The Society of Women Engineers Boston Professional Section presents
The Top Ten Financial Challenges Facing Women Today
Sponsored by:
Join us for an informative presentation about the top financial challenges facing women today, ranging from family to career and life changes. Everyone will learn something here! We are pleased to welcome SWE-Boston member Lisa Svensson, CFA from Merrill Lynch, who brings a unique perspective to this topic with her background in engineering and a largely technical client base. This event is graciously being hosted by EMC's Women's Leadership Forum (WLF).
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time:
6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration & Networking
6:30 - 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 - 8:30 pm Program
Location:
EMC Corporation
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748
Cost:
$4.99 Student or Event Organizer
$9.99 SWE Member
$24.99 Non-member
Free for EMC Corporation Employees
To register for this event:
RSVP by Thursday, February 9th, 2012 via Acteva
For other questions, please send a message to swebos@sweboston.org.
About the Speaker
Lisa Svensson, CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), works with families and businesses to develop plans to help meet their life financial goals, and to preserve and protect their assets in turbulent environments.
Following a sixteen year career as an analyst and portfolio manager, Lisa joined Merrill Lynch in 2008. Her goal was to put her experience managing a multi-billion dollar, globally diversified equity fund to work for individuals and businesses. A petroleum engineer by training, she worked as an analyst and portfolio manager for a number of well-known mutual fund firms in New York and Boston, including Alliance Capital, Lord Abbett, Smith Barney and Putnam Investments. Over the course of her career, Lisa has analyzed the stocks of energy companies, wireless telecoms, transportation stocks, gold stocks, utilities and retailers.
Lisa graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering. She received her MBA from Cornell University's Johnson School. Lisa holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and is a member of Boston Women in Finance, the Boston Securities Analyst Society, the CFA Institute, and the Newton Needham Chamber of Commerce. She lives in Newton with her husband and three boys.
About the Sponsor
EMC builds information infrastructures and virtual infrastructures to help people and businesses around world unleash the power of their digital information. EMC offerings in backup and recovery, enterprise content management, unified storage, big data, enterprise storage, data federation, archiving, security, and deduplication help customers move to the next generation of information management and enable them to offer IT-as-a-Service as part of their journey to cloud computing.
EMC ranks 152 in the Fortune 500 based on total consolidated revenue of $17 billion in 2010, the largest revenue year in EMC's 30+ year history. EMC works with organizations around the world, in every industry, in the public and private sectors, and of every size, from startups to the Fortune Global 500. We employ approximately 48,500 people worldwide. We are represented by approximately 400 sales offices and scores of partners in more than 80 countries around the world. More information is available at www.emc.com.
Directions and Parking
Directions to EMC Corporation
From the East:
Take Mass Turnpike (I-90) west. Merge on I-495 South via exit 11A toward Milford/Cape Cod. Follow directions below from I-495.
From the West:
Take the Mass Pike (I-90) east towards Framingham/Springfield. Exit the Mass Pike at I-495 south via exit 11A toward Milford/Cape Cod. Follow directions below from I-495.
From North or South (I-495):
Take I-495 South (toward Milford and Cape Cod) to exit 21B, West Main Street, Upton. At the end of the ramp stay in the left lane, at light turn right to merge onto West Main Street (only choice). At the set of lights take a left onto South Street. At your second set of lights (about 1.2 miles), take a right into 176 South St. After passing gate (there won't be anyone there, don't stop), follow around to left, following signs for Main Lobby. Park in visitors spot or any other non-marked spot; enter Main Lobby and check in with security.
