Kelli R. Mesi

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Top Female Executives

Title: Vice President, National Accounts Manager
Company: BNY Mellon
Location: New York, NY United States

Inspired by her love for what she does, Kelli Mesi began her finance career in college. She started out in an internship with Merrill Lynch, where she built relationships with clients, had strong mentors, and learned from them. Ms. Mesi is currently utilizing the skills she developed at BNY Mellon, a global investments company dedicated to helping corporations, institutions, and individual investors manage and service their financial assets.

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Erica Worrell

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Top Female Executives

Erica WorrellTitle: Regional Vice President of Sales – Indiana
Company: S. Abraham & Sons
Location: Fort Wayne, IN United States

Highly driven and detail-oriented, Erica Worrell has spent the past two decades steadily progressing in her career with S. Abraham & Sons, a wholesale distributor specializing in servicing retail stores in the food industry. She started as a sales merchandiser in 1996, and became the regional vice president of sales in Indiana in 2014. Ms. Worrell is inspired by her own internal motivation. She would like her peers and employees to remember her as someone who was always trying to empower them by giving them the tools to achieve their goals.

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Sallie Studds

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Top Female Executives

Sallie StuddsTitle: Business Management Supervisor
Company: NASA
Location: Melbourne, FL United States

Motivated by her desire to serve her community, Sallie Studds has spent the past few years developing her career at NASA. She currently serves the aviation and aerospace government agency as a business management supervisor. Her ability to foresee mistakes and errors aids her greatly in forecasting and projecting budgets, which is a big part of her position.

The greatest challenge Ms. Studds faced was becoming recognized as a subject matter expert. She succeeded, however, and as a testament to that success, she earned the Exceptional Medal Award from NASA in 2012. Ms. Studds is also an honored member of The International Women’s Leadership Association, and would advise the younger generations to be inquisitive, ask questions, and don’t be intimidated. Ms. Studds attributes her accomplishments to her husband’s support and the core values her parents instilled in her.

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Donna C. Rutola

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Top Female Executives

Title: Vice President
Company: Okay Industries, Inc.
Location: New Britian, CT United States

Throughout her long and highly-successful tenure with Okay Industries, Inc., Donna C. Rutola has worn many hats. The leading medical device component manufacturing company offers unsurpassed expertise stamping and machining a wide range of metals, including stainless steels, implantable titanium, and nitinol.  They also offer products to the automotive, industrial, and defense and firearms markets. Ms. Rutola served as a general manager during a critical time in the company’s history, and has since risen to the role of vice president. Her responsibilities in her current position include overseeing key departments, such as sales, purchasing, accounting, and human resources.

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