Guide for Women Breaking into Investment Banking

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Experience & leadership

Analytical rigor. Team-first leadership. A commitment to opening doors.

My experience across investment banking, private equity, wealth management, Division I athletics, and finance education has taught me to combine precise analysis with calm, accountable leadership.

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How I work

The standards I want to bring to every team

Earn trustTake ownership, protect details, and follow through consistently.
Stay coachableSeek candid feedback, apply it quickly, and keep raising the bar.
Serve the teamCommunicate clearly, anticipate needs, and contribute wherever the work requires.
Keep learningApproach new industries, transactions, and challenges with curiosity and discipline.

Summer 2026

Jefferies

Investment Banking Summer Analyst

  • Supported a roughly $250 million GP-led continuation fund transaction involving a 33-company portfolio.
  • Contributed to a cross-border incremental term loan financing and repricing of more than $2.6 billion of existing first-lien debt.
  • Worked across financial sponsors and secondaries assignments, coordinating buyer outreach, NDAs, data-room access, and execution timelines.

Summer 2025

One Equity Partners

Private Equity Summer Analyst

  • Evaluated more than 50 companies in the power-generator sector through market, competitive, valuation, and DCF analysis.
  • Presented new-business-development ideas to senior leadership, identifying focused sets of acquisition targets.
  • Completed an investor-relations rotation and participated in limited-partner meetings.

2025-present

Make a Play Foundation

Interviewer & Mentor

  • Provides mock interviews and actionable verbal and written feedback to candidates.
  • Previously competed in the Warburg Pincus Investment Banking Case Competition and led a monitoring workstream for an acquisition case.

2023-present

Stanford Women's Rowing

Division I Coxswain

  • Directs eight-person crews through more than 20 hours per week of training and competition.
  • Executes race strategy, delivers technical feedback, and makes real-time decisions under pressure.
  • 2025 NCAA Division I and ACC team champion; 2024 NCAA national runner-up and Pac-12 champion.

Leadership

Stanford Women in Finance

Co-Head of Education & Board Member

  • Plans curriculum and leads weekly finance education, technical preparation, and recruiting sessions.
  • Designed, coded, and launched this recruiting platform to centralize practical resources for women pursuing finance.

Education

Stanford University

B.A. Economics, expected 2027

  • Balances rigorous academics with Division I athletics, finance leadership, and professional experience.
  • 2025 All-ACC Academic Team and CRCA Scholar-Athlete.

Early leadership foundation

Phillips Academy Andover

Cum Laude Graduate

  • Served as President of the Andover Business Club, building an early foundation in business, finance, and peer leadership.
  • Captained Andover Girls Varsity Rowing, developing the communication, composure, and accountability that continue to shape my leadership style.
  • Graduated cum laude.
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