Caroline Bell-Ritchie
Vice President and Managing Director, Global Private Banking Relationship Management & International Trust, Scotiabank (Wealth Management)
Caroline Bell-Ritchie is the Head of Global Private Banking Relationship Management and International Trust at Scotiabank. Caroline previously held a position at Morgan Stanley where she worked in equity derivatives sales and ran the prime brokerage sales and capital introduction efforts for Canada. Prior to that Caroline worked in the institutional equities group at Goldman Sachs.
Caroline grew up in Montreal and Boston and lives in Toronto with her husband and three young daughters. She is a liberal arts graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia Business School.
Caroline sits on the Board of Directors for Scotiabank Bahamas Trust and Jarislowsky Fraser. She is active in her community and is the Co-Founder and Chairperson Emeritus of Project Sunshine Canada, an organization that provides educational, recreational and social programs to children and families with medical challenges. Caroline is a volunteer committee member of 100 Women in Finance Toronto advising on educational, philanthropic and networking initiatives. Caroline is part of the leadership circle for the MMF Program at the University of Toronto.
Frances Donald
Head of Macroeconomic Strategy, Manulife
Frances Donald is Head of Macroeconomic Strategy at Manulife Asset Management, responsible for coordinating and generating global macroeconomic investment research and analyzing the potential opportunities and impacts on Manulife Asset Management’s investments. Prior to joining Manulife, she worked as a financial economist for Scotiabank in Toronto, and before that as a global macro analyst for Pavilion Global Markets in Montreal. Earlier in her career, she held various positions at Deloitte, Roubini Global Economics and Bank of Canada. She makes regular appearances on Business News Network and CBC, and is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg.
Education: Queen's University, Bachelor of Arts in Economics and New York University, Masters of Arts in Economics
Selina Wang, CFA
Vice President, Global Equity Electronic Sales & Trading, RBC Capital Markets
Selina is a sales trader on the Institutional Equity Trading desk at RBC Capital Markets. She is responsible for the electronic trading business where she provides real-time trading advice, develops unique trading strategies, and maintains relationship with institutional clients who use automated/algorithmic strategies to trade equities. Selina is a member of the Global Markets Future Leaders Forum Panel and sits on the committees for RWomen and GenNext within RBCCM. She also serves as a director on the Board of Institutional Equity Traders Association (IETA), a non-profit organization in the equity trading community. Selina has a B.Com degree from Rotman Commerce, University of Toronto. She is also a CFA charterholder.
Carol Yeh
Institutional Equity Sales Associate, Morgan Stanley
Carol graduated from the UofT Roman School of Management with a B.Com degree. She currently works at Morgan Stanley on the Institutional Equity sales team. She was previously on the buy-side at CIBC Asset Management as a research analyst and started her career in Investor Relations at Sun Life and was briefly at TD in Treasury and FX Sales. Carol is currently part of the NextGen Toronto committee with 100 Women in Finance and volunteers in the mentorship program with the Rotman School of Management.
Rachel Megitt
Director and Head, Business Transformation Canada, RBC Capital Markets
Rachel Megitt is Director and Head, Business Transformation Canada within RBC Capital Markets’ Strategy and Transformation Group, leading regional and global strategic initiatives with broad enterprise implications. Rachel joined RBC Capital Markets in 2011 after spending more than five years across human capital strategy, healthcare strategy and management consulting.
Rachel holds a Joint Honours degree in Economics and Political Science from McGill University (where she served as President of the Arts Undergraduate Society), a Masters of Arts degree in Business Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. In 2010, Rachel was named the first female president of the Graduate Business Council at the Rotman School of Management.
Rachel’s commitment to her community has been recognized through many awards, including: the Gordon Cressy Award, the Rotman Citizenship Award, WCM’s Rising Star Award, and the University of Toronto’s Arbor Award. Rachel currently sits on the Rotman Services Advisory Board and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management.
Throughout her time at RBC Capital Markets, Rachel has taken special interest in the advancement of women. From 2015 to 2017, she served as the Co-Chair of RWomen – an employee resource group dedicated to fostering inclusion and the career aspirations of women within the firm. From 2012 to 2015, she served as Chair of SheBiz, an all-day business symposium for young women in high school.
In 2014, Rachel created Ladies Who Lunch (LWL), a program designed to attract women to RBC and the capital markets industry. LWL invites Grade 12 female students to attend a personal one-on-one lunch with a current female employee. Rachel is currently working on expanding the program across Capital Markets in Canada.
