Most Powerful Women to Watch 2023

Our annual list of The Most Powerful Women to Watch.

Ghiawadwala provides full-scale products and services to midsize companies across the globe. In 2022, that meant delivering "the right solution at the right time" to 14,000 enterprise businesses.

As the global chief investment officer of State Street Global Advisors, over the past year, Heinel guided an investment team of more than 600 professionals scattered across the globe.

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.

Dmuchowski is the only female CFO of a large or mid-cap U.S. bank. When she joined First Horizon in late 2021 from Truist, women made up 60% of the executive management team.

McKinney leads Comerica's retail line of business, directing strategy and execution for its consumer and small-business banking segments nationally, which generates $800 million in revenue.

Mahtani has worked in the banking industry since 1996, with stints at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Citi.

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. 

Rodeheaver has been at the bank for more than 30 years. She started as a trust administrator, and 2004, she moved to the chief financial officer role, before becoming CEO in 2018.

Stewart's efforts to populate the C-suite with women have been successful: Three out of Sound's five-person C-suite are women, and a large portion of its retail management staff are women.

The bank specializes in commercial real estate lending, and Riel said the sector is experiencing "whole-industry chaos."

Before being tapped as the head of Wells Fargo's auto division, Sanders was head of its auto transformation team.

Hanmi Bank is the second-largest Korean American bank in the U.S. and Lee became the bank's first female CEO in 2019.

Throughout her distinguished 45-year career, Mohr's customer-centric philosophy has helped Citi's clients prosper even amid the worst of economic downturns.

Posnett, who has led more than 400 major tech deals over the last 20 years, is turning her attention to enhancing TMT's global strategy.

As the CEO of the $1.73 billion asset bank, Snelling has made it her mission to build a team that offers a variety of experiences and viewpoints.

Under Vidoni's leadership, the bank has grown to assets of nearly $2.8 billion and about 325 employees, making it the largest mutual financial institution in eastern Pennsylvania.