BNP Paribas, Europe’s largest bank by total assets and one of the world’s most important financial institutions, is led by Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, who has served as CEO since December 2011. Born on Bastille Day (July 14, 1961), Bonnafé is one of the longest-serving CEOs of any major global bank. He personally led the integration of […]

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the nation’s largest company by market capitalization, is led by Matt Comyn, who became Managing Director and CEO in April 2018. At age 42, Comyn became the youngest-ever CEO of Commonwealth Bank. Originally trained in aviation — he holds a Bachelor of Aviation degree from UNSW — Comyn pivoted to […]

Barclays PLC, one of Britain’s “Big Four” banks and a major global financial institution with over 330 years of history, is led by CS Venkatakrishnan (known as “Venkat”), who became Group Chief Executive in November 2021. Born in Mysore, India, Venkat holds a PhD from MIT in operations research — his dissertation analyzed air traffic […]

Lloyds Banking Group, the UK’s largest retail bank with over 30 million customers, is led by Charlie Nunn, who became Group Chief Executive in August 2021. Unusually for a major bank CEO, Nunn spent the first 17 years of his career as a management consultant at Accenture and McKinsey before entering banking at age 40. […]

Citizens Financial Group, one of the largest super-regional banks in the United States, is led by Bruce Van Saun, who has served as Chairman and CEO since October 2013. Van Saun was recruited from the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he led the largest corporate turnaround in history after the 2008 financial crisis — overseeing […]

UPDATE: First Republic Bank was seized by the FDIC on May 1, 2023, and sold to JPMorgan Chase in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The bank had $229 billion in assets at the time of its closure. Mike Roffler was the last CEO and President of First Republic Bank before it ceased to […]

UPDATE: Uday Kotak served as Managing Director & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank from 2003 to September 2023. The current MD & CEO is Ashok Vaswani (since January 1, 2024). Kotak remains a Non-Executive Director and the largest individual shareholder of the bank. Read about Ashok Vaswani – Current CEO → Uday Kotak is an […]