Beth Mikes is Head of Debt Capital Markets at KeyBanc Capital Markets, where she leads six divisions responsible for originating, structuring, underwriting, pricing, and managing debt solutions across the credit spectrum. Her teams deliver syndicated loans, private placements, investment‑grade and high‑yield bonds, and Unitranche financing, supporting Key’s Institutional Bank, Middle Market franchise, and Real Estate Capital business. The groups she oversees include Syndicated and Leveraged Finance, Real Estate Syndications, Loan Syndicate & Sales, High Grade/High Yield Capital Markets, Banking Group Portfolio Management, and the Unitranche joint venture.
Beth began her career at Key in 1996 in Corporate Banking Finance and joined Syndicated Finance in 1998, where she structured and originated debt transactions across the Energy (utilities, renewables, oil and gas), Consumer, and Industrial sectors. She has also covered Middle Market and Native American Financial Services and has experience in commercial real estate loan structuring and distribution. During six years in Seattle, she built the syndication platform for Technology, Diversified, and Middle Market clients before returning to Cleveland in 2006. Her leadership roles have included ABL Originations and integrating Corporate Syndication and Leveraged Finance into an industry-aligned model. She was named Head of Debt Capital Markets in 2023.
Beth serves on KeyCorp’s Executive Council and multiple risk and credit committees, including chairing the Debt Capital Markets Distribution Risk Committee. She is also a Director of the Miami University Foundation, serving on the Investment Committee and chairing the Audit and Finance Committee. Beth holds a BA from Miami University, an MBA from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, and FINRA Series 24, 7, and 63 licenses.

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.

Women have made meaningful gains in banking leadership, but the path to the CEO office remains remarkably narrow. Despite years of progress, just two of the top 50 U.S. banks are led by female CEOs, exposing a persistent gap between executive representation and ultimate leadership. Why does advancement stall at the final stretch? This candid discussion examines the structural barriers that continue to shape succession—from unequal access to P&L roles and executive sponsorship to enterprise visibility and outdated expectations of leadership. C-suite executives will share practical strategies for building cross-functional influence, positioning for CEO succession, and shifting from functional operator to enterprise leader in an industry where the pipeline remains fragile and the stakes have never been higher.

The panel will discuss why the focus should move beyond leadership development programs to redesigning the executive pipeline itself, including:

The best digital products are rarely built by one business unit alone. They emerge when leaders across product, technology, operations, risk, data, compliance, and the business unite around a shared customer need or market opportunity. This roundtable explores how women leaders can build internal alliances, break down silos, secure executive sponsorship, and lead cross-functional innovation that accelerates product development, drives measurable business results, and strengthens competitive advantage.

Banks are under pressure to modernize technology faster than customer expectations evolve. This leadership roundtable explores how senior leaders can build the infrastructure needed to support continuous innovation—from legacy modernization and cloud transformation to enterprise AI and emerging on-chain capabilities. Participants will discuss how to balance resilience with speed, align technology investments with business outcomes, and create an architecture that enables the bank to adapt, scale, and compete in a digital-first future.

In banking, risk is not a department—it is the baseline architecture of every transaction, product, and customer interaction. Historically, financial institutions managed risk in siloes: credit risk lived in lending, compliance lived in legal, and cyber threat vectors lived in IT. Today, those boundaries have entirely dissolved.

This session will examine the evolving nature of risk and how understanding risk management is critical for career ascension.