Wealth management and private client awards USA – championing women in the wealth sector and highlighting the female leaders of today and tomorrow.
The Powerwomen Awards 2025 will both recognise individuals and companies who maximise the potential of women in wealth, and will also create a platform for best practice to collectively exercise positive social influence on the sector.
Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2025 – USA Shortlist
Champion of the Year
Chad Ellsworth, Fragomen
Gerard Joyce, Perkins Coie
Heather Flanagan, Wealthspire Advisors
Megan Worrell, J.P. Morgan
Melissa Pope, Butterfield Group
Sarah Constantine, Arnold & Porter
Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year
Dana Michelle Foley, Accelerant Law
Marissa Dungey, Dungey Dougherty
Maxine Bodden Robinson, IMG Trust Company Cayman
Michelle Wolfe, Meritus Trust Company
Sarah Moore Johnson, Harrison LLP
Susan P. Witkin, The Law Offices of Susan P. Witkin
Inspirational Woman of the Year
Anna Mason, Ingeborg Investments
Judith M. Peterson, DwellFi
Kathryn von Matthiessen, Katten
Laurie Franz, Five Together Foundation
Lisa Wolverton, Wolverton Foundation
Maggie Lear, The Frances Lear Foundation
Renee Kaplan, Forward Global
Toni Ann Kruse, McDermott Will & Emery
Mentor of the Year
Carol Schleif, BMO Family Office
Ellen Kratzer, Fiduciary Trust Company
Gloria E Correa-Cepin, eXp Realty
Joshua Rubenstein, Katten
Thomas W. Richardson, Arnold & Porter
Toni Ann Kruse, McDermott Will & Emery
Outstanding individual of the year
Ida Liu, Citi Private Bank
Katy Knox, Bank of America
Mary Callahan Erdoes, J.P. Morgan
Nichol MacManus, Brown Brothers Harriman
Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Goldman Sachs
Woman of the year – philanthropy
Angelina Fung, UBS Wealth Management
Carolina Jannicelli, J.P. Morgan
Jennifer Chandler, Bank of America
Karen M. Kardos, Citi Private Bank
Latanya Mapp, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Wendy Holding, Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Trust
Woman of the year – West Coast
Erin Itkoe, Tarbox Family Office
Grace Chung, Venables
Helen Cheng, Withers
Katie Hyde, Goldman Sachs
Paula de Vos, Synergist Wealth Advisors
Victoria C. Harris, Hunter Hagan & Company
Woman of the Year – Business Growth
Ani Hovanessian, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher
Danielle Barrett, Brown Advisory
Jacqueline Newman, Berkman Bottger Newman & Schein
Maria Pia Buchi, Harneys Fiduciary
Natasha Chang, White & Case
Shannon McNulty, The Village Law Firm
Woman of the Year – Caribbean
Georgie Loxton, Liberty Wealth Partners
Ingrid Pierce, Walkers
Laura Accurso, Fund Bank
Laura Kearns, Carey Olsen
Robin Peters, Schroders
Terri-Lynn Brown, RBC Wealth Management/Price Private Wealth
Woman of the Year – Fintech / Crypto
Aarthi Anand, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Alexandra Scheibe, Steptoe
Hadas Jacobi, Reed Smith
Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar, Linklaters
Kari Larsen, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher
Sofia Gancedo, Bricksave
Vanessa Maese, Maese and Associates
Woman of the Year – Government, Regulatory, Compliance and Not-for-profit Organisations
Christina N. Cahill, Holland & Knight
Jennifer Mannino, Hilton Global Associates
Pawneet Abramowski, PARC Solutions
Talia Metson, Loeb & Loeb
Tracy Boak, Perlman & Perlman
Yvonne Beri, United Nations
Woman of the Year – Leadership
Betty Andrikopoulos, Willow Street
Courtney Christensen, Winston Art Group
Kathryn George, Brown Brothers Harriman Family Office
Katrina Robinson, Cone Marshall Group
Lynn Halpern, Bessemer Trust
Olivia Dell, The Cometa Collective
Stephanie Heilborn, Proskauer Rose
Woman of the Year – Professional Services
Amy Heller, Skadden
Cynthia Brittain, Karlin & Peebles
Jodi Lipka, Meltzer Lippe
Leigh-Alexandra Basha, McDermott Will & Emery
Nicole Mann, Loeb & Loeb
Pamela Kuzniar, Women’s Divorce & Family Law Group by Haid and Teich
Sahel Assar, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
Woman of the Year – Rising Star
Jennifer Sullivan, HSBC
Reshma Shah, Duane Morris
Sarah C. Fenstemaker, Wilkie
Sasha Grinberg, Cadwalader
Shawntel Randi, Nixon Peabody
Silvana Garcia Pedrayes, UBS Wealth Management
Victoria Pastore, JTC Group
Woman of the Year – USA
Carolyn Reers, Wiggin and Dana
Lois Tilton, Perkins Coie
Maria Elena Lagomasino, WE Family Offices
Michelle Graham, Greenberg Traurig
Ronni G. Davidowitz, Katten
Susan Frunzi, Schulte
Woman of the Year – New York
Ani Hovanessian, Willkie
Christen K. Douglas, McDermott Will & Emery
Diana Wierbicki, Loeb & Loeb
Jessica Staton, Brown Brothers Harriman
Samantha Anderson, Patterson Belknap
Zena Tamler, Sullivan & Cromwell
Woman of the Year – Wealth Management
Alison Hutchinson, Brown Brothers Harriman
Alyssa Gelper, Klingenstein Fields
Chi-Yu Liang, J.P. Morgan
Jamie Krigbaum, J.P. Morgan
Jill O’Sullivan, HSBC
Stephanie Honan, UBS Wealth Management
Best DEI Initiative
Bank of America
Cadwalader
Duane Morris
Goldman Sachs
RSM US
UBS Wealth Management
Best Employer – Career Progression
Citi Private Bank
CLA Global
Deutsche Bank
Harrison LLP
JP Morgan
Nixon Peabody
Best Employer – LGBT+/Inclusion
Ballard Spahr
BNY Wealth
Cadwalader
Kirkland & Ellis
Kobre & Kim
KPMG USA
Diversity Communication Campaign of the Year
Deutsche Bank
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
PwC US
Raymond James
Wells Fargo
Organisation of the Year – Female Leadership
Citi Private Bank
Fiduciary Trust Company
Global Taxes
Greenberg Traurig
JP Morgan
Withers
Organisation of the Year – Creating Change for Women
Wealthspire Advisors
Baird Wealth
BNY Wealth
City National
Nomura
Skadden
Judges are:
Editor & CEO
Karen founded Citywealth after a career at News International, The Times, and Sunday Times in the legal, financial and recruitment sections. She also ran the Legalease flagship title Legal Business/Asia Pacific Legal 500, and launched Legal Business Awards and Legal 500 events. She founded Citywealth in 2005 and her work as a Citywealth founder and CEO was recognised by multiple awards, having gained no less than nine Stevie awards in total, with two gold awards amongst these – Female Entrepreneur of the Year (2017) and Most Innovative Woman of the Year – Business Services (2023). Her achievements were further recognised by the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry SME London Business Awards, presenting her with a silver Business Woman of the Year award in 2024.
Bernadette Carey
Carey Olsen
Partner
Bernadette is a partner in the Cayman Islands office of Carey Olsen. She has a broad private client practice advising on wealth structuring and estate planning matters, including the administration, restructuring, and termination of trusts, as well as probate and testamentary issues. She also has significant experience in trust litigation, regularly appearing before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on multi-party contentious trust disputes, estate litigation, and other cross-border private client disputes. Her international client base includes large corporations, insolvency practitioners, private trust companies, high net worth individuals, family offices, trustees, and beneficiaries.
Carly Doshi
HSBC
Managing Director, Head of Wealth Planning and International Connectivity
Carly is Head of Wealth Planning & International Connectivity with HSBC, based in New York City. In her role, Carly leads a team of subject matter experts, including former practicing lawyers and accountants, who provide wealth planning and thought leadership on a wide array of planning topics, including multi-generation wealth transfer, business succession, philanthropy, family office structuring, and family governance strategies. She works directly with the firm’s most sophisticated clients and their legal and tax professionals, and prides herself on a client-led, bespoke approach to planning advice delivery.
Carolina Garcia De Mattera
Global Empire Logistics
CEO
Carolina’s adept leadership ensures the strategic procurement of essential machinery, equipment, and supplies within the public and private sectors. Beyond the boardroom, she actively engages with clients, providing invaluable strategic advice for continuous improvement. Carolina’s commitment to excellence is deeply ingrained in the company’s ethos, fostering a culture of quality, efficiency, and compliance at Global Empire Logistics. As a proud Hispanic, minority/women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE), Carolina’s leadership amplifies the company’s specialization in delivering MRO machinery, equipment, and supplies, as well as procurement solutions, making Global Empire Logistics the go-to partner for optimizing facility efficiency for both government agencies and private corporations.
Dean C. Berry
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Partner
Dean Berry, chair of the firm’s Private Client Group, counsels clients on developing and implementing tax-efficient strategies for the management and transfer of private wealth, with a focus on complex U.S. and international trust and estate planning. He frequently works with attorneys, accountants, investment advisers and fiduciaries within and outside the U.S. to provide coordinated advice to clients having contacts with more than one country.
In his estate planning practice, Dean advises U.S. and foreign clients on the U.S. personal income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax laws. Planning often includes the preparation of wills and the establishment of structures utilizing trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies and insurance. Representative clients include individuals with family connections to multiple jurisdictions, individuals married to non-U.S. citizen spouses, U.S. beneficiaries of foreign trusts, U.S. shareholders of foreign corporations and foreign persons owning U.S. assets. When necessary, he represents clients in tax audits, appeals and litigation. In the area of estate and trust administration, he advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries with respect to probate, the prudent investor standard for investments, fiduciary accountings, controversies, and related court proceedings.
Lauren Cramer
McLaughlin & Stern
Partner
Lauren B. Cramer is a Trustee of Syracuse University and Chair Emeritus of Syracuse’s College of Visual and Performing Arts Advisory Board. She is on the boards of National Dance Institute (Secretary, Executive Committee), and Green-Wood Historic Fund (Secretary, Chair of Audit Committee), both located in New York. Lauren also serves on the Board of Forward Global (Secretary, Executive Committee), an international philanthropic charity for which she also provides a full range of US and cross-border tax exempt legal advice. She also serves as an officer and director of numerous civic and charitable organizations in a pro-bono capacity, advising both private foundations and public charities in issues relating to administration and the law. She has lectured at the University of Buffalo, Northwestern University, New York University and Syracuse. In March 2024, Lauren was awarded CityWealth Magazine’s “Power Woman of the Year USA – Government, Regulatory and Not-For-Profit Organisations”.
Lauren is a partner at the law firm of McLaughlin & Stern, LP. She is Chair of the Firm’s Tax-Exempt Organizations department and Co-Chair of the Arts department. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1997, her areas of concentration include tax-exempt organizations focusing particularly on public charities and private foundations as well as trusts and estates, general corporate and litigation work. She received a B.A. degree in political science from Northwestern University in 1987 and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 1994. Prior to graduation from Syracuse, Lauren pursued a career in finance and not-for-profit administration. Her community and professional affiliations include the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Member and New York State Bar Association. Lauren lives in Brooklyn and has two daughters; one in college in Dublin and the other who has just returned home to New York for graduate school. She and her girls are avid skiers, as well as cyclists in the urban jungle of New York City, and inveterate travellers.
Marina Cristiani
JTC
Director
Marina is a Trust and Estates Practitioner (TEP), an active STEP member and currently serves as co-chair STEP New York; she is a member of the International Bar Association, and a founding board member of the Argentine Lawyers Association of New York. Marina is admitted to practice law by the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires. Marina is fluent in Spanish, English and Italian.
Nancy Gabel
Evercore Wealth Management
Partner
Nancy Gabel is a Partner at Evercore Wealth Management and Managing Director at Evercore Trust Company, N.A., working in a business development role with high-net-worth families and their outside advisors. She has over 40 years of experience as a trusts and estates attorney and in issues surrounding intergenerational wealth planning.
Prior to joining Evercore in 2008, Nancy ran the Estate Planning department at U.S. Trust and headed the firm’s Intergenerational Wealth Planning group. She previously worked at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a trust and estates lawyer.
Nancy earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Ithaca College and her J.D. from New England School of Law. She is a member of both the New York and Massachusetts Bar Associations. Nancy was a founding member and continues to be a member of the Leadership Committee of the UJA-Federation of New York Lawyers Division Trusts & Estates Group. She also serves as a member of the Professional Advisors Council Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Planned Giving Professional Advisory Council, and the Central Park Conservancy Planned Giving Professional Advisory Council. Nancy previously sat on the Board of the Irvington Institute for Immunological Research, Hospital for Special Surgery, Wilson Society Advisory Council as Co-Chair, the Museum of Modern Art’s Planned Giving Advisory Committee, the National YoungArts Foundation, the Parents’ Steering Committee at Colgate University and the Parent’s Committee at Northwestern University.
Tash Perrin
Christie’s
Deputy Chairman
Tash Perrin currently serves as Deputy Chairman at Christie’s International, where she holds a crucial role in guiding estate, institutional, and private clients through significant sales worldwide. Prior to this position, Ms. Perrin held the role of Senior Vice President and Senior Director of Trusts, Estates & Wealth Management Services at Christie’s, overseeing the Estates, Appraisals & Valuations department and managing valuations across Christie’s Americas. Since 2007, Ms. Perrin has represented Christie’s at trusts and estates/family office conferences across the United States. Her career at Christie’s has encompassed various roles across the globe, including New York, Dubai, and London, where she served as a director of Business Development for seven years. In London, she played a pivotal role in organizing Christie’s first sales in Dubai and led the Client Advisory department through major auctions. With a career spanning sales across three continents since 1998, Tash Perrin has established herself as one of the leading auctioneers at Christie’s.
The Citywealth Powerwomen Awards USA ceremony is in New York on 13th March around International Womens Day.
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Paternity Leave Campaign
Citywealth, now celebrating its 20th year, has always championed women in wealth and we continue to do so. This year, after talks with our NEXTGEN clubs (the Tomorrow Club and the Wealth Professionals Club) we take up the issue of Paternity Leave to ensure the next gen support women in their careers. We want men to take paternity leave without guilt or fear of career damage. We hope the industry will support us in this endeavour.
