Janet Hanson is the founder of Milestone Capital, the only woman-owned investment adviser to manage institutional money market funds in the United States. Under her leadership, assets under management have grown steadily to over $2 billion, and the firm now serves the cash management needs of over 500 institutional investors.
Prior to founding Milestone, she worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for 14 years where she was a Vice President and Co-Manager of Money Market Sales in New York. Ms. Hanson joined Goldman Sachs in 1977, and throughout her career she consistently ranked among the highest producing professionals in the Fixed Income Division.
In addition, Ms. Hanson is the founder of 85 Broads, a global network of former and current Goldman Sachs women professionals.
In May of 2004, Ms. Hanson became a Managing Director and Senior Adviser to the President of Lehman Brothers.
Janet Hanson earned a B.A. in Government from Wheaton College and an M.B.A in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
When I joined Goldman Sachs, there were less than 1,000 employees there. It was a totally flat entrepreneurial structure. Okay. Like the wild west. So my access to very senior people in the organization was extremely high. Why? They sat to my left and right. And they were you know, two doors ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Janet Hanson Discusses Decision to Leave Goldman Sachs, Return and Leave Again To Start Milestone Capital
Janet Hanson Discusses Personal and Academic Background and Decision To Start Career at Goldman Sachs
Janet Hanson Discusses Running Milestone, An Asset Management Company, and Creating 85 Broads
Janet Hanson Discusses Creation of Angels Abroad and Networking Opportunity Provided By 85 Broads
Janet Hanson Discusses Organizing a Boycott Without Knowledge of Lehman Brothers PR Department
Jeff Hanson Discusses Relationship Networking In First Two Years of Professional Career
Janet Hanson Shares Personal Example of Making Connection With Senior Executives Based on Knowledge of History of Firm
