Virtual Coffee Chat
Virtual Chapter
Friday, September 27th, 2024
2:30 pm ET (1:30 pm CT)
This is a virtual event that will take place on Microsoft Teams.
The Chicago/Virtual Chapter of WISF would like to meet for an informal 30 minute chat to introduce ourselves and get to know the members of our Chapter! In this meeting, we'd like to learn more about what interests you about WISF and how the Chapter can help meet your needs for networking and career advancement.
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Meet the Virtual Chapter Leads
Lori Paris
Senior Vice President, Head of Client Management, North America
Northern Trust
Lori is Senior Vice President and Head of Client Management, North America in Securities Finance at Northern Trust based in Chicago.
Lori is the manager of the Securities Finance client sales and servicing team. She is responsible for ensuring that Securities Lending clients receive quality and coordinated services from our client team, operations, trading and investment areas. Lori provides services for Northern Trust’s Securities Finance offerings, a suite of integrated capabilities across Securities Lending & Borrowing, Financing & Liquidity and Collateral Solutions allowing clients to drive greater portfolio optimization.
Lori is a part of the Global Securities Finance management team, the Risk Management Association ESG working group and various bank committees. Lori is active in Women in Securities Finance, an organization for capital market professionals and previously served on the Executive Committee of the Northern Trust Women in Leadership Business Resource Council.
Erika Fleming
Business Architect
Schwab
Erika is a senior manager/business architect for the Securities Lending Department at Charles Schwab. In her role, she is product owner for all technology and internal/external applications used to support the Sec Lending department and is responsible for all tech onboarding. She supports securities lending trading, short sales, and fully paid programs, with a focus on processing efficiency and customer experience.
Erika is active in Women in Securities Finance and within similar employee resource groups available at Schwab. She previously served as co-chair for the PRIDE Denver chapter. Erika also has a passion for educating others about securities lending activities and actively runs an educational program for onboarding new hires/new to securities lending personnel at Schwab.
Erika joined Schwab in 2017, starting as a business analyst/product owner supporting six functional business units with the Settlements Operations group before transitioning to her current role within the Securities Lending Department. Prior to working at Schwab, Erika supported clients of FIS Loanet and Smart Loan applications, and worked securities lending operational roles at Citadel, Wachovia (now Wells Fargo), and Stephens, Inc. in Little Rock. She graduated summa cum laude from DePaul University with a focus on Global Economics and Leadership in 2020.
In addition to her corporate achievements, Erika is an avid gardener, fiber artist, and musician.