Ileana Musa is the Co-Head of International Wealth Management and the Head of International Banking and Lending. In these roles, she leads the segment and strategy that focuses on Morgan Stanley’s International Client Advisors and international clients to ensure they have access to strategic investment, cash management, and lending solutions, services, and thought leadership to address both sides of a client’s balance sheet. Ileana is a member of Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management Committee, Wealth Management Operating Committee, Latin America Management Committee, U.S. Banks Management Committee, and Bank Leadership Committee. Ileana co-chairs the Enterprise Latino Employee Network.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Ileana was the Global Client Segment and Strategy Executive for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. In this capacity, she focused on helping international financial advisors ensure the delivery of a consistent, goals-based wealth management experience for international high net worth and ultrahigh net worth clients. Prior to this role, Ileana was head of International Credit and Banking within Bank of America’s Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM) Banking group. In this role, she led the teams that supported and delivered integrated liquidity, cash management, and lending solutions and services to financial advisors and high net worth clients in Latin America, Asia, and Europe.
Ileana held several leadership roles in the domestic, international, and affluent banking platforms at Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, where she lent her talent to growing their cross-border wealth management businesses.
Ileana received her BBA, with a concentration in finance, from the University of Miami and an MBA in finance from Florida International University. Ileana is fluent in Spanish, is FINRA-registered, and is Six-Sigma Greenbelt certified.
Ileana is a trustee on the board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation. She was named to the Girl Scouts National Board (GSUSA) and sits on the corporate advisory boards of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA), Florida International University Honors College, and the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami.
Ileana was recently named to the Red Shoe Movement 2021 Hall of Fame for leading transformational change that impacts diverse communities. She was named one of the Top 20 U.S. Offshore Women Leaders 2020 by Citywire and one of the Top 100 Most Influential Latinas in 2020 by Latino Leaders and was selected to the 2019 MAKERS class of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and given the 2019 Latina Trailblazer Award by Latino Justice in honor of her professional and personal achievements in opening doors and new opportunities for other professionals. Additionally, Ileana was named to ALPFA’s 2020 Most Powerful Latinas in Corporate America list for the fourth year in a row. In 2015, Ileana was named one of the Top 10 Corporate Executives by Latina Style magazine.