Martha Henderson, the banking star who had a significant function in Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution financing the leisure trade over 4 many years, and whose experience has seen her repeatedly honored on Billboard’s “Ladies in Music” and different energy lists, is ready to retire.
Presently serving as vice chairman of leisure banking at Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution, Henderson will step down on Feb. 2, 2024, ending her 40-year tenure with the group.
Los Angeles-based Henderson joined Metropolis Nationwide in 1983 from Wells Fargo, the place she launched her profession in its non-public financial institution unit serving the leisure trade.
With Henderson on the helm, Metropolis Nationwide’s crew serving the leisure trade now gives monetary experience to greater than 90% of leisure enterprise managers, in keeping with a press release from the financial institution, plus greater than 50% of all Broadway reveals, and upwards of 80% of the nation music trade in Nashville.
Additionally, she created a crew to serve the wants of Latin entertainers, expanded its enterprise to New York, Miami, Atlanta and on Music Row in Nashville, and extra.
“Martha is an establishment at Metropolis Nationwide and I’m grateful for her extraordinary service,” feedback Kelly Coffey, CEO Metropolis Nationwide Leisure. “Her many years of management and the profound impression she has had are felt all through the group.”
As she ready for retirement during the last a number of years, explains Howard Hammond, CEO, Metropolis Nationwide Financial institution, Henderson “invested herself in guaranteeing the persevering with leisure banking management crew is nicely ready to assist our shoppers,” singling-out skilled teammate JaHan Wang, government vice chairman of leisure banking.
Henderson’s monetary wizardry hasn’t gone unnoticed exterior of the financial institution. Billboard named her to its “Energy” checklist in 2023 and 2022, and acknowledged her in its “Ladies in Music” checklist of probably the most highly effective ladies within the music trade for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018.
Individually, Selection named Henderson in its “Ladies’s Affect Report” as one of the necessary ladies in Hollywood, doing so in 2016, 2019 and 2020, whereas Barron’s profiled her as probably the most highly effective banker in Hollywood in 2017.
“Among the many profession highlights I’m most happy with is the chance I needed to develop and develop the subsequent era of management on the financial institution to proceed our give attention to serving shoppers,” feedback Henderson forward of he departure. “I’m assured Metropolis Nationwide’s unwavering dedication to the trade will solely develop.”
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