Lisa Pollina

Lisa Pollina is a business executive who has negotiated over $50 Billion in corporate development deals throughout her career. She provides private equity investment advisory for alternative asset manager Ares Management (NYSE: ARES) on both Growth and Special Opportunities portfolio investments worldwide and also serves on the Board of Directors for Munich RE (FRA: MUNV2) representing the Americas.

Lisa has had global Profit & Loss responsibility for over 20 years. She is the past Vice Chairman for RBC Capital Markets, an $8 Billion division of the Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY), where she grew revenues by 27% during her tenure, and the Global Financial Institutions (FIG) Executive for Bank of America Securities (NYSE: BAC). Under her leadership there, profitable revenues grew over 18%. Experienced in client development, strategy and leadership, she has worked in multiple areas of the asset management industry from investments to structuring and value creation worldwide.

Named one of the ‘Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance’ by American Banker magazine, she has been a seven-year appointee to the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States’ Working Group on Global Markets providing perspectives on macro trends worldwide.
Formerly co-based in London and Hong Kong, Lisa serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the Atlantic Council of the United States and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lisa is a MBA graduate from the Yale School of Management and has taught strategy at Yale University and corporate finance at the University of Chicago. She has been published via such media outlets as Fortune, Forbes, Treasury & Risk and Morningstar magazines.

In 2021 during the tenure of Pope Francis, Pollina was made a Dame in the Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta.