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Article: #22. SHELAGHMICHAEL BROWN; Senior Executive President and Head of Retail Banking, BBVA Compass.(The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking)(Occupation overview)
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- US Banker
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- October 1, 2009
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Byline: Bill Stoneman
The top retail-banking executive at BBVA Compass was a little frustrated a week after the Alabama bank took over Guaranty Bank of Austin, Tex., in an FDIC-arranged match. No big problems cropped up, but Shelaghmichael Brown, the senior executive vice president and head of retail banking, was thousands of miles away, vacationing in Europe.
"I only wish I was there," Brown says.
Manolo Sanchez, president and chief executive officer of BBVA Compass, says that's typical. "She's an in-the-trenches kind of leader. She's very visible."
Indeed, Brown helped deliver emergency supplies to bank employees in Texas who were ...