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Keynote Speaker

Sallie L. Krawcheck

President, Global Wealth & Investment Management, Bank of America

Sallie L. Krawcheck is president of Global Wealth & Investment Management for Bank of America, one of the largest wealth management businesses in the world with $1.9 trillion in total client assets. Global Wealth & Investment Management provides comprehensive wealth management to affluent and high net worth clients. It also provides retirement and benefit plan services, philanthropic management and asset management to individuals and institutions.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Krawcheck was the chief executive officer and chairman of Citi Global Wealth Management, where she was responsible for the Citi Private Bank, Citi Smith Barney and Citi Investment Research. During her time as CEO, she was also a member of Citi’s senior leadership committee and executive committee.

Krawcheck joined Citi in October 2008 as chairman and chief executive officer of Smith Barney. In 2004, she was appointed chief financial officer and head of strategy for Citigroup Inc. Prior to joining Citi, she was chairman and chief executive officer of Sandford C. Bernstein & Company, where she became one of the most influential voices for research quality and integrity.

Krawcheck has been listed as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business for the past seven years. U.S. Banker ranked her on its list of 25 Women to Watch in 2009, and Forbes magazine listed her as #6 in the rank of the World’s Most Powerful Women in 2006. She was also the recipient of CNBC’s Business Leader of the Future Award in 2007. In 2002, she was recognized as one of Time magazine s Global Business Influentials and, in 2003, Fortune magazine named her the Most Influential Person Under the Age of 40.

A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Krawcheck attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the Morehead Scholarship and graduated in 1987 with academic honors and a bachelor of arts. In 1992, she received a master of business administration from Columbia University.

An active participant in the affairs of her alma maters, Krawcheck has endowed her former secondary school, The Porter Gaud School, with the Krawcheck Scholarship, a needs-based scholarship awarding full tuition to students of exceptional aptitude. She is a member of the board of directors of BlackRock, Inc.; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation, Inc.; and Carnegie Hall. She is on the board of overseers of Columbia Business School and the board of trustees of The Economic Club of New York.