Ashley Streett, BA ’12 MBA ’14, formerly worked as an undergraduate admission counselor, served on the National Alumni Board for two terms and met her husband at the University of Dallas. She serves PNC Bank as a vice president and treasury management officer.

Tell us a little about your current job and how you got there.

I help companies determine where to allocate their funds for short-term investments. I graduated in 2012, and my first job was at the University of Dallas. I did that for two years while I got my master’s here at the Gupta College of Business.

My MBA then helped accelerate me into an underwriting program. I worked at Wells Fargo Bank as an analyst for about three years and then moved over into the treasury management side of the business.

Then, recently, PNC acquired what was formerly BBVA in Dallas. At that time, they needed to grow their employee base here. I was contacted by someone I knew previously at Wells Fargo — kind of a circuitous route, but here I am.

Do you feel like a general, liberal arts-style undergrad helped your job today?

It definitely did. It’s funny because a lot of people say, ‘Oh, for banking, [students] should do solely business, solely finance, solely accounting.’ You know, there are different business subjects that you usually have to focus on in order to get a job. That’s not to say that those aren’t valuable. I think what’s important is understanding how money movement actually relates to how humans interact. I think that’s more important than the actual mechanics of banking. 

But UD also does a great job on the practical application of the major. I did have a fair amount of accounting courses and finance courses that I needed in order to get the technical side.

What motivates you to give back to UD?

You know, my three siblings went here. My husband went here. He had three siblings that went here. So it’s very much a family thing from the get-go. Obviously, without the school, my children wouldn’t be here, so I feel very invested in trying to make sure that this school succeeds because of that. 

As an alum, sometimes you graduate and you feel like that’s done and gone; that was fun; I had a great time there, but now I have to get on with my life. But I think it’s important not to forget where we came from. This school was the school that helped me get my first job. It was the school that helped me find my husband. It was the school that did so much for me and my siblings that I want to give back. … Every single effort of every alum is so important. So why not be a part of the continued success of the university?