Detroit, Mich., USA - July 23, 2015, Detroit, Mich., USA - Ally Financial Inc. announced that former financial executive Maureen Breakiron-Evans and internet executive Michael Steib have been appointed to the board of directors.
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Ms. Breakiron-Evans will also serve on the board's audit committee. Ms. Maureen Breakiron-Evans is an experienced former financial executive and corporate board member, and she was appointed to the Ally board in July of 2015. She currently serves on the boards of Cognizant Technology Solutions and Heartland Payment Systems, and chairs the audit committees for those respective companies.
Previously, Ms.Breakiron-Evans was the chief financial officer of Towers Perrin, until she retired in 2008. Prior to joining Towers Perrin, she was the general auditor and enterprise risk manager at CIGNA Corp. She also served as CFO of Inovant, LLC, a unit of Visa that developed and operated its payment and transactions systems globally.
She also held several leadership positions at Transamerica Corp. and was an audit partner with Arthur Andersen. She has also served on the boards of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh and ING Direct.
Ms. Breakiron-Evans is a certified public accountant and serves on the board of trustees at Stetson University. She also co-chairs the Philadelphia Chapter of Women Corporate Directors and is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) board leadership fellow.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Stetson University, a master’s degree of business administration from Harvard Business School and a master’s degree in liberal arts from Stanford University.
Mr. Steib is the chief executive officer of XO Group, the leading consumer internet and media company serving couples under the brands The Knot, The Nest and The Bump. He was appointed to the Ally board in July of 2015.
Mr. Steib is the chief executive officer of XO Group, a consumer internet and media company serving couples under the brands The Knot, The Nest and The Bump. He was appointed to the Ally board in July of 2015.
Prior to joining XO Group, he served as CEO of Vente-Privee USA, an ecommerce venture backed by American Express. He also spent four years at Google helping to build Google TV Ads and grow Google Mobile Ads and YouTube’s advertising business.
Mr. Steib also held key positions at NBC, including as the general manager of strategic ventures at NBC Universal, where he received the GE Imagination Breakthrough award for the launch of NBC Weather Plus.
Mr. Steib was also a vice president in the NBC corporate development group. Earlier in his career, he also worked for Walker Digital, an internet incubator, and at McKinsey & Company. ■
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