Meet Our Mentors

Adeola Akinrinade is a Partner in the Financial Advisory Services Group and has over 15 years of experience providing financial and strategic advisory services to companies and creditors.

As a leadership and career coach, Ellen is focused on helping high performing professionals and new leaders raise their self-awareness and achieve their personal and professional goals.

Laleh Bashirrad is a Managing Director on the Leveraged Syndicate desk within BNP Paribas’ Global Markets group.

CAROL CHAN, CFA, is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer/Finance Director at EY US LLP overseeing the strategic management and operational aspects of the $26+ billion of retirement trust assets.

Liliana Chang is a partner in the Corporate Department of the law firm of Herrick, Feinstein LLP.

Julia Coto is currently the CFO at ChartSpan Medical Technologies. Julia has 15+ years of leading finance and accounting organizations within start-ups as they scale.

Peggy is the Principal of KnowledgeSources Consulting, a firm that represents a consortium of independent experts and thought leaders in the employee effectiveness arena.

Claudia is a Director for the Global Corporate Transaction Banking at BMO Capital Markets in Chicago.

Kathy Garramone served as the Chief Financial Officer of the North Bronx Healthcare Network, a regional network consisting of Jacobi Hospital and North Central Bronx Hospital, for 10 years.

Maria Giraldo is a Managing Director in Guggenheim’s Macroeconomic and Investment Research group.

Anna Gitelman is a Managing Director, COO for the Internal Audit Division. In her role, she oversees multiple functions.

Elizabeth Green is the Director, Global Brand Value Chain Optimization for the Estee Lauder Companies.

Mary Greenebaum is a retired chief investment officer of New York Community Trust, a community foundation with approximately $3 billion in assets in more than 2,000 charitable funds. 

Ms. Halpern is a graduate of New York University and holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a Master of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business.

Ms. Hertenstein is entering her 6th year as an FWA/Baruch mentor, in addition to being a part of the 2016 FWA Pacesetter class and former Co-Chair of the Pacesetter Program for the 2019-2020/2020-2021 class.

Stacey Huber is a Talent Development Partner supporting the CIB Americas region at BNP Paribas. 

Susan Hume is an Associate Professor of Finance in the School of Business at The College of New Jersey.

Mariya currently leads Business and Change Management for the Customer Service Management team at Wells Fargo. 

Bernitza Lafleur is a Senior Manager in EY’s Consulting practice focusing on Technology Risk. 

Stephanie is a Tax Director with PwC's National Tax Services and Process Businesses practice, with over 16 years of experience in the banking, capital markets, and insurance and asset management industries.

Jacqueline (Jackie) is a senior financial services industry executive with over 30 years of global banking experience at Citigroup where she held key strategic leadership roles in treasury, finance, and risk management.

Mara MacDonald works at Paramount Global as a Senior Director in Treasury & Capital Markets. Prior, she spent 13 years in Investment Banking.

Salome is a managing director in the Client Strategy Group within the Carlyle Group.

Kathryn Mayer is President and Founder of KC Mayer Consulting, Inc., a strategic leadership firm providing both individual executive coaching and group seminars with a special focus on women in competitive businesses.

Maureen has been an FWA member for more than 20 years and an FWA Baruch mentor since 2003.

Nancy Mui is a Director and the Compensation Partner for BlackRock’s Alternatives group.

Fang Fang is currently a Senior Solutions Engineer at Alloy (an identity verification company based out of NYC).

Jemi is a finance professional with over a decade of experience in the Capital Markets Space.

Maria is a director in the Transaction Banking group at BNPP New York where she joined in 2018 with the task of providing correspondent banking services to banks as part of the Transactions Solutions for Banks team.

Erin is a legal/compliance professional with 17+ years of experience as a regulatory subject matter expert. Erin currently serves as the Chief Compliance Officer for Wedbush Securities, a full-service broker-dealer and registered investment adviser. 

Allison Reid is Associate General Counsel for Legal and Regulatory Affairs with S&P Global, a global financial information and analytics company.

Katie Renken is the Director of Americas for the Global Financial Institutions Group (GFIG).

Fran is founder and President of Riemer Consulting Inc., which specializes in Executive/Leadership Coaching and Organization Development. 

Tunisia Riley is a DE&I Specialist at New York Life where she’s been able to bring her academic training, institutional knowledge, passion for social justice, strategic thinking, and communications skills to her role.

As a recognized, awarded, and highly praised pioneer in market research, Ellen has excelled in creating methodological approaches and analytics for both quantitative and qualitative applied research.

Irene is a Private Equity Client Director Private Equity in AlterDomus Fund Service provider since 2021.

Janna Treybick is a PwC Director in the Trust Solutions Innovation & Technology (TSIT), Market Information & Data Analytics (MIDA) practice.

Kit Turner has been in the financial services industry for 30 years and has spent her entire career representing women and minority-owned investment banking firms. 

She started her career at New York Life shortly after graduation and held 4 different Accounting positions within New York Life over her first 8 years with the company.

Betsy Werley is in her third career, dedicated to helping people of all ages realize their full potential.

Karina Williams is currently a Director at UBS. She sits in IB NCL Technology on the High Performance – Agency and Trading Infrastructure team in an Audit and Financial Controls Business Management role.

Aidi is a Director in Global Markets Corporate Banking at BMO Capital Markets.