Pub GuideMcCabe, Kathleen
Kathleen McCabe is a managings director of investment banking at Morgan Stanley, where she covers private equity clients. She joined Morgan Stanley in 1998 and has been involved in numerous strategic and financing assignments, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions, initial public offerings and a broad range of debt and equity related financings. McCabe has also run Morgan Stanley’s worldwide investment banking associate program and has held a number of managerialpositions working with the firm’s leaders across a variety of divisions. A native of New York City, McCabe received a bachelor’s degree in government from Georgetown University in 1994. Married with two daughters, McCabe’s parents are natives of Co. Leitrim. She recalls many trips to Ireland growing up — “memorable visits to cousins, aunts and uncles in Longford, Leitrim and Ballyjamesduff. Loads of craic in Galway. Almost blown away on Dingle Peninsula. Scenic drives in Yeats Country. Tours around Dublin.” What does being Irish mean to McCabe? “Loads and loads of cousins! Both here and in Ireland. A strongly held view that the more really means the merrier. A deep commitment to family. A love of storytelling,” she says. “Faith. Optimism. An appreciation for a well poured pint, a great seisiun, U2, the Saw Doctors, the Galway pubs and the smell of turf. “A love of New York City — a city which has fulfilled the dreams of so many Irish who were drawn here by its promise of opportunity and a better life — and a sense of obligation to help others who are working to fulfill the same dream.” McCabe serves as a trustee of the George F. Baker Scholars Program at Georgetown. As a trustee, she mentors scholarship recipients who are selected for their potential to become business leaders and leaders in their communities.
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