Cary Carbonaro

Managing wealth advisor and women and wealth ambassador

Cary Carbonaro is an award-winning certified financial planner with over 25 years of experience.

She is the managing wealth advisor and the women and wealth ambassador at Ashton Thomas, where she leads a financial planning practice focused on empowering women. Cary is the bestselling author of "The Money Queen's Guide" (2015) and the just-published "Women and Wealth: A Playbook to Empower Clients and Unlock Their Fortune" (2025). She has been on Investopedia's Top 100 Financial Advisors list six times and is the first female member of the 2024 Nasdaq Advisor Council.

Wealth management

My fight for equality at a Wall Street investment bank

Advisor and women in wealth advocate Cary Carbonaro charts her struggle for respect and pay parity after a buyout by a big investment bank.

By Cary Carbonaro

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