Barbara Berliner joined SEO in May of 2005 after a 20-year career on Wall Street. Her career combines domestic and international banking, marketing, managerial, and Human Resource experience with Board of Director activities in the not for profit sector.   

During her 16 years at JPMorgan, 6 of which were in London, she gained a wealth of financial, marketing, and management experience as a banker, as a specialist in structuring syndicated loan transactions, as the country manager for the firm's business in Hungary and as chief operating officer for JPMorgan's credit business in London.  In 2001, Barbara was hired by Lehman Brothers as a senior vice president to establish the firm's first comprehensive office of diversity.

Barbara holds an MBA in Finance from New York University as well as a BA and MA in Art History from the same institution.

Nicole Smith's relationship with SEO began as an intern in the summer of 2000. After an internship in Equity Research at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), she joined Merrill Lynch. She spent five years at Merrill where she worked in Equity Capital Markets and as an associate in Equity Research. She joined the SEO staff in May 2006 and serves on the management team. 

Nicole recruits for SEO and manages the assessment and placement process for over 4,000 applicants. She coordinates training and summer events, the Intern Class Gift project, the Research and Nonprofit programs, and alumni relations. She also oversees the internal operations and data management for career program activities.

She seeks to share her professional experience and industry knowledge with other students of color seeking careers on Wall Street and in public service. Nicole graduated from Emory University in 2001 and is pursuing an MBA at Columbia University. 

As part of the Career Program management team, Natalie oversees the program's campus recruiting efforts across the country. She also manages the Asset Management Program and the SEO Hispanic Initiative. Based in Houston, Texas, Natalie recruits, interviews, trains, and mentors students from Arizona and Texas to increase representation from the Southwest Region as well as the University of Pennsylvania and her alma mater the University of Notre Dame. 

During the summer, she also helps mentor SEO-U students. Prior to joining SEO in 2006, Natalie spent over 9 years in Washington, DC including roles as Chief Operating Officer for CUSA, a non-profit with community centers focused on engaging voters and Senior Consultant at V&L, a boutique consulting firm. She was also the Director of Operations for the Office of Governor Bill Richardson in New Mexico. 

Natalie received an M.S. in Government/Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Spanish and Latin American Studies.

Vanessa joined SEO in September 2010 as program manager of the Corporate Financial Leadership program.  Vanessa recruits intern candidates in Upstate New York and Long Island.  As program manager, she interviews, trains and mentors CFL interns.  She also manages the enrollment statistics for the Career Program.   

Prior to joining SEO, Vanessa spent four years as an Analyst for the New York Stock Exchange; she later joined Bloomberg L.P. as an Equity Specialist. Vanessa received her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law from Binghamton University in 2004.  She has served as Director of Public Relations for the Uniondale Foundation for Educational Excellence since 2007.

Kwad Acheampong joined SEO in 2009 as program manager of the Sales and Trading Program. Prior to joining SEO, he spent three years as an equities risk trader at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Kwad received his B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University in 2006.  He currently serves on the Young Leadership Board of New York Needs You, the Leadership Board of The Council of Urban Professionals (CUP), and is an active fundraiser for Chess-in-the-Schools.

Egyirba joined SEO in August 2006 and is primarily responsible for managing the Career Program's Accounting/Finance, Information Technology and Transaction Services internship programs.

Egyirba also recruits intern candidates from undergraduate institutions in the Metro Boston, New Jersey, Baltimore, and Midwest (Indiana, and Ohio) regions. In addition, she coordinates the Career Program's intern online training, student loans and international student work authorization. She also and interviews and evaluates candidates for admission to the Career Program.

Prior to joining SEO, Egyirba held positions at the Office of the President of Ghana and at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ghana. Egyirba attended Davidson College in North Carolina where she received a BA in Political Science.

Since 2006, Tamesha has successfully collaborated with faculty and staff at colleges throughout the southeastern region to develop and strategically identify talented students.  

Tamesha co-manages the Corporate Law Program and the SEO Black Outreach Initiative.  Based in Atlanta, Georgia she recruits, interviews, trains, and mentors students to increase representation from the Southeast Region on Wall Street and in corporate America. 

Prior to joining SEO, Tamesha served as a diversity recruiter. In that role she managed internship programs for collegiate scholars and planned national conferences to assist HBCUs in various facets. Prior to that, Tamesha served in the corporate philanthropy sector, where she achieved many successes in grant distribution, community relations, and media relations.

She is a graduate of Hampton University, where she received a BA in Political Science.

Luisa joined SEO in 2010 and serves as the Corporate Law program manager in New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Houston, TX. She manages the relationships with the firms, the corporate law institute .

Prior to joining SEO, Luisa worked as an Associate at the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she primarily worked on debt restructuring and mergers and acquisitions for Latin American clients. 

Luisa received a JD from New York University School of Law, and a BA from Vanderbilt University.  She also participated in the SEO Corporate Law Program in 2005. 

Prior to receiving her JD, Luisa gained corporate law experience through summer associate programs at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as well as at Cleary Gottlieb. 

Andrea M. O'Neal joined SEO in September 2009 and is the manages the Investment Banking program. She also serves as a campus recruiter for the Career Program, identifying internship candidates and helping them to build competitive professional skills. Additionally, she chairs the Black Outreach internal initiative and acts as a curriculum advisor to SEO-U.

Prior to joining SEO, Andrea was an investment banker for over 5 years in the Equity Capital Markets group at Merrill Lynch. In her role, Andrea was responsible for managing the execution of equity-related capital raising transactions and stock exchange listings for corporate clients. 

She has been a member of the banking teams behind some of Wall Street's leading equity deals, including the IPO of Visa and the $21 billion IPO for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China – the world's largest-ever IPO at the time. Andrea's focus on emerging markets also afforded her the opportunity to live and work abroad for 4 years in various parts of Europe and Asia. Andrea is from Atlanta, GA and holds a B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University.

Susan joined SEO in January of 2008 and coordinates an array of activities for the Southwest region and Hispanic Initiative for the Career Program.  Based in Houston, Texas, her responsibilities include the coordination of campus information sessions, assistance with the interview process, and working one-on-one with applicants and interns from the Southwest region.

Prior to joining SEO, Susan progressed through human resources roles of increasing responsibility, including Sony Electronics, and South Palm Beach County Jewish Federation, a non-profit organization.  She is also actively involved in a number of community service leadership roles.  Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science from Florida Atlantic University. 

Elisa joined SEO in 2010 as the Program Coordinator for the SEO-U virtual training program. She also coordinates summer programming events and projects, recruits and interviews for the SEO Career Program.

Prior to joining SEO, Elisa served as the Leadership Coordinator for the Harlem Children's Zone, where she planned and coordinated an afterschool program for 300 high school participants and organized special events with the United Nations, UNICEF, and Mary J. Blige's FFAWN Foundation.

Elisa is from Chicago, Illinois and holds a Master's degree in Community Development & Social Planning and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Clark University.

Nora joined SEO in September of 2010, and is the recruiting support to Egyirba Walker-Arthur, Kwad Acheampong, and Elisa Ramos.

In addition, she coordinates regional scheduling and locations during interview season, and assists with Career Program statistics and summer programming logistics.

Prior to joining SEO, Nora served as a two-year National Teaching Fellow with Citizen Schools at a middle school in East Harlem. She attended New York University, where she received a BA in Sociology with minors in Education and Metropolitan Studies.

Joining SEO in September 2010, Ashley serves the Career team in a number of ways. In addition to assisting Michael Mitchell, Tamesha Harper, and Roz Mays with recruitment efforts, she also helps maintain the Career Program Statistics database.

Additionally, Ashley works as Partner Liaison, managing intern requests and seminar details throughout placement. Recently, she began working with the Nonprofit program.

Prior to SEO, Ashley worked as a debt trading paralegal for Richards, Kibbe & Orbe LLP. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2009, with a Bachelor's in English and minor in Africana Studies.

Sandra joined SEO in November of 2009 and is responsible for facilitating many of the day to day administrative duties of the Career Program. Sandra manages the Alumni Recruiting Fellowship and is a member of the  SEO Hispanic Initiative . She also works with the Corporate Law program and plans and coordinates summer programming events.

Prior to joining SEO, Sandra served as a Team Leader with Citizen Schools, an organization that provides academic and leadership skills to inner-city middle school students with throughout the country, in East Harlem.

She is also alum of the SEO Scholars Program of 2003.

Sandra is also an alum of the SEO Scholars Program Class of 2003. She attended SUNY Oswego and holds a BA in Art History and History.

Albert is a 2006 Alum who joined SEO’s recruiting team in August 2011. Based in NY, NY, Albert is primarily responsible for the program’s campus recruiting efforts for Texas, California and at Yale. He is a native Texan who is seeking ambitious students to recruit, train, and mentor in preparation for SEO interviews and during their internship.

Prior to joining the SEO staff, Albert received an investment banking internship at UBS and turned it into a 4 year career within the US/LatAm Equity Capital Markets and Tax Structuring groups. During his time at UBS, Albert also co-captained the Success Skills Volunteer Program for three years where employees mentored Brooklyn high school students.

Albert attended St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX, where he received a Bachelor's in Corp. Finance and International Business.

Barbara Berliner joined SEO in May of 2005 after a 20-year career on Wall Street. Her career combines domestic and international banking, marketing, managerial, and Human Resource experience with Board of Director activities in the not for profit sector.   

During her 16 years at JPMorgan, 6 of which were in London, she gained a wealth of financial, marketing, and management experience as a banker, as a specialist in structuring syndicated loan transactions, as the country manager for the firm's business in Hungary and as chief operating officer for JPMorgan's credit business in London.  In 2001, Barbara was hired by Lehman Brothers as a senior vice president to establish the firm's first comprehensive office of diversity.

Barbara holds an MBA in Finance from New York University as well as a BA and MA in Art History from the same institution.

Nicole Smith's relationship with SEO began as an intern in the summer of 2000. After an internship in Equity Research at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), she joined Merrill Lynch. She spent five years at Merrill where she worked in Equity Capital Markets and as an associate in Equity Research. She joined the SEO staff in May 2006 and serves on the management team. 

Nicole recruits for SEO and manages the assessment and placement process for over 4,000 applicants. She coordinates training and summer events, the Intern Class Gift project, the Research and Nonprofit programs, and alumni relations. She also oversees the internal operations and data management for career program activities.

She seeks to share her professional experience and industry knowledge with other students of color seeking careers on Wall Street and in public service. Nicole graduated from Emory University in 2001 and is pursuing an MBA at Columbia University. 

As part of the Career Program management team, Natalie oversees the program's campus recruiting efforts across the country. She also manages the Asset Management Program and the SEO Hispanic Initiative. Based in Houston, Texas, Natalie recruits, interviews, trains, and mentors students from Arizona and Texas to increase representation from the Southwest Region as well as the University of Pennsylvania and her alma mater the University of Notre Dame. 

During the summer, she also helps mentor SEO-U students. Prior to joining SEO in 2006, Natalie spent over 9 years in Washington, DC including roles as Chief Operating Officer for CUSA, a non-profit with community centers focused on engaging voters and Senior Consultant at V&L, a boutique consulting firm. She was also the Director of Operations for the Office of Governor Bill Richardson in New Mexico. 

Natalie received an M.S. in Government/Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Spanish and Latin American Studies.

Vanessa joined SEO in September 2010 as program manager of the Corporate Financial Leadership program.  Vanessa recruits intern candidates in Upstate New York and Long Island.  As program manager, she interviews, trains and mentors CFL interns.  She also manages the enrollment statistics for the Career Program.   

Prior to joining SEO, Vanessa spent four years as an Analyst for the New York Stock Exchange; she later joined Bloomberg L.P. as an Equity Specialist. Vanessa received her B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Law from Binghamton University in 2004.  She has served as Director of Public Relations for the Uniondale Foundation for Educational Excellence since 2007.

Kwad Acheampong joined SEO in 2009 as program manager of the Sales and Trading Program. Prior to joining SEO, he spent three years as an equities risk trader at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Kwad received his B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University in 2006.  He currently serves on the Young Leadership Board of New York Needs You, the Leadership Board of The Council of Urban Professionals (CUP), and is an active fundraiser for Chess-in-the-Schools.

Egyirba joined SEO in August 2006 and is primarily responsible for managing the Career Program's Accounting/Finance, Information Technology and Transaction Services internship programs.

Egyirba also recruits intern candidates from undergraduate institutions in the Metro Boston, New Jersey, Baltimore, and Midwest (Indiana, and Ohio) regions. In addition, she coordinates the Career Program's intern online training, student loans and international student work authorization. She also and interviews and evaluates candidates for admission to the Career Program.

Prior to joining SEO, Egyirba held positions at the Office of the President of Ghana and at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ghana. Egyirba attended Davidson College in North Carolina where she received a BA in Political Science.

Since 2006, Tamesha has successfully collaborated with faculty and staff at colleges throughout the southeastern region to develop and strategically identify talented students.  

Tamesha co-manages the Corporate Law Program and the SEO Black Outreach Initiative.  Based in Atlanta, Georgia she recruits, interviews, trains, and mentors students to increase representation from the Southeast Region on Wall Street and in corporate America. 

Prior to joining SEO, Tamesha served as a diversity recruiter. In that role she managed internship programs for collegiate scholars and planned national conferences to assist HBCUs in various facets. Prior to that, Tamesha served in the corporate philanthropy sector, where she achieved many successes in grant distribution, community relations, and media relations.

She is a graduate of Hampton University, where she received a BA in Political Science.

Luisa joined SEO in 2010 and serves as the Corporate Law program manager in New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco and Houston, TX. She manages the relationships with the firms, the corporate law institute .

Prior to joining SEO, Luisa worked as an Associate at the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she primarily worked on debt restructuring and mergers and acquisitions for Latin American clients. 

Luisa received a JD from New York University School of Law, and a BA from Vanderbilt University.  She also participated in the SEO Corporate Law Program in 2005. 

Prior to receiving her JD, Luisa gained corporate law experience through summer associate programs at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as well as at Cleary Gottlieb. 

Andrea M. O'Neal joined SEO in September 2009 and is the manages the Investment Banking program. She also serves as a campus recruiter for the Career Program, identifying internship candidates and helping them to build competitive professional skills. Additionally, she chairs the Black Outreach internal initiative and acts as a curriculum advisor to SEO-U.

Prior to joining SEO, Andrea was an investment banker for over 5 years in the Equity Capital Markets group at Merrill Lynch. In her role, Andrea was responsible for managing the execution of equity-related capital raising transactions and stock exchange listings for corporate clients. 

She has been a member of the banking teams behind some of Wall Street's leading equity deals, including the IPO of Visa and the $21 billion IPO for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China – the world's largest-ever IPO at the time. Andrea's focus on emerging markets also afforded her the opportunity to live and work abroad for 4 years in various parts of Europe and Asia. Andrea is from Atlanta, GA and holds a B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University.

Susan joined SEO in January of 2008 and coordinates an array of activities for the Southwest region and Hispanic Initiative for the Career Program.  Based in Houston, Texas, her responsibilities include the coordination of campus information sessions, assistance with the interview process, and working one-on-one with applicants and interns from the Southwest region.

Prior to joining SEO, Susan progressed through human resources roles of increasing responsibility, including Sony Electronics, and South Palm Beach County Jewish Federation, a non-profit organization.  She is also actively involved in a number of community service leadership roles.  Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science from Florida Atlantic University. 

Elisa joined SEO in 2010 as the Program Coordinator for the SEO-U virtual training program. She also coordinates summer programming events and projects, recruits and interviews for the SEO Career Program.

Prior to joining SEO, Elisa served as the Leadership Coordinator for the Harlem Children's Zone, where she planned and coordinated an afterschool program for 300 high school participants and organized special events with the United Nations, UNICEF, and Mary J. Blige's FFAWN Foundation.

Elisa is from Chicago, Illinois and holds a Master's degree in Community Development & Social Planning and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Clark University.

Nora joined SEO in September of 2010, and is the recruiting support to Egyirba Walker-Arthur, Kwad Acheampong, and Elisa Ramos.

In addition, she coordinates regional scheduling and locations during interview season, and assists with Career Program statistics and summer programming logistics.

Prior to joining SEO, Nora served as a two-year National Teaching Fellow with Citizen Schools at a middle school in East Harlem. She attended New York University, where she received a BA in Sociology with minors in Education and Metropolitan Studies.

Joining SEO in September 2010, Ashley serves the Career team in a number of ways. In addition to assisting Michael Mitchell, Tamesha Harper, and Roz Mays with recruitment efforts, she also helps maintain the Career Program Statistics database.

Additionally, Ashley works as Partner Liaison, managing intern requests and seminar details throughout placement. Recently, she began working with the Nonprofit program.

Prior to SEO, Ashley worked as a debt trading paralegal for Richards, Kibbe & Orbe LLP. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2009, with a Bachelor's in English and minor in Africana Studies.

Sandra joined SEO in November of 2009 and is responsible for facilitating many of the day to day administrative duties of the Career Program. Sandra manages the Alumni Recruiting Fellowship and is a member of the  SEO Hispanic Initiative . She also works with the Corporate Law program and plans and coordinates summer programming events.

Prior to joining SEO, Sandra served as a Team Leader with Citizen Schools, an organization that provides academic and leadership skills to inner-city middle school students with throughout the country, in East Harlem.

She is also alum of the SEO Scholars Program of 2003.

Sandra is also an alum of the SEO Scholars Program Class of 2003. She attended SUNY Oswego and holds a BA in Art History and History.

Albert is a 2006 Alum who joined SEO’s recruiting team in August 2011. Based in NY, NY, Albert is primarily responsible for the program’s campus recruiting efforts for Texas, California and at Yale. He is a native Texan who is seeking ambitious students to recruit, train, and mentor in preparation for SEO interviews and during their internship.

Prior to joining the SEO staff, Albert received an investment banking internship at UBS and turned it into a 4 year career within the US/LatAm Equity Capital Markets and Tax Structuring groups. During his time at UBS, Albert also co-captained the Success Skills Volunteer Program for three years where employees mentored Brooklyn high school students.

Albert attended St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX, where he received a Bachelor's in Corp. Finance and International Business.