Members from the buyside, sellside-broker and financial IT community gathered to pay tribute to the women who lead in the financial services arena in Traders' Magazine's 4th annual Wall Street Women awards ceremony.
Held at the New York Hilton Midtown, more than 150 guests gathered to celebrate the winners of the 2014 Wall Street Women as they accepted their awards.
This year's Wall Street Women event also paid tribute to Kenneth Heath, the longtime publisher of Traders magazine who passed away from a long illness. Lisa Utasi of Clearbridge Investments paid tribute to Ken and presented his daughter Cheryl with a plaque commemorating his service to Traders and the trading community.
His daughter Cheryl, a UBS veteran, spoke movingly about her father's commitment to inspiring his two daughters to pursue their dreams. She thanked the audience for the honor and remarked that her late father would have loved this event.
Trish Regan, news anchor and host of Bloomberg TV's Street Smart with Trish Regan, addressed the achievements that women have made in financial diversity as well as the challenges that still remain. When she was young, growing up in New Hampshire, her father gave her a T-shirt that said "Anything boys can do, girls can better." And she took it to heart.
Cristina Dolan, head of content, marketing and communcaitions at Tradingscreen
This award is presented to women inside financial services firms who devote considerable resources and energy to philanthropic causes.
Sheryl Weaver of ITG accepts the Diversity Achievement Award on behalf of her firm, ITG.
This award will be presented to a firm that demonstrates focused efforts and quantitative and qualitative results in the area of achieving gender diversity in the executive ranks
Sophia Lee
General Counsel of IEX
This award gives recognition to women who began their careers in an entry-level job in a financial firm and climbed steadily through the ranks to reach senior management.
Kim Stolz
Director, Equity Derivatives of Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Helen Dietz
President and CEO of Stanford Investment Group
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