2002 Women on Wall Street" Conference
Taking Charge: Success on Your Own Terms
The Grand Hyatt, New York City
On October 17, 2002 Deutsche Bank and its Global Partnership Network for Women (GPNW) hosted the 8th annual “Women on Wall Street” Conference, entitled ‘Taking Charge: Success on Your Own Terms’. The following guest speakers participated in the event.
Opening Remarks
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Roelfien Kuijpers Managing Director Global Head of Strategic Research & Planning |
Before assuming this position in 2001, Roelfien was the Head of European Equities in North America at Deutsche Bank and a Managing Director in the Global Relationship Management Group.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Roelfien was a Managing Director and Head of European Equities at SG Warburg Inc., where she built the European Equities business from 1991 through 1995. Previously, she was the Head of European Equities sales at UBS Securities from 1985 through 1991.
Roelfien received a Master’s degree in History from Leiden University in The Netherlands.
Welcoming Remarks
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Kevin Parker Global Head of Equities Deutsche Bank |
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 1997, Kevin was a Managing Director and became the Chief Information Officer at Morgan Stanley in 1993. From 1988 to 1993 he was head of Morgan Stanley's Asian Equity Derivatives business.
Kevin received a BS in Management and Finance from New York University.
Moderator
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Co-Anchor CNBC's "Power Lunch" |
At Univision, she gained extensive experience covering Latin America. She began her career in 1991 as a stringer for The New York Times, reporting on education issues. She is a monthly contributor to People en Espanol, where she writes a personal finance column focusing on issues of particular importance to Latinos.
A member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Caruso-Cabrera earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wellesley College. She resides in Northern New Jersey with her husband, Paulo Lima, who is also a journalist.
Panelists
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Maggie Craddock President Workplace Relationships, Inc. |
Before pursuing her career as an executive coach, Ms. Craddock worked for over a decade on both the buy side and the sell side of the financial services industry. As a Portfolio Manager at Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Ms. Craddock managed $3 billion in short-term global assets. She received two Lipper Awards for top mutual fund performance: Best Short-Term Multi Market Income Fund, ranked #1 by Lipper in a universe of 77 funds, and Best World Income Fund over $1 billion in size, ranked #1 by Lipper in a universe of 7 funds.
Ms. Craddock also served as a National Director of Consultant Relations at Sanford C. Bernstein, representing the firm across all asset classes including emerging markets, domestic and international fixed income, and domestic and international equity to major consultants and pension fund clients nationwide.
Ms. Craddock received a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, specializing in Capital Markets. She also received an MSW from New York University and is an Ackerman certified family therapist. Ms. Craddock holds a BA in Economics from Smith College. Her website, www.workplacerelationships.com, provides an overview of her coaching methodology.
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Jocelyn G. Cunningham Principal, Global Securities Segment Leader Deloitte Consulting |
Ms. Cunningham is responsible for the strategy and management of the firm's global securities practice. Jocelyn serves Deloitte's largest capital markets clients and has significant experience in both securities and banking as it relates to sales and trading technology. Ms. Cunningham primarily focuses on technology enabled business solutions to support the objectives of e-enablement and straight-thru processing for front, middle and back office transaction processing. These solutions typically cover all aspects of systems integration tools and techniques including object orientation, distributed application development and deployment, messaging and middleware, and database technologies. Ms Cunningham has assisted clients with merger integration activities as it relates to infrastructure, technology, and operations.
Prior to joining Deloitte Consulting, Jocelyn was a financial services consultant for a number of leading international banks. In this role, she managed strategic systems planning, global implementations of international multi-branch systems, and the planning, implementing, and managing data center relocations and mergers.
Jocelyn received her Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Computing Science/Accounting from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
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Mary Farrell Managing Director, Senior Investment Strategist UBS PaineWebber |
As a senior investment strategist, Ms. Farrell is often quoted in leading business publications and featured on national television. In addition, she frequently lectures on the topics of retirement and women and investing. Ms. Farrell was a regular panelist on Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser and was elected to its Hall of Fame in 1995. She continues her panelist role on Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street on CNBC and is also the author of Mary Farrell's Beyond the Basics: How to Invest Your Money, Now That You Know a Thing or Two (Simon & Schuster, April 2000).
Ms. Farrell currently serves on the UBS PaineWebber Diversity Council. She is a long time member of the Financial Women's Association and she recently joined the Career Advisory Board of the Catholic Big Sisters Organization. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and serves on the Investment and Finance Committees. She is also a member of the Board of Overseers of New York University's Stern School of Business, where she is a member of the Executive and Finance Committees. In addition, she co-chairs the Stern School's Haskins Partners Steering Committee. In the past, she has served on the Boards of Directors of the Financial Women's Association, Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management, the Women's Economic Roundtable, and been active in the Women's Venture Fund.
Among the many awards Ms. Farrell has received are the 1997 Alumni Meritorious Service Award from the New York University Alumni Association and the 1999 Women of the Year Award from Manhattanville College. In 2001, she was honored with the Laura A. Johnson Woman of the Year Award from the Hartford College for Women at the University of Hartford in her hometown of Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, she was named the Financial Women's Association's Private Sector Woman of the Year for 2002.
Ms. Farrell graduated with a BA degree in economics from Manhattanville College in 1971. Subsequently, she earned an MBA degree in finance from the New York University's Stern School of Business in 1976.
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Beverly Parker Senior Vice President, Sales Corporate and Federal Markets LexisNexis |
After graduating from the University of Evansville, Beverly began her career as a schoolteacher. Her experience includes teaching at Brown Junior High School in Washington. She began working for Mead Data Central, the predecessor to LexisNexis, in 1980 as a trainer.
As the business grew, Beverly worked in every market, including the company's first major partnership (with the Patent and Trademark Office), its first enterprise-wide deal (with the United States Senate), as well as the beginnings of subscription pricing. She lead one of the first Nexis sales regions, working out of Los Angeles and later in New York prior to becoming Sr. Vice President of Sales. In her current position Beverly has responsibility for all sales groups in the corporate, federal, enterprise and academic markets.
Beverly Parker was honored at the August 2000 Women of Color Technology Conference in Atlanta for business leadership. She also was recognized in 2001 at the Reed Elsevier Global Management Conference in France for epitomizing one of the core values of the company: her "Passion for Winning."
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Judith R. Shapiro President Barnard College |
A native of New York City, she received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University. She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of gender differentiation, social theory, and missionization, many based on her field research in lowland South America.
She has been President of the American Ethnological Society, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, and the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE). She is also a Director of the Fund for the City of New York, serves on the Executive Board of the Women's College Coalition, the Advisory Committee of Save the Children (Every Mother/Every Child), and on the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
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Vanessa Wilson Managing Director, Equity Research Analyst Deutsche Bank |
For her coverage of the U.S. life insurance industry, Ms. Wilson has been ranked on the Institutional Investor "All-American Research Team" every year since 1993, and was voted #2 in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. She was ranked in The Wall Street Journal's "All Star Analysts' Survey" from 1994 through 1999, ranking #2 for stock-picking in 1999.
Ms. Wilson graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a B.A. in economics and biology in 1981. She received her MBA in finance from New York University's Graduate School of Business in 1986. She is past-president and on the board of directors of the Association of Insurance and Financial Analysts.
