Maria Karahalis is an equity investment director and portfolio strategy manager at Capital Group. She has 37 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 10 years. Prior to joining Capital, she was a managing director in global investment research at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she served as a research analyst and director of research. Before that, she was vice president in the mergers, acquisitions and restructuring department of Morgan Stanley. She holds a master’s degree in management from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wellesley College. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Maria is based in New York.