Perspectives by Women in Securities Finance

Marney McCabe and Brooke Gillman have always been competitors, but now they are also personal and professional friends. Morgan Hillenbrand unlocks their story and teaches us why female allyship is critical to advancing women. Women in the Workplace 2023 report | McKinsey

In anticipation of International Women's Day, WISF co-founder, Elaina Kim Benfield asked two inspiring female entrepreneurs, Tessa Jenkins, founder of The Works studio, and Kristen Sapp founder of Orange Lotus to join us and share their experiences in stepping out of their comfort zones and starting successful businesses.

WISF co-founder, Elaina Kim Benfield speaks with Stephanie Movahhed, an Executive and Leadership Coach for Krishtel, about navigating difficult conversations, setting boundaries, letting go of perfectionism and people-pleasing, and remembering you always have a choice. Learn more about Krishtel here: https://www.krishtel.com You can find Stephanie on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smovahhed

Harpreet Bains of J.P. Morgan was joined by Selina Suresh, Co-CEO of The Culture Practice, for an enlightening discussion about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, navigating DEI fatigue, generating measurable goals, creating practical changes in the workplace, and how micro exercises lead to macro changes.

Francesca Sanzone of Pirum speaks with Nadine Chakar, CEO of Securrency, about Nadine's inspiring career journey that led her to be a key pioneer in the evolution of Blockchain while taking risks, not being afraid of failure, and continuously learning new things.

Liz Rotem speaks with Angela Lee, founder of 37 Angels, about her mission to close the gender gap in Angel Investing through education. Learn more about her mission, 37 Angel's accomplishments and how you can get involved.

WISF Toronto Chapter Leads, Roanna Kim and Mary Jane Schuessler, sit down with Samir Dhrolia from British Columbia Investment Management to learn about their industry leading centralized global trading approach and their intense focus on prioritizing diversity and developing talent.

Daren Pippio, Chairperson of the SIFMA Securities Industry Institute (SII) Board of Trustees, is joined by fellow Trustees Lana Calton, Tom Gooley and Joe Colaizzo to discuss how the SII is developing the future leaders for the financial services industry.

Our Toronto Chapter leads Mary Jane Schuessler and Roanna Kim sit down with Steve Everett from TMX to hear the latest topics from an infrastructure perspective and the ever looming T+1 phenomenon we are all facing.

Nehal Udeshi, Co-Head of Cross Asset Financing at Goldman Sachs speaks with Craig Starble, CEO of eSecLending, John Stracquadanio, Co-Founder of Appia Ventures, and Social and Behavior Change Expert, Morgan Hillenbrand from TetraTech about what CEOs and Business Leaders can do to increase diversity on their teams.

Following our first courageous conversation podcast last year, Mike Daly of Goldman Sachs, met with Kyle Kolasingh of RBC I&TS, and Larry Albaugh of eSecLending, to talk about being gay men in the Securities Finance industry and what their individual experiences have been towards bringing their authentic selves to work in a world where unconscious bias exists.

WISF co-founder Elaina Kim Benfield from Vanguard talks with Tia Adams from Goldman Sachs about her career journey, hiring a career coach, and leading with authenticity.

SIFMA hosted their Diversity, Equity & inclusion Leadership Summit on September 20th, 2022 at the Morgan Stanley Headquarters in New York City. This summit brought together business executives from all facets of capital markets to broadly understand how diversity, equity & inclusion shapes today's workforce and plays a role in how we serve our clients. Cheryl Crispen, Executive Vice President of Communications and Marketing at SIFMA recaps themes from SIFMA's DE&I Leadership Summit with Arianne M. Collette, Executive Director, COO and Head of Business Development for the Reinvestment and Participant Engagement business at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Leadership is key to creating and maintaining high performing teams. Vanguard's Elaina Kim Benfield discusses what leadership means at Vanguard with John James, Senior Staff and Head of Vanguard's Institutional Investor Group, his Chief of Staff, Emily Magee, and Sam Anaokar, Head of Strategy, Partnerships, and Operations for Vanguard's Institutional Investor Group.

WISF members Melissa Gow from S&P Global Market Intelligence and Brooke Gillman from eSecLending opened the IMN conference diving into topics such as the gender wage gap and gender wealth gap and how they continue to impact gender equality in the workplace

WISF partnered with Carmella Haswell of Securities Finance Times for this two-part miniseries. In this episode, Carmella speaks with Jacqueline Waller at eSecLending, Simona Stoytchkova at State Street, and Ina Budh-Raja at Bank of New York Mellon about the current landscape facing women in the industry, the power of networking, and the road to diversity. Part 2 of 2 mini podcast series

WISF partnered with Carmella Haswell of Securities Finance Times for this two-part miniseries. In this episode, Carmella speaks with Margaret Harwood-Jones at Standard Chartered Bank and Camille McKelvey at MarketAxess about the current landscape facing women in the industry, the power of networking, and the road to diversity. Part 1 of 2 mini podcast series

For the first time in the firm's history, the three systemically important financial market utility businesses of DTCC are run by all women. Michele Hillery, Ann Bergin, and Laura Klimpel talk in this episode about this historic moment that they are part of, their career paths, and their tips for listeners.

Kicking of Pride Month 2022, as Women in Securities Finance continues to make strides toward equality, inclusion, and diversity in the workplace, Boston Chapter co-lead, Marney McCabe from BBH, talks with Mike Daly from Goldman Sachs and Donavan Brown from BBH about sexual orientation and race in the world of Securities Finance and the importance to be yourself, be brave, recognize your position to create awareness, share perspective, always learn, and embrace the notion that change comes first from discomfort.

WISF Boston Chapter co-lead, Brooke Gillman from eSecLending, podcasted LIVE from IMN Scottsdale 2022 for the Perspectives podcast series with behavior change communication expert, Morgan Hillenbrand, who discussed methods for advancing gender equality in male-dominated industries. Morgan has led strategic communications for high-profile US-led initiatives worldwide, including the $400M Afghanistan Promote program—the largest US investment in women worldwide—and the USAID Land and Rural Development program in Colombia; a critical implementing instrument of the Havana Peace Accords. She currently works with a team of gender and change-management experts to advance gender equality at 100 organizations across 38 countries. Morgan and her team at Tetra Tech offers data-driven approaches known to increase gender equality in male-dominated workplaces. https://www.womeninsecuritiesfinance.com/ https://www.imn.org/investment-management/conference/Beneficial-Owners-International-Securities-Finance-Collateral-Management-22/ Research references supporting podcast discussion: A Record Number of Women Are in Top Business Schools in 2021 | Time How Many Fortune 500 CEOs Are Women? And Why So Few? - The Quantic Blog Moving Toward Gender Balance In Private Equity Markets (ifc.org) Women @ Work 2022 Ending Sexual Assault and Harassment in the Workplace