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Margaret Keane

Courtesy of Synchrony Financial
  • Title
    CEO
  • Affiliation
    Synchrony Financial
  • Age
    61
  • 2020 Rank
    24
Synchrony lost its massive partnership with Walmart in 2018, but the issuer of store credit cards has continued to ink new deals. Last year it added a co-branded credit card with Verizon and another with mobile payments app Venmo. The pandemic has revealed a new set of challenges for Keane: As consumers cut spending, Synchrony has said it will exit a number of leases and potentially reduce its workforce.

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