Financial Women's Association of San Francisco : Event

About the Mentors:

Carmen Campollo, Senior Vice President, FTSE
Carmen markets and promotes FTSE indexes to public and corporate pension plans. Ms. Campollo has responsibility for all strategic planning and outreach to the North American pension plan community as well as foundations, endowments, consultants and 401K service providers that help with benchmarking decisions and investment strategies. Prior to this position, she was in charge of Business Development and was responsible for initiatives between FTSE and Dow Jones, Nasdaq, ISE, PHLX, CME, and Research Affiliates, and for initial discussions with a Charles Schwab initiative. Her expertise encompasses strategy, marketing, and product intelligence as well as operational practices of international securities trading and markets rules, foreign portfolio investment regulations, socially responsible investing and corporate governance.

Carmen joined FTSE Group from Standard & Poor's, where she was Senior Director of Business Development. She was the architect of S&P Global indices and a member of the S&P Index Committee.

Prior to Standard & Poor's, Carmen spent over a decade at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., first as a researcher and then as an emerging markets analyst at the International Finance Corporation. She was responsible for the development and analytics of the IFC emerging markets indexes. She holds an MBA from Marymount University in Virginia and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Las Americas University in Mexico.

Maya Chorengel, Managing Director, Unitus Equity Fund
Maya is a Managing Director of Elevar Equity, which manages The Unitus Equity Fund, a global growth private equity fund focused on the underserved 4 billion people in developing countries. The Unitus Equity Fund provides equity capital primarily to high growth microfinance institutions and secondarily to social entrepreneurs providing products and services to the underserved in emerging markets. Maya has been involved in microfinance investing since 2005. Prior to becoming Managing Director of Elevar Equity, she was Managing Director of the Dignity Fund, a private investment fund that provided loans and guarantees to commercially oriented, high-growth microfinance institutions throughout the developing world. Maya also serves on the boards of the Dignity Fund and Silicon Valley Microfinance Network, the advisory board of WaterPartners International, as well as the investment committees of the Dignity Fund, MicroCredit Enterprises and Wokai. Prior to joining the Dignity Fund, Maya was a Vice President of the private equity firm, Warburg Pincus, working in the firm's New York, Hong Kong and Menlo Park offices. She invested in a variety of companies from venture capital to leveraged buyouts to post-Asian crisis balance sheet restructurings. Earlier in her career, she was an associate in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley Asia Limited (Hong Kong and Singapore) and an analyst at James D. Wolfensohn, Incorporated. Maya graduated with Honors in Social Studies from Harvard University and has a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Joanne L. Howard, CFA, Managing Director, Co-Chief Investment Officer, RCM
Joanne is a Senior Portfolio Manager at RCM, a company of Allianz Investors, on the U.S. Large Cap Equity Portfolio Management Team. She has 38 years of experience in the investment management business. Joanne began her investment career in Chicago in 1964 as a junior security analyst with the First National Bank of Chicago and then as an industry analyst with CNA Financial. In 1968, she joined ISI Corporation in San Francisco, where she became Director of Research. In 1972, she was vested with the responsibility for managing equity mutual funds with assets of $300 million for the American Express Investment Management Co. During 17 years with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, she became a Managing Director and served as senior member of the Scudder Quality Growth Equity Management in the San Francisco office. Joanne has been president of both the Security Analysts of San Francisco and the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco. She joined Dresdner RCM in 1992 and was CIO of the Private Client Group from 1996 to 2002. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a BBA (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA in finance.

Melody Jones, Director, Stanford Group
Melody Jones joined Stanford Group in 2008, bringing over 15 years of finance and operational experience. Melody has spent the last eight years in the securities business focused on investment banking for companies in the technology and cleantech space. She began her banking career with JPMorgan, formerly Hambrecht & Quist, where she spent nearly four years before moving to SVB Alliant - an M&A boutique - to head up the Telecom and Data Center-focused advisory practice. While at SVB Alliance, Melody launched the Cleantech practice and published two marketing documents on M&A industry dynamics: "Recover, Restore, Resume: Protecting the Company Jewels," focused on next generation data protection technologies and "Earth, Wind and Fire: A Cleantech Perspective," an inaugural piece on the cleantech space, which began her dedicated efforts focused on cleantech. Prior to joining Stanford, Melody joined former H&Q colleagues at Pacific Growth Equities where she was a senior member of the banking team focused on Cleantech and Industrial Growth.

Melody received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA and Master of Arts with honors from the Wharton School and Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Holly Ruxin, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management
Holly joined Morgan Stanley in April 2006, where she leads a team that advises on investments to individuals, foundations, and not-for-profits. Prior to working at Morgan Stanley, Holly was an SVP in Bank of America's Private Bank, where she built a high net worth business from the ground up, focusing on asset allocation, equity and fixed income, and risk management. Prior to Bank of America, Holly was a VP at Goldman Sachs in their Fixed Income division, where she advised institutional clients, banks, money managers, and hedge funds on risk management using fixed income derivatives. Holly earned her MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, and her BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. Holly has been named one of the "Top 75 Bay Area Financial Advisors" and one of the "Top 25 Bay Area Women Financial Advisors" in the San Francisco Business Times. Holly is on the Board of Directors for Fertile Hope, a nonprofit dedicated to providing reproductive information, support and hope to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments present the risk of infertility. Holly currently lives in San Francisco with her husband and three children.

Starla Sireno, Founder, Fearlessness Inc.
Starla Sireno is Founder of Fearlessness Inc., a business communications and leadership development training company. Prior to Fearlessness Inc., she spent 12 years in financial services at Fannie Mae, Charles Schwab and Barclays Global Investors. With a Masters in International Economics and Finance, Starla has held positions in portfolio management, international and domestic product marketing, product development, competitive analysis, branding, and multinational client service.

Starla has translated her corporate expertise into customized programs for executives and their teams. As an executive coach, speaker and trainer, Starla helps individuals leverage their skills through personal branding, effective communication and leadership development. She also works with teams to overcome obstacles, communicate across differences, and agree on intended outcomes.

Space is limited, so reserve early!

Event Details

Who:	The Financial Women�s Association of San Francisco

What:	"Speed Mentoring"

When:	Wednesday, November 12th from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Program Format:	Wine and appetizers

Where:	Citigroup Conference Center, 28th Floor, 1 Sansome Street, San Francisco

Cost:	This a members only event - Fee is $35

REGISTRATION

There are 5 ways to pre-register:

1. Register online. Online registration is now closed.

2. Print and mail the following form to FWA, P.O. Box 26143, San Francisco, CA 94126

3. Print and fax the following form to 415-586-6606

4. Send an email to

5. Call Rhoda Singer at (415) 586-8599

Refund Policy: We are unable to issue refunds unless the refund request is received 72 hours prior to the event.

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Wednesday, November 12th from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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