Ms. Emilie Cortes

Emilie Cortes, CFA

Sales Executive - Axioma, Inc.

Emilie Cortes, CFA is a Sales Executive at Axioma Inc, a provider of portfolio construction and optimization tools to the quantitative investment community.Previously, Ms. Cortes was a Director of Client Solutions at Moody's KMV focusing on account management.She has also held roles as Vice President in the Financial Risk Products group of MMC Securities, and an Associate with The Geneva Companies.

Ms. Cortes has held several roles with the Association of Women MBAs, an afflilate of NAWMBA in San Francisco.She first served as Co-President in 2004 with Shanon Loftus, as President in 2005 and 2006, and most recently as Membership Chair in 2007.

Emilie received her MBA in Finance in 2002 from the Haas School of Business at UC, Berkeley, and her BSBA in International Business from American University having graduated first in her class.She is a CFA charterholder.

Emilie Cortes, CFA Past President

If you have any questions or membership suggestions, please e-mail the Membership Chair, Emilie Cortes, at emilie@theawm.com or the general mailbox at awm@theawm.com.

Board Members : Emilie Cortes

Emilie Cortes holds the Past President advisory role on the AWM Board of Directors.She first served as Co-President in 2004 with Shanon Loftus and then as President in 2005-2006.

Emilie received her MBA in Finance in 2002 from the Haas School of Business at UC, Berkeley, and her BSBA in International Business from American University having graduated first in her class.She is a CFA charterholder.

Emilie is a Director of Client Solutions at Moody's KMV and focuses on account management and sales for the insurance segment.Previously, she was a Vice President in the Financial Risk Products group of MMC Securities, a securities broker-dealer specializing in structured credit for the insurance industry, and an Associate with The Geneva Companies, a middle-market mergers and acquisitions broker in Southern California.

Beyond AWM, Emilie is involved in a number of other organizations.She is a member of the Financial Womens' Association of SF, 85 Broads, the American Alpine Club, and the Sierra Club.Emilie is an avid outdoorswoman and enjoys mountaineering, rock and ice climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, and kayaking.

Emilie can be contacted at emilie@theawm.com.

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Emilie Cortes, MBA 2002
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Emilie works for Marsh McLennan Securities as an Assistant Vice President in the Financial Risk Solutions Group.The securities group specializes in alternative risk transfer that employs capital markets approaches to solve insurance problems.

Before business school, Emilie spent four years as an Associate with The Geneva Companies, a middle-market mergers and acquisitions broker in Southern California.She performed industry analysis on private companies in the technology sector and financial and valuation analysis for M&A and private equity transactions.

Emilie is also Co-President of the Association of Women MBAs.She is a member of the Financial Womens Association of SF, Bay Area Net Impact, and the Sierra Club.She serves on the Class of 2002 Gift Campaign and Social Committees.

Emilie graduated first in her class with a B.S.B.A. in International Business from American University in Washington, DC.She is a Level III candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst program.

She can be contacted at cortes @ mba.berkeley.edu.

Emilie Cortes, Director, Moody's KMVEmilie is a Director of Client Solutions at Moody's KMV focusing exclusively on the Insurance segment.Previously, Emilie was a client of Moody's KMV when she was Vice President in the Financial Risk Products group of MMC Securities delivering innovative structured credit solutions for insurance problems.Prior to that, she was an associate with The Geneva Companies, a middle-market M&A broker in California owned by Citigroup.

Emilie received her MBA in Finance from UC, Berkeley and her BSBA in International Business from American University.She is currently pursuing her Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is active in a number of professional organizations, including holding a two-year term as President of the Association of Women MBAs.

Moderator: Emilie Cortes, Moody's KMV

Emilie Cortes

Emilie Cortes, MBA '02
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Ms. Cortes works for Marsh McLennan Securities as an Assistant Vice President in the Financial Risk Solutions Group.The securities group specializes in alternative risk transfer that employs capital markets approaches to solve insurance problems.Emilie received her MBA in 2002 from the Haas School of Business.Previously, she spent four years as an Associate with The Geneva Companies, a middle-market M&A broker in Southern California.Emilie is also Co-President of the Association of Women MBAs.She serves on the Board of the Haas Alumni Network San Francisco Chapter and is a member of the Financial Womens Association of SF, Bay Area Net Impact, and the Sierra Club.