By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
Growing up as a little girl on a farm in Arkansas, Gena Lovett, now Principal and COO at Alexandra Investment Management, knew instinctively that she belonged on Wall Street. There was something about the ringing of the opening bell each day on the morning news that left a lasting impact and [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)

As the saying goes: “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.” That is certainly the case for Michelle McCarthy, Chief Risk Officer of Russell Investments. While she attributes much of her success to luck, it’s clear that her moxie is really what’s allowed her rise to [...]

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By Gigi DeVault (Munich)
Knowing how to maintain a high level of productivity while sticking to a grueling travel schedule may have given Shannon Vetto an edge when she came to Russell Investments in 1997. Before then, at Price Waterhouse LLP, Vetto worked as a client service audit manager in the firm’s investment company group—in [...]

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By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
“Get comfortable in your own skin as fast as you can,” recommends Virginia Volpe, Director of Hedge Fund Services at Citi’s Global Transaction Services division. “You will be so much happier so much sooner – I only realized that four years ago,” she explained with a laugh.
Volpe exudes a [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
When Mara Topping, a partner in the D.C. office of White & Case, was a young girl, she lived in five countries on three continents, moving wherever her father, a high ranking USAID official, was stationed. Her childhood abroad—and her experiences with the beauty, diversity and poverty in Africa in [...]

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By Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago)
“As soon as I walked onto the trading floor they had me hook, line and sinker,” said Robin Ross, Managing Director of Interest Rate products at CME Group. “You could almost taste what was going on in the markets.”
Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Ross learned about Municipal Bonds from her father. When [...]

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By Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
Called the “Princess of Perseverance” by many who know her, Diane Garnick brings her positive attitude to everything she does. “When people ask me what I am doing right now,” says Invesco’s Investment Strategist, “I tell them I am in wild pursuit of lifelong dream to provide financial security for [...]

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By Cleo Thompson (London), founder of The Gender Blog
Lee Chalmers is a woman on a mission – and that mission is to transform the face of leadership and, more crucially, to change what gets recognised as leadership – in both business and British politics. London based, she runs an executive coaching business Authentic Living, working [...]

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By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
Novations, a highly regarded global talent development firm with over thirty years of research and development experience, recently conducted a research study that found – and there’s no surprise here – that women are still underrepresented in strategic and leadership roles. Even more disheartening, the firm’s findings also show that women [...]

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By Gigi DeVault (Munich)
A well-stocked kitchen cabinet is more than a reassuring comfort; it can get you through some hard times. If you ask Colette Taylor, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Americas Institutional at Russell Investments and founding president of Russell’s Women’s Network, about her “kitchen cabinet,” she will not talk to you [...]

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