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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Bank of America Industry: Banking

Excitement is overrated in banking, and Brian Moynihan has spent 16 years proving it. The former college rugby player took over Bank of America in 2010 with the ship still burning from the financial crisis, then turned it into a machine of almost monotonous profitability through a doctrine he calls responsible growth, a phrase colleagues can recite in their sleep because he never stops saying it. The discipline shows everywhere, in a US $ 4tn balance sheet, in expenses held flat for a decade while revenues climbed and in a digital operation whose Erica assistant has handled more than two billion client interactions. While rivals chase headlines, Boston’ s least flashy export compounds quietly onward, which is precisely how he likes it and precisely why shareholders have stopped complaining. businesschief. com 95