Building Black Wealth with U.S. Bank's Greg Cunningham and Gunjan Kedia

Building wealth and achieving financial security is a primary aspiration for most, but many communities face distinct challenges in reaching these goals. As advisors who work every day to help clients achieve better financial outcomes, U.S. Bank's Greg Cunningham and Gunjan Kedia understand that our industry has an important role to play in closing the racial wealth gap. We must start by listening and learning from our customers and communities. Gunjan Kedia, Vice Chair, Wealth Management and Investment Services, and Greg Cunningham, Chief Diversity Officer, discuss the results of U.S. Bank's recent survey to better understand the financial needs, goals and challenges of Black Americans with at least $25,000 in investable assets, what surprised them and what U.S. Bank plans to do with the results.

Greg Cunningham

Sanmaya Mohanty

Greg Cunningham is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer for U.S. Bank, serving in this position since July 2020. Greg is also a member of the U.S. Bank Managing Committee reporting to the CEO Andy Cecere. From July 2019 until July 2020, Greg was Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of U.S. Bank, having served as Vice President of Customer Engagement of U.S. Bank from October 2015, when he joined the bank. Greg spent the previous sixteen years at Target Corporation where he most recently led Lifestyle Marketing.

Greg’s diversity, equity and inclusion expertise has been showcased in national and regional media outlets, including Fortune, Bloomberg, the Atlantic, MSNBC, American Banker, Harvard Business Review, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Washington Post. A recent profile of Greg in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal received a national journalism award.

Greg is a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (the Boule’) and serves on the National Board of Directors for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) the nation’s largest and most effective minority higher education organization. Greg has a BA in marketing from UNCF member school Clark-Atlanta University and an MBA from Fordham University in New York City.

Gunjan Kedia

Sanmaya Mohanty

Gunjan Kedia is Vice Chair of U.S. Bank Wealth Management and Investment Services, and a member of the U.S. Bank Managing Committee, its senior most leadership group. Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2016, Gunjan held leadership positions at State Street Financial in Boston, where she served as executive vice president and led the investment servicing business in the Americas; BNY Mellon, where she was head of global product management; and McKinsey & Company, where she was a partner and a core leader of the financial services practice. She brings more than 27 years of financial servicesexperience to her role.

Gunjan holds an MBA, with distinction, from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in engineering, with distinction, from the Delhi School of Engineering. Gunjan was named to American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Finance 2018, 2019 and 2020 lists as well as Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance list in 2021. She is also the recipient of the 2018 Carnegie Mellon University Alumni Achievement Award.

Gunjan is active in the community and serves on the boards of PBS, Business Advisors for Carnegie Mellon Business School, Junior Achievement USA, and CorStone.

Hunter Canning

Bridget Finkeldey

Hunter Canning is a New York based actor, puppeteer, producer and photographer. A conscience citizen of the world, his ethos is bringing people together through all the facets of his life. Be it producing live performance downtown, creating corporate recruitment content or photographing portraiture, red carpets and live events; Hunter has a passion for bringing people together to foster growth, kindness and a true understanding of each other.

Raised in the outer canyons of Los Angeles, Hunter has been a professional actor in New York for the past decade. Notable credits include Broadway’s War Horse (Lincoln Center), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Baker & The Beauty (ABC) and Ray Donovan (Showtime). A career that has seen dizzying heights, all the while remaining with his two feet on the ground.

It is with great pleasure that Hunter joins the Power To Fly community to host and mediate its forums. He looks forward to meeting you all and connecting you with the amazing team of professionals they have brought together.

Find Hunter at huntercanning.com or huntercanningphoto.com and on Instagram and LinkedIn @huntercanning