Lara Porter
Executive Director, MSET Equities
Morgan Stanley
Lara Porter is an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley in the IED Electronic Trading group based in New York. In her primary role within Electronic Trading, Lara works with quantitative hedge funds using Morgan Stanley’s electronic trading platforms to access the equity markets in the Americas. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2017 and sits on the IED Philanthropy Committee, co-leads the IED Women’s Series of Events, and is a volunteer lead for Rock The Street Wall Street, a non-profit focused on financial literacy for women in high school. Prior to working at Morgan Stanley, Lara worked at UBS in a similar role. Lara graduated from the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Hunter with a Bachelors and Masters in Economics in 2015. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two young children.