Sekou Kaalund

Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Branch & Small Business Banking,
Managing Committee Member | U.S. BANK

Sekou Kaalund is a senior executive vice president and the head of Branch and Small Business Banking, overseeing the Retail Banking and Small Business Banking divisions, which serve 13M consumers and 1.4M small businesses through the U.S. Bank network of more than 2,000 Branches, 4,000 ATMs, Workplace Banking, Employee Banking, and Campus Banking. As part of Branch and Small Business Banking, Kaalund also oversees Cash Management Services, providing cash and logistics solutions to financial institutions, retail operators, and independent ATM deployers, as well as operations for Branch, Small Business and Business Banking.

Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2022, he spent 15 years at JPMorgan Chase in a variety of staff and line leadership roles across institutional and retail businesses, most recently as the head of Chase Consumer Banking for the Northeast Division. Kaalund previously held roles at Citi and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yok, where he was a commissioned bank examiner.

At JPMorgan Chase, Kaalund was involved in launching Advancing Black Pathways, the first global corporate initiative that leveraged a data-driven strategic framework to develop scalable programs to reduce the racial wealth gap.

Kaalund serves on the board of directors for the Center of the Study of the Presidency and Congress and previously served on the boards for the Duke University School of Public Policy and Inroads. He is a member of The Executive Leadership Council, Young Presidents’ Organization, Sigma Pi Phi (The Boulé), and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Kaalund earned a bachelor’s degree with a concentration in public service, classical studies and Spanish at Hampden-Sydney College, and a master of public policy degree at Duke University.