Lauren Wachsman is a member of the firm’s Financial Services and Corporate Officers Sectors. She works on a range of assignments for technology-enabled businesses and roles across the financial services industry, including global investment management firms, hedge funds, private equity firms and global banking, with a keen focus on fintech and blockchain. Additionally, she is engaged in senior financial officer assignments across an array of industries, including technology, energy, sports and entertainment and healthcare, with a digital agenda. Lauren is based in New York.

Previous Experience

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Lauren was at Morgan Stanley, where she worked in their New York and London offices, most recently in foreign exchange and emerging market sales for the Macro Hedge Funds and Official Institutions team. Prior to that, she worked at BNP Paribas in London as an Associate in flow rates sales for UK-based asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies.

Education

Lauren holds an MA (Hons) in philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, where she graduated first in her class, and a post-graduate diploma with merit in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science.