The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Cai-Lee, CEO of $596 million-asset Piermont, founded the bank in 2019.

Moore-Wright is the chief teammate officer at the $520 billion-asset Truist.

Penn Community Bank was created in 2015 with the merger of two banks, and Vidoni was CEO from the beginning.

Menelik was tapped to lead corporate, specialty and government banking at Huntington in October 2022, coming over from Fifth Third where she was the group head of diversified industries and international corporate banking.

Multiple lenders filled leadership roles across the country, including National Bankshares in Virginia, while Peoples Financial in Pennsylvania said its CEO would step down.

Mathieu Beauchesne is Head of Life and Health Insurance at GFT Canada, where he works with leading insurance carriers to transform their operating models into new digital and AI-powered architectures. He has more than a decade of experience in IT consulting in the insurance space, specializing in business architecture, IT strategy development and business analytics.