Independent
Retired Executive Chairman and Former Chairman, President and CEO, Ameren Corporation
Age: 62
Director Since: December 2015
Committee Memberships:
Independent
CEO, Metropolitan Economic Development Association (Meda)
Age: 68
Director Since: October 2018
Committee Memberships:
Independent
Former CEO, Monitise plc
Age: 63
Director Since: June 2018
Committee Memberships:
CEO
Chairman, President and CEO, U.S. Bancorp
Age: 63
Director Since: January 2017
Committee Memberships:
Independent
Retired President and CEO, Assurant, Inc.
Age: 62
Director Since: January 2023
Committee Memberships:
Independent
Founder and CEO, KET Solutions, LLC
Age: 53
Director Since: January 2021
Committee Memberships:
Independent
Retired President and CEO, Puget Energy, Inc.
Age: 59
Director Since: October 2014
Committee Memberships:
Lead Independent Director
Founding Principal and CEO, Hernandez Media Ventures
Age: 66
Director Since: January 2012
Committee Memberships:
Independent
President and CEO, Unum Group
Age: 55
Director Since: October 2017
Independent
Executive Vice President, Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Age: 57
Director Since: June 2018
Committee Memberships:
Independent
Founder and CEO, LEReynolds Group, LLC; Retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps
Age: 59
Director Since: October 2022
Committee Memberships:
Independent
Retired Chairman and CEO, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
Age: 62
Director Since: January 2020
Committee Memberships:
Independent
CEO, CNH Industrial N.V.
Age: 56
Director Since: July 2014
Committee Memberships:
Board nominee composition The composition of our Board of Directors reflects our Board’s and Governance Committee’s focus on ensuring that our Board has a diverse mix of skills and qualifications to oversee our business and our company’s strategy. ![]() ![]() Director skills and qualifications
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Warner L. Baxter
Age: 62
Director since: December 2015
Committees:
Business experience: Mr. Baxter, 62, is the retired Executive Chairman and former Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Ameren Corporation, a regulated electric and gas
utility company serving customers in Missouri and Illinois. He served as the Executive Chairman
from January 2022 to November 2023. Prior to that time, Mr. Baxter served as Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Ameren Corporation from 2014 to January 2022.
Mr. Baxter also served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Edison Electric
Institution, an association representing all U.S. investor-owned electric companies, from
June 2022 to June 2023 and as Vice Chairman from 2020 to June 2022. Mr. Baxter served as
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ameren Missouri from 2009 to 2014
and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ameren Corporation from 2003
to 2009. Before joining Ameren, Mr. Baxter served as a Senior Manager at
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC).
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Dorothy J. Bridges
Age: 68
Director since: October 2018
Committees:
Business experience: Ms. Bridges, 68, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan
Economic Development Association (Meda), a nonprofit organization providing business
consultancy services, access to capital and marketing opportunities to BIPOC-owned
businesses. She has served in this capacity since September 2022. Ms. Bridges served as
Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Outreach and Community Development of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, one of the twelve regional banks in the Federal Reserve
System, from July 2011 until June 2018. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, Ms. Bridges served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of City First
Bank, a commercial bank providing financial services in low- and moderate-income
communities, from 2008 until July 2011, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of
Franklin National Bank, a Minneapolis commercial bank, from 1999 to 2008.
Skills and qualifications:
Elizabeth L. Buse
Age: 63
Director since: June 2018
Business experience: Ms. Buse, 63, is the former Chief Executive Officer of Monitise plc, a
global mobile banking and payments company based in the United Kingdom. She served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Executive Officer of Monitise during 2014 and 2015, after
retiring from Visa, Inc., a leading payment network, as Executive Vice President of Global
Services, a position she held from 2013 to 2014. Ms. Buse held various senior leadership
positions at Visa prior to that time, including Group President for Asia-Pacific, Central Europe,
Middle East and Africa from 2010 to 2013.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Andrew Cecere
Age: 63
Director since: January 2017
Committees:
Business experience: Mr. Cecere, 63, is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of U.S. Bancorp. He has served in this position since April 2018. He served as President and
Chief Executive Officer from April 2017 to April 2018, as well as President and Chief Operating
Officer from January 2016 to April 2017, after having served as Vice Chairman and Chief
Operating Officer from January 2015 until January 2016. From February 2007 until
January 2015, Mr. Cecere served as U.S. Bancorp’s Vice Chairman and Chief Financial
Officer, after having served as Vice Chairman, Wealth Management and Investment Services
of U.S. Bancorp since the merger of Firstar Corporation and U.S. Bancorp in February 2001.
Previously, he had served as an executive officer of U.S. Bancorp before its merger with Firstar,
including as Chief Financial Officer from 2000 through 2001.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Alan B. Colberg
Business experience: Mr. Colberg, 62, is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of
Assurant, Inc., a financial services company providing specialty insurance products and
services. He served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Assurant from January 2015
to December 2021, and as its President from 2014 to May 2021, prior to his retirement in
January 2022. Prior to those roles, he served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and
Business Development. Before joining Assurant in March 2011, Mr. Colberg served in various
senior leadership roles for 22 years at Bain & Company, Inc., a management consulting
company, where he served as global head of Bain’s financial services practice, among other
roles. Early in his career, Mr. Colberg worked as an accountant for The Procter & Gamble
Company.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor
Business experience: Ms. Ellison-Taylor, 53, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
KET Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm focused on business growth, innovation, strategy,
transformation and inclusive leadership. She has served in this capacity since April 2021.
Ms. Ellison-Taylor served as the Executive Director of Finance Thought Leadership of Oracle
Corporation, a Fortune 100 company that provides products and services for enterprise
information technology environments, from April 2019 to April 2021. Ms. Ellison-Taylor served
as the Global Strategy Leader in the Cloud Business Group of Oracle from September 2018
to March 2019 and as the Global Strategy Director in the Financial Services Industry Group of
Oracle from July 2015 until September 2018, where she led worldwide teams to develop
and execute strategies dealing with cloud data, information security, fraud prevention and
detection, and customer experience. From 2016 to 2018, she also served as the chairman of
the American Institute of CPAs, the world’s largest member association representing the
accounting profession. Prior to joining Oracle in 2004, she held roles at NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center, Motorola and KPMG and served as the Chief Information Technology Officer
for Prince George’s County Government in Maryland.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Kimberly J. Harris
Age: 59
Director since: October 2014
Committees:
Business experience: Ms. Harris, 59, is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of
Puget Energy, Inc., an energy services holding company, and its subsidiary Puget Sound Energy,
Inc., a utility company providing electric and natural gas service in the northwest United
States. She served in these positions from March 2011 until her retirement in January 2020.
Ms. Harris served as President of Puget Energy and Puget Sound Energy from July 2010 through
February 2011 and as Executive Vice President and Chief Resource Officer from May 2007
until July 2010. Prior to joining Puget Energy, Ms. Harris practiced law at Perkins Coie.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Roland A. Hernandez
Age: 66
Director since: January 2012
Lead Independent Director
Business experience: Mr. Hernandez, 66, is the Founding Principal and Chief Executive
Officer of Hernandez Media Ventures, a privately held company engaged in the acquisition
and management of media assets. He has served in this capacity since January 2001.
Mr. Hernandez served as Chairman of Telemundo Group, Inc., a Spanish-language television
and entertainment company, from 1998 to 2000 and as President and Chief Executive Officer
from 1995 to 2000. He previously served on the Board of Directors of The Ryland Group,
Inc., Sony Corporation, and Walmart Inc.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Richard P. McKenney
Age: 55
Director since: October 2017
Business experience: Mr. McKenney, 55, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Unum Group, a workplace financial protection benefits company. He has served as President
since April 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer since May 2015. Mr. McKenney served as
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Unum from 2009 to 2015. Prior to
joining Unum in 2009, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Sun
Life Financial, Inc., an international financial services company, from 2006 to 2009.
Mr. McKenney began his career at General Electric Company, transitioning his roles from
manufacturing to financial leadership.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Yusuf I. Mehdi
Age: 57
Director since: June 2018
Business experience: Mr. Mehdi, 57, is the Executive Vice President, Consumer Chief
Marketing Officer, at Microsoft Corporation, a multinational technology company. He has
served in that capacity since October 2023. He defines Microsoft’s consumer vision and serves
as the champion for the company’s end-user experiences, overseeing product management
and go-to-market strategy for Microsoft’s Devices & Creativity, and Search, News & Advertising
solution areas. Mr. Mehdi leads product marketing and stewardship for Microsoft Copilot,
the Windows platform and ecosystem, the Microsoft Surface device portfolio, Microsoft 365
consumer subscriptions, and Microsoft’s web services including the Edge browser and Bing
Search engine. Mr. Medhi also served as Vice President of the Modern Life and Devices
Group from June 2018 to October 2023 and, prior to that Corporate Vice President of the
Windows and Devices Group from 2015 to June 2018. In his tenure at Microsoft, which has
spanned over 30-years, Mr. Mehdi has led virtually every aspect of Microsoft’s end user
businesses from Windows to Surface to Xbox to Internet Explorer.
Skills and qualifications:
Loretta E. Reynolds
Age: 59
Director since: October 2022
Business experience: Ms. Reynolds, 59, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
LEReynolds Group, LLC, a consulting firm focused on providing information technology and
strategic business intelligence services and advising complex global organizations on managing
large-scale risk. She has served in this capacity since August 2021. Ms. Reynolds retired
from the U.S. Marine Corps in July 2021 after 35 years of service. During her distinguished
career with the U.S. Marine Corps, she earned the rank of Lieutenant General in May 2018 and
served as Deputy Commandant for Information from July 2018 to July 2021 and Acting
Commander of the Marine Corps Forces Space Command from August 2019 to
December 2020. She is the third woman to be promoted to Lieutenant General (three-star) in
the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Prior to that, she also served as Commander of the
Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command from September 2015 to July 2018. Ms. Reynolds
also served from 2015 to 2021 as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Corporate Board, with
oversight responsibility for global strategy, capabilities, and missions. Ms. Reynolds has served
as a member of the Board of Trustees at the American Public University System since
June 2022.
Skills and qualifications:
John P. Wiehoff
Business experience: Mr. Wiehoff, 62, is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., a multimodal transportation services and third-party logistics
company. He served as Chairman from 2006 to 2020. He also served as President from 1999 to
2019 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2019. Prior to 1999, Mr. Wiehoff served in
various senior leadership roles at C.H. Robinson starting in 1992 and began his career at
Andersen Worldwide LLP with several different positions, including audit manager.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Scott W. Wine
Age: 56
Director since: July 2014
Committees:
Business experience: Mr. Wine, 56, is the Chief Executive Officer of CNH Industrial N.V., a
global leader in capital goods including agricultural and construction equipment, trucks, and
commercial vehicles. He has served in this position since January 2021. Prior to joining CNH
Industrial, he served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Polaris Industries Inc., a
worldwide manufacturer and marketer of innovative high-performance motorized products.
He served as Chairman from 2013 to 2021, and Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to 2021.
Mr. Wine began his career as an officer in the United States Navy.
Other public company directorships:
Skills and qualifications:
Chief executive experience
Criteria
Are current or former CEOs of publicly held or large private corporations
Link to strategy
Have experience overseeing senior leadership, finance, marketing, and execution of corporate strategy from both a management and a board perspective
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Community or sustainability leadership
Criteria
Have significant professional leadership experience in community service organizations, public policy roles, and/or sustainability matters (or a related certification)
Link to strategy
Provide perspective on our company’s connections to the communities it serves and responsible and sustainable business practices and opportunities
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Corporate governance
Criteria
Have significant experience serving on and leading the boards of other large corporations and/or professional experience in the corporate governance field
Link to strategy
Help our Board fulfill its oversight function effectively
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Customer experience
Criteria
Have executive-level experience in a consumer-focused industry other than financial services
Link to strategy
Provide insight into how our company interacts with retail customers
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Digital, technology, or cybersecurity experience
Criteria
Have executive-level experience in an industry driving digital and/or technological change or cybersecurity experience through prior professional experience (or a related certification/degree)
Link to strategy
Contribute expertise regarding digital capabilities, technological transformation, information security, or product innovation and evolving customer expectations
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Financial reporting and accounting
Criteria
Have specialized financial reporting qualifications, such as experience as a CPA or as the CFO of a large corporation
Link to strategy
Are particularly well suited to overseeing the quality and integrity of our company’s financial statements
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Financial services industry expertise
Criteria
Have executive-level experience in the financial services industry
Link to strategy
Possess deep knowledge of the business challenges and opportunities facing our company
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Other regulated industry expertise
Criteria
Have executive-level experience in a regulated industry other than financial services
Link to strategy
Provide a valuable perspective on how an extensive regulatory framework intersects with strategic and operational planning
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Risk management
Criteria
Have specific risk-management expertise, gained through leadership at a critical infrastructure company, in the financial services industry, at a financial regulator, or in the military
Link to strategy
Are particularly adept at identifying and assessing the varied risks facing our company as a large financial institution
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Audit Committee
Held 11 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
Audit committee financial experts: Warner L. Baxter, Alan B. Colberg and Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor
Compensation and Human Resources Committee
Held 6 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
* Mr. Hernandez joined the committee on April 18, 2023.
Cybersecurity and Technology Subcommittee
Held 4 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
Governance Committee
Held 6 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
* Mr. Wine joined the committee on April 18, 2023.
Public Responsibility Committee
Held 4 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
Risk Management Committee
Held 6 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
* Mr. Wiehoff became Chair on April 18, 2023. Ms. Buse joined the committee on January 23, 2024.
The former Capital Planning Committee held 7 meetings during 2023, before being recombined with the Risk Management Committee in January 2024.
Executive Committee
Held 0 Meetings during 2023
Primary responsibilities
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