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Lake, along with her co-CEO Jennifer Piepszak, lead all of consumer and community banking, which serves nearly 80 million consumers and 6 million small businesses across the U.S.

O'Neill has worked at BofA since 1996, starting as a credit analyst in its corporate and investment bank. She took the reins of the bank's retail banking unit in 2021.

Stewart's division has invested in new bankers for the long term, growing its banker head count by 40% since 2015. Since June 2023, its new client count has grown by 91%, and revenue is up 20.4%. 

Friedman attributes much of her success to her innate curiosity, and an ability to find small details interesting. 

In 2022, Ally achieved its 14th consecutive year of growth in retail deposit customers, reaching  $137.7 billion in deposits from 2.7 million retail depositors.

In the five years since Coffey was named CEO of Los Angeles-based City National Bank, the bank's assets have doubled to $95 billion, from $50 billion in 2019.

When BMO closed its long-planned acquisition of Bank of the West from BNP Paribas this year, Johannson was tapped to lead the integration of the two banks.

As Head of Citi's Legacy Franchises Group, Cole has brokered agreements to sell the bank's retail divisions in Australia, Bahrain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Guild, the head of enterprise technology and security for PNC Financial Services Group, leads a team of 3,500 who are charged with protecting customers' and clients' data.

Novosel, who leads PNC Financial Services's commercial bank, spent a lot more time talking to clients about PNC's financial footing when the banking crisis hit this spring.