Victoria O'Brien has spent the bulk of her banking career in loan originations.

Under Jennifer Auerbach-Rodriguez's leadership, Merrill released a report, "Seeing the Unseen: The Role Gender Plays in Wealth Management."

Ashley O'Neal joined Midwest BankCentre in 2018 and currently has two regional managers working for her and a total of 77 retail employees in her organization.

Heather Orrico manages 165 people in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, and is responsible for sales and trading businesses, foreign exchange, emerging markets, commodities derivatives and developed market rates.

Chun Schiros moved to the U.S. from China after graduating from college. She is now a data science manager for the corporate bank and wealth management arm at Regions.

After graduating from Kalamazoo College, Aidis Suever landed a job at Ally Financial in 2009 and has worked at the $196 billion-asset Detroit bank ever since.

Aileen Thomas oversees the six-member consumer bank product management team, which includes consumer and business banking: deposits, home equity and personal lending, debit and credit cards.

Alli Yttreness started in domestic anti-money laundering oversight at U.S. Bank and moved up quickly to a senior vice president and senior director of financial crimes, fraud and compliance. 

Michaela Diverio started her career in finance in 2007, and joined Barclays in July 2020 and runs the consumer and retail equity capital markets desk.

Before joining the $211 billion-asset Cincinnati bank, Jessica Faris had been practicing family law.

 As the national sales manager at BMO, Melissa Garcia is responsible for directing national sales efforts of more than 1,000 retail branches.

Vivian Kim, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Korea in 1990, was a litigator before joining Hanmi as a corporate counsel.

Prior to joining the Buffalo, N.Y.-based institution, Komorowski worked at nonprofits, including a two year stint with the Peace Corps. in Dominica.

Many of the 15 executives selected for our Most Powerful Women in Banking: Next list are in roles that took on outsize importance in a year punctuated by a global pandemic, economic free fall and widespread protests over police brutality and racial inequality.

In her role as senior vice president of credit for municipal and corporate bonds, Urtz is overseeing a redesign of FHN's primary website for fixed-income transactions.

Gage is essentially charged with implementing executives’ vision into practical changes at the Dallas-based company.

Younger is an executive director on BBVA's loan syndication team.

At the brokerage and wealth management arm of Ally Financial, Bell leads the team responsible for shaping the insight on investing and the global markets that is shared with customers.

The head of government guaranteed lending at WSFS, Caruso aims to parlay the bank's success with Paycheck Protection Program lending to better serve early-stage small businesses.

As chief credit officer, Horton oversaw the bank's certification as a Small Business Administration lender and participation in the Paycheck Protection Program.