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title: Debra Kushma | Management Operations | Senior Advisory Team
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# Debra Kushma

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## **Strategic Planning & Management Operations**

 

Debra has spent her 25-year career in both financial services and strategic consulting.   As a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, Debra held a broad range of operating positions.  

**Highlights include:** 

- Built a European retail investment advisory business, to include building marketing and internet teams with Pan-European capability under a global organizational framework
- Established the function of Chief Operating Officer for IT – the largest division of Morgan Stanley
- Established the function of Operating Officer for a newly-formed Asset Management Division and led the integration efforts during acquisitions
- Acted as Special Assistant to the Morgan Stanley Chief Operating Officer and then President (John Mack), and served on the Operating Committee
- Created a cross-divisional training effort, including a worldwide training initiative for all Associates, Vice President and Principals. This effort was part of a strategic, firm-wide, market-driven culture shift initiative
- Established the first institutional marketing effort within Morgan Stanley
- Debra also headed up client services for a global asset management firm, Fisher Francis Trees & Watt, and was a strategic consultant for Coopers & Lybrand in New York.
- Debra holds dual US/UK Citizenship. 

- MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship)
- BSE in Engineering from Princeton University

 

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