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 [...]
‘Movers and Shakers’ Category
March 4th, 2010, 6:00 am
Movers and Shakers: Shannon Vetto, Global Exchange Traded Funds (ETF), Russell Investments
March 2nd, 2010, 1:00 pm
Movers and Shakers: Virginia Volpe, CFA, Director, Hedge Fund Services, Global Transaction Services, Citi
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 [...]
December 8th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Sharing Inspiration for Success: NAFE’s 2009 Women of Excellence
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City)
On Friday, December 4, the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) honored its 2009 Women of Excellence. NAFE is the largest professional association of women. The awards celebrated successful female business leaders dedicated to making a difference in their workplace, the larger community, and the world.
Keynote speakers and Pulitzer-prize-winning [...]
October 7th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Let’s Bury Short-Termism to Avoid Another Crisis
Contributed by Bill George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School
The Aspen Institute recently made the following announcement:
“Twenty-eight leaders representing business, investment, government, academia, and labor joined the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program’s Corporate Values Strategy Group (CVSG) to endorse a bold call to end the focus on value-destroying short-termism in our financial [...]
July 9th, 2009, 6:00 am
Movers and Shakers: Teofla Rich, Senior Vice President/Manager of Private Banking at Torrey Pines Bank
As part of its ongoing Movers and Shakers series, contributing writer Tina Vasquez spoke with Teofla Rich, an executive woman in private banking about her climb to the top of the banking and financial services industry.
Integrity is something that comes up often in conversation with Teofla Rich. Rich, senior vice president/manager of private banking at Torrey Pines Bank in San Diego, [...]
June 1st, 2009, 1:00 pm
Mover and Shaker: Dale Meikle, Regional Human Capital Communications Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers
by Elizabeth Harrin (London)
“As a temporary secretary without the first clue about how business worked, I would never have seen myself ten years down the road as a senior manager working outside of the U.S.,” says Dale Meikle, Regional Human Capital Communications Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dale says it was “total chance” that she ended [...]
May 4th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Movers and Shakers: Magda Yrizarry, Verizon’s Vice President for Workplace Culture, Diversity, and Compliance
by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles)
Getting out of a bad neighborhood is a hard thing to do. It is so hard, in fact, that often young people use their immediate surroundings as an excuse as to why they haven’t done more with their lives or for their community. The opposite was true for Magda Yrizarry, [...]
April 7th, 2009, 6:00 am
Movers and Shakers: Metal Industry
By Sima Matthes (New York City)
A quick Google search of “Women in Metal” generates a long list of women in heavy metal bands and women clad only in metal. Fortunately, a more in depth search reveals that there are women working in the metal industry today, climbing to the upper echelons of some [...]
February 23rd, 2009, 1:10 pm
Mover and Shaker: Maria Weaver Watson, Director of Strategic Marketing, Interactive One
by Anna Collins, Esq. (Portland, Maine)
As Director of Strategic Marketing at Interactive One, Maria Weaver Watson is responsible for leading all consumer and trade marketing and public relations for a company that provides the #1 online platform for a broad swath of the African American community. Watson is also the great-great grand daughter [...]
February 19th, 2009, 1:00 pm
Board’s Eye View: African-American Women on Fortune 500 Corporate Boards
by Pamela Weinsaft (New York City)
As we reported last week, there are still significant barriers to African-American women rising in Corporate America’s ranks. Women of color—like many women—suffer from a lack of strong or existing strategic networks and work/life balance demands. Additionally, they are hampered by a lack of opportunity—the Catalyst Census of [...]
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