Gunjan Kedia
Gunjan Kedia is an American banker and the chief executive officer of U.S. Bancorp, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States. She was born in January 1971 in Delhi, India. She earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Delhi Technological University and an MBA with distinction from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
Kedia started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior associate in the financial services division and later became a partner at McKinsey & Co. After about three decades in consulting, she moved into banking in 2004, joining Bank of New York Mellon as executive vice president and head of global product management. She then served as executive vice president and head of the investment servicing business in the Americas at State Street Corporation in Boston.
She joined U.S. Bancorp in 2016, where she led the bank’s revenue lines. In 2024, she was named president and vice chair of wealth, corporate, commercial, and institutional banking. She became CEO in April 2025, succeeding Andrew Cecere, and has said that deals will be an important part of the bank’s strategy.
Kedia serves on the boards of PBS, the Business Advisory Board for Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, Junior Achievement USA, and CorStone. She has been recognized on lists such as American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance and Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance.
She is married to Sridhar Tayur, a social entrepreneur and investor who founded startups like SmartOps and OrganJet and is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.
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