Northern Trust Promotes Kimberly Evans to Head of Enterprise Strategic Relationships

Northern Trust promotes Kimberly Evans to Head of Enterprise Strategic Relationships.

In this new role, she will focus on bringing together Northern Trust’s full capabilities to deliver integrated solutions for our most sophisticated, strategic, and high-value prospect, client and vendor relationships.

Prior to her current role, Kim served as Executive Vice President and the Head of Corporate Sustainability, Inclusion, and Social Impact at Northern Trust. In this role, Kim was responsible for creating and enabling enterprise strategies for advancing sustainability, bolstering inclusion and championing social impact for the benefit of the firm’s key stakeholders.

She has 25+ years of experience driving business results in the financial services industry across several disciplines, including business strategy, P&L leadership, client servicing, technology, operations, change & project management and process optimization. Kim is known as a business transformation expert and has developed and executed business and change strategies for several financial services organizations and led teams in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, & Africa (EMEA), and Asia & Pacific (APAC).

At Northern Trust , Kim led the transformation of the NA Private Capital Fund Services business and previously led the Governmental, Sovereign Wealth, and Taft Hartley/Union pension and treasury business, in the US, Central and South America. Prior to these business and P&L roles, she was responsible for the Global Client Accounting Practice serving the data delivery and reporting needs of the firm’s institutional and wealth clients.

Kim graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science and has earned numerous business, leadership, and technical certifications throughout her career.

Kim is a 2025 LGC Daniel Burnham Fellow, Chair of the board of directors for the Chicago State University Foundation, a board director for Chicago United and the Chicago Urban League (CUL), and an advisory board member of the Executive Club of Chicago. She is also a distinctive member of C200, a powerful community of successful business women and the Economic Club of Chicago. She was named one of the Top Women Leaders in Illinois for 2024-26, one of Savoy’s 2024 & 2022 Most Influential Executives in Corporate America, one of the 50 Leading Women in the 2020 Hedge Fund Journal, a Chicago United 2019 Business Leader of Color Honoree, and a 2012 Alumni of Leading Women Executives.