By Cheryl Leitschuh Are leaders born or made? Do you have the competencies to be a leader? Is your emotional intelligence consistent with successful leadership? Will your strengths match what you need to effectively lead? There are so many questions swirling around leadership and if you choose to lead, you will feel bombarded with images […]
By Tina Vasquez, Managing Editor When we talk about the progress that has been made by women in corporate America, using gender to mean ‘all women’, what we’re actually referring to is the progress and gains that have been made by white women. African-American women, who make up 13 percent of the female population in […]
By Tina Vasquez, Managing Editor As Tamara Fields began looking into employment opportunities as her college graduation neared, she noticed that all of her classmates were clamoring for consulting jobs. At the time, she says, consulting firms were hiring in large numbers to help support the Y2K buzz and the new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Tina Vasquez, Managing Editor In November 2013, Catherine Clay received a career-changing promotion: she became CEO of Livevol, which offers options analysis and trade execution software. The CEO says the company extracts data from the market and gives clients what they […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Jessica Titlebaum Kim Taylor, President of CME Clearing, said that the automobile industry is to Detroit what the futures industry is to Chicago. Taylor moved to Chicago from the Detroit area to work for Sprint, managing 25 telemarketers. One year later […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Jessica Titlebaum In just 12 years, Veronica Augustsson went from developer to CEO of Sweden’s Cinnober, an international independent software company delivering trading, clearing, and surveillance solutions. After graduating from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a master’s degree […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Tina Vasquez, Managing Editor Ann Gonzalez, a director in PwC’s financial services advisory group, says that thus far, her career has been “exciting, ever-evolving, and unexpected,” with one opportunity leading to the next. “If anyone had told me when I started […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Tina Vasquez, Managing Editor Yvonne Downs is COO of Jefferies LLC futures division, though her 30-year long career in the futures industry began after she graduated from college and began looking for a job in accounting/finance. “A friend suggested I consider […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Tina Vasquez, Managing Editor Christina McCaughey has had a storied career in the financial services industry, which has included being the go-to expert when futures trading began to migrate away from the floors onto the screen. She has worked for some […]
This week The Glass Hammer is profiling successful women in the derivatives industry. By Jessica Titlebaum Lynn Martin’s father played a large part in getting her to where she is now. As an engineer, he worked long hours and six day weeks, but always made it home in time for family dinner. Following in his […]