Kathleen McCabe

Kathleen McCabe joined The Wallace Foundation’s board of directors in 2026. 

McCabe is a partner in the Strategic Advisory Group at PJT Partners, a global, advisory-focused investment bank, where she advises corporate and private equity clients on strategic and financial transactions, including capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder-related matters. 

Before joining PJT Partners in 2019, McCabe spent 21 years at Morgan Stanley, where she served as the global head of investor relations and was a member of the firm’s management committee. She also led marketing and business development for the firm’s Investment Banking Division and was a senior banker with responsibility for some of its largest corporate and private equity client relationships. 

Over the course of her career, McCabe has worked on a broad range of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, capital raises, financings, and recapitalizations across a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, technology, media, industrials, transportation, business services, and real estate. McCabe began her career as an analyst in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Bankers Trust. 

McCabe is co-chair of the Board of Directors of Youth INC, an organization that supports over 85 of New York City’s leading youth-development nonprofits, providing them with resources to grow their operations and expand their impact. She was recognized with the organization’s highest honor, the John C. Whitehead Award, in 2025. She is also a former trustee of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and of the George F. Baker Scholars Program at Georgetown University. McCabe has a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Georgetown University.