Biography

Anne Finucane

Vice-Chair

Bank of America

Anne M. Finucane is vice chair at Bank of America and serves as chair of the board of Bank of America Europe. As a member of the executive management team, Anne is responsible for the strategic positioning of Bank of America and leads the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG), sustainable finance, capital deployment and public policy efforts.

As chair of the board of Bank of America Europe, the firm’s EU bank headquartered in Dublin, Finucane oversees more than €6 billion in assets. Anne also serves on the board of BofA Securities Europe SA, the bank’s EU broker-dealer in Paris, with both entities playing a critical role in the company’s post-Brexit European growth strategy. Bank of America has almost 3, employees across both entities.

Anne chairs the global ESG committee at Bank of America, which directs all of the company’s ESG efforts. She also co-chairs the sustainable markets committee with COO Tom Montag, which collaborates across business lines to deliver innovative financing solutions in support of the United Nations sustainable development goals, including affordable housing, sustainable energy, clean water and sanitation, education and health care. She stewards Bank of America’s $3 billion environmental business initiative, oversees the company’s $1.6 billion community development financial institution portfolio and chairs the Bank of America charitable foundation.

Active in the community, Anne serves on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards of directors including Carnegie Hall, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the World Bank Group’s Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), CVS Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass General Brigham Healthcare, Special Olympics, the (RED) advisory board, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and The Ireland Funds. She served on the US State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy board and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Anne has received numerous professional and public service accolades. She has regularly been named to Forbes’ and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women lists, along with American Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking. In 219, Anne was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Ad Hall of Fame, as well as the CMO Hall of Fame, and received the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Award for Inspired Leadership. In March 218, Finucane was honored with the Leadership Award by The Ireland Funds.