Panelists:

Lee Spelman Doty, Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Mrs. Lee Spelman Doty (Wharton’76) is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Mrs. Doty heads the team of U.S. Equity client portfolio managers and is responsible for the institutional and retail equity channels.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 1989, Mrs. Doty was the Director of Research and technology specialist at Martin Simpson and Co., a brokerage house specializing in technology and health care research. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

At Penn, Mrs. Doty is President of the Penn Alumni Board of Directors and Chair of the Penn Alumni Executive Committee. She also serves on the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education and on the Executive Board of Penn Medicine. She is a member of the Penn Alumni Council and was a founding member of the Penn Club of New York. Mrs. Doty was a past vice chair of the Trustees Council of Penn Women and has served as co-chair, along with her husband and classmate, George E. Doty, Jr., of her Class Gift Committee for several reunions. She and her husband have supported financial aid through endowed scholarships and have supported numerous other areas of the University.

Mrs. Doty and her husband reside in New York City with their three children, one of whom, Christopher, is a Penn alum (C’06).

Renee is a Managing Partner at Crown Advisory International Ltd., a small/mid cap long/short equity hedge fund in New York City. Prior to Crown, she founded Talon Advisors LLC, a fund of funds, and was responsible for asset allocation, research, marketing, IR and day to day operations. She also co-founded (2007) another management company, Flexion Asset Management, to operate an additional global fund of funds and an asset management firm.  With a passion for investing, prior to co-founding two firms, Renee was the co-head of research at New Providence Asset Management and prior to this, she was a founding partner at Narragansett Asset Management, a $1 billion long/short equity hedge fund.  She has work experience as Goldman, Sachs and Fidelity Management & Research.  Ms. Noto received a BA in Math and Geography from Dartmouth College in '88 and was awarded the Rufus Choate Scholar.  She received her MBA from Harvard University.  She is a member of the Investment Committee at the Emma Willard School and resides in Greenwich, CT.

Leena Akhtar is curator of "Women on Wall Street" currently on exhibit at the Museum of American Finance (MAF) in Manhattan and scholar on Hetty Green (1934-1916), the first female Wall Street tycoon and a Greenwich resident. Lena will join the discussion to explore the historic role of women in the world of finance and Wall Street.