2024 Most Powerful Women to Watch

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.

Tedesco leads all the $24.5 billion-asset bank's revenue businesses and a team of 1,840 employees.

Reid, chairman and CEO of Capitol National, has a keen focus on diversity and inclusion. Women and other underrepresented groups make up 59% of the bank's employees, and women hold 71% of senior management positions.  

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

Stevens' expansive role at the Cincinnati-based lender includes head of enterprise workplace services, which puts her in charge of Fifth Third's properties.

Pourchet's duties include deciding the types of corporate and institutional clients to attract in BNP Paribas' Latin American region and ensuring the bank has the right teams and products to serve them.

Since she was elevated to her current role roughly 18 months ago, Mariniello has continued to balance emerging opportunities with implementing long-term growth initiatives.

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

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.

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. 

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.

Since becoming CEO in 2019, Lee has grown Hanmi's total assets from $5.5 billion to $7.6 billion, an increase of 36%

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.

Posnett climbed the ranks of Goldman through her positions as co-head of internet investment banking and co-chief operating officer of the tech, media and telecom group. Before her current role, she led global investment banking services.

Penn Community Bank was created in 2015 with the merger of two banks, and Vidoni was CEO from the beginning.

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. 

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