Cassandra Kelly

Cassandra Kelly
Born	Sydney, Australia
Residence	New York City, USA
Alma mater	University of Sydney
Occupation	Founder, Pottinger
Spouse(s)	Nigel Lake
Website	Cassandra Kelly website

Cassandra Kelly is an international advisor, speaker, and company director. She is Chair of Treasury Corporation of Victoria and Fulcrum, and co-founder of Pottinger and Atomli Inc. Her thinking on gender equality, philanthropy, and business leadership has been featured in articles, speeches and books.

Cassandra was born in Sydney, Australia. She attended the University of Sydney and received a Bachelor in Economics (Honours in Finance), with a major in Commercial Law / Accounting. Her Honours year focused on economics of developing nations and economics.

After working as a fund manager, she was hired by McKinsey & Company and moved to Johannesburg, where she was one of the early founders of the global risk management practice. Following that, she worked at HSBC in London and then Deutsche Bank and was eventually based in New York City, where she led investment into early fintech/online platforms such as Tradeweb, Market Axess and Creditex.

In 2001 she was hired by Chairman of GMAC Commercial Holding, David Creamer, as Vice President of GMAC Commercial Mortgage Asia, based in Tokyo.

She founded Pottinger in 2003, a global advisory business, with Nigel Lake. She was initially CEO and then became global chair of Pottinger: a role that is now occupied by Nigel Lake. She developed Pottinger's proprietary “destination-led strategy" which is used by leaders in business and government. Business Spectator reported that Cassandra drives a responsible and ethical business culture through recruitment of individuals “with a true understanding of what feels correct, ethical, decent, humane, authentic behaviour. People who have the courage to say ‘no’ to clients”.

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