Jeremy Zeman has spent more than 25 years finding leaders for banks. He is a managing director at True, the executive search firm, and heads its Consumer & Commercial Banking Practice, which sits within the Financial Services Practice. His base is Chicago.
His clients range widely. They include large publicly traded banks and diversified finance companies, as well as mutuals and credit unions that are working through a period of growth or change. Zeman deals directly with C-suites, boards and senior leadership teams, in banking, payments, consumer and commercial finance, and fintech.
The searches he runs
Zeman’s recent assignments have covered chief executives, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, chief banking officers, and chief credit and risk officers. The banks involved, public and private, hold over $10B in assets.
He has also run board of directors searches for community and midsize banks. On the business side, he has recruited heads of consumer, digital, business banking and commercial banking segments for midsize and super-regional institutions. Other mandates have included building out regional commercial, corporate and business banking teams, national industry vertical teams, and treasury services leaders for super-regional and money-center banks.
The roles below the top tier span strategy, finance, marketing and communications, product, data and analytics, digital, risk and credit, operations and technology, and security.
True credits him with a strong record of placing executives who lead digital and AI transformation, helping institutions become more data-driven and technologically advanced.
