Gina Sanchez
“I effectively funded my own company and really had to pull myself up by my bootstraps. There are so few places you can go to access capital that are specifically geared toward women. As a female looking for capital for my business, I was put to an extraordinary task. As a result, I think my business is better. Women in this industry tend to be incredibly successful, largely because they’re held to a different standard.”
How to do better: “Make an effort to ensure that quality women are promoted. But the bigger challenge is that there is still a gentlemen’s club culture that persists and young men who still want to be a part of it. It’s a very real advantage to be a male in the industry. There are still venues and events and conversations that you’re invited into as a man that you’re not invited into as a woman, and it creates a sense of kinship that doesn’t happen with women as easily. It’s something that is very subtle and very, very difficult to deal with.”
—Gina Sanchez is CEO of Chantico Global, a West Hollywood, Calif.-based investment consulting firm founded in 2013, which spun out of Roubini Global Economics. chanticoglobal.com
