
Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Client
Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She is responsible for increasing client
connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the
firm. She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity
capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was
responsible for Equity Private Placements. In her 30 year career, Ms.
Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media,
retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare
sectors. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack
Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council. 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, one of the largest biotechnology common stock
transactions in U.S. history. Ms. Harris was named to Fortune
Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate
America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most
Powerful Women in Finance (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75
Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans
on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are
Shaping the World”.