Presenter

Keith Banks

President, U.S. Trust

Keith Banks is president of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, which provides integrated investment, trust, banking and lending services to wealthy and ultra-wealthy clients. He also oversees Global Wealth & Investment Management Banking, which delivers a broad range of customized banking, credit and lending solutions to help meet the needs of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and BofA Global Capital Management, which offers money market funds, offshore funds, customized separate accounts and sub-advisory services to institutions and high-net-worth individuals. Banks is a board member of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and he sits on Bank of America’s Chief Executive Officer’s Operating Committee and Global Diversity & Inclusion Council.Banks previously served as president of Global Private Client, Institutional and Investment Management for Bank of America. This business included U.S. Trust, Institutional Retirement & Philanthropy, Alternative Investments Asset Management and Columbia Management.During his career at Bank of America, he also served as president of Global Wealth & Investment Management and president and chief investment officer of Columbia Management. He joined Bank of America in 2004, following FleetBoston Financial’s merger with Bank of America. Prior to this, Banks held the roles of CIO and CEO of FleetBoston Financial’s asset management organization after joining the company in 2000.Prior to joining FleetBoston, Banks was a managing director and head of U.S. equity for JP Morgan Investment Management. During his 16-year career at JP Morgan, Banks also served as global head of equity research, head of U.S. equity research and a portfolio manager, and equity research analyst for the chemical and textile industries, which was his first role at the firm when he started in 1984. Banks began his investment career as an equity analyst at Home Insurance in 1981.Banks earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Rutgers University and his MBA degree in finance from Columbia Business School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the American Bankers Association Investment Advisory Committee. Banks sits on the Rutgers University Board of Overseers, Board of Advisors of Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia Business School Board of Overseers. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center and is a Director of the Police Athletic League of New York.

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