The Most Powerful Women in Banking

Wolverton, who has been at Synovus since 2003, has made it a point to hire women to senior leadership positions, and the majority of her direct reports are women.

As general counsel, Patterson leads roughly 1,300 attorneys and legal professionals across the bank. She was formerly the general counsel at TD Bank Group. 

Murali was hired in February 2020 as M&T's first-ever chief customer experience officer, a role that was recently expanded to include employee experience.

Mago reports to Chris Gorman, chairman, president and CEO of Keycorp — one of 12 direct reports — and has 1,131 employees in her organization. 

In her role as head of global delivery at State Street, Ann Fogarty oversees the entirety of the firm's operations, including responsibility for its $37.6 trillion AUC/A asset servicing business.