Morgan Stanley

Jane McCooey is Executive Director and Chief of Staff for the Chief Information Officer of Enterprise Technology & Services at Morgan Stanley. Prior, she was COO for Global Technology & Data Legal at Morgan Stanley. She is Co-Chair of the Community & Giving Back Pillar of Morgan Stanley’s Women’s Business Alliance. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Jane was a Senior Associate at international law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Jane is Founder and CEO of Women with Ambition (WWA), the premier professional network for Irish and Irish American women in New York and the Tri-State area. WWA is expanding to Washington in November 2026.

A 2025 Fellow for the Centre of Democracy & Peace Building Leadership Fellowship, which brings together political, business, and civic leaders in support of the peace process and to enhance the prosperity of Northern Ireland, Jane is also the Global Ambassador for AwakenAngels, the first and only all-island of Ireland women-led investment syndicate with the aim of democratizing angel investing for women.

She is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Ceannas House, and recently joined the North American Advisory Board for University College Dublin’s School of Business. Jane also serves as Co-Chair of the Young Partners Board of Irish American Partnership and is the Founder of Liberty Gaels Camogie Club.

An Armagh native, Jane studied Law with French Law at University College Dublin and Université Toulouse Capitole, a Master of Law at Cambridge University, and an Executive MBA with Quantic School of Business, and worked in Brussels, at the European Commission and Freshfields.

Jane, who served as Keynote Speaker at Irish America’s 2025 Wall Street 50 gala, received the Irish Echo Community Champion Award in 2022, the  “Women of Ireland” 2025 Community Leadership Award by New York Irish Center; and second place as 2025 International Irish Businesswoman of the Year in the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards.