FLASH FRIDAY: A Decade of Celebrating Women in Finance

FLASH FRIDAY is a weekly content series looking at the past, present and future of capital markets trading and technology. FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instineta Nomura Company.

Traders Magazine, under the leadership of the late and highly respected publisher Ken Heath, started recognizing talented and accomplished women in finance in 2011. Called Wall Street Women, the second annual program was the cover of the November 2012 Traders Magazine, with the article cleverly headlined “No Limit Up”.

From the article:

“Investment banks, trading firms and exchanges have been dominated by men. But for the second year in a row, Traders Magazine is showing that this need not be so. Indeed, women are having increasing impact, as the ‘2012 Wall Street Women: A Celebration of Excellence’ program shows.

There is, for instance, Sheri Kaiserman, head of equities at Wedbush Securities. She leads more than 130 professionals in equity research, sales and trading. She has increased revenue twentyfold in areas she’s responsible for. She has made Wedbush famous for its Best Ideas List, which focuses on a list of 10 to 20 names that are worth attention. And she’s not afraid to call a shot, like Apple hitting $800 a share because iPads are just starting to arrive in China.”

Award winners from that 2012 program included Goldman Sachs, for Diversity Achievement; Kaiserman for Excellence in Leadership; and Peggie Bowie of Manulife Asset Management and Nancy McLaughlin of Convergex each for Lifetime Achievement.

Traders Magazine was bought by Markets Media Group in 2016, and the TM Wall Street Women program was folded into MMG’s own nascent and fast-growing Women in Finance Awards franchise, which has since gone global, with events in London and Hong Kong.

Continuing the tradition of recognizing and celebrating the best of the best women in finance, Markets Media’s sixth annual Women in Finance (U.S.) Awards were announced just yesterday. Congratulations to the winners! Click here to view a replay of the event.

EXCELLENCE IN FINTECH 

Margo Smith Mumma, Co-Head Sales, Dealerweb – Tradeweb

EXCELLENCE IN FINTECH 

Sashi Dias Valtz, Global Head of Client Strategy, Symphony

EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP 

Radhika Venkatraman, Managing Director and Head of Data and Technology for the Investment Bank, Risk and Compliance and Credit Suisse Holdings (USA) Inc., Credit Suisse

CRYSTAL LADDER 

Sylvia Yeh, Co-Head of Municipal Fixed Income, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

TRAILBLAZER 

Lynn Bishop, Managing Director & Chief Information Officer, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT 

Mariam Osman, Director, Head of Global Investment Operations Services (GIOS), BlackRock

EXCELLENCE IN COUNSEL

Beverly Prewitt, Director – Senior Counsel, Societe Generale

EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP | HEDGE FUNDS 

Tracy Caliendo, Managing Director, Bank of America

EXCELLENCE IN COMPLIANCE 

Marjan Quadir, NAM Head of Markets and Securities Services Compliance, Citi

EXCELLENCE IN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 

Allison Scott, Head of External Communications, New York Life Investment Management

EXCELLENCE IN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 

Amy Leith, Senior Vice President, Bank of America

EXCELLENCE IN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 

Liza Horowitz, Head, Marketing and Communications, Beacon Platform

EXCELLENCE IN MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 

Mitra Roknabadi, Vice President: Global Head of Marketing, OpenFin

EXCELLENCE IN ETFs 

Kelly Brennan, Head of ETF, Citadel Securities

EXCELLENCE IN MARKET STRUCTURE 

Kim Russell, VP, Market Structure Specialist, State Street Global Advisors

EXCELLENCE IN DATA

Maurisa Baumann, Global Head of Desktop Sales, ICE Data Services

EXCELLENCE IN TRADING 

Kamila Almeida, Director, Citi

EXCELLENCE IN TRADING PLATFORM 

Akshata Puri, US Head of ATS Venues, Virtu Financial

EXCELLENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES 

Liz Ceisler, Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer, Mizuho Americas

EXCELLENCE IN CORPORATE CULTURE STRATEGY

Sophia Wajnert, Managing Director, Head of Credit Suisse Raleigh, Global Investment Banking Culture, Credit Suisse

EXCELLENCE IN TALENT ACQUISITION 

Melinda Urban, Head of FICC Business Development and Enterprise Recruiting, Citadel

EXECELLENCE IN ASSET MANAGEMENT

Erin Browne, Managing Director, Asset Allocation Portfolio Manager, PIMCO

EXCELLENCE IN FIXED INCOME

Frances Lewis, Senior Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, MacKay Shields Municipal Managers

EXCELLENCE IN BANKING 

Bernadette Murphy, Managing Director, Media & Telecom, Investment & Corporate Banking, Mizuho Americas

CEO OF THE YEAR

Cheryl Nash, Chief Executive Officer, Tegra118

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 

Lucille Protas, Chief Operating Officer, MacKay Shields

POSITIVE IMPACT (Sponsored by Instinet)

Nancy Reyda, Chief Operating Officer, Global Operations and Technology, BNY Mellon