Ellen Rose Alemany is an American
business executive
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Executives run companies or government agencies. They create plans to help their organizations g ...
. She is the Vice Chairwoman of
First Citizens BancShares. She was formerly the chairwoman of
CIT Group
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.
In 2020 she was included in a list of "most powerful women in banking" published by ''
American Banker
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''.
Early life and education
Alemany was raised in the
Bronx, New York
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, the daughter of
Italian
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immigrants who operated a liquor store.
She graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the
University of Bridgeport
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.
[ After school she took a job in the legal department at IBM and then at Chase Manhattan where she worked in process engineering while attending graduate school in the evenings.][
She received an ]MBA
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