Dive Brief:
- JPMorgan Chase veteran Sarah Pohmer has been named the next chief human resources officer at Huntington Bank, effective May 6, the bank announced last week.
- Pohmer, who has spent more than two decades at JPMorgan, will succeed Raj Syal, according to a March 13 news release. Syal, retiring Oct. 1, has been at Columbus, Ohio-based Huntington since 2015.
- During her nearly 25 years at JPMorgan, Pohmer has served in multiple HR roles, most recently as managing director and head of HR for the consumer bank. Prior to that, she was head of HR for its cards and connected commerce unit and for its business banking and staff functions division, according to Pohmer’s LinkedIn profile.
Dive Insight:
Pohmer “brings a deep understanding of the dynamics of human resources in a financial institution, while supporting large and complex businesses on a global scale,” Huntington’s President and CEO Steve Steinour said in the news release. “She has a natural passion to look out for others and is the ideal leader to take our cultural and colleague experience journey to the next level.”
Pohmer, who noted in the release she’s a long-time central Ohio resident, is the latest JPMorgan executive to be scooped up by a smaller bank.
Last month, Citi named Viswas Raghavan its head of banking and executive vice chair; most recently, he was JPMorgan’s head of global investment banking. In 2021, Swiss bank UBS pulled Sarah Youngwood from JPMorgan, naming her as its next CFO. She’s since moved on to Nasdaq, where she also serves as CFO.
Syal’s retirement follows that of another Huntington C-suite executive recently: Paul Heller, the bank’s chief technology and operations officer, retired at the beginning of this month.
