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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo In this edition of our CFO Spotlight series, we are featuring Rofhiwa Irene Singo, an accomplished finance leader whose journey is a testament to resilience, adaptability, and impactful leadership. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school.

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. Very unusual number of years in a row. I had no idea private equity was putting up those sort of numbers back then. European Central Bank has cut rates recently a number of times. But for me, this was not an option. at Wellesley.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. I was traveling and on an airplane all the time. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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Transcript: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. In fact, I think the number is net of fees 10 years out, it’s like 93% underperform the benchmark in in us. So we were strategy number four at aerial. What’s that like?

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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

Barry Ritholtz

Tell us a little bit about your progression over 27 years through the leadership ranks at Vanguard. So I had oversight of our 420 plus the number’s probably even greater now, first mutual funds and increasingly ETFs. Tell us what product development means specifically at Vanguard. Firms like Wellington, prime Cap, et cetera.

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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

Barry Ritholtz

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And I understood from that that well-meaning people can still muck things up because they don’t have an appropriate guide frame or appropriate leadership, or they’re not, so like little things can take projects astray. What was the career plan?

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James Owen, Global Chief Financial Officer, Profiles Division, Kantar

Generation CFO

He suggests organisations need a safe space where the numbers will not be used as a stick to beat you with. “It However, when he didn’t secure a senior contract at Bradford City, he left that path behind and went on to study maths at University. Consequently, his original career ambition was in professional football.

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