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.

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.

Wendy Cai-Lee is the Founder and CEO of Piermont Bank, a fully chartered digital commercial bank, and the first multi-racial MDI (Minority Depository Institution) in the United States. The bank is the engine behind many successful fintechs as well as entrepreneur-led businesses in many leading industry sectors. With nearly 30 years of executive-level experience managing and leading Fortune 500 companies and startups, Wendy is a subject matter expert in fintech, international finance and banking.

Prior to building Piermont Bank, she was an Executive Vice President at East West Bank, responsible for its Commercial and Consumer Businesses in the U.S. Prior to East West, Wendy was a Managing Director at Deloitte LLP, where she managed its U.S./China cross-border M&A business. She started her banking career with JP Morgan Chase and held various management positions at both Chase and Citi. Wendy is named to Inc.’s 2024 Female Founders 250 and was an honoree of The Most Powerful Women in Banking to Watch by American Banker in 2025, 2024 and 2023.

Wendy is a member of New York State Department of Financial Services’ Charter Advisory Board and CDFI/MDI Council. In addition, Wendy is an Emeritus member of the Board of Friends of UNFPA. She also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board at Douglass College. Wendy received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers University.

Christina Mohr is confident that her team can excel at a restructured Citigroup.

“What they’re calling simplification at Citi is really about putting clients at the center of what we do,” said Mohr, the New York company’s vice chair of M&A and investment banking. In other words, Citi is focused on what has always guided her career: “To serve clients intensively.”

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.”

Yie-Hsin Hung is president and chief executive officer of State Street Investment Management, one of the largest asset managers dedicated to providing innovative investment exposures and tailored solutions to institutional and individual investors around the world. In addition to being a member of State Street’s Executive Committee, she co-heads both Corporate Strategy and Marketing for the firm and oversees its Markets business.

Prior to joining State Street, Yie-Hsin was chief executive officer of New York Life Investment Management. During her tenure at the firm, Yie-Hsin oversaw a nearly four-fold increase in assets under management. She joined New York Life, having held a number of leadership positions at Bridgewater Associates and Morgan Stanley.

Yie-Hsin was named among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance and American Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance in 2025, and Forbes ‘ 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in 2024. In 2023, Yie-Hsin was recognized by Pensions & Investments as one of the Most Influential Women in Institutional Investing.

She is a former Chair of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute and a member of the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, C200, The Women’s Forum of New York and the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Yie-Hsin earned her Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University. She received a Distinguished Alumni Medal in 2019, the highest honor granted by the Northwestern Alumni Association.

Jodi Richard is vice chair and chief risk officer of U.S. Bancorp, a well-respected financial services holding company with  businesses across the United States, Canada and Europe. U.S. Bancorp is headquartered in Minneapolis and is the parent  company of U.S. Bank, which is the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States. U.S. Bancorp is also the parent  company of Elavon, a leader in the payment processing industry. Jodi oversees all aspects of the company’s risk  management activities, including operational risk, fraud risk, credit risk, market risk, model risk, compliance, AML/BSA,  independent risk review and regulatory services. She became vice chair and chief risk officer in 2018 and is a member of  the company’s Managing Committee, the highest-ranking executives within the organization.

Jodi’s financial career spans nearly 30 years. She joined U.S. Bancorp in 2014 as executive vice president and chief  operational risk officer, managing the company’s operational risk management activities.

Before joining U.S. Bancorp, Jodi was executive vice president and head of operational risk and internal control for HSBC  North America. She was there for 11 years, serving in enterprise risk roles including head of risk governance and  administration and director of regulatory compliance.

Jodi also spent 12 years at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where she served as national bank  examiner, specializing in retail credit and credit card bank supervision. Between two periods with the OCC, she was chief  compliance officer for Sears National Bank.

Jodi serves on the boards of Fairview Health Services, Junior Achievement USA and the ProSight Financial  Association/Risk Management Association. She is a frequent speaker at risk industry events.

Jodi is a graduate of the Leading Women’s Executive program. She was named to American Banker’s Most Powerful to  Watch list in 2025 and to its Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance in 2024. She was part of American Banker’s  Most Powerful Women in Banking Top Team Award in 2013, 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2022 and was recognized in 2021 for outstanding achievements. She was named Best Technology Executive in 2017 by Waters Technology. In 2017, U.S. Bank was named Operational Risk Bank of the Year by Risk.net.

Jodi holds a bachelor of arts degree in finance from the University of Northern Iowa.