Rank
50

Anne Finucane

MPW 2019. 50. Anne Finucane
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  • Title
    Chairman, BofA Merrill Lynch Europe; Vice Chairman
  • Affiliation
    Bank of America
  • Age
    67

When Bank of America needs to navigate a thorny political or ethical path, Finucane takes the wheel. Perhaps the 14-year company veteran’s biggest recent accomplishment: BofA’s own Brexit. Under Finucane’s leadership as chairman of the European business, the bank moved its corporate-lending operations in the market—some 4,000 employees and $60 billion in assets—from tumultuous London to stable Dublin.

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