Helima is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Commodity Strategy and MENA Research at RBC Capital Markets. She specializes in geopolitics and energy, leading a team of commodity strategists that cover energy, metals and cross-commodity investor activity. Helima is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a select group of individuals who advise, inform and make recommendations to the Secretary of Energy with respect to any matter relating to oil and natural gas. She also is a CNBC contributor, a member of the channel’s exclusive family of experts, is on the Board of Directors for the Atlantic Council, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of the Oxford Energy Policy Club. Helima joined RBC Capital Markets from Barclays, where she was a Managing Director and Head of North American Commodities Research. Prior to that, she worked in Lehman’s Business Intelligence group, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Central Intelligence Agency, where she focused on geopolitics and commodities. Helima has received many industry accolades throughout her career and received her PhD in economic history from Princeton in 2001.
Stacey Cunningham
Stacey Cunningham
President of the New York Stock Exchange
Stacey worked on the NYSE trading floor as a specialist with Bank of America from 1996 to 2005, and then decided to explore her interest in cooking at the Institute for Culinary Education and worked at now-defunct restaurant Ouest. In 2007 Cunningham was hired by NASDAQ OMX, where she worked her way up from Director of Capital Markets to Head of Sales. Cunningham joined NYSE Euronext in 2012 as a Vice President, and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2015. Cunningham was named President of the New York Stock Exchange on 22 May 2018