Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Wealth Management, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. Previously she was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed such transactions as IPOs for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock transaction in U.S. history. In 2013, Ms. Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council. She has been named to U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance, was recently named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and “15 Corporate Women at the Top” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004” by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum. She is the immediate past Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and sits on the boards including Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and St. Vincent’s Hospitals, and is an active member of the St. Charles Gospelites of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and the Mark Howell Singers. Ms. Harris received from Harvard Business School an MBA, Second Year Honors and an AB in economics from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude. Ms. Harris has also received Honorary Doctorates from Marymount Manhattan College, Bloomfield College, St. Thomas Aquinas College and Fisk University, among others. She has released several gospel CDs and has performed 5 sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall, and authored “Strategize to Win” and “Expect to Win”.