Ellen Carr

Ellen Carr has more than two decades of experience as a high-yield bond portfolio manager, most recently at Weaver C. Barksdale (WCB), a majority-women-owned, institutional-fixed-income, investment-management firm based in Nashville. She specializes in the construction and management of high-yield and core-plus bond portfolios. Prior to joining WCB, she served as senior vice president and a high-yield portfolio manager for institutional separate accounts and mutual funds for The Capital Group Companies/American Funds in Los Angeles. Along with her high-yield responsibilities, Carr also managed investment-grade corporate and long-duration credit portfolios. She began her career as an investment analyst for the fixed income group at Capital in 1999.

Carr has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School, where she teaches courses on the credit markets and cash flow modeling, since 2012. She has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and received her B.A. from Harvard, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1994.