Thought Leader
FRIDAY, July 18
Stephanie Ruhle, powerhouse journalist and MSNBC anchor in conversation with Bill Cohan, bestselling author and former investment banker.
6 – 9PM Welcome Cocktails in the Garden, followed by dinner and fireside chat in the Great Hall.
- Host of MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” and NBC News Senior Business Analyst.
- Host NBCNews.com “On The Money” & “Bouncing Back”, personal finance series.
- She appears across all NBC platforms, including “TODAY,” “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” and “NBC News Now.”
- Ruhle has interviewed titans in politics, business, entertainment, and sports.
Stephanie Ruhle anchors “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” at 9 a.m. ET and “MSNBC Live with Velshi & Ruhle” at 1 p.m. ET on weekdays. Ruhle also appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “TODAY,” and NBCNews.com.
Since joining MSNBC, Ruhle has interviewed titans in politics, business, entertainment and sports including Michael Bloomberg, Serena Williams and more. Ruhle is known for bringing humanity into her news coverage, including her reporting on the migrant crisis at the border in McAllen, Texas and her daily “Good News Ruhles” segment.
Previously, Ruhle served as anchor and managing editor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where she co-hosted Bloomberg
Prior to Bloomberg, Ruhle worked at Deutsche Bank, serving as a Managing Director in Global Markets Senior Relationship Management. Ruhle began her career at Credit Suisse, where she was the highest-producing credit derivatives salesperson in the U.S.
In 2015, Ruhle produced and hosted the documentary Haiti: Open For Business?, which sheds light on the country five years after it was hit by a devastating earthquake and explores its viability as the next emerging market. Ruhle also participated in a short-form documentary, Sharkland: A Mission Blue & Fusion Expedition, which brings attention to the plight of sharks and the urgent needs to conserve our oceans.
Ruhle plays an active role in women’s leadership development, having founded the Corporate Investment Bank Women’s Network and co-chaired Women on Wall Street. Ruhle is a member of the board of trustees for Girls Inc. NYC and in 2016 was honored as one of their Women of the Year. Ruhle currently sits on the board and advises for “React To Film,” an issue-based documentary film series, and formerly served on the corporate councils of iMentor and The White House Project.
Ruhle received a bachelor’s degree in international business from Lehigh University, living abroad in Guatemala, Kenya, and Italy. She resides in New York City with her husband Andy Hubbard and their 3 children, Harrison, Reese and Drew.
William D. Cohan, a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of seven non-fiction narratives, including Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World; House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street; and, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His 2022 book Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, about the rise and fall of GE, once the world’s most powerful, valuable and important company, was long listed for the FT Business Book of the Year Award. It was a New York Times bestseller and on the best book of the year lists published by The New Yorker, The Economist, The Financial Times and the Dealbook section of the New York Times. His new book, Apollo Unbound, is about Leon Black and the Wall Street powerhouse, Apollo Global Management, and will be published in 2026.
Cohan is also a founding partner of Puck, a digital publication owned and operated by journalists and is its Wall Street correspondent. He is also a writer-at-large for Air Mail. For 13 years, he was a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. He also writes, or has written, for ProPublica, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Town & Country, The Spectator, Institutional Investor, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Nation, Fortune, Politico, ArtNews, and Barron’s. He previously wrote a bi-weekly opinion column for The New York Times, an opinion column for BloombergView, as well as for the Dealbook section of the New York Times. He appears on CNN, on MSNBC and the BBC-TV. He has also appeared three times as a guest on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CBS This Morning as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs. He was formerly a contributing editor for Bloomberg TV and CNBC.
He is a graduate of Phillips Academy (Andover), Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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