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IT’S CLEAR from reading the titles and responsibilities of the individuals on this list that women have made genuine gains on Wall Street.

Shifting social norms, the tireless e orts of many pioneering women and more than a few hefty legal settlements have brought change to the maledominated worlds of investment banking, trading, research and wealth management. Over time, women have made signi cant inroads. Although there is still much to be done in the way of true gender equity, the rise of women in all areas of Wall Street is real and worth noting.

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Today, of course, much of the business of “Wall Street” is conducted virtually and by companies whose headquarters are sometimes thousands of miles from the Financial District. Yet most of the nation’s largest nancial rms, together with an entire ecosystem of suppliers and competitors, continue to call New York home—whether near Wall and Broad, downtown or Midtown, West Side or East. e companies make New York one of the world’s leading nancial centers and the engine that drives the metropolitan area’s economy.

From those organizations, Crain’s has identi ed 31 outstanding individuals for its Notable Women on Wall Street list. is year’s honorees work in a variety of roles, including investment banking, private equity and asset and wealth management. In addition to their demanding professional duties, these talented individuals make time to contribute to the social, cultural and educational fabric of New York.

ERICA BARRETT

Managing director, U.S. institutional rates | Tradeweb

As member of Tradeweb’s operating committee and a leader of key teams, managing director Erica Barrett oversees the rm’s commercial relationships with its largest dealers. Barrett structures multiyear agreements across regions, products and platforms with the world’s largest investment banks. In her career at Tradeweb, which builds and operates electronic marketplaces for xed-income products, exchange-traded funds and derivatives, she helped establish and expand its money market and repo electronic platforms. Barrett is on the board of Tuesday’s Children, which was founded in the aftermath of Sept. 11, and cares for communities a ected by terrorism, military con ict or mass violence.

SARAH BRATTON HUGHES

Senior vice president, head of sustainable investing | American Century Investments

Sarah Bratton Hughes leads American Century’s sustainable research and investment stewardship team, implementing rmwide environmental, social and governance research and training, creating assessment tools, managing the engagement and proxy voting protocols, and driving sustainable investment initiatives and product development. Bratton Hughes is the youngest member of her rm’s investment leadership team, which consists of the rm’s senior leaders. e senior vice president is a former global head of sustainability solutions for Schroders. Bratton Hughes is a member of Women in Social Finance, a group that fosters connection, advancement and collaboration for women in the industry. She was the rst female president of the St. Francis College alumni association.

SUZANNE BRENNER

Partner, chief investment of cer, private banking | Brown Brothers Harriman

Suzanne Brenner leads the investment research group in Brown Brothers Harriman’s private banking business. Brenner is responsible for manager selection, capital allocation and investment decisions across the division’s client portfolio. As a partner of the rm, she is also responsible for strategic leadership, mentoring and employee engagement within her line of business. Before joining the bank in 2017, Brenner was chief investment o cer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and, earlier, director of investments and assistant treasurer of the Rockefeller Foundation. She is on the New York Botanical Garden Investment Committee.

KERRY DOLAN

Founder, managing partner | Brinley Partners

As founder, in 2021, of a woman-run alternative investment rm, Kerry Dolan focuses on providing capital solutions to high-quality, below-investment-grade companies. e rm’s Brinley Private Debt Fund I is one of the largest rst-time credit funds, and it’s one of the few founded and run by a woman. Before founding Brinley Partners, Dolan was a managing director on the credit investments team at PSP Investments. She previously held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital and Bank of America. Dolan is an associate board member of the Melanoma Research Alliance, and she co-chairs the Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma event.

PADMA ELMGART

Chief technology of cer | Global Atlantic Financial Group

Focused on moving Global Atlantic’s technology from legacy insurance platforms to those that support a wider role in nancial services, Padma Elmgart has led initiatives to build a proprietary enterprise data platform and a proprietary risk and investment platform. e chief technology o cer, a former chief information o cer at Deutsche Bank, is a member of Global Atlantic’s management committee. Elmgart is a director of StreetWise Partners, a workforce development mentoring program, and a member of the David Rockefeller Fellows program, where rising business leaders are taught civic leadership skills and the workings of the city.

KAREN FANG

Managing director, global head of sustainable finance Bank of America

Karen Fang is responsible for driving Bank of America’s goal of deploying $1.5 trillion in sustainable finance capital by 2030. The managing director and her team work across the bank’s eight business lines to mobilize and deploy capital that contributes to environmental and social sustainability. Fang helped establish the bank’s sustainable finance strategy and taxonomy and has driven thought leadership across international alliances and task forces. She is spurring innovation in decarbonization financing and investments. Fang previously held senior management positions in sales, trading and structured financing in the bank’s global markets area. She is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs.

ILENE FISZEL BIELER

Global head of investor relations, chief operating officer for global markets and global credit finance State Street Corporation

Ilene Fiszel Bieler manages State Street’s relationships with its shareholders and Wall Street. She has been instrumental in improving investor understanding of the company’s vision during a significant strategic pivot. Fiszel Bieler provides key market insights, financial analysis and competitor intelligence to senior management. The global head and chief operating officer previously was head of investor relations in the Americas for Barclays, and she held leadership positions at Citigroup. She is a board member and volunteer career mentor at the Jeremiah Program in Brooklyn, which seeks to assist single-parent families.

MEENA FLYNN

Co-head, global private wealth management Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs describes the private wealth management business as one of its strategic growth engines. As co-head of that practice, Meena Flynn oversees a global effort to serve the holistic wealth management needs of family offices, foundations and endowments, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Flynn, a partner since 2014, is a co-chair of the firm’s global inclusion and diversity committee and a member of the firmwide consumer and wealth management executive council. She is a director of Sanctuary for Families, a service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence.

ROBERTA GOSS

Senior managing director, head of the bank loan, CLO platforms Pretium

In her three years since joining Pretium, an alternative investment manager specializing in the real estate and credit markets, Roberta Goss has helped build and lead the firm’s collateralized loan obligation business and managed investments across its other leveraged loan portfolios. The senior managing director, a veteran of the leveraged credit business, oversees Pretium’s analyst and portfolio management team and marketing efforts for the bank loan and CLO platforms. Goss is a member of Pretium’s executive committee. She helps manage the firm’s summer internship program with Girls Who Invest, a program that seeks to bring more women into portfolio management.

STACY HAISLIP

Director, portfolio management TAG Associates

As a member of the investment committee at TAG Associates, a large multifamily office and investment manager for endowments and foundations, Stacy Haislip oversees long-only managers in the areas of equities, fixed income and liquid alternatives. In addition, Haislip has taken on greater coverage of the firm’s private-equity and venture investments. The director of portfolio management previously worked at D.E. Shaw and in JPMorgan’s global investment opportunities group. Since 2015, Haislip has been a trustee at the Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy, a women’s charter high school that focuses on science, technology, engineering, arts, architecture and math.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ARE COMPANY PRIORITIES, 78% OF RESPONDENTS SAID IN A PWC FINANCIAL-FIRM SURVEY

—PWC D&I BENCHMARKING SURVEY

LISA HORNBY

Head of U.S. multisector fixed income Schroders

At Schroders, Lisa Hornby manages a variety of strategies for institutional and retail clients, including the Hartford Schroders Sustainable Core Bond Fund and the Hartford Schroders Tax-Aware Bond Fund. Her U.S. multisector fixed-income team has integrated the analysis of environmental, social and corporate governance factors into its investment process and launched sustainable investment funds and a thematic fund focused on issuers with what are considered best-inclass labor practices. Hornby was portfolio manager at Schroders for 10 years before being promoted to her current role in 2020. She gives back to the community as a member of the financial advisory board of Rutgers University, her alma mater.

MICHAL KATZ

Head of investment and corporate banking Mizuho Americas

Michal Katz oversees all investment and corporate banking activity at Mizuho Americas, which serves clients in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Katz is on the firm’s management committee and is a sponsor of the company’s women network, which seeks to advance the recruitment and retention of women in the financial sector. Before working at Mizuho, Katz was co-head of global technology investment banking at RBC Capital Markets and a managing director at Barclays and Lehman Brothers. She is a trustee and treasurer of the Grammy Museum Foundation, an educational arm of the Recording Academy.

LORRAINE KELLY

Global head of Investment Stewardship Solutions Institutional Shareholder Services

Lorraine Kelly oversees strategy for Institutional Shareholder Services’ core governance and environmental, social and corporate governance business lines. Kelly’s purview encompasses the firm’s proxy voting, corporate governance research, responsible investment and global proxy distribution offerings. As global head of Investment Stewardship Solutions, she is responsible for setting strategic priorities for ISS LiquidMetrix and the firm’s Securities Class Action Services subsidiary. She has presided over the introduction of voting policies related to climate and corporate governance and has implemented efficiencies in the proxy voting business. Kelly, a mentor to women and diverse employees, is on the finance committee of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.

ALEXANDRA LEBENTHAL

Senior adviser Houlihan Lokey

Wall Street veteran Alexandra Lebenthal began her career in the municipal bond department at Kidder Peabody. She joined her family’s business, Lebenthal & Co., in 1988 and became its president and CEO. As senior adviser at Houlihan Lokey, Lebenthal leads an initiative that focuses on female-led companies. She works on connecting banking teams in every sector and transaction type with female founders who have little or no network available to them. Lebenthal founded the Women’s Executive Circle and Women on Wall Street, both for UJAFederation. She is the city vice chair of C200, an organization for women in business.

TIFFANY LEWIS

Managing director J.P. Morgan Private Bank

At J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Tiffany Lewis is head of private infrastructure investments and head of private diverse manager investments strategies, dual roles that she established there. Lewis is responsible for sourcing, underwriting and monitoring venture, growth-equity, privateequity, private-credit and real-assets funds. The managing director also handles fund and manager selection and performs investment due diligence, performance monitoring and tracking. Lewis led a partnership with GCM Grosvenor for its Advance Fund, a pioneering commingled diverse-manager strategy. She is partnering with GCM on a strategy that will focus on emerging Black fund managers. Lewis is on the board of Leading Educators, which aims to close the gap in access to an equal education.

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