New York, N.Y., USA - November 3, 2014, New York, N.Y., USA - Morgan Stanley announced that Griff Sexton, a director, has retired from the board of directors, and that Jami Miscik has been elected to the board.
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Mr. Sexton has been a director since September 2005. He has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and visiting lecturer at Princeton University, teaching courses in corporate finance.
Prior to his academic career, Mr. Sexton was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley from 1973 to 1995, where he was engaged in the development and execution of advisory assignments involving a wide variety of corporate financial transactions.
He was an advisory director at Morgan Stanley from May 1995 to September 2008. He is a member of the boards of directors of Investor AB, a publicly traded Swedish investment company, and Hamilton Lane, a privately held asset-management company based in Philadelphia.
A former U.S. naval aviator and Vietnam veteran, Mr. Sexton holds a BSE from Princeton and an MBA from Stanford.
Ms. Miscik is president and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic international consulting firm. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates in 2009, Ms. Miscik served as the global head of sovereign risk at Lehman Brothers, and also served as a senior advisor to Barclays Capital.
Prior to entering the private sector, she had a distinguished 20-year career in intelligence, ultimately serving as the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for intelligence from 2002 to 2005.
Ms. Miscik serves on the board of EMC Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and she is a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. She also serves on the boards of In-Q-Tel and the American Ditchley Foundation.
Ms. Miscik received her BA with honors from Pepperdine University in Political Science and Economics, and her MA from the University of Denver's School of International Studies. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in public service by the University of Denver in 2011. ■