CFA NY Governance

David Allen, CFA, is an Institutional Director at Schroders. In his role, he provides large allocators in the Northeast with Schroders’ intellectual capital and strategies from around the world. Prior to this, he served in a similar position at AB. He also has founded and ran two FinTech startups and he traded FX in the 1990s. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Economics. Allen also co-chairs the NY Society’s Global Investment Group.

Sanjay Arora, CFA, CMA, ACA, is a Managing Director: Institutional Fixed Income Capital Markets at Raymond James Financial Inc. (listed “RJF”) and has over twenty-five years of global experience. He was re-elected to the Board of Directors this year and was formerly Vice Chairman of Institutional Asset Management Group.

Arora spent a decade in Bahrain, starting his professional career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and later as CFO for one of the largest local investment company. He was appointed by Morgan Keegan & Co, owned by Regions Financial (listed “RF”), at their head office in Memphis, TN to expand their Institutional Fixed Income Capital Markets. Raymond James bought Morgan Keegan and Arora was relocated to New York. Arora is Chartered Accountant, Cost& Management Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and CFA charterholder.

Caroline Busby, CFA, is a member of the US Institutional iShares Bond ETF Team at BlackRock. In this role, she is responsible for spearheading regulatory and structural innovation initiatives that harmonize the accounting, capital, and regulatory treatment of bond ETFs with that of individual bonds. Prior to her current role, Caroline spent 2+ years on the iShares Institutional Bond ETF Sales Team.

At BlackRock, Caroline serves as Global Chair of the Green Team Network (“GTN”), the corporate sustainability employee network. She’s responsible for driving the development of GTN’s long-term strategic plan and for managing a 10-person global Steering Committee. Caroline also co-created a BlackRock CFA Group to bring together employees who are CFA charterholders, exam candidates, or members of local CFA Societies.

Before being elected member of the CFANY Board of Directors, Caroline served as Co-Chair of their Young Leaders Group and as Co-Head of their Diversity & Inclusion Forum.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Caroline held roles in private fund business development and fixed income research at AllianceBernstein. Caroline graduated from Georgetown University with a double major in Finance and Management from the McDonough School of Business.

Ken D’Souza, CFA, is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for PGIM Quantitative Solutions working within the Quantitative Equity team. He oversees the analysts on the Quantitative Equity Team and is responsible for portfolio management, analysis and research. Prior to joining PGIM Quantitative Solutions, Ken was a Portfolio Manager at Batterymarch Financial Management where he utilized a blend of quantitative, fundamental and macroeconomic insights. Prior to Batterymarch, he was a research and development engineer and manager at Shaw Industries (Berkshire Hathaway). He is a past president and member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Quantitative Analysts and has served on the Board of Directors of the CFA Society New York and CFA Society Boston. He has also lectured on Financial Risk Management at Columbia University. Ken earned a BS in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MS in both management science and engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, graduating as an Amy and Richard F. Wallman Scholar.

Amelie Derosne, CFA, has been with Société Générale since 2007, and currently serves as a Vice President on the Emerging Markets and US corporate repo trading desk. Prior to serving in her current capacity, Derosne worked within Société Générale’s emerging markets fixed income and currencies desk, as well as within the equity derivatives proprietary trading group as a programmer for several algorithmic trading desks. Derosne has served as Vice Chair of CFANY’s Membership Committee between 2015 and 2017 and has played a leading role as a volunteer for the CFANY’s Asset Owners Series. Since 2015, the Series has hosted C-Level investment executives from asset owner organizations that collectively have over $35 trillion in assets under management or advisory. Additionally, Derosne chaired the 2019 and served on the 2016 CFANY Nominations Committee and has been a member of CFANY’s Global Investment Thought Leadership Group since 2013. Derosne has assisted in the organization of over 25 CFANY events, which were attended by over 2,500 investment professionals. Derosne holds a BS and a Masters Degree in Finance from the Institut Superieur du Commerce de Paris, an MBA from Louisiana Tech University and a micro masters in Data, Economics and Development Policy from MIT. Derosne is a CFA charterholder.

Katrina Dudley, CFA, is a Senior Vice President, Investment Strategist and Portfolio Manager at Franklin Mutual Series a deep value investment manager, founded in 1949, part of NYSE listed Franklin Resources, Inc. with over $1 trillion of assets under management. Prior to joining Mutual Series, Ms. Dudley worked at Federated Investors, Inc and Ernst & Young LLP. Ms. Dudley has a passion for advocating for women in investment management. She is the author of the introduction to the Vault Career Guide to Mutual Funds, and her upcoming book, co-authored with Columbia Business School Adjunct Professor Carr, “Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management”, will be published in Spring 2021.

Ms. Dudley earned an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business, a Law degree (with first class honors) and a Commerce degree from Bond University (Australia), and an Associate of Science degree (Computer Science) from the University of the People. Within her community, she is Vice Chair of the Board of The Children’s Village, a $100 million revenue social services organization. She is a member of the AEI Leadership Network, a Guest Lecturer at the Columbia Business School and the Stern School of Business and a frequent market commentator on Bloomberg and CNBC.

Arthur Fliegelman is a senior financial analyst in the Research & Analysis Center of the Office of Financial Research, a unit of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Mr. Fliegelman has previously been associated with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Moody’s Investors Service, Salomon Brothers, CIGNA Corporation and Hay Associates. He has an MBA from the Wharton School and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He was awarded the Benjamin Graham Distinguished Service Award by CFA NY in 2018 and has twice been named a CFA NY volunteer of the year for his CFA NY activities.

Paulina begun her career at MetLife in 1978, where she handled pension plans for Fortune 1000 companies, senior executives and board members of many foundations and endowments. She was a director of pensions marketing and served on the Asset Allocation Committee. In addition, she was a marketing strategist at Citibank Global Asset Management – Alternative Investment Group and launched socially responsive investment management products at Friends Ivory & Sime. She moved at the end of 2002 to Merrill Lynch, Private Wealth as a senior financial advisor. Paulina has extensive marketing and sales experience in the investment management arena.

Paulina received her BS degree from CCNY and has done graduate work at New York University. She is an Enrolled Actuary and served on the board of TIA. She also is an angel member at 100 Women in Finance where serves on the Education Committee as well as a member of Women in Derivatives and Women Investment Forum. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of the private foundation, Beljanski Foundation focus on the research and prevention of cancer.

Kelly Ye, CFA, is Director of Research at IndexIQ, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Investment Management. She oversees research and new product development across IndexIQ ETF family. Before joining IndexIQ, Kelly is Director and head of Quantitative Investment Strategy in New York Life Investment Management’s Strategic Asset Allocation Team. Kelly joined NYLIM in 2015 from Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she was the head quant on the credit investment team. She was responsible for all bottom up and top down research models as well as portfolio construction tools. Prior to that role, Kelly was a senior Fixed Income Quant Strategist in Goldman Sachs credit trading desk covering various Fixed Income instruments including Bank Loans, Invest Grade and High Yield corporate bonds, Credit Default Swaps and Municipal bonds. Kelly began her career as a Credit Derivative Structurer at BNP Paribas, designing structured credit solutions for institutional and private bank clients. Kelly has a dual Master’s degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Applied Math from Peking University in China.