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer of Northern Trust, in Chicago, a position he has held since February 2008.
Before joining Northern Trust, Mirarchi was Vice President and Head of U.S. Compliance at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and CIBC World Markets Corp., in New York, from August 2004 to January 2008. Previously, he served as Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer at The Bank of New York from February 2000 to July 2004.
Saverio’s prior position was that of Vice President, International Compliance and Money Laundering Prevention, with American Express Company. He was an officer of American Express for thirteen years and his positions included Senior Counsel and Assistant Secretary, and Executive Director and Chief Compliance Officer, of American Express Bank Ltd.
A 1972 graduate of Harvard College with an A.B. cum laude in English, Saverio earned his J.D. degree from Georgetown University in 1979, after a year as a visiting student at Harvard Law School. He also studied law for one year at the Université de Lyon (Lyon III) in Lyons, France, as a Rotary International Graduate Fellow. He has worked in New York City law firms as an associate attorney, and is a member of the New York bar admitted to practice in the New York State Courts, the US District Courts in New York and the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is fluent in Italian and French and is a dual national of the US and Italy.
Saverio has a great interest in youth soccer and has served as a volunteer coach and referee for the American Youth Soccer Organization.
