The Latest from Women in Banking

In 2021, El-Hillow left Goldman Sachs to lead the Seattle-based private company's entire investment division.

As the global head of the industrials group, Hackley oversees a large chunk of the bank's $2.41 trillion in assets. 

Portney leads the bank's largest business unit, asset servicing. The group's assets under custody and administration neared $50 trillion in the second quarter, setting a record for BNY and the financial industry.

In January, Johnson launched the Franklin Bitcoin ETF, which seeks to reflect the performance of the price of bitcoin.

As managing partner at Edward Jones, Pennington's in charge of 8 million clients, more than 19,500 financial advisors and $2.1 trillion assets under management.

Barker joined BNY in 2022 as global head of treasury services. In the first quarter of 2024, she started overseeing depositary receipts, a line of business that helps clients get listed on a stock exchange outside of their home country.

As president of retail banking, O'Neill said she is focused on putting clients on a path to financial health, delivering "a great experience" and transforming the business while applying technology in support of those objectives. 

In early May, Kedia was promoted to president of U.S. Bancorp. She was previously vice chair, wealth, corporate, commercial and institutional banking at U.S. Bank.

Guild has seen the "complexity of attacks against the sector and our customers" rapidly increase for the more than three decades that she herself has been working at the intersection of banking and technology. 

Heitsenrether is in charge of the bank's new data and analytics unit, established to propel the bank's leap toward integrating generative artificial intelligence into its products and business model.