







We the undersigned, former women employees of Bloomberg LP, are writing to express our support for Mike Bloomberg and to tell women who don’t know him what kind of a person Mike really is.

But first, a little background. Before Mike was a famous businessman he was just our boss, taking a chance on an upstart product and a roomful of young employees, nearly half of them women. And yes, even back then we all sat in one open room. At Bloomberg, there were no hidden power structures. We all had equal access to the boss. And with Mike’s own work ethic on full display, it inspired us to work hard, too. His leadership and his confidence in every one of us promoted a collaborative learning and working environment. His demands were great. But so were the rewards. We all believe that working for him was the challenge and opportunity of our lifetimes.

Mike recruited and hired women at a time when there weren’t many women working on Wall Street. He paid women equally to men, and promoted us in equal proportions. Often the job took us onto customer trading floors where the culture was still not ready for the arrival of women. So, like it or not, we found ourselves in the vanguard. By comparison, and by the standards of that day, Bloomberg was a dream work environment for women. And if the standards have improved dramatically for women in the workplace since then, we think that’s in no small part due to the pioneering work of our generation of women - and the culture Mike took care to create.

Now, all these years later, we women alums of Bloomberg LP want the rest of America to know what we know: we’re proud of what we accomplished with Mike. We’re proud we helped him build a world-class company from scratch. We’re proud that the company’s success - and our hard work alongside him - propelled Mike to become one of the world’s leading philanthropists. We’re proud to have been given a springboard by Mike to succeed in our various career paths in the years since. We’re proud to call Mike Bloomberg our leader, our mentor and our friend. And we’re proud to support him as he always supported us.





Regina Ward McLean

Belinda Nelson









Pamela Alba

Racha Alkhawaja

Julia Alsup LaCroix

Leslie Ambinder

Ariane Andrew

Ana Antunes da Silva

Lori Applebaum Schreiber

Mary Arda

Colette Atherton

Erica Barrett

Patty Iragorri Bartoli

Alison Bateman

Jill Baumgarten Beer

Donna Benedek Levitz

Jane Beresford

Annie Bergen

Emily Bouch

Jeanne Boutton

Karen Breimann Place

Amelia Brooks

Britt Burnett

Laura Byrne

Kristen Cantillon

Kimberly Caruso

Ivette Collazo

Lisa Conley

Carol Coustantine - Da Costa

Beth Cummins Mueller

Debbie Ditchoff

Muriel Doduc

Rosanne M. Donahue

Gail Doolin

Darlene Dwyer

Julie El Taher

Pamela Ely-Kelner

Cornelia Ercklentz

Nadia Errajafi Allah

Tammy Farrell

Emilia Fazzalari

Lauri Flaquer

Susette Franklin

Amy Gabriel Pressman

Carol Galanty Jones

Barbara Ganz-Thursz

Vida Geranmayeh

Zoe Gerchick

Homeira Ghiacy-Walter

Terry Gianniotis

Rosie Graves-Wiedemer

Amanda Guzik Galm

Beth Hamburger

Sarah Hand Leydet

Ann C Hartnett

Tara Holland

Beth Houseman

Jeanine M. Hughes

Sandra Hutchins PhD

Elisabeth(Lisa) Ireland

Laura Johnston

Susan Jordan Engelbert

Deborah Joseph

Mary Joy Paul

Lisa Kaplan

Thalbir Kaur Shokar

Soomee Kim

Maureen Langan

Susan Lasovick

Karen Laureti

Anne Lepre

Regina Lerit

Arlene Levine

Samantha MacRae Foerster

Tara Mahon Casatuta

Kathleen Maloney

Janet Mancini Rosenthal

Maria Mangieri

Anne Mannix

Amy Marinari

Lisa Mashburn

Nancy Masone

Tyler Masterson

Mary McBride

Sara McDonough

Evelyn Mencos

Michelle Morris

Rose Murphy

Belinda Nelson

Dana George Neuman

Sara Noble

Louise Norman

Ellen O'Dwyer

Patty O'Flaherty

Tara Owen-Smith

Meg Patrick Jandrasits

Bethania Perkins

Betsy F. Perry

Fabiana Peterson

Beth Phillips

Kimberly Prescott

Michele Riches

Sarah Robinson

Maria Rueda

Tricia San Cristobal

Anna Saras (Povinelli)

Tutu Saul

Patti Segall Coughlin

Angela Smith Domzal

Michele Stawicky-Harrison

Jennifer Stepan Beqaj

Leila Sterenberg

Felicia Sussman

Christine Taylor

R. Laura Travers

Kasia Verissimo

Alexandra Voukitchevitch

Regina Ward McLean

Beverly Westle

Ani Zatourian

Sari Zuck

Amy Zwerin



