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In 1980, when in college, she took a part-time job as a telephone debt collector at CitiCorp. During the following 16 years Keane climbed the ranks at CitiCorp until she was running their US retail operations. She then joined GE Capital. In 2011 she became the CEO of the firm’s credit-card business, after filling several different capacities in operations and quality control, and finally in the credit card division. In 1996 Keane moved to GE and worked as Quality Leader for GE Capital’s Vendor Financial Services (VFS) division. Keane served as Chief Quality Leader of GECC from January 2000 until December 2001. In 2002 she joined GE Consumer Finance-Americas where she was Senior Vice President for Operations. Keane joined GE Capital Retail Consumer Finance in May, 2004. There she led the retail credit business. She was CEO and President of GE’s Retail Card platform for their North American retail finance business from June 2004 until April 2011. In 2005 Keane was named as a GE Officer. On November 29, 2005 she was named the chief executive officer and president of Retail Consumer Finance of Americas Operations at GE. Since April 2011 Keane served as the CEO and president of GE’s North American retail finance business. In July 2014 GE Capital led Synchrony, a new independent company, which was now the largest private-label credit card provider in the US. With the launch of Synchrony Keane became one of only two women CEOs running US-owned, independent, publicly traded banks valued at over $10 billion
Personal Details
Title: Ms
Surname: Keane
DoB: 01/01/1959
Age: 67 years
M/F: Female
Nationality: American
Country of Birth: United States of America
Language: English
Qualification: B.A.,MBA
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| Company | Committee | Position | Date Appointed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board | Member | 01/01/2023 |
Working history
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Appointed Date: 01/01/2014
Date Resigned: 01/01/2023
Industry: Financial Services
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Chief Executive Officer
Synchrony FinancialAppointed Date: 01/01/2014
Date Resigned: 01/01/2023
Industry: Financial Services
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Committee/s
| Company | Committee | Role | Appointment Date | Resignation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allstate | Board | Member | 01/01/2018 | |
| Allstate | Remuneration | Member | 01/01/2018 | |
| Allstate | Nominations & Governance | Member | 01/01/2018 |
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