2024 Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Summit: Sallie Krawcheck

Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and co-founder at Ellevest, took the stage at the 2024 Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Summit, held June 10-12 in Charlotte.

In a sea of financial services sameness, Ellevest stands apart with its mission to get more money in the hands of women. In this session, Krawcheck explained how to build your own wealth as well as shared her story and unique insights into better investment making.

Prior to Ellevest, Krawcheck was one of the only financial executives of her generation to have held C-suite roles at the largest global banks — as CEO of Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, US Trust, and Sanford Bernstein and as CFO of Citi. Today, as a venture-funded entrepreneur, she’s beat impossibly long odds to raise $144 million in venture-capital funding (women CEOs raise $1 out of every $10,000 Series B fintech dollars). Fortune Magazine has called Krawcheck “The Last Honest Analyst,” Barron’s considers her one of the “Most Influential Women in US Finance,” and Vanity Fair has named her to their “New Establishment List.”