Carolyn E. Saacke

Head of Sponsor Coverage
NYSE

Carolyn is Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage at the NYSE, responsible for developing and maintaining the firm’s relationships with the private equity, venture capital, legal and advisory communities. At the NYSE, she has overseen the capital markets function and has been responsible for listing key IPO transactions. She developed and led the SPAC listing business and developed the direct listing opportunity, among other innovations. Prior to joining the NYSE, Carolyn spent fourteen years on Wall Street, working in the investment banking units of Bear Stearns and Citigroup. She has advised companies of all sizes on M&A, IPOs, other public and private equity, high yield and high grade public debt, and other capital structure alternatives. Her investment banking experience includes over $25 billion of completed advisory and over $30 billion of completed financing transactions. In addition, she has served as a corporate Vice President of Strategy and Finance for Cendant Corporation, where she focused on creating, developing and executing cross-divisional revenue opportunities and defining the company’s long-term consumer services strategy.

Carolyn earned her MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in Economics from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences.