Amy Nauiokas ’94 recently was featured in Director magazine for her compassionate leadership as managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers—the U.K.’s largest retail broker.
An international-studies major at Dickinson, Nauiokas began her career at Bankers Trust and Bear Stearns. She continued on to Cantor Fitzgerald as a senior managing director, where she was faced with the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.
With more than half of her staff at Cantor Fitzgerald victims during the attacks on the World Trade Center, Nauiokas took on human-resources responsibilities and created compensation funds for victims, coordinated memorial services and oversaw a tribute Web site.
In Director, she comments on the effect that period had on her leadership skills: “It made me more confident about making fast decisions without necessarily being able to build consensus, and being accountable for those decisions.”
Now living in London with her husband and son, Nauiokas joined Barclays Capital in 2004 as head of electronic sales and trading in the investment-banking division. Currently managing director, she is on the management committee of Barclays Wealth.
Nauiokas decided to pursue a career in financial services so she could make a difference in the world. She was instrumental in establishing Dickinson’s study-abroad program in Yaoundé, Cameroon, where she studied and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her family supports the Cameroon program through the Lois E. Pallotolo scholarship they established in Nauiokas’ grandmother’s name.
The youngest member of Dickinson’s board of trustees, Nauiokas received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2006. She also is an adjunct professor for Columbia University’s business school, where she earned a master’s degree in international business.
Nauiokas, on the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s advisory board, is inspired by people who blend philanthropy with their careers—and she hopes that the trend continues.
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