| | CAREER OUTLOOK
Kimberly B. Davis
President, JPMorgan Chase Foundation JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Spelman College molds women into pragmatic, skilled and empathetic leaders. Since becoming the JPMorgan Chase Foundation president in 2006, Davis, holder of an economics/finance degree from the Atlanta school, has transformed its philanthropic approach. A key to that is going where the donors are: online. She created a Facebook
page for the company’s Chase Community Giving program that attracted 500,000 charitable applicants and gave out $5 million. Key components of this approach were reaching a younger pool of charitable donors and having them choose the recipients. Creative thinking has been a key component of her 30-year line and staff finance career. Positions she has held include senior vice president and director of recruiting, training & development for Chase Manhattan’s Global Banking organization; Latin American human resources executive; and vice president national sales manager, private banking. As the bank’s charitable leader, Davis combines altruism and capitalism with social networking savvy. The focal points of the donations are now education and commu- nity development, with an awareness that individuals that are better off financially will make good customers. In her free time, the loyal alumna has also created a Spelman College leadership center for women of color.
Vargas’ award-winning advertising campaigns. They blend an understanding of the importance of family in Latino culture with practical information. Ads assist customers in different ways. These include showing how to open an account and request information about loans, and assisting new Spanish- speaking customers as they familiarize themselves with and learn about bank products. Vargas has a Bachelor of Arts in accounting from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a Master of Business Administration from Tulane Univer- sity.
Alice Wang
Managing Director, Investment Banking JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The facts that Alice Wang earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Hofstra University and is a licensed certified public accountant are just prologue to all the benefits that she brings to the financial giant. Wang has very busy days, as managing director of the Cross Asset Class Structuring and
Rebecca Vargas
Marketing Director JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The 50 million Hispanic citizens of the United States are a lucrative pool of customers. Packaged Facts, a market research publisher, projected that the ethnic group’s buying power will be more than $1 trillion in 2013. As director of the bank’s consumer business multicul- tural marketing, it is the job of Vargas to bring as many Hispanics as possible into
the Chase fold. The recipient of the Marketer of the Year award from Marketing y Medios magazine as well as acco- lades from Hispanic Business magazine is off to a fast start. The JPMorgan Chase & Co. Spanish-language website, www.
chase.com/espanol, has increased its hits as users respond to
www.womenofcolor.net
Origination team for JPMorgan in North America, and the group responsible for global counterparty and client struc- tural risk for the rates, public finance, securitized products and foreign exchange flow derivatives products. Her steady career ascent propels her other interest: to increase the diversity of the bank’s personnel and enhance the opportuni- ties for women. She is a co-founder of the company’s first Asian employee networking group with 13 chapters domesti- cally and abroad, and prior to that served on the company’s initial corporate diversity task force. A dedicated mentor, Wang advises a group for Junior Women in Markets and co-created an organization to attract, retain and develop women in investment banking. The active campus recruiter is a member of several financial organizations including the Economic Club of New York, the Women’s Economic Roundtable and 100 Women in Hedge Funds.
Arlene Isaacs-Lowe
Senior Vice President Moody's Investors Service
In 2010, Isaacs-Lowe was appointed to lead business development efforts for the rating agency’s $1 trillion-plus US bank loan franchise. She joined
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