An Intimate Chat with Cathy Woo

A Women's Member Community sponsored event

The second event in the Intimate Chat Series for 2019, which is sponsored by CFA Society Los Angeles' Women’s Member Community, will take place at the City National Bank Building in Downtown Los Angeles. Attendance will be limited to allow all participants to engage in active dialogue. Registration is open to all CFALA members.

If you haven’t joined the Women’s Member Community (MC) and want to keep up to date with the goings on of the community please consider joining the LinkedIn group called ‘CFALA Women’s Group’.

Cathy Woo | Cathy Woo, SVP leads the Enterprise Shared Services group at City National Bank’s (CNB) Business & Technology Services division. As part of this role, she oversees CNB’s technology capital investments and delivery of all technology initiatives across CNB’s business divisions. In addition, she also leads the Enterprise IT PMO, IT Program/Project Delivery teams, IT Financials, strategy, Enterprise Procurement and the Client Contact Center. She has over 20 years of experience in a variety of leadership roles in Technology, Investment Management, Wealth Management, Banking and M&A.

Prior to CNB, Cathy held multiple roles at the Bank of New York Mellon ranging from Head of Technology at their LA-based Business Banking subsidiary to representing technology for Wealth and Banking M&A activity. Cathy was also a Partner and Head of Technology and Operations at Van Deventer & Hoch, a boutique Investment Management firm before joining BNY Mellon. Cathy started her career as an Equity Research Analyst for a boutique Investment Management firm specializing in quantitative long/short market neutral strategies.

Cathy is Founder and Chair of CNB’s Women in Tech group as well as the current co-chair of CNB’s Women’s Networking group. She is also the executive advisor for the Los Angeles chapter of the Anita Borg Institute (a global non-profit organization focused on advocating and inspiring women in technology). She holds a BA in Economics from UCLA and is an 18-year practitioner of Bikram Yoga.

Watch the CFALA website and emails for future events in the “An Intimate Chat Series.” Each month the CFA Society Los Angeles’ Women’s Member Community will host an event in an intimate setting featuring a successful, engaging local woman who has an interesting story to tell and valuable advice to share. The events will rotate locations across the LA area and times will vary between lunch, early coffee and evenings to help accommodate our membership’s diverse locations and schedules.