A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances . The CFO thus has ultimate authority over the finance unit and is the chief financial spokesperson for the organization.
Mellon Financial Corporation was an American investment firm which was once one of the world's largest money management firms. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was in the business of institutional and high-net-worth individual asset management, including the Dreyfus family of mutual funds, business banking, and shareholder and investor services. On December 4, 2006, it announced a merger agreement with Bank of New York, to form BNY Mellon. After regulatory and shareholder approval, the banks completed the merger on July 2, 2007.
Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of the City, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966, and it is consistently ranked as one of the leading business schools in the United Kingdom.
G. Kennedy Thompson, also known as Ken Thompson, is an American banker and businessman who was chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, formerly First Union Corporation, from 2000 through 2008. During his leadership, Wachovia grew to become the nation's fourth largest bank.
Gerald L. Hassell is an American bank executive and is the former Chairman and CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon.
Alvaro de Molina is a former chief financial officer of Bank of America Corporation. He had been with the company since joining one of its predecessors in 1989.
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, doing business as BNY, is an American banking and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The bank offers investment management, investment services, and wealth management services. BNY was formed from the merger of The Bank of New York and the Mellon Financial Corporation in 2007. Following the merger, it adopted the brand name The Bank of New York Mellon, which was later simplified to BNY Mellon and later again to BNY. It is the world's largest custodian bank and securities services company, with $2 trillion in assets under management and $48.8 trillion in assets under custody as of 2024. It is considered a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board.
Paul N. Saleh, is an American business executive who previously was president and chief executive officer for Gainwell Technologies. Mr. Saleh is currently a board member of Anterix. Mr Saleh also served as board member of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, American Football Coaches Foundation and Perspecta Inc. In May 2012 Mr. Saleh was named CSC's Chief Financial Officer. In November 2010 Mr. Saleh was named Gannett's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Saleh served as the chief financial officer (CFO) and executive vice president for Nextel Communications. He later served as interim chief executive officer (CEO) of Sprint Nextel Corporation in late 2007 and as the company's CFO from 2001 to 2008.
Nelson Joosuk Chai is an American investment banker and financial executive. He formerly served as the chief financial officer of American financial services company Merrill Lynch and briefly as Bank of America's president for the Asia-Pacific region. He is the former president of CIT Group and reported directly to then CEO John Thain. On August 21, 2018, it was announced that Chai has been hired as the chief financial officer of Uber.
Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets. Wachovia provided a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services. At its height, it was one of the largest providers of financial services in the United States, operating financial centers in 21 states and Washington, D.C., with locations from Connecticut to Florida and west to California. Wachovia provided global services through more than 40 offices around the world.
CIBC Mellon is a joint venture founded in 1996 between the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and then Mellon Financial Corporation to offer asset servicing to institutional investors. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, it comprises two sister companies, CIBC Mellon Trust company and CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company.
Robert A. Schriesheim is an American business executive. According to a published interview with FTI Consulting in November 2021 he has served as a board director of 11 public companies, including as board chairman, and as a CFO of 4 public companies with revenues from approximately $1 billion to over $40 billion. He is chairman of Truax Partners LLC and has partnered with institutional investors leading large enterprises through complex transformations serving in various executive leadership and board roles. According to a 2016 Wall Street Journal article, he has a "history of working in partnership with private equity firms, hedge funds and institutional investors in special situation circumstances". According to Barron's and CFO magazine, Schriesheim has "spent most of his career at the high end of the strategy spectrum, embroiled in complex restructurings" focused on capital allocation. He is also an adjunct professor at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he teaches a course titled "Corporate Governance and Activism: The Role of Boards in Critical Decisions".
Jane C. Sherburne is an American lawyer who currently servesas Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel to The Bank of New York Mellon and as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Sherburne is known primarily for her experience in crisis management, her work in civil rights, and her counseling to corporate boards and major financial institutions. Sherburne was Special Counsel to President Bill Clinton and managed the White House response to ethics investigations by the Independent Counsel, most notably during the Whitewater controversy.
Charles W. Scharf is an American investment banker and business executive who is the chief executive officer and president of Wells Fargo. He was previously the CEO of Visa Inc. and BNY.
Adesola Kazeem Adeduntan is a Nigerian business executive. He was the managing director and chief executive officer of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and Subsidiaries a position to which he was appointed from his former role as group chief financial officer and an executive director with the bank. He began his career with Afribank Nigeria Plc. in 1994, after which he worked with KPMG Professional Services, Citibank Nigeria, and the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) before joining FirstBank in July 2014.
Marianne Lake is a senior British-American banker.
Bell Bank is a privately owned bank headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota, with assets of $13 billion. Bell Bank, which employs more than 1,900 people, has 27 full-service banking locations in North Dakota, Minnesota and Arizona, and mortgage locations in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. State Bankshares is Bell Bank's parent company.
Deepak Prabhu Ahuja is an Indian-American financial executive working in the life sciences industry who previously worked in the automotive manufacturing industry. He is best known for being the former CFO of Tesla.
Jennifer Piepszak is an American financial executive and co-head of J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank. Her appointment was announced on January 25, 2024. Prior to this, Piepszak served as co-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Consumer and Community Banking at Chase. Barron's named Piepszak one of the 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance. Crain's New York named Piepszak the No. 2 Most Powerful Women in New York in 2019. American Banker named Piepszak the No. 4 Woman to Watch in 2018.
