Sabina Kelly

Greater Maryland Market President
Bank of America

Sabina Kelly traces the roots of her professional success to her childhood.

“I am wired to never give up; to constantly learn, adapt and evolve and to seek meaningful ways to serve my community,” says Kelly, the Greater Maryland Market president for Bank of America. “Each of those traits is a product of my upbringing as a native Baltimorean who is a daughter of Baltimoreans.”

Kelly says her parents, the late Ed and Dolores Haywood, and her Catholic elementary school, St. Anthony of Padua in northeast Baltimore, provided a strong foundation. “It was a tightly organized, highly disciplined environment and I was the beneficiary of a truly classical education that taught me how to think.”

Kelly says she has been fortunate to have had a long career with Bank of America. She has been in her current position since 2016. “I have been blessed to work with gifted, tireless, and selfless colleagues whom I count as friends and for the most innovative and interesting customers and clients.”

She remembers she was the only woman in the training class in her first job with a financial institution.

Times are much different now.

“Today, it is not unusual for one of my teams to be composed entirely of women when working on a project or meeting with clients or other groups outside the bank,” she says. “To have been a small part of, and witness to, that evolution has been fulfilling beyond description. I derive tremendous joy from this stage of my career, when I can attempt to repay those who helped me along the way by doing the same for others.”

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