Matthew Blake

The commercial bank team worked together to grow the bank's commercial business during a challenging year.

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.

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

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.    

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

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.

Nine years into her current position, Smith has shepherded multiple tech investments at Zions, including a 400,000-square-foot corporate campus in Midvale, Utah, devoted to technology.

Patterson, general counsel for Wells Fargo, joined the bank in 2020 and works to improve the bank's risk and control standards.

In 2023, Castilla launched Roger, a digital bank for unbanked members of the military. One year later, Roger has opened deposit accounts for about 1,000 service members and their families.

Yeshaya leads a team of 3,600 employees managing the financial resources of a firm that has swelled to $1.2 trillion in assets following landmark growth in wealth management.

As global head of advisory, Aiyengar directs M&A and also leads the corporate advisory and sustainable solutions and director advisory services lines of business.

The private bank, which Liu leads, is one of three areas of wealth management, which, in turn, is one of five business lines Citi CEO Jane Fraser is focusing on for future growth and profits.

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

BNP Paribas's Technology, Media and Telecommunications North America team has nearly doubled its revenue since launching in 2018, while keeping headcount nearly the same.

Emprise's innovation and strategy team worked much of the last two years hammering out an infrastructure for the new banking service.

Last year, Brady began to directly oversee KeyBank's chief administrative office, which handles communications, company events and the bank's diversity, equity and inclusion program.

As Head of Citi's Legacy Franchises Group, Cole has brokered agreements to sell the bank's retail divisions in Australia, Bahrain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Last year, Johnson took on another major role as head of the bank's environmental, social and governance initiatives (ESG).

After the acquisition of TCF Financial in 2021, Pierce, who has worked in banking since 1978, has been strategizing about how to make the bank more cost-effective and scalable.