Miss Meade, 25 years old, is an associate at the Consulting Group, an executive-search firm in New York.
And executive-search firms that cater to the financial services business are seeing no slowdown in their business.
She is married to Bruce Beach, the president of an executive-search firm.
Her father was the managing partner in Egon Zehnder International, an executive-search firm in New York.
An executive-search firm is a type of employment agency that specializes in recruiting executive personnel for companies in various industries.
"It appears she has the full confidence of the board," said Jim Drury, who leads an executive-search firm in Chicago.
In terms of 2011 revenue, the company is the world's second largest publicly held executive-search firm.
Ms. Raynolds, a partner in Ward Howell International, an executive-search firm, would then retire to bed "to read a wonderful adventure novel about the West."
Such cuts are not unusual on Wall Street, Gary Goldstein, president of the Whitney Group, an executive-search firm, said.
The bride was until recently an associate at the Consulting Group, an executive-search firm in New York.