Sheila Stamps is a finance executive with substantial experience working with both corporations and financial institutions. As a corporate board member, investment manager, P&L leader, and banker, she has worked through various economic cycles and market dislocations, giving her expansive insight into risk and opportunities domestically and internationally.

Stamps is a Board and Audit Committee member of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. She also serves on the Board of CIT Group Inc. and CIT Bank N.A. and is a member of the Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees. Her prior board committee experience at CIT includes Risk Management and chair of Regulatory Compliance. As a commissioner on the Board of Directors of the New York State Insurance Fund, Stamps participates in the oversight of the largest worker’s compensation insurance provider in the state. She is chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Business Operations Committee.

Her senior-level operating roles combine both private sector experience and public service. Stamps most recently served as executive vice president of DBI LLC (a private mortgage company) and director of Fixed Income and Cash Management for the New York State Common Retirement Fund, respectively. Her leadership roles in the banking industry include managing director and group head, Financial Institutions at Bank of America (formerly FleetBoston Financial) and, prior to that role, managing director, Asset Backed Securitization and Management Committee Member at Bank One London (now, JP Morgan).

Stamps has been recognized as one of 2017 Most Influential Black Corporate Directors by Savoy Magazine. She also serves on the faculty of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Advisory Services, is a NACD Board Leadership Fellow, and a director of the NACD New York Chapter.

Stamps earned a MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a BS in Management Sciences from Duke University and completed a Harvard University Fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She held a long-standing interest in motivating youth and women. She’s provided scholarships through the United Negro College Fund, participated in youth workshops, and currently pursues this interest through her board work at IES Abroad, an international studies program.