Karen Jacoppo-Wood

Ms. Jacoppo-Wood has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry at third-party service administrators and premier global investment advisers. Ms. Jacoppo-Wood leads State Street’s Fund Administration Legal Department, a global group of approximately 40 attorneys and paralegals who provide 1940 Act regulatory and corporate governance services to various types of investment companies, including alternative funds, interval funds, BDCs and ETFs, sponsored by asset managers. She has also served on industry panels for the Independent Directors Council and State Street.

Prior to joining State Street, Ms. Jacoppo-Wood served as Associate General Counsel at Reit Management & Research LLC and Vice President of RMR Advisors, Inc. and RMR Funds, where she was responsible for overseeing a broad variety of legal matters in connection with a large portfolio of office, industrial, hospitality and senior living assets and for managing all regulatory and corporate governance obligations of a proprietary fund family. Ms. Jacoppo-Wood also served as Counsel at Pioneer Investment Management, Inc. and BISYS Fund Services, Inc., providing legal administration services to open-end and closed-end funds, variable annuity funds and multi-class funds.

Ms. Jacoppo-Wood began her legal career as a paralegal with The Boston Company, Inc. and Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc., where she managed other paralegals and coordinated and oversaw the regulatory and corporate governance obligations of a broad group of clients and funds. 

Ms. Jacoppo-Wood holds a law degree from Suffolk University Law School. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stonehill College. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.