Markets Choice Awards U.S. Women in Finance Awards 2022 | Markets Media | Hard Rock Hotel New York, 159 W 48th St, New York, NY 10036, US

The WIF awards event has built a strong tradition since debuting in 2016 as an offshoot of the Markets Choice Awards, which themselves launched in 2013. The early years of the MCAs showed there were more accomplished, talented and deserving women than that program had room for, so a new event was born, and it has grown beyond even our high expectations. The past two years have been virtual events. 2021 WIF award winners were top-notch as usual: to name just a few, Anushree Laturkar of Instinet won the inaugural STEM Champion award; Titi Cole of Citi won Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion; Saira Malik of Nuveen won Excellence in Asset Management; Linda Hsu of Credit Suisse won Trailblazer; Hayley Renee Boesky of Bank of America won Lifetime Achievement.

There were many more awards of note, including Rising Star, Crystal Ladder, Individual Achievement, and the always inspiring Instinet Positive Impact Award. Look for renewals of these awards plus new awards in the 2022 program.

2021 Winners

STEM Champion
• Anushree Laturkar, Head of Americas Execution Consulting, Instinet

Excellence In Diversity & Inclusion
• Titi Cole, Head of Global Operations and Fraud Prevention & Chief Client Officer, Global Consumer Banking, Citi

Excellence In Sustainability
• Sarah Bratton Hughes, Head of Sustainability, North America, Schroders

Excellence In Corporate Culture
• Nancy Harrington Jones, Chief Culture & Conduct Officer for the Americas, Société Générale

Excellence In Human Resources
• Courtney Panik, Global HR Leader and Business Partner, Symphony

Excellence In Sell-side Electronic Trading
• Jennifer Pyrka, Senior Salesperson, Advanced Execution Services (AES) Sales Team, Americas Cash Equities, Credit Suisse

Excellence In Buy-side Equity Trading
• Jenny Mastrangelo, Senior Trader, Eaton Vance Management

Excellence In Fixed Income Trading
• Yi Yi, Senior US Treasuries Trader, Citadel Securities

Excellence In FX Trading
• Laine Litman, Head of FX and FI, Virtu Financial

Excellence In Derivatives
• Elaine Sam, Managing Director, Head of Equity Derivatives and Cross Asset Sales, Americas, Credit Suisse

Excellence In Compliance
• Nadia Zakir, Global Head of Compliance & Chief Compliance Officer, PIMCO

Excellence In Marketing & Communications
• Tara Leyden, Global Head of Marketing, Virtu Financial

Excellence In Marketing & Communications
• Cathy Stahl, Managing Director, Global Head of Marketing, PIMCO

Excellence In Fintech
• Sarah-Jane McColl, Senior Vice President of Operations, Beacon Platform Inc.

Excellence In Trading Platforms
• Lea Palumbo, Managing Director, Co-Head of Sales and Client Management, Dealerweb, Tradeweb

Excellence In Service Providers
• Marisa Kurk, Chief Strategy Officer at Northern Trust Global Foreign Exchange, Northern Trust

Excellence In Clearing
• Laura Klimpel, General Manager of DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and Head of SIFMU Business Development, DTCC

Excellence In Regulation
• Libby Cantrill, Managing Director, Head of Public Policy, PIMCO

Excellence In Banking
• Orly Avidan, Managing Director, Head of Global Equities Distribution, BofA Securities, Bank of America

Excellence In Wealth Management
• Bola Oyesanya, Managing Director, Citi Global Wealth, Citi

Excellence In ETF Investing
• Wendy Wong, Managing Director, Head of Enterprise and Strategic Partnerships, NYLIM

Excellence In Thematic Investing
• Kate Moore, Head of Thematic Strategy for BlackRock’s Global Allocation Team, BlackRock

Excellence In Asset Management
• Saira Malik, CIO, Head of Global Equities, Nuveen

Individual Achievement
• Jaime K. Beckel, Executive Director, Americas Sales and Client Consulting, FactSet

Trailblazer
• Linda Hsu, Managing Director and Global COO, Credit, Credit Suisse

Crystal Ladder
• Dina Faenson, Head of Markets XVA, Citi

Excellence In Leadership
• Darlene Pasquill, Head of Equity Division, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Mizuho Americas

Lifetime Achievement
• Hayley Renee Boesky, Managing Director, Executive Vice Chairman, Global Corporate & Investment Banking, BofA Securities, Bank of America

Instinet Positive Impact
• Kate Burke, COO and Head of Private Wealth, AllianceBernstein

Rising Stars

• Margot Connolly, Director, BMO Capital Markets
• Erika Charnley, Business Development, Equities and FX, Virtu Financial
• Rashmi Maniyar, Global Head of Virtu Execution Services Tech/DevOps, Virtu Financial
• Kelly Fryer, Executive Director, FinTech Sandbox
• Rutuja Jagtap, Vice President, Renewables and Energy Transition, Mizuho Americas
• Colleen Flynn, Director, U.S. Institutional Money Markets and Repo, Tradeweb
• Lindsay Ryan, Director – ESG Program Manager Global Markets Americas, Société Générale
• Stephanie Sze, Managing Director, Investment Banking and Global Head of Sell-Side M&A, Credit Suisse
• Amy Yang, Quantitative Portfolio Analyst, AllianceBernstein
• Seyi Lawal, Business Manager for Global Quantitative Strategies, Citadel
• Laura Gensheimer, Director – Sr Project Manager, Société Générale
• Laura London, Vice President, Internal Communications and Media Relations, Mizuho Americas
• Carolyn Shirian, Vice President, Americas Lead for Digital and Client Engagement, Credit Suisse Asset Management
• Xiao Han, SVP, Portfolio Manager, Cross-Asset Volatility, PIMCO