Amanda Pullinger

Chief Executive Officer, 100 Women in Finance

Ms. Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance. She leads a staff team and provides direction to 500 volunteer practitioners globally. The organization, which now has over 17,000 members in 26 locations, is focused on empowering women in the finance industry and inspiring the next generation of pre-career young women. Ms. Pullinger is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds. Ms. Pullinger is currently on the Boards of the HALO Trust (USA), the American Friends of The National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation and serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She is President of the Brasenose Society and Vice Chair of the Women’s Network Forum. Ms. Pullinger is Chair and Non Executive Director of the Board of FlyPlymouth, based in Plymouth, UK. Previously, she served as Chairman of the Board of The HALO Trust ( www.halotrust.org) and served on the Board of Langone NYU Cancer Institute. She was on the founding Board of 100 Women in Finance, serving as its President for two years. She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Ms. Pullinger graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.

Ellie DiBenedetto

Competitive Intelligence Specialist, Wellington Management

As a Competitive Intelligence Specialist in Product Development, Ellie and her team provide analytical expertise and scalable business reporting solutions to various groups across the firm. The Competitive Intelligence Team’s work enhances the firm’s competitive, market, investments, industry, and business intelligence to better prepare and position our personnel for client, consultant, and prospect meetings. The team also aims to provide digestible data and actionable information, so leaders across the firm can make more informed decisions and better set priorities (e.g., study competitive landscapes to ascertain the commercial viability of products being considered for development). Team members serve as in-house experts on a variety of third-party and Wellington-designed analytical applications. In this role, Ellie also works closely with the team’s director on the management of the group and to help lead and shape the team’s strategic focus, recruiting, training curriculum, development planning, technology integration, and global coverage. Ellie joined Wellington and Investment Products and Fund Strategies in July 2016 as part of the firm’s third Business Associate (BA) class and graduated from the BA program into a Competitive Intelligence Analyst role in January 2018. Additionally, she is a member of the disAbilities Awareness Network’s leadership team as the lead of the Recruiting/ Networking subcommittee and is part of the Women’s Business Alliance Membership & Talent subcommittee. She also participated in and successfully completed the firm’s inaugural Global Trading Academy (GTA). Outside of Wellington, Ellie serves as one of the co-chairs for Horizons for Homeless Children’s P.L.A.Y. Network. Ellie graduated cum laude from Bentley University (May 2016) with a bachelor of science in finance and a minor in computer information systems.

100 Women in Finance

100 Women in Finance's more than 15,000 members strengthen the global finance industry by empowering women to achieve their professional potential at each career stage. Its members inspire, equip and advocate for a new generation of industry leadership, in which women and men serve as investment professionals and executives, equal in achievement and impact. Through Education, Peer Engagement and Impact, the organization furthers the progress of women who have chosen finance as a career, and enables their positive influence over pre-career young women.

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