Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Global Wealth Management, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley

Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Global Wealth Management, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She has extensive industry experience in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. For more than a decade, Carla was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Digitas, and others. She is also the author of two influential books: Expect to Win and the soon-to-be-available Strategize to Win. Carla has been featured in Fortune’s “The Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America” and “The Most Influential List” as well as Black Enterprise magazine’s “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street” and “Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business” among others. In August 2013, President Obama appointed Ms. Harris as the chairperson of the National Women’s Business Council.