Morgan Stanley just promoted 145 new managing directors - we got a peek at an internal memo with all the names

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Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley James P. Gorman participates in a panel discussion at the New York Times 2015 DealBook Conference at the Whitney Museum of American Art on November 3, 2015 in New York City.

• Morgan Stanley just announced its 2019 managing director class.
• 145 employees were promoted to MD, 61% based in the Americas, according to an internal memo sent out Tuesday.
• The bank promoted 153 MDs last year and 140 in 2017.

Morgan Stanley just announced a class of 145 new managing directors - the highest rank at the bank and a coveted career milestone on Wall Street.

An internal memo was sent out around late Tuesday afternoon announcing the hires, according to a person familiar with the matter.

According to the memo, a portion of which was seen by Business Insider, 68% of the new MDs are in Institutional Securities, Investment Management, and Wealth Management.

Other stats about the new class:

• By region: 61% of the promotes were based in the Americas, 26% in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and 13% in Asia.
• There are 39 new female MDs (27%), compared with 40 last year (26%).
• 7% of the US class is Black, up from 5% in 2018, and 4% of the US class is Hispanic, up from 1% last year.

Morgan Stanley promoted 153 MDs last year and 140 in 2017.

Elsewhere on Wall Street, Bank of America Merrill Lynch promoted nearly 140 employees to MD in late November, Citigroup promoted 125 MDs in its Institutional Clients Group in December, and Barclays promoted 85 MDs a couple days later.

At Goldman Sachs, where MD is one rung below the prestigious role of partner and the classes are announced every two years, 509 employees were promoted to MD in 2017 and 69 were promoted to partner in November.

Here's the full list of employees who just got promoted to managing director at Morgan Stanley:

Institutional Equity

Keshiv Desai

Sina El Bied

Andrew Fearnside

Taso Giannopoulos

Ollie Hoeldin

Keiko Kawauchi

Paul Kondratko

Richard Smerin

Tyler Sorba

James Spencer-Lavan

Michelle Stratton

Nim Warshawsky

Ellen Weinstein

Jenny Zupan

Research

Matthew Harrison

James Lord

Fixed Income

Ashwin Anand

Jordan Brink

Qing Chen

Richard Condon

Lucy Dabinett

Marcel De Boom

Alexandre de Latour

Xu (Kurt) Jian

Rodrigo Jolig

William Lee

Louis Li

John McDonald

Derek Melvin

Geoff Proulx

Ara Tachdjian

Olivier Treuer

Investment Banking

Jaehoon Ahn

Usman Akram

Alexandre Bartolin

Gwen Billon

Thomas Bimont

Luis Brossier

Vipin Chhajer

Winton de St John-Pryce

Malick Diop

RD Gauss

Keith Heller

Taylor Henricks

David Kitterick

Melissa Knox

Clarence Kwok

Brendan Lee

Philippe Neff

Jigar Patel

Mital Patel

Chris Reynolds

Matthias Sahm

Rakesh Shankar

Yiyang Tao

Atsushi Tatsuguchi

Pekko Tonteri

Tony Uccellini

Moritz Zschoche

Global Capital Markets

Howard Brocklehurst

Lauren Cummings

Eric Farina

Patrick Gallagher

Brendan MacBride

Angus Millar

Michael Occi

Elizabeth Rosner

Gustavo Siqueira

Wealth Management

Josh Carmody

Vince Colucci

Tanya Curry

Alex Dunlap

Mark Landers

Suzanne Lindquist

Chris Link

Paul McGeary

Stewart Monday

Frank Murray

Ali Nest

Dawn Nordberg

Jodie Resnick

Bobby Singh

Investment Management

Joshua Attie

Bobby Bassman

Max Boeser

Lisa Buhain Winslow

Logan Burt

Aaron Greeno

Anuj Gulati

James Ham

Catherine Hong

Manfred Hui

Nic Sochovsky

Federico Vettore

Miguel Villalba Leiros

Krace Zhou

Internal Audit

Sim Gian Chin

Claire Gavey

Dougie Paton

Barbara Tam

Technology

Zviad Ashvil

Annie Foster

Amit Khanna

George Konstantoulakis

Greg Parent

JonPaul Pizza

Prakash Venkataraman

Al Ramos

Aaron Satlow

Peter Troy

Priyanka Vasudevan

Tali Zidon

Operations

Donal Connolly

Todd Dubinsky

Wendy Sylvester

Jason Tarantino

Finance

Aidan Armstrong

Grace Gao

Gareth James

David Kaplan

Kyla Murphy

David Wolfowitz

Human Resources

Josh Balik-Klein

Seana Gormley

Rob Hampton

Patti Hynes

Legal and Compliance

Alphonzo Grant

Victoria Jones

Amit Kochhar

Rocky Procopio

Tamsin Roe

Tom Smallman

Chloe Wall

Michelle Wilke

Amy Zervas

Risk Management

Jonathan Hanners

Sanghamitra Karra

Matthew Schreiber

Nancy Tsang

Tsukasa Yamashita

Administration

Matthew Scott Slovik

Joan T. Tally

Morgan Stanley Bank NA

John Galante

Neha Patel

Company Management

Yuki Hasegawa