Dreyfus Corp., a unit of Mellon Financial Corp., has promoted Thomas F. Eggers to chief executive officer and Jon Little to chairman.
Mr. Eggers, 54, is currently the unit's president and chief operating officer. Mr. Little, 42, is the CEO of Mellon Global Investments. They will succeed Steve Canter, 61, who plans to retire.
The promotions, announced Friday, will take effect Dec. 31.
Patrice Kozlowski, a spokeswoman for the New York fund unit, said the executive changes have nothing to do with the deal Mellon and Bank of New York Co. Inc. announced last week.
Mr. Eggers became Dreyfus' chief operating officer of Dreyfus in April; he had rejoined the unit a year earlier as its president, a job he had previously held from October 2001 until May 2002.
Before rejoining Dreyfus he had been the president and CEO at Scudder Investments.
Mr. Little also will become the chairman of Mellon Global Investments. He will remain co-chairman of Mellon International, which he joined in July 2000. Before that he had been the head of sales and distribution for J.P. Morgan Investment Management's international fund and subadvisory businesses outside the United States.
Dreyfus had $190 billion of mutual funds, separately managed accounts, and institutional portfolio assets under management as of Sept. 30.
