May Nasrallah

May Nasrallah is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at deNovo Corporate Advisors. Prior to founding deNovo, May spent over 15 years at Morgan Stanley in numerous capacities and geographies including New York, Hong Kong, London and Dubai. Most recently, she was Head of Investment Banking for the Middle East and North Africa region, where she established, led and grew Morgan Stanley's first-ever on-the-ground Investment Banking presence in the Middle East. Within her tenure at Morgan Stanley, May worked in a number of groups and products in various leadership roles, including Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings, Project Finance, Acquisition Finance, Liability Management, Private Placements, IPOs as well as pioneering Morgan Stanley's Islamic Financing initiatives. May was the youngest woman to be named Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and the first Arab woman Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.