49 CFA charterholders

Octavian Armașu is a Moldovan politician who currently serves as Minister of Finances of Moldova since January 2016, succeeding Anatol Arapu at this post. On 30 November 2018 he became the head of the National Bank of Moldova, succeeding Sergiu Cioclea at this post.

Nikesh Arora is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of Palo Alto Networks. Arora was formerly a senior executive at Google. He served as the president of SoftBank Group from October 2014 to June 2016. On June 1, 2018, Arora took on the role of CEO and chairman at Palo Alto Networks.

Paul Lorin Bechly is an American chemical engineer known for his work in the development of an environmentally-oriented perfluorocarbon gas policy for DuPont and other industries. He currently works in the financial industry.

John A. Bollinger is an American author, financial analyst, contributor to the field of technical analysis and the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book Bollinger on Bollinger Bands (2001), has been translated into eleven languages. Since 1987, he has published the Capital Growth Letter, a newsletter which provides technical analysis of the financial markets.

Alexander Chepakovich is a web developer, engineer, entrepreneur and finance practitioner best known for his eponymous valuation model. He is the founder of X-FIN.com.

Abby Joseph Cohen is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street. As of February 2017, she continues to serve as an advisory director at Goldman Sachs, after retiring from leadership of its Global Markets Institute. Prior to March 2008, she was the firm's Chief Investment Strategist. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal.

Louise Cooper is a British Chartered Financial Analyst, journalist, and Times columnist, known for her work on the BBC World Service between 2002 and 2011 as a presenter and senior economics journalist for shows including Newshour and Europe Today. She writes a regular column for the newspaper The Times and publishes the financial blog CooperCity.

Susan Lynne Decker is an American businesswoman. She was president of Yahoo! Inc in 2007 and 2008, leading the operations of the company while Jerry Yang was chief executive officer. In 2017, Decker co-founded a social networking platform called Raftr.

William Henry Donaldson was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving from February 2003 to June 2005. He served as Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs in the Nixon Administration, as a special adviser to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, and Chairman, President and CEO of Aetna. Donaldson founded Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Okechukwu Enelamah is Nigeria's former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment. He was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari to join the Federal Cabinet in October 2015 and appointed to the Industry, Trade, and Investment portfolio in November 2015. He served in this position till 2019.

Thomas W. Farley is an American banker. He serves as the CEO of Far Point Acquisition Corp. He previously served as the president of the NYSE Group, including the New York Stock Exchange.

Gregg S. Fisher, CFA, is an American investment manager. In 2019, he founded Quent Capital and serves as Portfolio Manager for the asset management firm which features a global small company long/short equity investment strategy. He was also the Founder and Head of Quantitative Research and Portfolio Strategy of Gerstein Fisher, an investment management and advisory firm that became part of People’s United Bank in 2016.

Frederick Frank CFA is an investment banker, with more than 50 years of experience on Wall Street. He is considered the first investment banker to have specialized in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and health care services.

Blake Charles Goldring, is a Canadian business leader, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He is Executive Chairman of AGF Management Limited, an independent Canadian-based investment management firm serving retail and institutional investors since 1957. Under Goldring's leadership, AGF has grown its assets to approximately $36 billion in 2018.

Bernardo Hernández González is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and business angel. He is a General Partner with e.ventures in Berlin. He was head of Flickr at Yahoo until he left in April 2015. He had been Director of Product Management at Google and Managing Director at Zagat. He has started, alone or with other partners, several Internet companies in Spain, such as Idealista.com, FloresFrescas.com or 11870.com. He was an early investor in Tuenti, a leading social network in Spain where he served as President of the Board until the sale to Telefonica in the summer of 2010. He is also President of the Board of the first internet startup in Spain to go public, bodaclick.com.

John William Gurley, CFA is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. He is listed consistently on the Forbes Midas List and is considered one of technology’s top dealmakers.

Irving Kahn was an American investor and philanthropist. He was the oldest living active investor. He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, who popularized the value investing methodology. Kahn began his career in 1928 and continued to work until his death. He was chairman of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc., the privately owned investment advisory and broker-dealer firm that he founded with his sons, Thomas and Alan, in 1978.

Thomas Ross Keene CFA, is a host of Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Podcasts.

Prashant R. Khemka, CFA, is the founder and Managing Director of White Oak Capital Management, an investment management firm established in June 2017 after a career in fund management with global investment banks.

Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt was the 16th Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, serving under George W. Bush from August 2008 to January 2009. Prior to joining the State Department, he was a brigadier general in the United States Army, and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East. Kimmitt has also served as deputy director for strategy and plans for the United States Central Command, and deputy director for operations/chief military spokesman for Coalition Forces in Iraq, and served at NATO's SHAPE headquarters in Belgium.

James S. Kinnear is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist. Kinnear was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Montreal and Toronto.

Ejnar Knudsen III is a US investment manager who focuses on food and agriculture investments. He has served in executive positions for a number of different companies and is currently the managing member of a private equity fund, AGR Partners where he oversees the strategy development and investment process. He has also presented at a number of international conferences on the subject of food and agriculture.

Vikas Kohli is an Indian musician and music producer, whose work covers a variety of genres from punk, jazz, and hip-hop, to country, metal, and Bollywood pop. He is known his expertise with song arrangements, A-list session musicians and his one-on-one artist development and producer best known for founding Fatlabs.

Pierre Lassonde, CM, OQ is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

John M. Longo Ph.D, CFA is an American investment strategist, portfolio manager, educator, editor, speaker and author.

Marc Eric Lore is an American entrepreneur, businessman, investor, and NBA owner. From 2016 to 2021, he was the President and CEO of Walmart U.S. eCommerce. He was appointed in September 2016 to lead Walmart's e-commerce division when his company Jet.com, an e-commerce website launched in 2014, was acquired by Walmart, Inc. Walmart purchased Jet for $3.3 billion. Prior to Jet, Lore was the CEO and co-founder of Quidsi, the parent company of a family of websites including Diapers.com. Quidsi was sold in 2011 to Amazon for $545 million. Lore was named regional Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2011, one of the "smartest people in technology" by Fortune, and dubbed the LeBron James of e-commerce by Matt Higgins.

Siniša Mali is a Serbian economist and politician serving as the Minister of Finance since 29 May 2018. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party, Mali previously served as the Mayor of Belgrade from 2014 to 2018, and as the President of the Temporary Council of Belgrade from 2013 to 2014.

Harry M. Markopolos is an American former securities industry executive and a forensic accounting and financial fraud investigator.

Attilio Meucci is a statistician and financial engineer, who specializes in quantitative risk management and quantitative portfolio management.

Mary John Miller is an American government official and political candidate who served as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance and a former Acting Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. In 2020, she announced her candidacy for Mayor of Baltimore but lost to Council President Brandon Scott in the June 2020 Democratic primary.

Panagiotis A. Mitarachi, known as Notis Mitarachi, is a Greek politician. He serves as Minister of Migration and Asylum, and is a member of the Hellenic Parliament for Chios with New Democracy. He was a President of the Council of the European Union during the Hellenic Presidency, and is a former Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Competitiveness.

Ranji H. Nagaswami was Chief Executive Officer of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. She has nearly 30 years of distinguished investment and executive management experience in the industry in both the private and public sector. In recent years she served as Operating Partner and Senior Advisor at Corsair Capital, a leading global private equity firm focused on investing in the financial services industry and prior to that worked at Bridgewater Associates, the $130 billion global macro hedge fund and risk-parity strategy pioneer.

Liz Peek is an American conservative commentator and business analyst on the finance industry and government.

Azita Raji is an Iranian-born American diplomat, banker, and philanthropist. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in October 2014 to serve as the United States ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate in February 2016. She presented her credentials to His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on March 15, 2016, and completed her tour of duty on January 20, 2017.

William Bruce Redpath is a former Chairman, Treasurer and At-Large Representative of the Libertarian National Committee, and past Chairman of the Virginia Libertarian State Committee. An eight time candidate for public office, he is the Libertarian Party of Illinois nominee for United States Senate in 2022. In 2020, he was the Libertarian Party candidate for the US House of Representatives in Illinois's 6th congressional district.

Jonathon Tate Reeves is an American politician from Mississippi. A Republican, he has been governor of Mississippi since 2020. Reeves was previously state treasurer (2004–2012) and lieutenant governor (2012–2020).

Thomas Stuart Ricketts is the Chairman of the Chicago Cubs, and the Chairman, co-founder and former CEO of Incapital LLC, a firm that provides securities firms and individual investors more efficient access to corporate bonds. Together with his sister Laura and brothers Pete and Todd, the Ricketts siblings serve as the board of directors for the Cubs. He is the son of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation founder J. Joseph Ricketts. Joe Ricketts has a net worth of US$2.3 billion as of 2018 according to Forbes.

James B. Rosenwald III is the co-founder and managing partner of Dalton Investments LLC, an asset management company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and adjunct professor at Stern School of Business at New York University. He invests in the Pacific Rim area. In 2020, Rosenwald co-founded Activist Japan investment trust Nippon Active Value Fund (NAVF) and launched its IPO.

Dr Donald Russell is a former senior Australian public servant and administrator. He is currently the Chairman of AustralianSuper, Australia's largest superannuation fund.

Emma Slade, also known as Ani Pema Deki a University of Cambridge educated former "high-flying" financial analyst who worked for HSBC in New York, London and Hong Kong, is a British yoga and meditation teacher, an author and founder and CEO of the charity "Opening Your Heart to Bhutan." The charity focuses on helping children in need in the Himalayan kingdom, particularly those in rural areas. It provides access to education, to medical care and supplies basic amenities, including sanitation and transport.

Robert Vincent Stefanowski is an American business executive who was the Republican Party nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 2018 with the cross-endorsement of the Independent Party. He was on a ticket with Joe Markley, who had won a Republican primary for lieutenant governor. Their ticket lost to the ticket of Democratic Party candidate Ned Lamont and running mate Susan Bysiewicz, cross-endorsed by the Working Families Party, on November 7, 2018.

John R. Strangfeld is an American businessman. He is the former chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Prudential Financial.

Dhivya Suryadevara is an Indian-American executive and the current chief financial officer of Stripe, an American e-commerce payments company. She is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors.

Leonard M. Tannenbaum is the founder and chief executive officer of Advanced Flower Capital and AFC Gamma Inc., a commercial mortgage REIT focused on the cannabis industry, which trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker AFCG. Previously, he was the founder and chief executive officer of Fifth Street Asset Management, which was sold to Oaktree Asset Management in 2017. He also founded the pro-business political action committee "Keeping America Competitive".

Heath Price Tarbert is an American lawyer and former government official who most recently served as the 14th Chairman and a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Prior to leading the CFTC, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development and as acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. As of April 6, 2021, he is the Chief Legal Officer of Citadel Securities.

Nolan Watson is a Canadian businessman, humanitarian, and philanthropist. He is known for his contribution to finance innovation in the mining industry. Watson began working in mine finance with Silver Wheaton Corp., where he was named the chief financial officer in 2006 and was the youngest CFO of a New York Stock Exchange listed company. Watson helped develop the silver streaming business model and raise over $1 billion in debt and equity to fund Silver Wheaton's growth into the largest streaming company in the world.

Fayval Shirley Williams is a Jamaican politician who is the Minister of Education, Youth and Information and the Member of Parliament for the St Andrew Eastern constituency. Williams had previously been the minister in the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology as well as the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. She is the first female to be a minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, and also the first female minister of science, energy and technology. In June 2014, Fayval Williams was named as a member of the Jamaica Labour Party's Economic Advisory Council.

Gita Irawan Wirjawan is an Indonesian entrepreneur, investment banker and philanthropist. Previously he served as Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia during President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu II. He is the founder of Ancora Group and Ancora Foundation. He was the head of Badminton Association of Indonesia from 2012 to 2016.

Zhang Lei, CFA is a Chinese billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, Chairman, and Chief Investment Officer of Hillhouse Capital Management, Ltd.