ALLRISE DC invites you to join us and the American Bankers Association for a program, "Landing That First Board Position".  ALLRISE DC last hosted a program on this topic four years ago and our supporters have been asking us to host another one ever since.  We are pleased to bring you an expert panel with diverse experience and perspectives on navigating the challenges of becoming a corporate board member. Our esteemed speakers for this moderated panel discussion are:

• Lori Bettinger, Co-President of Alliance Partners, President of BancAlliance and board member of Bank on Women. Lori will discuss Bank on Women's work to develop and promote women leaders in order to increase the number of women on community bank boards.  

• Timothy Holt, Jr., a partner at the executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services firm of Heidrick & Struggles with a focus on board and C-Suite searches.  Tim will share his interesting experience working with the FDIC to find individuals to join bridge bank boards.  

• Poorani Jeyasekar formerly with Klaros and an active volunteer with the Leadership Foundry, an organization founded by Women in Technology that trains women executives for corporate board positions. Among other things, Poorani will talk about the benefits of her volunteer experience. 

We are excited that Naomi Camper, Chief Policy Officer at the ABA, will deliver opening remarks.  

The panel discussion will be immediately followed by a reception.  As with all of our programs, this is open to financial services professionals from government, industry, law firms, trade associations and consulting firms and is intended to comply with the reception exception to the congressional gift rules and the de minimis exception under the federal banking agencies’ ethics rules.

Click here to register.  Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, March 5th.  

Join ALLRISE DC and Arnold & Porter for an in-person panel discussion on the Future of DEI. Our panelists will explore the implications for the financial services sector of the July Supreme Court decision* striking down the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Since the decision, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs beyond universities have been the targets of legal challenges and legislation. We look forward to a lively discussion among our panelists: Josh Alloy and Elisabeth Theodore of Arnold & Porter, Michael Briggs of the Mortgage Bankers Association, Naomi Mercer of the American Bankers Association, and Nikita Pearson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Senator Christopher Dodd, senior counsel with Arnold & Porter, will provide opening remarks.  

We hope you will join us for a reception immediately following the panel.  As with all of our programs, this is open to financial services professionals from government, industry, law firms, trade associations, and consulting firms and is intended to comply with the reception exception to the congressional gift rules and the de minimis exception under the federal banking agencies’ ethics rules.  

* Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.  v. University of North Carolina

Speakers

Josh Alloy
Counsel | Arnold & Porter

Michael Briggs
General Counsel | Mortgage Bankers Association

Senator Christopher Dodd
Senior Counsel | Arnold & Porter

Naomi Mercer
Senior Vice President, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
American Bankers Association 

Nikita Pearson
Deputy to the Chairman for External Affairs, Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) | FDIC

Elisabeth Theodore
Partner | Arnold & Porter

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ALLRISE DC and FS Vector are pleased to announce an in-person program, Enterprising Women: Building a Business and Beating the Odds.  Join us for a special evening with four inspiring women tech entrepreneurs who will share their insights about what sparked them to chart their challenging career paths and start new enterprises. 

In a moderated discussion with FS Vector's Kate Flocken, the following distinguished panelists will discuss their career choices, building a new business from the ground up, and operating in the current challenging environment: 

• Sarah Elliott, One, Founding Team Member and Anchorage Digital, Independent Board Member 

• Sima Ghandi, Creative Juice, CEO and Founder

• Melissa Koide, FinRegLab, CEO and Founder 

• Dale Pfeiffer, Goodworld, CEO and Founder

Please RSVP by April 7th.  
       
We look forward to seeing you on April 11th! 

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ALLRISE DC and ALLRISE SF invite you to our first joint virtual program, Time to Pivot - So What's Next? Planning for Your Next Career Move. Join us for an insightful conversation with four accomplished women about reimagining their career chapters on February 9th at noon ET.

We will discuss crafting blueprints for career transitions. Our guest speakers will share their thought processes and motivations for making career pivots, the role of risk-taking, and how they navigated the changes to create rich and varied professional lives. 
 

• Anna Alvarez Boyd, founder and CEO at Executive Horizons and co-founder at Fairways to Leadership. Anna was formerly a Senior Associate Director at the Federal Reserve Board

• Sarah Diamond, board member at Dubber, executive mentor at the ExCo Group, and speaker-in-residence and mentor at Columbia University, School of Professional Studies. Sarah was the former Global Managing Director for Financial Services at IBM

• Kathy Dick, founder and CEO at Salt of the Earth Consulting. Kathy was a former SVP at USAA, Managing Director of Promontory Financial Group, and Deputy Comptroller at the OCC

• Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. Hilarie was former President at Salesforce and at New Relic

To RSVP, click here which will take you to the Contact page.  
       
We look forward to seeing you online on February 9th! 

ALLRISE DC is pleased to announce a virtual discussion with Jaret Seiberg, Managing Director, Cowen Washington Research Group, on Wednesday, November 9th, from 5-5:45 PM. Jaret will share his insights on the results of the 2022 mid-term elections and their implications for financial services policy and the industry. Jaret’s analyses are highly regarded by those who follow the Washington scene. We are very lucky to have him join us. Please RSVP by November 8th.

Join ALLRISE DC and Cleary Gottlieb for an in-person panel discussion with well-known and highly respected banking trade association CEOs, Lindsey Johnson of the Consumer Bankers Association, Briget Polichene of the Institute of International Bankers, and Nicole Elam of the National Bankers Association. Nicole, Briget and Lindsey will discuss what it takes to run an association, their varied paths to attain trade association leadership, their career opportunities and challenges along the way and their brand of leadership. This is also an opportunity to hear about the current issues their associations are tackling.

We look forward to catching up with you at a reception immediately following the discussion. RSVP here

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Join ALLRISE DC and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) for a virtual panel discussion about the importance of allyship in the workplace, and how to achieve it. Allyship means recognizing the privilege that members of majority groups have in a professional context and using that privilege to aid in dismantling systems and processes that prevent colleagues from having equal opportunities. Michael Briggs, General Counsel of the MBA and longtime ALLRISE DC supporter, will moderate the conversation with Kelvin Chen, Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel Bank Regulatory and Policy, Capital One, Dan Fichtler, Associate Vice President of Housing Finance Policy, MBA, Ben Wilson, former Chairman of Beveridge and Diamond, and Charles Yi, Senior Advisor for Legal Affairs and Policy, Federal Housing Finance Agency.

We are very excited about this second installment of our new programing which features allies, and delighted to host what promises to be an insightful and interactive discussion among a truly distinguished panel.

Please RSVP here.

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Join ALLRISE DC for our inaugural ALLIES program with Timothy L. Holt, a partner with Heidrick & Struggles, a premier global provider of senior-level executive search, culture shaping, and leadership consulting services. Tim’s expertise includes C-suite and board director search and advisory, succession planning, executive assessment, team effectiveness and, most importantly for our purposes, culture shaping, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consulting. Within his firm he served as America’s DEI Leader, serves as a sponsor in the Advancing Women’s Excellence program and as a mentor in the Professionals of Color (POC) Mentorship program, and is a longstanding member of the firm’s POC and LGBTQ Employee Resource Groups.

Tim will share his views on what the workplace of the future will look like, new opportunities for women and other underrepresented groups, as well as a host of other current workforce/workplace issues. Join us for what’s sure to be an interesting conversation with Tim Holt by registering here.

ALLIES events feature a diverse group of proven allies of women and underrepresented groups in the financial services sectors. ALLIES are champions of women and minorities, using their voices to give others a platform to speak and be heard.

Join ALLRISE DC for a new installment of our Women of Influence (WOI) series with Diana Farrell, an enterprising thought leader in domestic and global economics and financial services policy with wide-ranging experience in the private and public sectors. Diana is an independent director and trustee of various prominent organizations, including eBay and the Urban Institute. She was the founding President of JPMorgan Chase Institute, where she created a legacy of producing and publishing insightful analyses to address global economic challenges based on the bank’s extensive transaction data. Diana led the Institute in producing groundbreaking work analyzing the impact of Covid-19 on families, communities and small businesses. In addition to founding the McKinsey Center for Government and serving as Global Head of McKinsey Global Institute, Diana was Deputy Director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to President Obama on Economic Policy.

Don’t miss what’s sure to be an interesting discussion with Diana as she shares her personal and policy insights and discusses her own career transitions.

RSVP - click here to register which will direct you to our Contact page.

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, join ALLRISE DC for a virtual conversation with a panel of seven inspirational Latina professionals from the financial regulatory sector. This multigenerational panel features representatives from the financial regulatory agencies and Capitol Hill who will share personal insights about their lives and career trajectories and provide practical advice about attracting and retaining diverse hires.

We are honored to host Anna Alvarez Boyd from the Federal Reserve Board who will moderate the conversation with Maria Isabel Cales from the FRB, Chelsea Cruz and Paola Diaz from the FDIC, Catherine Galicia from the NCUA, Zixta Martinez from the CFPB and Veronica Morales, Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives.

RSVP—Note the new date and time. Don’t miss what’s sure to be a fascinating and lively conversation with the panelists by registering here on ALLRISE DC’s website which will direct you to the Contact page.

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Join ALLRISE DC for the next installment in our series, Women of Influence (WOI), with Laurie Schaffer, an accomplished government policy maker who, throughout her career, has tackled some of the most significant issues facing our industry.  Laurie has decades of experience at senior levels of government including currently serving as Principal Deputy General Counsel at the Department of the Treasury, at the Federal Reserve Board where she was Deputy General Counsel and again at Treasury, from 2008-11, serving as Assistant General Counsel for Banking and Finance, where she played a critical role in the Administration’s emergency response to the 2008 financial crisis and in the development of the Dodd Frank Act.  Earlier in her career, Laurie served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the House Financial Services Committee where she was instrumental in the 1999 passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.  Laurie has also held significant positions in the private sector, including serving as General Counsel at Charles Schwab Bank.  

RSVP—Don’t miss what’s sure to be a fascinating conversation with Laurie Schaffer by registering here through the Contact page.

WOI events feature a diverse group of influential women, discussing their careers and passions, their reflections on events of the past 18 months, and their thoughts for moving forward.

Join ALLRISE DC and FS Vector for a virtual panel discussion about taking risks and navigating career changes. Tahmineh (Tammy) Maloney of Katapult will moderate the conversation with Sarah Elliott of One, Meredith Fuchs of Plaid and Katherine Carroll of Stripe. Melissa Netram, formerly Chief Innovation Officer of the CFTC and new partner at FS Vector, will offer some opening observations. Register here.

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Join ALLRISE DC and Covington for a virtual roundtable discussion about the challenges of supervising banks in a post-pandemic environment with senior women supervisors from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. To learn more about the program and to RSVP click here.

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Join ALLRISE DC for the next program in our series, Women of Influence (WOI), with Anna Alvarez Boyd, an experienced government, corporate and community development policy maker. Currently, Anna serves as Senior Associate Director at the Federal Reserve Board where she is responsible for consumer and community development research and programs. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Anna was Vice President of Programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, a non-profit providing leadership development programs to emerging Latinx leaders. She has also served as Director of Community and Multicultural Lending at Fannie Mae and as Deputy Comptroller for Community Affairs at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Anna is the founder of Executive Horizons LLC, a consulting and leadership coaching business. In response to the racial justice movement and the pandemic, Anna and her husband, Eric Boyd, founded a non-profit organization, FairWays to Leadership. Its mission is to teach golf to college and university students from underrepresented groups as a means to access business opportunities and further their careers. She enjoys poetry, dance, and art.

RSVP — Please join us for a fascinating conversation with the multi-faceted Anna Alvarez Boyd by registering here through the Contact page.

WOI events feature a diverse group of influential women, discussing their careers and passions, their reflections on events of the past year, and their thoughts for moving forward.

Join ALLRISE DC for another installment of our series, Women of Influence (WOI), with Jo Ann Barefoot, CEO and Co-founder of the Alliance For Innovative Regulation (AIR), a nonprofit promoting the use of responsible technology and a modernized regulatory system to help consumers and small businesses build financial health. Among other topics, Jo Ann will share her insights about the women’s empowerment TechSprint which AIR will have concluded just that day with the UK Financial Conduct Authority. The TechSprint focuses on helping women disproportionately affected by the pandemic achieve financial resiliency. A host of the global podcast, Barefoot Innovation, and a noted advocate of “regulation innovation,” Jo Ann also serves on the boards of fintech Opportun, as well as FinRegLab, and on the fintech advisory committees of FINRA and the Milken Institute.

Don’t miss what’s sure to be an interesting discussion with Jo Ann Barefoot by registering here through the Contact page.

WOI events feature a diverse group of influential women discussing their careers and passions, their reflections on events of the past year, and their thoughts for moving forward.

Join ALLRISE DC for the second in our series on Women of Influence (WOI) for a conversation with Marjorie Rodgers Cheshire, President and Chief Operating Officer of A&R Development, a diversified real estate company, which owns large-scale multifamily, commercial and mixed-use properties in the Baltimore and Washington markets. In addition to her extensive CRE market background, Ms. Cheshire spent many years in the media and sports industries working with such well known firms as the NFL, Oxygen Media and ESPN. Ms. Cheshire serves on the Boards of PNC Financial Services Group, Exelon, Baltimore Equitable Insurance, Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Please join us for what’s sure to be a fascinating discussion with Marjorie Rodgers Cheshire by registering here through the Contact page.

WOI events feature a diverse group of influential women, discussing their careers and passions, their reflections on events of the past year, and their thoughts for moving forward.

Join ALLRISE DC for our inaugural Women of Influence (WOI) program with Mary John Miller former Under Secretary of Treasury during the Obama Administration. Mary has had an interesting and varied career and a long and deep commitment to the city of Baltimore. Last year, amidst the pandemic, Mary ran for Mayor of Baltimore. She is currently Interim Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration of Johns Hopkins University. Mary also serves as a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University 21st Century Cities Initiative and as a board member of the Baltimore Neighborhood Impact Investment Fund. Mary is a director on the boards of Silicon Valley Bank and The Jeffrey Company and a trustee of Cornell University and The Urban Institute. Previously, Mary spent 26 years in the investment management industry with Baltimore’s T. Rowe Price.

Join us for what’s sure to be an interesting conversation with Mary Miller by registering here.

WOI events feature a diverse group of influential women, discussing their careers and passions, their reflections on events of the past year, and their thoughts for moving forward.

Join ALLRISE DC and the Mortgage Bankers Association for a virtual panel discussion that will explore the career paths of five highly accomplished and successful Black and Hispanic women professionals in financial services. Learn how to become a more effective ally in the workplace for women of color. To RSVP, click on the link in the invitation by August 19th.

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Times of major disruption can present opportunities for unprecedented change. Join us for an online interactive experience to consider how we as senior women leaders can re-imagine and build a better future.

This program is open to women who have 20 plus years of career experience. Participation will be capped at 25 to create a more interactive and intimate setting. To RSVP please click the email link below and provide your affiliation and title.

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A number of recent studies highlight the correlation between increased gender diversity on bank boards and improved company performance, yet despite making up 54% of the workforce at S&P 500 finance companies, women hold less than 19% of bank board positions.  Hear from a panel of experts on how to best position yourself for a future board position.

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The panel features a lively discussion about the journey of women fintech founders in starting and developing their businesses. While all entrepreneurs must overcome challenges, women, in particular, face significant hurdles in obtaining funding. The founders will be joined by fintech venture investors for a discussion about enhancing women founders’ opportunities to attract investment.

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Join us for breakfast with John Dugan, Chairman of the Board of Citigroup and former Comptroller of the Currency, who will discuss the philosophy behind Citigroup's decision to take a pioneering role in publicly disclosing unadjusted gender and diversity pay gaps and the various stakeholder reactions to that disclosure.

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A number of recent studies - including one issued by the Federal Reserve Board - highlight the correlation between increased gender diversity in senior levels of an organization and improved company performance. Hear from a panel of bank executives about the importance of a diverse workplace to their organizations’ culture and productivity, and how they are achieving results.

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Join us for breakfast with Elizabeth St-Onge, partner at Oliver Wyman, to learn about the experiences of millennial women in financial services organizations and how senior leadership can support their retention and advancement.

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Hear from an impressive group of women leaders in financial services about their journey to the top - what it took to get there, the challenges they faced, and how they navigated their career paths.  

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