2019 Alumni Medalist Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald '81BC
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2019-10-16

Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald '81BC is founder and CEO of The Alberleen Group, an investment advisory firm that works with global family office investors.  Throughout her career, Caruso-FitzGerald has held senior roles at major investment banks, including JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers, where she helped build and manage global capital markets and alternative asset management businesses. She is chair emerita of Barnard College’s Board of Trustees. She has been a trustee since 2000 and was board chair from 2011-2018. She was the 2018 recipient of The Frederick A.P. Barnard Award.

Highlights of her board tenure include overseeing the first major capital campaign in Barnard’s history, which included the building of the Milstein Teaching and Learning Center; the landmark decision to admit transgender students to Barnard, as well as chairing and serving on the presidential search committee for Barnard’s last two presidents. Caruso-FitzGerald has served on the advisory board of Columbia Entrepreneurship since 2015 as well as on numerous non-profit and private company boards. Her husband Shawn FitzGerald ’80CC and their children, Christian FitzGerald ’17CC and Gabrielle FitzGerald ’19CC are all Columbia College graduates.