Head of Americas Region; CEO of DBUSA
Deutsche Bank
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.
Drawing on lessons from leading businesses throughout her career, Lisa explores why successful leaders proactively chart their own careers, communicate their ambitions, and embrace opportunities outside their comfort zones. She will share practical approaches to understanding your value, taking calculated risks, building sponsorship networks, and positioning yourself to capitalize on unexpected opportunities, while building a career strategy that evolves with changing market opportunities. Attendees will leave with a framework for becoming the CEO of their own careers.
Over the course of a career spanning multiple global leadership positions, Lisa McGeough has learned that the most defining moments rarely come from the safest choices. In this candid keynote, she shares the pivotal decisions that shaped her path, from pursuing international opportunities and taking on challenging leadership assignments to navigating career progression while balancing competing personal and professional priorities.
Introduction: Mary Ellen Egan, Senior Director, Strategy and Content, American Banker Live Media