Rashaan (Rash) Reid

Rashaan (Rash) Reid, is Head of Americas FICC Sales at Bank of America, and part of the global FICC leadership team.

Rash most recently led Global Markets’ Global Senior Relationship Management (SRM), which services the top institutional clients, focused on holistically delivering to the firm’s top c-suite clients investment and financing opportunities across FICC, equities, prime brokerage, and banking.

Rash began her career in 2001 at Merrill Lynch & Co. as an analyst in Debt Capital Markets Origination, moving into Mortgage & Securitization sales within the sales and trading business. Her prior sales expertise spans across a set of products that included US and European residential mortgage backed products (RMBS), consumer asset backed securities (ABS), commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS), commercial real estate debt and mezzanine loans, collateralized loan obligations (CLO) and direct lending opportunities to clients with portfolio sizes ranging in the multi-billions in AUM.

A champion for diversity, Rash has held numerous leadership roles, including serving on the division’s Diversity and Inclusion Council, proud member of the Black Executive Leadership Council, a founding member of D.E.A.L. (Developing and Engaging African American Leaders), NY Black Professional Group (BPG) Executive Advisory Council, and senior sponsorship board member of the Women’s Leadership Council (WLC).

A proud New Orleanian, Rash graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Finance and Management from Tulane University and earned her MBA in Analytic Finance from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Rash resides in Manhattan (Harlem), New York with her husband and their tween daughter, and dedicates her time to civic service, serving on the boards of Room to Grow and the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP). She is an alum of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), proud member of Jack & Jill of America, and has participated in Pipeline Angels, engaging in angel investing to uplift women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. Rash has been acknowledged as part of a BofA team in 2022 American Banker’s Most Powerful Women award, Crain’s NY Notable Women on Wall Street, a recipient of Women in Financial Markets Trailblazer award, and featured on Bloomberg TV.