Talk of the town: A toast to Women in Banking

October 5, 2017 12:53 PM

American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance gathered Wednesday to celebrate honorees and to mix and mingle over cocktails at Milk Studios, with a panoramic view over Manhattan.

Rosilyn Houston, Senior EVP, Chief Talent and Culture Executive at BBVA Compass (left); Natalie Parker, Chief Financial Officer of Citizens Bank of Edmond (center); and Jill Castilla, President and CEO of Citizens Bank of Edmond.

Houston and Castilla are on the Women to Watch list.

Linda Verba, EVP, Head of Service Strategy at TD Bank (left); LeeAnne Linderman, EVP, Enterprise Retail Banking Division at Zions Bancorp.(center); and Sandy Pierce, Senior EVP, Private Client Group; Regional Banking Director and Chair of Michigan at Huntington.

Verba is a Lifetime Achievement award winner. Linderman is part of Zions' team win. Pierce is on the watch list.

Yvette Hollingsworth Clark, EVP and Regulatory Innovation Officer at Wells Fargo (left), her husband Biff Clark, and Monique Herena, Senior EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer at BNY Mellon.

Clark and Herena are on the watch list.

Sandie O'Connor, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer at JPMorgan Chase (left) and Joyce Chang, Global Head of Research at its invetment banking arm, J.P. Morgan.

O'Connor is on the banking list and Chang is on the finance list.

Sandy Pierce, Senior EVP, Private Client Group; Regional Banking Director and Chair of Michigan at Huntington (left) and Ellen Alemany, Chairmanand CEO at CIT Group.

Pierce is on the watch list and Alemany is on the banking list.

Alex Dousmanis-Curtis, Group Head, U.S. Retail and Business Banking at BMO (left); Caroline Tsai, Deputy General Council and Chief Regulatory Officer at BMO (center); and Julieann Thurlow, President and CEO of Reading Cooperative Bank.

BMO had a team win, and both Dousmanis-Curtis and Thurlow are on the watch list.

Cate Luzio, Global Head of International Subsidiary Banking at HSBC (left); Sandie O'Connor, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer at JPMorgan Chase (center); and Joyce Chang, Global Head of Research at J.P. Morgan.

Luzio is on the wtach list, O'Connor on the banking list, and Chang on the finance list.

Ellen Polansky, Financial Services Senior Executive and Coordinating Partner, E&Y (left) and Patricia Husic, President and CEO of Centric Financial.

Husic is on the banking list and Centric had a team win.

Helga Houston, Chief Risk Officer at Huntington (left) and Diane Morais, President of Consumer and Commercial Banking Products at Ally Financial.

Houston and Morais are on the banking list.

From left are Ellen Polansky, Financial Services Senior Executive and Coordinating Partner, EY; Julie Monaco, Global Head of the Public Sector Group, Corporate and Investment Bank, Citigroup; Gretchen Goodall, Managing Director, Citigroup; and Ellen Alemany, Chairman and CEO of CIT Group.

Monaco is on the finance list. Besides being on the banking list, Alemany was also the focus of this feature story and took part in this podcast.

Carrie Johnson, SVP, Enterprise Loan Operations at Zions (left) and Debra Herman, Retail Region Manager at Zions.

Both shared in Zions' team win.

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