Maria Reardon serves as a Strategic Advisor for Aite-Novarica’s Commercial Banking & Payments practice, focusing on payments, operations, risk mitigation, and transformation. She has over 25 years of leadership experience in corporate and commercial banking, working with global and regional banks and corporations.

Prior to joining Aite-Novarica, Maria served with SunTrust Bank (now Truist) in several capacities, most recently as a leader on the business transformation/operational excellence team, supporting a collaborative operating model of transformation, sound risk management, ongoing process improvement, and organizational change dedicated to the wholesale banking organization. Also at SunTrust, Maria led an operations and risk management team dedicated to corporate and investment banking clients of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, and was a Treasury Sales Officer consulting with clients of the corporate and investment banking healthcare investment banking team. Prior to working with SunTrust, Maria worked with Bank of America in Atlanta as a Senior Vice President within Global Treasury Services, and as a Corporate Treasury Manager with Qualex Inc. in Durham, North Carolina.

Maria holds an MBA from Rutgers University and is an active board member and mentor with the Atlanta Children’s Shelter.