Sandra E. Pierce

Since August 2016, Ms. Pierce has been Huntington Bank’s Senior Executive Vice President, Private Bank and Regional Banking Director and Chair of Michigan. Ms. Pierce has led the Private Bank, Insurance Agency, Auto, Marine and RV businesses as well as state activities in Michigan. From February 1, 2013, until their August 2016 merger with Huntington, Ms. Pierce served as Vice Chairman of FirstMerit Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of FirstMerit Michigan. From 2005 until June 2012, Ms. Pierce served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at Charter One Bank Michigan, a division of RBS Citizens, N.A. where she had responsibilities for commercial banking and all state bank activities in Michigan as well as oversight of all state activities in Illinois and Ohio. From 1978 through 2004, Ms. Pierce served as Regional Executive of Midwest Retail Operations for JPMorgan Chase, with responsibilities for Michigan and Indiana, and she held a number of management positions in the retail, commercial lending, and private banking businesses at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor companies, Bank One, First Chicago NBD Corp. and NBD Bancorp. Ms. Pierce is a director of American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings, Inc., and has performed leadership duties with numerous civic organizations. Ms. Pierce is also Board Chair of ITC Holdings, which was previously a public company in the past five years.