Biography

Agnes Bundy Scanlan

Nominating and Governance Committee Chair

Truist Financial

Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Esq., is the president of The Cambridge Group LLC, a strategy and risk management advisory firm. Recently, Agnes was a senior adviser for Treliant LLC where she counseled financial services firms on various matters including strategy, governance, privacy, regulatory and risk management matters. Previously, Agnes served as the Northeast regional director of supervision examinations for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). As regional director, Agnes oversaw the regional staff, and represented the CFPB Supervision mission on all matters relating to conducting consumer financial protection supervision and examinations at a variety of complex depository financial institutions and non-depository consumer financial services companies. The 32 financial institutions and 25 companies under her regulatory authority had assets totaling over $6 trillion.

Earlier, Agnes was the chief regulatory and compliance officer, and global chief privacy officer at TD Bank. She worked in similar roles at Bank of America and its predecessors. Agnes also served as counsel at Goodwin Procter and for the United States Senate Budget Committee. Agnes is the nominating and governance committee chair for Truist Financial Corporation’s board of directors and a director for NewTower Trust Company. She is a fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, a commissioner for the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) commission on racial and ethnic diversity in the profession, and is the chair of the ABA’s business law section’s privacy subcommittee. Agnes is also a member of the executive leadership council (“ELC”), an organization of Black corporate executives. Agnes was selected for inclusion in Boston Business Journal’s Most Powerful Women, and in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. She is the former vice chair of the Smith College board of trustees, former chair of the federal reserve board of governors’ consumer advisory council, former (and founding) chair of international association of privacy professionals, and former chair of FannieMae’s housing impact advisory council.

Agnes holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and an AB from Smith College. She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the bar of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. In August 2020, Agnes completed the national association of corporate directors’ CERT certification in cybersecurity oversight. Recently, Agnes completed Harvard University’s certification course on cybersecurity: managing risk in the information age and MIT’s certification course on artificial intelligence.