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Bloomberg Columnist Thinks Woman Who No Longer Works On Wall Street Is Bad For Women Who Work On Wall Street
By Bess Levin
I hate to turn to serious matters when we’re having such a good time, but JC Davies is exactly the sort of phenom that Wall Street women don’t need. It would be hard to argue that she isn’t smart (masters degree in health-policy management from Harvard), or that her blog doesn’t have what it takes to draw certain readers. I mean, when’s the last time you clicked on your favorite blog to discover a Filipino man’s lament that a lady blew him off because Asians supposedly are under-endowed? And while it would be a challenge to verify that 20-years- of-cross-racial-dating claim, I’ll take her at her word that she’s the leading expert on discerning the best imaginable racial preference for a hot night on the town. Unfortunately, all of the above is nothing but fuel for Wall Street troglodytes looking for another example of why women shouldn’t be taken seriously. [Bloomberg, previously, photo via Davies' blog]
Before John Mack famously fired his gal-pal Zoe Cruz from Morgan Stanley a few years back, the two were best of friends. Peas in a pod. Bosom buddies. You get the idea. So it came as a bit of a shock when he decided to do the chivalrous thing by canning her because (choose one) a. (In some people’s estimation) she was to blame for the company losing a few billion dollars b. A lot of people disliked her and told Mack they would leave if he made Cruz CEO c. Mack had to blame either himself or Cruz for some losses and he chose her. d. She was, you know, a girl, and the boys didn’t like that. No one would have blamed her for proceeding to spend her days sticking pins in a Mack voodoo doll and/or keying his car. And while it’s entirely possible she did both those things right after getting the boot and prior to forming her own hedge fund, Voras Capital Management, at this point she’s apparently over it, and would actually like to give Mack, who she only refers to as “that prick” among friends and only before adding “I’m messing, of course”, a hand. Deal Journal reports:
Cruz recently gave a keynote address at a banquet at the Stanford School of Business. In October, she started her own hedge fund, Voras Capital Management, and says it was good to get the “shove” from her “comfort zone.”
Superhuman Bank Of America Exec Conducted A Few Conference Calls In Slightly Less Than Desirable Conditions
By Bess Levin
Meet Lisa Carnoy. She’s the Bank of America lady exec who last month helped the company raise $19.29 billion. That makes her kind of a Big Swinging Deal (?), so the Observer spent some time getting to know her a little better. Here’s what they found out:
* Carnoy likes sports, and beer, ostensibly:
MS. CARNOY’S CORNER OFFICE in the Bank of America Tower on 42nd Street is decorated with a football, four tennis balls, a basketball, two Foster’s cans, a Mets lunch box, a Mets home plate and a Louisville Slugger baseball bat.
* Sometimes she laughs, and other times she doesn’t laugh:
She is an eccentric conversationalist, sporadically bursting into large laughter, then settling into long and odd silences.
* She puts personal touches on her deals:
…she included her team’s personal fitness programs and favored yoga positions in a pitch to Lululemon Athletica
* She worked late into the night a few times, and, on at least one occasion, over a holiday:
Remember a million years ago (real time: back in October), when Playboy put the call out for “Women of Wall Street” to help tackle the financial crisis by taking their clothes off? The feature was supposed to run in the February issue, but that came and went with nary a peep of financial services T&A. We assumed it was ’cause no one in the field was willing to get naked, despite the fact that it was for the good of the economy. Apparently, not so much! The spank rag’s May issue features the promised Wall Street spread. I’d say what follows is probably NSFW,* unless you happen to work at SAC, in which case consider this a guide to career advancement. Later today we’ll post the vintage (August 1989) WoWS feature, for comparison’s sake.
*Though we did cover the most intimate areas with a familiar face.
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