Lisa McGeough is Head of Americas region and CEO of DBUSA at Deutsche Bank. In this role she is responsible for driving growth, managing risk, and engaging stakeholders in one of the bank’s most important regions.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Lisa was President, Chief Executive Officer for HSBC US. In those roles, she had responsibility for all businesses in the US, including Corporate and Institutional Banking coverage. She previously served as Co-Head of Global Banking Coverage for HSBC Holdings plc, responsible for a multi-billion-dollar business across 60 markets.
Lisa has over 35 years of institutional sales and marketing experience. She joined HSBC in June 2021 from Wells Fargo, where she served as Executive Vice President and Head of International. Over a 15-year career at Wells, Lisa was also Co-Head of Corporate & Investment Banking, Head of both the Financial Institutions and Industrials groups, and the London-based CEO of Wells Fargo Securities International Limited, responsible for leading investment banking and capital markets activities in EMEA.
She has also held senior roles at Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup).
Lisa earned her B.A. in economics magna cum laude from Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine and participated in executive education programs at Harvard Business School.
Jennifer Taylor is the Chief Compliance Officer for Citibank, N.A. (CBNA), Banking & International and Client, and an Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) Executive Council member.
In this role, Jennifer leads a global team tasked with effectively designing, implementing and managing the compliance risk management framework across Citi’s Banking business. She also provides compliance risk management coverage and strategic franchise-wide support to the CBNA legal entity.
Jennifer joined Citi from Bank of America where she was the Head of Compliance and Operational Risk for the UK and CEEMEA. Previously, she held several key management roles including Chief Operating Officer for EMEA, Chief Operating Officer for APAC and Chief Administrative Officer for APAC. Jennifer also served as General Counsel for various teams across the APAC region.
Jennifer brings extensive experience in strategic compliance risk management and effective regulatory interaction. She has deep product knowledge across the institutional space and a proven record of accomplishment in driving and embedding a compliance culture across a global franchise.
Jennifer holds an LL.B. in Law from Trinity College, Dublin. She trained as a lawyer at Freshfields and is a qualified Solicitor.
Kristin Lesher is Chief Wholesale Banking Officer at Truist Financial Corporation, where she leads one of the nation’s largest wholesale banking businesses spanning commercial and corporate banking, investment banking and capital markets, commercial real estate, and wealth management. She also oversees Truist’s enterprise payments business, including consumer and wholesale payments and digital asset strategy.
As a member of Truist’s executive leadership team, she is responsible for driving a nearly $11 billion business that represents over half of the company’s financial results. Since joining Truist in 2024, Lesher has accelerated growth, deepened client engagement, and increased performance while attracting and developing talent across the franchise.
Prior to Truist, Lesher held senior leadership roles at Wells Fargo, including Head of Middle Market Banking and Co-Head of Investment Banking Coverage. She previously served in corporate development and treasury roles focused on acquisitions and integrations, and capital and balance sheet strategies.
Lesher holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University.
Penny Crosman is Interim Editor-in-Chief at Digital Insurance and Executive Editor, Technology at American Banker and Arizent. Prior to taking on these roles, she was Editor in Chief of Bank Technology News and Technology Editor of American Banker. She has held senior editorial roles at Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, Intelligent Enterprise, Network Magazine and Imaging Magazine.
Chana R. Schoenberger is the editor-in-chief of American Banker. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of Financial Planning after joining Arizent in 2020. In her prior role, she was the managing editor for U.S. wealth management at J.P. Morgan. Before that, she was a columnist and freelance journalist, and previously worked at Bloomberg News, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. A graduate of Harvard College, she received her master’s degree as part of Columbia Journalism School’s Knight-Bagehot Fellowship for business journalists. She is now based in New York City after stints in Tokyo and Canada.
Mary Ellen Egan is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience in business and investigative journalism. She has been a staff writer and editor at Forbes, The American Lawyer, First Amendment Watch and American Banker. She has freelanced forBloomberg, Bloomberg Law, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Thomson Reuters. She is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.
Holly Sraeel is Arizent’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Content, Live Media, leading content creation and innovation for the events portfolio and introducing new multimedia and invitation-only experiences for senior executives that drive critical conversations and action around corporate strategy, innovation and financial performance. She is part of the company’s operational leadership team and is focused on developing cross-platform programming that creates higher levels of engagement for subscribers, community participants and partners across the company’s brands, including American Banker, The Bond Buyer, National Mortgage News, Accounting Today, Digital Insurance, Financial Planning and Employee Benefits News. Sraeel is an award-winning editorial director, media executive and content strategist with expertise in developing influential content, communities, and events for C-level executives in the banking and financial services, insurance, and technology industries. Prior to joining Arizent, she held several content leadership and strategist roles, including for B2B media consultancy New York Ventures, capital markets management consultancy Opimas, Oxford University-incubated startup Wise Responder, and as cofounder of Genesys Partners Agility First Forum. This new role marks a return to the company for Sraeel. In her previous 12-year run, she was a member of the executive team and was pivotal in driving new cross-platform editorial, events and business innovation as SVP of Brand Management; Group Editorial Director of Banking and Technology magazines; and Founder, President and Editorial Director of The Most Powerful Women in Banking, the company’s first-ever, community-based media platform, now part of Arizent’s flagship American Banker. Sraeel is an early honors graduate of Marist College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and a concentration in journalism.
After 37 years in the banking industry, Diane Morais, the former president of consumer and commercial banking at Ally, retired in July, 2024.
Zewditu Tizu Menelik has spent her career in the center of some of the banking industry’s biggest recent challenges. Now as many banks retrench, Menelik is making a different bet, growing and restructuring Huntington Bancshares’ corporate, specialty and government banking segment.
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. At Huntington, she has recruited away a specialized mortgage solutions team from Flagstar Bank, added financial services focused on federally recognized Native American tribes, and started a national deposits group.
When markets swooned in April, 2025, NYSE Group President Lynn Martin was ready. Years of investment in cutting-edge technologies and processes had prepared the world’s largest exchange to weather the volatility and surging trading volumes wrought by tariff concerns.
In a CNBC op-ed, she reassured investors that the “beating heart of the global financial system” had met the challenge, handling more than 1 trillion messages on two separate days with a median processing time of 30 microseconds.
“I felt it was my responsibility to remind people that the NYSE has been around 233 years. We’ve survived wars, pandemics and geopolitical uncertainty, so don’t panic,” she explained now. “We’re quite proud that our financial markets showed their resilience and strength during that time.”