Hilary Corman Kirsch is the US Head of Institutional Distribution for State Street Investment Management (SSIM). Ms. Corman joined SSIM in 2020 and was responsible for a team in ETF distribution selling to all Institutional channels. These included Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Single Family Offices, Pensions, Endowments, Foundations and Insurance clients. In 2025 Ms. Corman’s role expanded to build a larger Insurance team as well as adding OCIO and Sub Advisory distribution to her remit. In January of 2026 she was asked to take on US Institutional sales across all wrapper types.

Previously Ms. Corman was the interim Co-Head of Institutional at iShares for Blackrock. Ms. Corman joined BlackRock in 2013 with over 20 years of experience in investment banking, institutional equity brokerage and indexing. She began at the firm as Co-Head of the Asset Manager/ETF Strategist/Hedge Fund & Family Office channel in iShares. In 2014 she became Head of the channel and in 2016 was asked to be interim Co-Head of the Institutional Business.

Before joining BlackRock she was a Senior Managing Director in charge of US Equity Sales at Guggenheim Securities. Prior to being recruited by Guggenheim, Ms. Corman was the North American Regional Head of Equity Sales at Markit NA, a financial data and Technology Company (now SPGI). At Markit NA, Ms. Corman was key to developing and selling a premier ETF solutions product as well as building the Equity business for the firm. Prior to that, Ms. Corman was a Managing Director at Bank of America Securities where she ran a northeast sales team until she was promoted to Senior Relationship Manager in 2007. Prior to Bank of America, Ms. Corman worked in both New York and London for Citigroup and JP Morgan in Global Equities in both Sales and Management capacities. Ms. Corman was named one of the 50 most influential women in Private Wealth in 2016. She holds a BSBA from Georgetown University in Finance and International Business and an MBA from Columbia Business School in Finance and Accounting.