Carla Harris

Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Managing Director, and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, where she focuses on deepening client relationships and expanding revenue across the firm. Over a thirty-year career on Wall Street, she has worked across technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors, and previously led the firm's Emerging Manager Platform, its equity capital markets effort for consumer and retail, and its Equity Private Placements business. For financial services event planners, that combination of sustained tenure inside a global bank and frontline capital-markets execution is precisely what makes her credible to the bankers, advisors, and investment professionals in the room.

For more than a decade, Carla served on the equity syndicate desk, executing initial public offerings for companies including UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, as well as a $3.2 billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, among the largest biotechnology equity offerings in U.S. history. In 2013 she was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women's Business Council. Her recognition spans Fortune's listings of influential executives, U.S. Banker's Most Powerful Women in Finance, and Black Enterprise's most powerful women in business, signaling to a finance audience that her perspective is grounded in real transactions and real institutional standing.