A Night of Celebration and Empowerment
October 19, 2016 7:30 AM
Beth Mooney, Marianne Lake and Mary Callahan Erdoes are all smiles at the awards dinner for the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance .
Mooney, the chairman and chief executive of KeyCorp, just moved into
More than 800 people turned out for the annual celebration of women in the industry. Scroll through the slideshow to see who else was in the crowd.
Diane D'Erasmo chats with Patrick Burke, the president and CEO of HSBC USA.
D'Erasmo accepted a
D'Erasmo served as a vice chair in commercial banking at HSBC before recently ending her banking career to look for a new challenge. She has been part of the Most Powerful Women rankings for years.
In her speech, D'Erasmo talked about how she managed to balance work with raising children. Check out
On the red carpet, from left, are Joyce Taylor, Jackie Tatum, Rosilyn Houston and Karen Drinkard.
Houston, the chief talent and culture executive at BBVA Compass,
Houston talked about some of her challenging life experiences
The guests at the Zions Bank table included Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis.
Standing, from left, are: Madeline Di Nonno,
Davis gave the keynote at the event, courtesy of Zions Bank, and Johnson, who is on the bank's board of directors, introduced her.
Di Nonno is CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The other guests are with the bank or its parent company, Zions Bancorp.
Here's Davis giving her keynote, which focused on unconscious bias.
Davis, star of such films as "Thelma & Louise" and "A League of Their Own," said that the way women in banking are portrayed on film affects their career trajectory. If women are not represented on screen in positions of power as executives rather than secretaries, for example it reinforces gender stereotypes about what power and influence look like.
Her concern about this issue inspired her to create the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and its research findings have shown that even crowd scenes in television and movies typically have far more men than women.
Now the institute is launching a new research project in partnership with American Banker and sponsored by Zions Bank to analyze the portrayal of women in financial services.
Read more about what Davis said
Bank of America's Andrea Smith and Cathy Bessant enjoying the evening.
Smith, who is
Bessant, B of A's chief operations and technology officer, moved up to
From left, Bank of New York Mellon's Samir Pandiri, Jyoti Chopra and Karen Peetz.
On the same day as being named the
Peetz also said women in the industry continue to endure far more scrutiny than men.
Peetz is the highest-ranking female executive in BNY Mellon's storied history. Pandiri is CEO of asset servicing and Chopra is global head of diversity and inclusion.
These four women are new to the watch list this year.
From left,
Glenn also was part of
It's becoming a tradition for many of the honorees to bring their daughters to the event.
Here, JPMorgan Chase's
Nandita Bakhshi urged women to get out of their comfort zones in her speech.
"Always seek a position that is one-third comfortable, one-third a stretch and one-third, pure white-knuckle terror," she said, as you can see in
Bakhshi, the president and CEO at Bank of the West, is
(You might recall that she also was
Dorothy Savarese (second from left) gave the champagne toast at the event.
Savarese, who is
Joan Saenz (third from left) is a senior vice president with the ABA. The rest of the group is with Cape Cod Five.
From left are: Laura Newstead, chief human resources officer; Savarese; Saenz; Angelique Viamari, governance manager; Emilie Bajorek, administrative officer; and Stephanie Dennehy, digital marketing officer.
Maureen "Mo" Wilkinson of HarborOne Bank accepts the Community Impact Award for her work in promoting financial literacy .
At right is Fiserv's Teri Carstensen, who presented the award.
Deutsche Bank's Patricia Giangrande, Susan Skerritt and Isabel Schmidt.
Skerritt moved up to
KeyCorp's Beth Mooney has some fun on the red carpet, in a pose that has become a tradition for her team.
Others in the photo also are part of
TIAA's Kathie Andrade brought her daughter Lauren to the gala.
From left are Lauren Andrade; Margaret McQuade, a product manager at TIAA; and the honoree.
MUFG's Ranjana Clark brought her daughter Meera, who is an analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert, at left, presented the team awards.
Accepting the awards on behalf of their companies are (from left): Dianne James, chief human resources officer,
Biff Clark is on the far left, and Bob Wolverton is fourth from left.
Irene Fang, also of Wells Fargo, is at far right.
Just behind HSBC's Stefan Hardy and Diane Reyes is the tweet wall.
This group from Royal Bank of Canada includes from left: Greg Belbeck, Donna Sclafani, Bobby Grubert, Janice Fukakusa , Nadine Ahn and Valerie VanDerzee.
Four honorees from the watch list pose for a photo before going on stage to accept their awards.
From left are:
Margaret Keane, president and CEO of Synchrony Financial, with Jerry Hajdarevic.
Keane, who
In a twist on the mother-daughter theme, JPMorgan Chase's Sandie O'Connor brought her mom.
Lisa Grigg, head of compliance for US Bank, with a group from Protiviti.
From left are: Kelly McNoble, Blair Christensen, Rajani Meka, Grigg and Kaitlin Curry.
These two community bankers were among the many women in the room with CEO titles.
Northern Trust's Jana Schreuder with a group from Fiserv.
From left are: Teri Carstensen, Tricia Viola, Schreuder, Lynn McCreary and Cheryl Nash.
The crowd enjoyed the elegant atmosphere at Cipriani on 42nd street in Manhattan, a stately 1920s-era building that once housed the headquarters of Bowery Savings Bank.
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