Age: 55
Director since January 2025
Business experience: Gunjan Kedia is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of U.S. Bancorp, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the country.
Kedia became CEO in April 2025 after serving as president since 2024. She was appointed chairman in 2026. She previously served as vice chair of Wealth, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking.
Kedia brings 30 years of financial services experience to her role. Before joining U.S. Bancorp in 2016, she led the investment servicing business in the Americas at State Street Financial and was a member of its Managing Committee. In 2004, Kedia joined Bank of New York Mellon, where she served as an executive vice president and head of global product management for its global asset servicing business. Previously, she was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a core leader of its financial services practice. She began her career at PwC.
Kedia serves on the boards of the American Red Cross, PBS and the Carnegie Mellon Business School.
Kedia earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction in engineering from the Delhi School of Engineering and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon University.
Skills and qualifications:
- Chief executive experience: As CEO of U.S. Bancorp, Ms. Kedia’s deep knowledge of our company, its business and our strategic priorities provides valuable insight to all Board discussions and deliberations.
- Customer experience: As CEO of U.S. Bancorp, Ms. Kedia contributes to our Board a current perspective on client expectations across our consumer, wealth, small business and corporate and institutional clients gained from her long leadership of several businesses.
- Digital, technology, or cybersecurity experience: Through her current experience as President and CEO and prior leadership roles at U.S. Bancorp, Ms. Kedia brings a record of driving growth and productivity, including through digital capabilities and technology transformation initiatives.
- Financial services industry expertise: Ms. Kedia has deep expertise in the financial services industry, gained through a career of more than 30 years in the industry.
- Risk management: Through her extensive experience as the leader of business lines and in executive positions at several financial services companies, and as a partner and core leader of the financial services practice at McKinsey, Ms. Kedia brings valuable risk management experience to our Board.
Member of the Executive Committee