15 Facts About Zoe Cruz

Zoe Cruz was born on Zoe Papadimitriou on February 2,1955 and is a Greek American senior banking executive and former co-president of Morgan Stanley.

In 1982, after graduating from business school and becoming a mother, Cruz was recruited by Morgan Stanley and had a 25-year tenure at the firm.

Zoe Cruz became a vice president in 1986, a Principal in 1988, and a managing director in 1990.

On November 29,2007, Morgan Stanley announced that Zoe Cruz was resigning as co-president of the firm and that she would retire immediately.

Zoe Cruz served on the Harvard College Dean's Council, the board of directors for the Lincoln Center and as a full committee member for New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Zoe Cruz sat on the advisory board at Ondra Partners, an independent financial advisory firm founded in 2008.

In 2009, Zoe Cruz started hedge fund Voras Capital Management, a macro, and credit fund.

Zoe Cruz was appointed as a member of the Bowdoin College Investment Committee in 2012 and remains on the committee today.

In January 2014, Zoe Cruz, long dubbed "Zoe Cruz Missile," joined the Board of Anglo-South African financial behemoth Old Mutual as an independent non-executive director.

Zoe Cruz sat on its board of directors through 2018.

Zoe Cruz was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government in 2016 and still serves on the council today.

Zoe Cruz was on the board of directors of Ripple from 2017 to 2019.

In 2018, Zoe Cruz was appointed a non-executive director and member of Man Group's Board and Remuneration Committee, and she maintains these positions with the company to date.

In 2020, Zoe Cruz founded Menai Financial Group, a firm that provides institutional-grade investment products, market making services and infrastructure for the digital asset space.

Zoe Cruz was named as the highest paid woman by Fortune in 2006, with total compensation of $30 million.