KATHLEEN MCNALLY-REYNOLDS , 35
BBA ’92
Vice President, Capital Planning,
Morgan Stanley

When Kathleen McNally-Reynolds was inhigh school, she had a cousin who worked on the New York Stock Exchange. He took her to visit the trading floor, and that’s when it clicked. “I had a sense that’s where I wanted to be,” she says.

The decision to pursue a career in business wasn’t a difficult one. Both of McNally-Reynolds’s parents worked in the field, her father as a self-taught credit manager. “I still have his books,” she says. When it came time to choose a business school, her father helped out by conducting word-of-mouth research within the accounting industry. The consensus was that Baruch was the best value. And its proximity to home meant that she could be where she wanted to be—close to her family.

McNally-Reynolds’s experience at Baruch was transformed by her involvement with the Golden Key International Honour Society, where she served as vice president of programming and also met her husband-to-be (“the perfect geek story”). The couple now have a two-year-old son.

Through on-campus recruitment at Baruch, McNally-Reynolds was tapped by Morgan Stanley. Today she is vice president of capital planning and also serves as a project manager for the regulatory capital requirements for the SEC. Along the way, she earned an Executive MBA from Columbia University.

“My overall goal,” she says, “is to maintain a sense of balance between my professional and home life that helps me to contribute to both in a meaningful way.”

—Pam Widener

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