Megan Comfort

Megan Comfort got into banking on the advice of her mother. Comfort's mother, an immigrant from the Philippines, worked as a bank teller for most of Comfort's childhood, and urged her daughter to go into banking because of the benefits and the opportunity to try different roles.

Immediately after high school, Comfort began working as a teller at Nevada State Bank, a subsidiary of Zions Bancorp. Three years later, she joined the small-business banking team at the bank. "That's when I fell in love with banking. I loved helping small-business owners," she said.