The Most Powerful Women in Banking
Honorees gathered at Tiffany's Landmark building in New York City, where American Banker interviewed them about the industry's trajectory and leadership lessons they've learned in their careers.
It's not easy to distract Carrie Tolstedt. The senior executive vice president of community banking at Wells Fargo not only faced the same economic storm that hit all bankers this past year, but she also had to manage the massive integration of Wachovia.
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Margaret Keane, who heads GE Capital's retail consumer finance arm, has worked to ensure good communication with customers to keep them on board.
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Carla Brooks is often the only woman in the room. But she considers it her responsibility to help more women break into the male-dominated financial industry.
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After Martina Hund-Mejean was hired in 2007, one of her many initiatives at MasterCard included starting up a job rotation program among the 700 people in her department.
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Balancing risk and reward is what Suzanne Shank does in her business all the time. So when the financial crisis heightened both sides of that equation considerably, Shank didn't flinch.
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When an ultra-high-net-worth family walks into the office of Maria Elena Lagomasino for the first time, she flashes a deck of cards containing what she calls the "Keeps Me Awake at Night" questions.
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