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When the bank needed to cut costs over the last year, it shied away from across-the-board layoffs, said Stewart, who has led Sound for more than three decades.

Under McKinney, Comerica's retail bank generated $965 million in revenue and 20% revenue growth in 2023. She leads 2,580 employees in the retail bank, which has $27 billion in loans and deposits. 

Thurlow has been the CEO at Reading for 18 years, and will finish her stint as chair of the American Bankers Association in October.

Popular promoted Castellví to chief security officer in 2018; she had been general auditor. She reports to CEO Ignacio Alvarez and leads a team of more than 350 employees.

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.

Fogarty and her team are responsible for custody, reconciliations, derivatives, bank loans, middle-office, investment analytics, accounting and fund administration, alternative operations, and transfer agency activities for State Street.

Fercho is the first Black woman executive to report to Wells Fargo's chief executive officer, and she partners with the CEOs of the five lines of business at Wells Fargo to implement DEI principles.