Overview
Valerie Corradini is a 铿乶ancial services executive with expertise in investment management, wealth advisory, institutional consulting and 铿乶tech.
As a Graystone consultant at Morgan Stanley, her team advises roughly 50 clients representing
over
$7.5bil in assets. Hers is one of fewer than 60 teams accredited to specialize in
the 铿乨uciary management of discretionary and advisory portfolios on behalf of hospitals,
faith-based organizations, universities, non-pro铿乼s and complex ultra-high net worth
families.
While a Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), Valerie led the inaugural
Sales Strategy e铿�ort to launch the iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) business,
as it pioneered a new category of tax-e铿僣ient index investing that has grown to a
$9.6tril global industry. One of the original iShares products, the S&P 500, remains
the largest of over 10,000 ETFs today with its $520bil in market capitalization. As
adoption of ETF investing gained momentum, Valerie was asked to grow and lead the
Private Client Group, overseeing intermediary sales to national full service, regional
and independent advisory 铿乺ms. Over 5 years, Valerie developed the iShares private
client business to over $120bil in assets, generating over $320mil in annual revenue.
She led her team through the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the merger of the
top two investment management 铿乺ms as BlackRock acquired Barclays Global Investors.
To complement her investment expertise, she expanded her reach into human capital
leadership, growing Egon Zehnder International鈥檚 Asset Management Practice and the
FinTech Practice at Heidrick & Struggles. In 2014 Valerie was recruited to Visa, Inc.
to lead Human Resources for Ryan McInerney (then President, now CEO), responsible
for roughly 6,500 global employees. In this role, she was responsible for the HR management
of all client and revenue-generating lines of the business. She led the consolidation
of the Commercial Payments, Financial Inclusion and Business Process functions before
joining the Global Client Business as Chief Operating O铿僣er.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Corradini was a Senior Vice President of Sutro & Co. (now
RBC) and Director of the Investment Management Services department, a $2bil platform
providing portfolio management and consulting services to individual and institutional
clients. Prior to joining Sutro in 2000, she was a First Vice President at Salomon
Smith Barney as the Consulting Group Regional Director for Southern California. In
this role she helped 铿乶ancial advisors learn 铿乨uciary investing, asset allocation,
manager selection and risk management. Valerie began her career in wealth management
and institutional
consulting at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co in New York City."
"Her passion for supporting women in 铿乶ancial services is reinforced through her mentor volunteer work with Women Unlimited and continues with her leadership as Board Member and Past President of the International Women鈥檚 Forum, Northern California.
Valerie holds a Bachelors鈥� of Science degree from the University of California, Los
Angeles in Economics/Business and a Global Executive MBA from TRIUM, a consortium
of NYU Stern, London School of Economics & HEC Paris. She has held the Certi铿乪d Investment
Management Analyst (CIMA) designation since 1998 and is currently Series 7, 63 and
66 FINRA licensed.
She resides in the town of Hillsborough, a suburb south of San Francisco, with one
son at Ithaca College (Chemistry major, Music minor) and another at Arizona State
University (Mechanical Engineering).