President of The Loxahatchee Club Educational Foundation
Chair of Audit & Compliance Committee
After a 44-year career on Wall Street, where she guided clients through the innovations, booms and crises of that remarkable period, in 2020 Kathy Fisher retired. She was with Alliance Bernstein from 2001 to 2020 and served as chief investment officer of the firm's $100 billion-asset Bernstein private client business. In that role, Fisher led a team of 45 senior professionals across 12 U.S. offices and was responsible for developing and communicating asset allocation advice for Bernstein's 25,000 high net worth individuals, endowments, and foundation clients. She was also president of the $35 billion Sanford C. Bernstein mutual fund board, and one of four women in the 40-person partnership of the 3,500 employee firm at the time. Previously, Fisher had been a managing director in the financial institutions investment banking group at JP Morgan; a bank stock analyst at Morgan Stanley; and an economic research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Fisher is passionate about healthcare and health policy. She joined the board of Southwestern Vermont Health Care in 2015, serving as Chair from 2021 to 2024.
She is currently President of The Loxahatchee Club Educational Foundation in Jupiter, Florida and is a former trustee of Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home in Manchester, Vermont; The Aloha Foundation in Fairlee, Vermont; Bates College in Lewiston, Maine; and the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service in Brooklyn, NY.
Fisher graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College with a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, and earned an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business.