<p>Kathleen Murphy is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, which represents banks of all sizes and charters and is the exceptional voice and resource for the Commonwealth’s $580 billion banking industry.<br><br>With a career spanning state and national banking associations, Kathleen joined MBA in September 2020 following twenty-one years at the helm of the Maryland Bankers Association in Annapolis. Before joining the Maryland association, Kathleen served as Director of Community Banking for the American Bankers Association in Washington, D. C. where she led the Association’s largest constituency group of community bank CEOs which influenced policy, education, communication and service strategies for the national Association. &nbsp;<br>Kathleen’s earlier career highlights include working as Director of Communications for the Ohio Bankers Association and in the financial card services group of Bank One in Columbus.&nbsp;<br><br>She currently serves on the ABA Foundation Board of Directors, the Independent Community Bankers of America Large Community Bank Council, the BDC Capital Corporation and Infinex. &nbsp;Kathleen was elected by her peers to chair the State Bankers Association Alliance and in this role served on the Board of Directors of the American Bankers Association in 2010-2011. She also served from 2012-2019 on the Board of Trustees of Marietta College and chaired its Audit Committee. &nbsp; Kathleen is recipient of numerous awards including the 2019 Community Service Award from the Maryland Government Relations Association; the Daily Record’s Top 100 Women in Maryland in 2017 and one of fifty Influential Marylanders named by The Daily Record in 2009, 2014 and 2017 and inducted into its Circle of Excellence in 2017. &nbsp;<br><br>Kathleen is a graduate of Marietta College in Marietta Ohio and has completed Executive Education courses at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. Kathleen and her husband Mike are avid boaters and reside on Boston’s South Shore.</p>

<p>Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the U.S. central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy. Since taking office in July 2022, Collins oversees all of the bank’s activities – including economic research and analysis; banking supervision and financial stability efforts; community economic development activities; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives. Collins is an international macroeconomist with a lifelong interest in policy and its impact on living standards. She has published widely and served as a provost, dean, professor, research scholar, and board member at a variety of universities and organizations, including the University of Michigan, the Brookings Institution, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. Collins earned her Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her undergraduate degree at Harvard.</p>