2018 Alumni Medalist Helen Doyle Yeager '85BC
Channel: Columbia Alumni
Date: 2018-10-10

Helen Doyle Yeager ’85BC is a Managing Director at MUFG, the leading financial services institution in Japan, and the world’s 5th largest bank. Helen manages the Institutional Client Group for the Americas and is a Senior Relationship Manager at MUFG Securities. Having graduated with a BA from Barnard College in 1985, she also earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1989. Helen has spent 25 years in the securities industry, working in senior management at several firms, including Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. Helen was a two-time captain of the Columbia women’s basketball team, and for the
past decade, has served as Chair of the Alumnae Advisory Board for Women’s Basketball, spearheading an increase in fundraising and outreach. One of three female members on the Leadership Committee for the Columbia Campaign for Athletics: Achieving Excellence, and a member of The Women's Leadership Council, Helen is a major supporter of the women's basketball program as well as The Campbell Sports Center. As a Barnard student, she was proud to be the female student representative on the inaugural
committee when the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium was founded and, 25 years later, was honored as one of the 25 most influential women in the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium's history. Helen currently serves on the Board of Citius Baseball, a not-for-profit inner city baseball program based in Mt. Vernon, NY. Citius Baseball helps develop and prepare inner city and underprivileged kids, through high-level training and SAT Prep, for college and/or professional baseball.