Beth E. Mooney
Chairman and CEO
KeyCorp
Beth Mooney became the first female CEO of a top 20 U.S. bank in 2011. She attributes her success to determination and to various mentors who encouraged her professional development along the way. She got her first job in banking by refusing to leave the interview and agreeing to get a master’s in finance, Mooney told Fair360, formerly DiversityInc. Things have changed a lot since then.
“It’s not a perfect landscape, but it is certainly a different landscape,” she said. “You weren’t supposed to make it. You were never going to get into corporate banking. You would never be able to be president of the bank. Those were all presumptions. They weren’t personal. That was just presumptive. Why is diversity important If you’ve ever felt the difference of not being included but being excluded.”
