Yvonne Josephine Garcia

Yvonne is a Senior Vice President and Global Head of Client Solutions of the Investment Manager Services group for State Street Corporation. Yvonne has global responsibility for new client engagements and provides consulting services to existing State Street clients. Prior to State Street, Yvonne served as Director in Marketing and Distribution Strategy for Liberty Mutual’s Agency Corporation where she led the development and deployment of initiatives within Liberty’s regional companies and the creation and implementation of integrated marketing strategies. Yvonne also served as Vice President for Bank of America’s China Construction Bank Strategic Assistance. In this role, Yvonne and her team were responsible for the creation and implementation of over 80 Wealth Management Centers throughout China. In between her travels to China, Yvonne also spent over 7 weeks in North Carolina acquiring her Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt Certifications and is now a Six Sigma Black Belt. As part of her activities in the community, Yvonne serves as the National President for the largest Latino Professional Organization in the country, ALPFA. She is also the co-founder of Milagros para Niños, a board at Children’s Hospital in Boston, which has raised more than $3 million in funds for Hispanic children who can’t afford medical care. In addition, she served on Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Latino-American Advisory Commission Board. She has been presented Boston Business Journal’s 40-under-40 Award for 2008 and was selected as a Top 25 Women for Hispanic Business Magazine for 2009. Most recently, Yvonne was selected as the Top 5 Latina Executive in the Country by Latina Style Magazine for 2012. Yvonne holds an MBA from Boston University in Finance and Marketing and a BA from La Sorbonne in Paris, France where she lived studying Economics and Culture.