Carla Harris is a Managing Director in Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley.
She heads the equity capital markets effort for Consumer, Retail, and East
Coast Industrial companies and is responsible for Equity Private Placements.
Ms. Harris is responsible for the structuring, marketing, and execution of
public and private equity financings and has industry experiences in the technology,
media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare
sectors. She is currently the chair of the Firm’s Private Placement Commitment
Equity Committee.
For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the Equity Syndicate
desk and executed such transactions as initial public offerings for UPS, Martha
Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi
Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation,
the largest biotechnology follow on offering in U.S. history. Ms. Harris was
recently named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most
Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, and to Fortune’s the “Most
Influential List” 2005, to Black Enterprise Magazine’s “Top
50 African Americans on Wall Street”, to Essence Magazine’s list
of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list
of “15 Corporate Women at The Top”, the Network Journal’s 2005
list of “25 Most Outstanding Women in Business” and was named “Woman
of the Year 2004” by the Harvard University Black Men’s Forum.
Ms. Harris began her career with Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions
department in 1987. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Carla received from Harvard
Business School an MBA, Second Year Honors and an AB in economics
from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude. Carla Harris is actively
involved in her community and heartily believes that “we are blessed
so that we can be a blessing to someone else.” As a result, Carla has
funded the Carla Harris Scholarship Fund at Harvard University and at Bishop
Kenny High School in Jacksonville, Florida.
She is the Chair of the Board of The New York City Food Bank, Food for Survival,
and the Morgan Stanley Foundation and sits on the boards of Harvard Business
School Alumni Association, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), A Better
Chance, Inc., The Apollo Theater Foundation, the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic
School, and is an active member of the St. Charles Gospelites of St. Charles
Borromeo Catholic Church. Ms. Harris is also on the board of the Maya Angelou
Research for Minority Health and is a member of the Executive Leadership Council.
She has received the Bert King Award from the Harvard Business School African
American Alumni Association, the 2005 Women’s Professional Achievement
Award from Harvard University, the Pierre Touissant Medallion from the Office
of Black Ministry of the Archdiocese of New York, Blazing New Trials award
from the Robert A. Toigo Foundation, the Bethune Award from the National Council
of Negro Women, the Ron Brown Trailblazer Award from St. John’s University
School of Law, the Women of Distinction Award from the Girl Scouts of Greater
Essex and Hudson Counties, and the Frederick Douglass Award given by the New
York Urban League.
In her other life, Carla is a singer, and has released her second CD, a gospel
album entitled, Joy is Waiting, which has been featured on BET
Nightly News. Her first CD entitled, “Carla’s First Christmas”,
was a bestseller on Amazon.com in New York and in record stores, and was featured
on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in his “American Dream” segment.
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