Our Team
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Lisette Cooper PhD, CFA, Founder, Managing Director Lisette Cooper is Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of Athena Capital Advisors. As CEO, she sets the firm’s overall direction and leads Athena’s Investment Committee. Lisette founded the firm in 1993. Prior to founding Athena, Lisette served as Manager of Consulting Services for Barra Inc., now MSCI Barra. She and her team specialized in modeling risk and developing investment policies for institutional investors. She spent five years as a Senior Strategist for Merrill Lynch, where she analyzed, designed, and marketed innovative securities to money managers, banks, and pension funds such as Bank of America, California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Public Employees’ Retirement Association of Colorado. |