Men are popularly known as the power players in the financial world. However, women also have made a huge impact on the Wall Street. They have overcome gender discrimination to hold key executives roles. Here are most powerful women on Wall Street at the present.
Abby Joseph Cohen began her career as an economist for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. She is now the senior U.S. investment strategist at Goldman Sachs. She is well-known for predicting the bull market in the 1990s. However, she did not succeed in predicting the dramatic stock market decline in the early 2000s.
Abby Joseph Cohen was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal in 2001.
Sallie Krawcheck first worked at Salomon Brothers. Later, she became the CEOs of Sanford Bernstein and then run Citi’s Smith Barney unit. She was the CFO of Citi before moving to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Sallie Krawcheck was named in Forbes’ list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2005. Four years ago, she was named in the list of the 25 most influential people in and around the investment advisory business.
In December 1967, Muriel Siebert purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the first woman to head one of its member firms. Previously, she had to struggle to obtain the seat. She is now the president of Muriel Siebert & Co. Inc.
Muriel Siebert is known as “The Firs Woman of Finance”.
Ann Kaplan currently serves as the chair of Circle Financial Group. She worked as a general partner and later a managing director at Goldman Sachs. She spent 23 years in the fixed income division and headed the municipal bond department at the bank.
Ann Kaplan currently serves as the chair of Circle Financial Group.
Nancy Peretsman currently serves as a managing director at Allen & Company LLC. Prior to joining the company, she worked at Salomon Brothers.
Rosemary McFadden was the first woman to serve as the president of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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