The Latest from Women in Banking

Heinel is the first female global chief investment officer at State Street Global Advisors, the world's fourth-largest asset manager.

Graper was promoted to her current role as  managing director and global co-head of debt capital markets last year.

Vice Chair Hope Holding Bryant played a key role in the bank's acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank.

Wolverton is in her third year leading consumer banking and brand experience at the Columbus, Georgia, bank. The $60 billion-asset Synovus is Georgia's largest bank.    

Schoneman oversees the international bank, which has annual net revenue of $1.5 billion, along with Piper Sandler's public finance, fixed income and equities businesses, as well as its technology, operations and marketing teams.

Snelling joined the bank in March 2021 from Five Star Bank in Sacramento, California, where she had been chief financial officer for five years.

Mohr, vice chair of M&A and investment banking at Citi, has been in banking for 46 years.

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.