The PeekScores of Wall Street’s 25 Most Powerful Women

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

As we’ve pointed out here on numerous occasions prior (such as here), we wish we didn’t live in a world where the idea of women in positions of affluence and leadership seemed novel or worthy of singling out. It is 2013, after all. But, there’s no denying that — for at least today — such specific acknowledgements do still often seem appropriate.

That tiny bit of what should frankly be uncontroversial politics aside, a little while back the good people at Business Insider created a list celebrating the accomplishments of who they deemed to be The 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street (you can read their article here).

What we’ve done is what we always do, and taken these 25 women to see how they measure up and compare in terms of their relative impacts and presences in cyberspace, as quantified by our PeekScore scale (an assessment of their “digital footprints,” as it were, a concept explained in brief above, and more in depth here).

These women all have scores within a very narrow PeekScore range, with many statistical ties throughout. While no internet superstars to really be found among them (with few if any Twitter accounts or blogs, etc) they are all, at least in part owing to the internet’s extensive financial and business coverage, present and accounted for here on the Web.

Rank Picture Name Title – Company PeekScore
1

Meredith Whitney CEO – Meredith Whitney Advisory Group 7.56 / 10.00
2

Irene Dorner President and CEO - HSBC USA 7.10 / 10.00
3

Eileen Serra CEO of Credit Card Services – JPMorgan 7.09 / 10.00
4

Nancy Peretsman Managing Director – Allen & Co.  7.08 / 10.00
5

Sonia Gardner President, Managing Partner, Co-Founder – Avenue Capital 7.08 / 10.00
6

Blythe Masters Head of Global Commodities – JPMorgan 7.07 / 10.00
7

Carla Harris Managing Director, Emerging Managers Platform – Morgan Stanley Investment Management 7.06 / 10.00
8

Abby Joseph Cohen U.S. Investment Strategist – Goldman Sachs 7.06 / 10.00
9

Ruth Porat CFO – Morgan Stanley 7.05 / 10.00
10

Edith Cooper Executive VP/ Global Head of Human Capital Management – Goldman Sachs 7.04 / 10.00
11

Mei Gao Partner – Fore Research & Management 7.03 / 10.00
12

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani CIO – Goldman Sachs (Private Wealth Management group) 7.03 / 10.00
13

Catherine Keating CEO of United States Institutional Asset Management – JPMorgan 7.02 / 10.00
14

Dominic Barton Founder – Tse Capital 7.02 / 10.00
15

Marianne Lake CFO – JPMorgan Chase 7.02 / 10.00
16

Jamie Zimmerman CEO – Litespeed Management 7.01 / 10.00
17

Dawn Fitzpatrick CIO = UBS O’Connor 7.01 / 10.00
18

Candace Browning Head of Global Research – Bank of America Merrill Lynch 7.01 / 10.00
19

Mary Callahan Erdoes CEO – JPMorgan Asset Management 7.00 / 10.00
20

Renée Haugerud CIO – Galtere 7.00 / 10.00
21

Leda Braga CIO – Bluecrest 7.00 / 10.00
22

Dottie Mattison Senior Managing Director – Guggenheim Partners 6.99 / 10.00
23

Alexandra Lebenthal President/CEO – Lebenthal & Company 6.98 / 10.00
24

Lara Warner CFO of the Investment Banking Division – Credit Suisse 6.97 / 10.00
25

Hope Pascucci President – Rose Grover Capital 6.55 / 10.00

Comparing the Digital Footprints of 10 of Wall Street’s Biggest Names

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

Today we’re putting the captains of industry, or the titans of finance, or whatever description you believe most apt (or poetic, or least boring), to the PeekScore test. Here are ten of Wall Street’s foremost names, ranked not by their earnings, their power, nor even their influence in the world at large, but – as we do things around here – by the size of their respective digital footprints.

As has been the case with some of the folks on other lists we’ve recently compiled, this is not a group of individuals you’re going to find hunched in a corner and mindlessly thumbing away at their iPhones, nor are you likely to find these folks much making with the hashtags, memes, or LOLs in any public forum. They’re a bit otherwise occupied for the likes of that sort of stuff. With very little social networking or blogging going on inside the glistening, mighty towers in which these men reside, these PeekScores serve mostly as a direct measurement of the current news media prominence – and ongoing reporting of the various triumphs and tribulations – of each of these individuals. As is evident in their PeekScores, while they’re surely present and accounted for on the web, their online existences are mostly humble (the men themselves, we’d wager, are less so).

Do you have any suggestions for lists you’d like to see us do? Any thoughts on this one? Let us know, and we’ll give all you have to share our serious consideration.

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Lloyd Blankfein CEO – Goldman Sachs 8.04 / 10
2

James Gorman CEO – Morgan Stanley 8.00 / 10
3

Brady Dougan CEO – Credit Suisse 7.55 / 10
4

James Dimon CEO – JPMorgan Chase 7.20 / 10
5

Kenichi Watanabe President – Nomura Securities 6.95/ 10
6

Robert Diamond Group Chief Executive – Barclays 6.31 / 10
7

Thomas Montag President – Bank of America Merrill Lynch 6.20 / 10
8

Gary Cohn President and COO – Goldman Sachs 6.02 / 10
9

Josef Ackermann CEO – Deutsche Bank 5.69 / 10
10

Anshu Jain Head of the Corporate & Investment Bank – Deutsche Bank 5.15 / 10