Stacey Cunningham

Stacey Cunningham (born 1974 or 1975)^[1] is an American banker who served as the 67th president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from 2018 to 2022. She was the second female president of the NYSE, but the first to hold full leadership of the exchange.

After interning with the NYSE during the 1990s, Cunningham became a trading floor clerk, continuing to work at the exchange until 2005. She took time off to complete a culinary training course, then working at the Nasdaq stock exchange as director of capital markets and head of sales for U. S. transaction services. In 2012, Cunningham rejoined the NYSE, and became the exchange's chief operating officer in 2015.

On May 22, 2018, Cunningham was appointed president of the NYSE. In November 2018, she was listed in 100 Women.^[2] In December 2021, she announced that she would be stepping down from her role as NYSE president and joining the NYSE board of directors.

As a child, Cunningham had a strong interest in math and science in school.^[3] She later studied at Lehigh University, graduating in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering.^[4] She has five siblings^[5] and when she was young her father worked at a brokerage firm.^[6]

In 1994, while still a university student, Cunningham completed a summer internship at the NYSE.^[7] Two years later, she began working there as a trading floor clerk.^[8] At the time, Cunningham was one of the few dozen female employees on the trading floor – compared to over a thousand male employees.^[1] She spent eight years employed as a specialist for Bank of America.^[9]

In 2005, feeling frustrated with the lack of technological transition at the NYSE,^[10] she left the exchange and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education, working briefly as a chef at a restaurant.^[7]

De 2007 a 2011, Cunningham trabajó en la bolsa de valores Nasdaq , primero como director de mercados de capitales y luego como jefe de ventas de servicios de transacciones en EE. UU. ^{[ 9 ]}

Cunningham se reincorporó a la Bolsa de Nueva York en 2012. Se desempeñó como directora de operaciones de la bolsa desde 2015 hasta 2018. ^{[ 9 ]} Su trabajo incluía la gestión de los mercados de renta variable al contado de la bolsa, la gestión de relaciones y productos, y los servicios de gobernanza interna. ^{[ 11 ]}

El 22 de mayo de 2018, a la edad de 43 años, ^{[ 1 ]} Cunningham fue nombrada la 67.ª presidenta de la NYSE, sucediendo a Thomas Farley . ^{[ 9 ]} Cunningham es la primera mujer en ser nombrada presidenta de la NYSE. ^{[ 12 ] [ 8 ] [ 11 ] [ 4 ] [ 13 ]} Aunque Catherine Kinney había sido copresidenta de la bolsa en 2002, el puesto no implicaba un liderazgo completo en ese momento, ya que estaba firmemente supervisado por el director ejecutivo o el presidente de la NYSE. ^{[ 14 ] [ 1 ]} En una entrevista con periodistas, Cunningham dijo que había manejado el trabajo en entornos tradicionalmente dominados por hombres, como las bolsas de valores o la escuela de ingeniería, sin mostrar nunca ninguna duda sobre "si debía o no estar donde estaba". ^{[ 10 ]}

En diciembre de 2021, Cunningham anunció que planeaba dejar su cargo como presidenta de la NYSE y unirse a la junta directiva de la bolsa, ^{[ 15 ]} siendo reemplazada por Lynn Martin, ejecutiva de Intercontinental Exchange, el 3 de enero de 2022. ^{[ 16 ]}

En 2025, fue nombrada miembro del Consejo de Administración de Cloudflare . ^{[ 17 ]}