2026 - 2027 Board of Governors

Lawrence Carrel is an award-winning journalist, a freelance writer, media consultant, and author of three books: ETFs for the Long Run, Dividend Stocks for DUMMIES, and Investing in Dividends for DUMMIES. He was a member of the team that created Wall Street Journal.com in 1995. At SmartMoney.com he worked as a market commentator, investigative reporter, and created the first column about ETFs on the web. He has been a staff writer at TheStreet.com; and a contributing editor for Forbes.com, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Investor’s Business Daily and The Asia Times. He currently runs his own media-consulting firm, Long Run Consultants, where he creates content strategy for companies in the financial-services industry.

Peter Coy is a freelance economics writer. He was a writer for the Opinion section of The New York Times from 2021 to 2025. Prior to that he wrote for BusinessWeek and its successor publication, Bloomberg Businessweek. He came to BusinessWeek from the Associated Press, where he worked in Albany, Rochester, and New York City. Previously, he was a reporter for the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican.

Conway Gittens is a business correspondent for Reuters Video, where he specializes in transforming mundane business/economic/finance topics into engaging subject matter that can be understood by non-finance experts. He writes, produces and serves as the face for compelling business reports on topics ranging from corporate news to market swings to global macro-economic trends to the latest tech gadgets that will attract eyeballs on multiple platforms. Content is distributed on the Reuters TV platform, Apple TV, Roku, Reuters.com and to Reuters’ syndicated video clients. In addition, he hosts a weekly business video segment produced exclusively for Reuters Top News and Reuters Business Twitter feeds.

Jordyn Holman is a business reporter covering the retail industry and consumerism for The New York Times. She writes about the biggest American retail companies and the consumers who fuel the U.S. economy and her work often touches on the ways companies grapple with race, class and gender within their workforces and consumer bases. She contributes regularly to Marketplace radio. Before The Times, Jordyn worked at Bloomberg News, where she wrote for Bloomberg Businessweek and made frequent appearances on Bloomberg TV. Her reporting on the Buy Black movement has been recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the National Association of Black Journalists.

Angela Marriott specializes in crisis management and media relations strategies at Sitrick & Company after nearly 20 years as a financial journalist at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal where she covered commercial real estate and the hotel and casino industries. A native of Berkeley, California, Ms. Marriott holds a M.A. in Public Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in Sociology and Mass Communications from the University of California at Berkeley.   

Greg Miles has worked as a front-page news editor, bureau chief, enterprise writer, on-air television correspondent, guest TV anchor and podcast anchor for Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Television, BusinessWeek, CNBC, and Investopedia.com. He is currently a freelance writer and editor and also does consulting projects. During his career, he has specialized in winning and executing exclusive, in-depth TV interviews with business leaders including Bob Iger, Carl Icahn, Les Moonves, Dieter Zetsche, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Michael Dell and Sam Zell. He has a BA from Wesleyan University and two masters degrees from Columbia University: the School of Journalism and the School of Public and International Affairs.

Igor Pakovic leads the real assets coverage at With Intelligence (now part of S&P Global), where he manages a team of reporters in New York. Igor has covered asset management for a decade. Before working as an editor, he was a senior reporter for HFM, regularly breaking news on the hedge fund industry for one of the leading financial publications in the market. He also worked as a financial journalist in London and Milan, where he was one of the founding members of Citywire’s newsroom in Italy while covering European public markets. His work has also appeared on Argus, where he covered energy, and Vice News, where he wrote about Balkan affairs. Before that, he briefly worked for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and received an MA in International Journalism from City University London.

David Rodeck has been a financial freelance writer and journalist since 2011. His clients are split between financial journalism (AARP, Kiplinger, Investopedia) and marketing (Citizens Bank, Fidelity, RBC Wealth Management). He has written articles, blogs, infographics, and long-form pieces. He’s written hundreds of articles across every topic in the financial industry, specializing in thought leadership interview articles. His top goal is to assist the NYFWA with membership recruitment and engagement.

Robin Wood Sailer is a venture partner at Helena Capital and the co-founder of Le Labs Group. Previously, she worked at CBS News, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal | Barron’s Group. She has produced award winning programming for digital news, broadcast television, audio, mixed reality and ~100 news making events during her time at Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Le Labs. She was part of the team that built the original Bloomberg Events division. The business was incubated at Bloomberg Ventures. At the Wall Street Journal, she was part of the team that produced WSJ Tech Live in Laguna and Hong Kong as well as the Future of Everything Festival. At Bloomberg and at the Wall Street Journal, she oversaw the curation of founders and investors who participated in the shark tank inspired startup showcases that were embedded in technology focused conferences. At Dow Jones — when the pandemic shut down in person events — her business unit participated in Prehype’s accelerator program to launch a virtual event business. She also started and ran the custom and brand events business. Currently she advises founders, investors and executive leaders on storytelling, strategic partnerships and business development. Le Labs’ clients and partners have included Fortune 500 companies, founders, investors and non-profits. She is on the board of the New York Financial Writers Association and Sticks and Stones Studio, an arts education program in Oregon.

Olivia Carville is a reporter on Bloomberg’s investigations team. She is based in New York City. Previously, Carville worked on the investigation teams at the Toronto Star and the New Zealand Herald. She won multiple national awards at both outlets. Carville moved to the U.S. to complete a master’s degree in financial reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Upon graduation in 2018, she was awarded the school’s Financial Journalist of the Year and she won the New York Financial Writers’ Association scholarship. She has served on the NYFWA board ever since.