Top row: Carolyn Crooks, Jennifer Greene Goldsmith, Jackie Krese. Bottom row: Shannon Nash, Ansley White.
As women continue to advance to leadership roles in finance, they still face unique challenges that may be the vestiges of an industry historically dominated by men. Yet for female UVA students interested in pursuing one of many avenues available in professional finance positions, questions remain.
In an effort to offer clarity on the subject, the McIntire School welcomes a panel of distinguished UVA alumnae representing various firms and career stages in the financial services industry to Rouss & Robertson Halls on Thursday, April 20, for a lively and candid discussion about the diverse experiences of women working in finance.
The panel conversation, offered by Commerce Career Services and McIntire’s Center for Investors and Financial Markets and co-sponsored by student organizations Smart Woman Securities and the Women’s Business Forum, expects to be instructive and enlightening. The discussion will delve into the panelists’ career backgrounds that helped to take them from Grounds to each of their current roles, gender-related issues in the finance profession, hiring, recruiting, emerging topics in finance, and more.
Moderator Jackie Krese (McIntire ’85), McIntire School Advisory Board member and Head of U.S. BlackRock Capital Markets (BCM) Group and Global Head of ESG, brings insights from leading and expanding U.S. liquid capital markets and private sourcing origination and global ESG activities. Her knowledge stems from a career that includes 16 years at Credit Suisse as Group Head of Americas Debt Capital Markets Solutions, Diversity Champion for the Capital Markets and Advisory division, and part of its ESG Committee, as well as 12 years at J.P. Morgan as Managing Director focused on fixed income derivatives.
Krese will speak with four accomplished UVA alumnae working in finance:
- Carolyn Crooks (McIntire ’02), Managing Director at Barclays Capital, who works in the Financial Sponsors Group of Barclays in New York. Prior to joining the Financial Sponsors Group, she worked in Barclays’ Equity Capital Markets, where she was responsible for structuring and marketing equity securities for clients in the Retail /Consumer sector. Crooks started her career at Lehman Brothers as an Industry Coverage Analyst in the Global Real Estate Group.
- Jennifer Greene Goldsmith (McIntire ’07), Senior Research Analyst on the Life Sciences team at Sands Capital. In 2020, she became Director of the Research Associate Program, and since joining Sands Capital in 2013, she has led research work on healthcare businesses globally across all stages of development, including private and public. Goldsmith’s focus areas are medical devices, digital health, and genomics. Prior to joining Sands Capital, she was a Private Equity Associate at Credit Suisse in New York. In addition to earning her Commerce degree at UVA, where she double-majored in Philosophy, she participated in a pre-med post-baccalaureate program at Johns Hopkins University, and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
- Shannon Nash (McIntire ’92, Law ’95), Chief Financial Officer at Wing, a drone delivery company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. She serves on the McIntire School Advisory Board, serves on the board and Audit Committee of software solutions and cybersecurity company NetScout Systems Inc., is a Board Member and Audit Chair at Lazy Dog Restaurants, and is on the Board of SoFi Bank, a subsidiary of SoFi Technologies Inc. Named to the 2022 Top 50 Women Leaders in Finance list by Women We Admire, Nash received the 2022 Global Speaker award from Women in Technology. She was also featured on Accounting Today’s 2020 list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting and named one of 2020’s Most Powerful Women in Accounting by the AICPA and CPA Practice Advisor. She received the 2021 Trailblazer Award from CalCPA.
Nash also serves as a Board Advisor to Black Women on Boards, an Executive Board Member to How Women Lead, and a Mentor for Santa Clara University’s Black Corporate Board Readiness Program. She is an attorney and CPA and recognized as a Qualified Financial Expert.
- Ansley White (A&S ’20), Private Equity Associate at Quad-C Management, a Charlottesville-based middle market private equity firm currently investing out of their 10th Fund of $1.7 billion. Prior to joining Quad-C, Ansley, who majored in Economics and minored in Entrepreneurship at UVA, was an Analyst in the Media and Telecommunications Group at Credit Suisse, where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, and equity raises for public and private companies.
Students interested in registering for what promises to be an engaging and edifying event, should please visit https://virginia.joinhandshake.com/events/1234764/share_preview.
