Alumni Profiles

Erin Buckley
Class of 2003

New York City, New York, USA
Managing Director, Head of Product for Private Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs

Sometime in my teenage years, I knew I wanted to work on Wall Street, though admittedly I didn’t really know what that meant! I knew I needed a finance degree so completed B.Comm/B.Arts at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Finance and French. After graduation I started at Goldman Sachs JBWere (later JBWere) in Melbourne – my first role was fairly traditional stockbroking focused on Australian equities, and I quickly learned to love watching the markets and trying to understand stock move triggers. 

The itch for the real “Wall Street” remained, so I moved to New York in 2014 – ironically while the NY Stock Exchange is still nearby, the actual Wall Street is mostly apartment buildings these days! I have been working for Goldman Sachs in NY for almost a decade, across a variety of roles within Private Wealth Management, always focused on delivering a best in class offering for ultra-high net worth clients. Australia will always be home and being far from family and friends is difficult, but I’ve now been in Manhattan for almost a decade and have an American husband and dual-citizen daughter. 

Ivanhoe Girls’ fostered my love for learning and I was always encouraged to follow my passions, which ultimately led to a career in finance halfway across the world. I look back fondly on my time at Ivanhoe Girls’, and love seeing how others are inspired from an early age to pursue their dreams, no matter how foreign they may seem.

Carly McHugh
Class of 2010

Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Donor Lead Specialist
Virtus Health

I had the privilege of attending Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School from PrePrep through to Year 12 and think back on my school years with the fondest memories. I can without a doubt say that my time there has played an enormous role in getting me where I am today. 

I started my university career in a Bachelor of Marketing and after one semester decided it wasn’t for me. I packed up my things and moved overseas where I worked and travelled for a year across Europe. That experience and the people I met along the way inspired me to change my thinking and upon my return home I transferred into a degree of Biomedical Science, (hard to believe as anyone from Ivanhoe Girls’ would tell you how much I struggled with Science through my schooling years!) From there I completed a Graduate Diploma in Reproductive Science and then completed a Masters of Clinical Embryology. 

Soon after graduating I started my career as an Embryologist. Day to day I micro manipulate gametes and create embryos to hopefully help people have the family they have always dreamt of. Witnessing human life at it’s earliest stage and knowing it has the potential to form a baby is more rewarding than can be put into words. I am incredibly grateful to be in this line of work and am so passionate about what we achieve in the fertility industry for our patients.