Kelly Ames
About Kelly Ames
Kelly Ames is the Senior Vice President of Investment Banking for Power, Utilities & Infrastructure at Jefferies, based in New York, New York.
Title
Kelly Ames serves as the Senior Vice President of Investment Banking in the Power, Utilities & Infrastructure sector at Jefferies. She has held this position since 2022.
Current and Past Employment at Jefferies
Kelly Ames joined Jefferies in 2019 and has held several positions within the company. Initially, she worked as an Investment Banking Associate for 8 months, then progressed to Vice President of Investment Banking from 2019 to 2022. Currently, she holds the title of Senior Vice President, a role she has been in since 2022, focusing on Power, Utilities & Infrastructure.
Previous Roles at Morgan Stanley
Kelly Ames has significant experience at Morgan Stanley, where she served as an Investment Banking Associate in the Global Power & Utilities Group from 2016 to 2019. Additionally, she worked briefly as an Investment Banking Summer Associate in 2015.
Shell Experience
Before her investment banking career, Kelly Ames held various roles at Shell. She was Senior Tradebook Recon Analyst in Trading at STUSCO (2013-2014), Asset Finance Manager in Deepwater: Upstream Americas (2012-2013), and had internships in business finance at Shell Chemical Company (2011) and Shell Exploration & Production Company (2010).
Educational Background
Kelly Ames holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, obtained between 2014 and 2016. Prior to that, she earned two bachelor's degrees from The University of Texas at Austin: a Bachelor of Arts in French with a Spanish minor and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, with tracks in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking and Energy, along with a minor in Accounting, from 2008 to 2012.