Kathleen Stanley runs marathons while also keeping a steady pace in her role as an executive managing director and head of verticals for regional banking at Connecticut-based Webster Bank.

As a part of her current remit, Stanley oversees coverage for more than 7,000 clients spanning six core businesses worth a combined $14 billion. Her business lines run along the East Coast from Boston to Philadelphia and New Jersey and provide core lending, deposit and treasury management to select industries and mid-sized businesses. 

Sharon Miller, president and co-head of business banking at Bank of America, carved out a nearly 30-year career at the bank based, in part, on her strength in building relationships. 

The business bank, which she co-leads with Raul Anaya, serves 11 million business owners and over 20,000 businesses nationwide, plays an increasingly important role in the $3.3 trillion-asset company’s combined operations. The division has $200 billion in deposits and $39 billion in lending balances, with approximately $8 billion in revenue, according to the BofA.

As other lenders have struggled in the small business market recently, Hanmi Bank has grown its SBA loan production by double digits in the first six months of this year. 

The Los Angeles based- bank increased its SBA loan production by 18% between January and June 2025 over the same time period in 2024. In fiscal year 2024, Hanmi Bank reported $187 million in SBA loans, which was a 25% increase over fiscal year 2023. 

Led by executive vice president and chief community lending officer Anna Chung, Hanmi Bank continues to stay the course through chaotic markets and tough conditions.

Racquel Oden‘s role spans two of HSBC’s most strategically important businesses: she serves as U.S. head of international wealth and premier banking and U.S. head of global private banking. 

Since joining HSBC in 2023, Oden has been instrumental in driving the bank’s strategy to expand its wealth business in the U.S., which is a key growth market within the bank’s global portfolio. 

Achieving these goals at a tumultuous time for markets and geopolitics brings its own set of challenges, as HSBC’s wealth and private banking serves  20 million clients worldwide.

“With a client base that is globally minded, my biggest challenge today is ensuring that we are providing the same world-class advice that our clients have come to expect in a world that is constantly changing and evolving,” Oden said. “The news headlines have moved so rapidly this year, it’s our responsibility as wealth advisors to anticipate what’s around the corner and deliver tailored advice in a personal way — all at once.” 

Debopama (“Debo”) Sen is the Head of Payments in the Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) business within Citi Services. Debo is responsible for driving the business strategy, execution, growth and risk management of payments solutions across corporate, e-commerce, public sector, financial institution and commercial banking clients. She is based in New York.

Debo has worked at Citi for 29 years and has held a variety of roles in both the TTS and Securities Services businesses. Before moving to NY, she was based in Singapore and managed the TTS business across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. She also served as the India Cluster Head for TTS and as Business Head for the Securities and Fund Services business, India. She started her career as a Management Associate.

Debo’s industry leadership extends beyond the bank, with board membership and participation in several industry organizations, including SWIFT, Digitalization Standing Committee of ABS Singapore, Women in Payments ASEAN, and the National Payments Corporation of India. She is also very passionate about community initiatives, currently serving on the Board of Grameen Foundation of India (GFI) as well as Grameen Foundation USA.

Debo holds a master’s degree in management from University of Mumbai and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She is a mother of two and resides in New York, NY.

Solita Marcelli is Global Head of Investment Management for UBS GWM. In this capacity, she leads an organization dedicated to delivering world-class investment solutions tailored to client needs across the Americas, APAC, EMEA, and Switzerland. Solita oversees the full suite of discretionary, advisory, and investment fund offerings globally—which account for over USD 2 trillion in client assets.

Previously, Solita served as Chief Investment Officer Americas for UBS Global Wealth Management, where most recently she led both the CIO Research and Investment Solutions businesses in the region. Prior to UBS, Solita was the Global Head of Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) for Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan.

Solita is widely recognized as a thought leader in the industry and is featured frequently in the financial media. In 2024 and 2025, she was recognized as one of the 100 most influential women in US Finance by Barron’s. Outside of UBS, she currently serves on the Board of the UJA Federation of New York and was the 2022 recipient of UJA’s Alan C. Greenberg Leadership Award. She is a fellow of the 2018 Class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Solita holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a BA in Economics and History from Brandeis University. Solita grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and now resides in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Kathleen Sherwood may be a rarity among her former college classmates. The Macon, Georgia, native has spent her entire career at the same company.

Following her 2009 graduation from the University of Georgia, where she majored in finance and art history, Sherwood started in the leadership development program at BB&T Corp. She was sent to Cleveland, Tennessee, where she trained as a commercial banker at a time when the industry was recovering from the financial crisis.

Tim Spence, chairman, president and CEO of Fifth Third Bank, refers to Fifth Third executive Jessie Rohrkemper as a “utility infielder.” 

In baseball, a utility infielder adeptly plays second base, third base and shortstop, and sometimes other positions. As it relates to Rohrkemper’s work at the bank, her “utility infielder” status enables her to tackle problems and unearth opportunities across the bank, colleagues say.

“I think with the engineering mindset that I have, I really thrive between strategy and execution, and I really thrive with complex problems and ambiguity, and being able to break those down into the simplest parts in order to solve a problem,” she said.

As head of asset liability management for U.S. Bank, part of Hannah Honeycutt’s job is to challenge the bank’s business line leaders. They want to deploy the bank’s capital for loans; she wants to make sure the capital is allocated to the right kind of loans. 

“What we’re really working with the business to understand is: When we create that loan, are we getting a return that’s worth our capital?” said Honeycutt, a senior vice president and balance sheet management executive for the bank.

BNP Paribas has the fastest growing cash equities business on the street and an unlikely candidate is leading it. 

Lindsay Levine, 36 years old, a classical studies major and history buff, wasn’t that good at math in school, she recalled. Now she’s the managing director and co-head of cross channel sales trading for the Paris-based multinational bank. 

How did she get here? A summer internship at Goldman Sachs where she fell in love with the trading floor energy.