Women’s Bond Club Honors Carla Harris & Kay Koplovitz of USA Network

Women’s Bond Club Honors Carla Harris of Morgan Stanley and Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network

33 Rising Stars from across the financial industry also to be recognized at the 19thAnnual Merit Award Dinner, hosted by NYSE Euronext.
NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /BusinessWire/ — The Women’s Bond Club, the first organization in New York to focus on women in finance, today announced that Morgan Stanley Managing Director Carla Harris and Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network will  receive the organization’s two most prestigious awards at its annual dinner event on April 30, 2012 at Cipriani Wall Street.

Ms. Carla Harris will receive the Merit Award, presented to a senior leader for her career accomplishments in financial services. Harris is a Managing Director and heads the Emerging Manager Platform at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In her role, Harris provides investment advice to corporations, public pension plans, foundations and endowments. She formerly headed the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries at Morgan Stanley, and was responsible for equity private placements. Ms. Harris began her career with Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions department in 1987.  For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed transactions such as the initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Redback, as well as the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive – among many others.

Ms. Harris lives the Women’s Bond Club motto of ‘lead, learn and return’ in all that she does. She is the author of Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace and often serves as a guest speaker inspiring others to believe in the power of their dreams and achieve success. She is the Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and sits on the boards of the Food Bank for NYC, The Executive Leadership Council, The Toigo Foundation, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, A Better Chance, Inc., The Apollo Theatre Foundation, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Xavier University, and the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health.  She received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in economics from Harvard University.

Ms. Kay Koplovitz will receive the Isabel Benham Award, presented to a woman who has made a significant contribution to the greater community of women. This recognition spotlights Ms. Koplovitz for her commitment to women entrepreneurs. Kay Koplovitz is the Founder of USA Network and the SciFi Channel, Chairman and CEO of Koplovitz and Company and Chairman and Co-Founder of Springboard Enterprises. Springboard Enterprises is a national organization that fosters venture capital investments in women-led high growth companies. Companies selected and presented by Springboard have raised over $5.5 Billion. Ms. Koplovitz is also co-founder of Boldcap Ventures, an early stage fund focused on media, technology and life sciences.  Amongst her very many accomplishments, Ms. Koplovitz was also presidentially appointed as Chair of National Women’s Business Council from 1998-2001, and she authored, “Bold Women, Big Ideas” to inspire women entrepreneurs to create wealth through equity. Kay Koplovitz presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Liz Claiborne Inc. and is a board member of CA Technologies and ION Media. Previously, she has served on the boards of Instinet, Oracle Nabisco, General Re and Sun New Media. She serves as trustee of the The Paley Center for Media as well as Babson College and The University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Letters & Science.

Duncan L. Niederauer, Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Euronext (NYX), will serve as the keynote speaker for the Award Dinner event, which will also recognize the future of women in finance with the presentation of the Women’s Bond Club Rising Stars Awards to 33 emerging leaders in the financial services industry.

These women and their firms are:

Accenture
Amanda Nelson
AXA Equitable
Maisha O’Neal
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Julie Hong
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Kristine Louis Reynal
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jing Shih
Barclays
Ashley Higgins
Bloomberg
Anna Karwowska
BNY Mellon
Mirela Cabej
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Christine Ballance
CAPCO
Michelle Stickels
Citi Group
Priya Rajani
Commerzbank AG
Shannon Buckley
Credit Suisse
Meha Jain
Credit Suisse IT
Megan Hamilton
Deloitte Consulting
Karmen Ehman
Ernst & Young LLP
Courtney Lazzari
Goldman Sachs & Co.
Katie Larson
IBM
Amy Meckes
ICAP
Nita Patel
Invesco
Christine Chung
Jefferies
Shabari Nayak
Morgan Stanley
Stacie Selinger
MphasiS
Aarti Gokhale
NasdaqOMX
Rebecca Cameron
Nomura Securities International, Inc.
Alexis Knopp
NYSE Euronext
Reagan Anderson
PIMCO
Naila Makhdumi
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Christine Cataldo
RBS Securities Inc.
Casey Spezznao
S&P Capital IQ
Louisa Pritchett
Standard & Poor’s
Ana Lai
SunGard Data Systems
Renate Kenney
Thomson Reuters
Aileen Brown

Established in 1921, the Women’s Bond is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional development and networking of women in financial services.  The Women’s Bond Club prides itself on being more than a network; it is a vital community of experienced women across financial services who share a common mission, “to advance women’s leadership, grow our intellectual capital, and return worth to our companies, communities and upcoming generations.” These goals are accomplished by sponsoring events and community service activities and by developing relationships with corporate sponsors and other not-for-profit institutions that support women.  Key to its mission is the scholarship program for young women enrolled in undergraduate university programs focused on business.  The Women’s Bond Club membership reflects buy-side and sell-side across financial services, and a cross-section of executive management, consulting and technology functions.  For more information on the Women’s Bond Club, please visit www.womensbondclub.com.

Proceeds from the annual Merit Award Dinner go to the Women’s Bond Club and its many charitable giving programs which focus on assisting in college preparedness for girls interested in careers in business and finance and the WBC College Scholarship Program.

For additional information on the Women’s Bond Club Merit Award Dinner, please contact Rachel Tepp, 646-336-6800, ext. 105; rachel@sequence-events.com of Morgan Stanley and Kay Koplovitz, Founder, USA Network

25 Most Powerful Women in Banking

The American Banker released “the ninth annual list. Plus The 25 Women to Watch, The 25 Most Powerful Women in Non-bank Finance, and reports on the women who are changing the face of the industry.”

And, once, again Carla Harris was selected. Harris has continued to prove her worth as a leader in the finance sector, while working  tirelessly in the community.

Congrats, Carla!!

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17. Carla Harris
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

If you don’t know the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, you probably don’t know Carla Harris. A renowned speaker on career development, she has counseled countless finance professionals on the road to success. And she knows that of which she speaks. A veteran of Morgan Stanley’s M&A and equity syndicate departments, Harris was plucked in late 2009 to run the emerging manager platform at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. The initiative is intended to advise and nurture women- and minority-owned, long-only asset managers.

“If you have an agenda for your career, it will keep you from making emotional decisions about your career and it will also guide you with respect to the timing of making career moves or changes. Without one, you will be easily distracted by the external economic environment or the internal political environment around you.”

Carla’s New Album…

Praise Be: Morgan Stanley MD Goes Gospel

by Kyle Stock (excerpt from FINS.com)

Don’t let anyone tell you Wall Street has no soul.

Carla Harris, a 23-year Morgan Stanley veteran, has just released her third full-length gospel album on iTunes.

Goldman Sachs’ analyst/rapper Allen Mask may have brought his firm some colorful publicity, but Morgan Stanley is working to improve its status with a higher power.

“It’s original gospel and it’s hot,” said Harris, a 48-year-old managing director in bank’s investment management arm, where she advises companies and public pension managers on their portfolios.

Harris started singing as a child in Jacksonville, Fla. She sang her way through Harvard and Harvard Business School and stuck with it as she started her career an analyst at Morgan Stanley.

She sang in New York churches and clubs — even Carnegie Hall. In fact, Harris occasionally croons for her clients.

“I try to graciously decline, but if I’m pressed, I’ll do it,” she said. “I bring Carla the singer wherever Carla the banker goes.”

This week’s release follows “Joy Is Waiting,” Harris’s latest effort from 2005 and “Carla’s First Christmas,” her first album from 2000. The newest installment is titled “Unceasing Praise” and sells for $9.99. All of the proceeds go to a Catholic school in the Bronx and the high school Harris attended in Florida.

If you work under Harris, you’d be smart to get it on your iPod. Or, go see her belt it out on Sunday’s at the Church of St. Charles Borromeo at 211 West 141st Street in Manhattan, just west of 7th Avenue — a long ways from Wall Street.

CDBaby | ITunes | Amazon

If you love Gospel music, this is the CD for you. In her second Gospel CD, Carla has brought a fresh, new twist to Gospel while sticking to it’s origan roots. This is clearly her best effort to date. I highly recommend this CD and her other two. Unceasing Praise

HOT BUZZ: Carla TOP 50

Carla Harris  is one of the 50 leaders that has “been selected as the 50 Top Women in Wealth for 2010 by WealthManagerWeb.com.

“We selected the most influential, powerful and inspiring women for our list, from the national stage to the practitioners managing the financial assets and of their clients, to the academics who inform our thinking. These leaders are the ones we look to for guidance, and we salute them.

“The exceptional leaders on this list are responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth, for investors and for the nation. Every American is affected by the decisions some of these women make; the bills they shepherd through Congress and the regulations that affect all investors.”

TO SEE THE COMPLETE LIST

http://www.wealthmanagerweb.com/News/2010/5/Pages/50-Top-Women-in-Wealth-Named-by-WealthManagerWebcom.aspx

Carla Harris at US Treasury Panel

To view United States Treasury Department’s Women in Finance Symposium, online click here. The video shows the panel discussions and remarks from the US Treasurer and Secretary of the Treasury.

Carla is a Black Enterprises’ Powerful Women

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With Morgan Stanley since 1987, Harris’ recent focus within the firm has been the strategic client group at MS Investment Management. In that role, the Wall Street veteran provides investment advice to corporations, public pension plans, foundations, and endowments. The company’s emerging managers’ platform is also under her leadership.

Carla on KAZI News Magazine

An interview with Morgan Stanley managing director Carla Harris, author of Expect to Win: Proven Strategies of Success from a Wall Street Vet, is the podcast of the week.

On the June 21st edition of KAZI News Magazine Sunday Book Review on KAZI 88.7FM, Harris dispensed advice on what it takes to move
up the corporate ladder… To listen to the interview click here:

Carla Harris Interview

… or copy and paste the following link into your browser…

http://econpers.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/carla-harris-econpers.mp3