Bhanu has deep industry Board experience, having twice served on the National Board of Women in Public Finance. Currently, she also serves as a board trustee at Blythedale Children’s Hospital, NY, and on the board of Helene Fuld College of Nursing, NY.

As a Commercial and Corporate Banking, Credit and Risk executive and former Investment banker at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, U.S. Bank, and RBC Capital Markets Bhanu provides a wealth of experience across Risk, Compliance, and capital and credit markets. She is considered a financial expert and is immediately qualified to serve on board audit, risk, and compliance committees.

Known as a high-impact leader, she has excelled in governing high-performance teams, galvanizing stakeholders in necessary change to drive the business forward, and leading complex transformations.

Having served as a Chief Credit Officer for a Flagstar Bank subsidiary company, Bhanu is responsible for leading and advancing the credit and underwriting functions, overseeing and managing a growing credit portfolio. In this role, she has played a key role in strengthening the subsidiary’s brand and competitive positioning in the market by modernizing a legacy credit and underwriting function, which allowed for millions of dollars in upgraded ratings.

Previously, Bhanu held progressive leadership roles in Corporate Banking Credit Underwriting at U.S. Bank, with a focus on business development, where she strategically grew the healthcare, higher education, housing, airports, and non-profits sectors, and established the U.S. Bank’s first-ever housing credit sector, resulting in billions of dollars in new business. Prior to this, she served as Vice President of Municipal Corporate Banking at RBC Capital Markets, where she played a contributing role in strategically growing the municipal markets portfolio and RBC’s housing credit exposure. Earlier in her career, Bhanu held various roles at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Bear Stearns & Co.

Bhanu holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Fordham University and a BA in Economics from Bard College. For years, she has been a sought-out annual conference speaker at the National Association of Bond Lawyers and a speaker at the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.