They are the cream of the crop. The best of the best. Top Gun.
Traders Magazine tonight salutes the 15 winners who compromise this year’s Wall Street Women Awards Class of 2013.
[See All The 2013 Wall Street Women Winners]
The celebration of excellence is being held at the JW Essex Marriot Hotel in New York City beginning at 6pm with 160 people expected to attend. Traders Magazine Publisher Ken Heath and Editor-in-Chief Phil Albinus will emcee this evening’s festivities. Stephanie Ruhle, Bloomberg TV Anchor, will give the evening’s keynote address and Elaine Kaven, chief compliance officer for StockCross, winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, Anna Ewing, Nasdaq and Christine Sandler, NYSE Euronext – winners of the Excellence in Leadership Award – will also make speeches.
[See a Slideshow of All Winners]
Ruhle helps set the example for women on Wall Street on how to be successful. She told Traders Magazine that despite gains for many women, there is still work to be done. Although women are increasing their skill sets, becoming more tenacious and mastering the networking circuit, they still lag behind their male counterparts for the big jobs.
“Unfortunately, there’s been more progress for women when it comes to networking and flag-waving, which in theory is good, but they are not leading to gains in getting the top jobs,” Ruhle told Traders Magazine. “It’s really in the hands of women to get those big jobs that banks and hedge funds say they are willing to give. We need to push ourselves.”
The days of waiting for a company, supervisor or male colleague to tap a woman on the shoulder or passively recommend a female are over, Ruhle added. Women, she said, need to make their own breaks and, in some cases, create their own luck.
“We need to take our future and destiny into our own hands-we don’t have anything to lose,” Ruhle said. “At first for women it was about tenacity, perseverance and other issues. But now that we’ve shown we have these qualities, we need to move the employment needle ourselves and scratch that needle right across the record.”
The evening will conclude with cocktails and networking.
The winners in the eight categories were nominated by the industry and selected by an independent advisory committee comprised of women in the financial community with decades of experience. This is the third annual Wall Street Women Awards presented by Traders Magazine.
