Jacki Zehner

Who is Jacki Zehner?

Jacki Zehner was the first female trader to be invited into the partnership of Goldman Sachs, in 1996. Her career at Goldman was spent mostly in mortgage-backed trading, followed by two years spent in the Executive Office working in human capital management. After leaving the firm in 2002, she became a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group, a small private wealth management operation consisting of women committed to effectively managing their families’ assets and philanthropic activities. Zehner serves as Co-Chair of Women Moving Millions, a board member of The Women’s Funding Network, and President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation. Zehner is a former board member of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The National Council for Research on Women, The University of British Columbia and The Center for Work-Life Policy. Zehner also serves as an advisor for other for-profit and non-profit gender equality organizations.

In 2009, Zehner sponsored and collaborated with The National Council for Research on Women to create a groundbreaking report, Women in Fund Management: A Road Map for Achieving Critical Mass – and Why it Matters.