Margaret M. Keane

2014–2021 chief executive officer of Synchrony

Margaret Keane (born 1959) is an American businesswoman who was the chief executive officer of Synchrony from February 2014 through April 2021 when she transitioned to the role of executive chair of Synchrony’s board of directors. When Synchrony was spun off from General Electric as an independent bank, it became the most valuable bank in the US with a woman CEO. Keane is one of only three women, the others being Beth Mooney of KeyCorp and Jane Fraser of Citigroup, who lead an independently traded US bank whose value is over $10 billion.²

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Born 1959.¹