Maria Teresa Tejada
Expert Partner
Bain & Co., Inc.

Education
Williams College
   B.A., political economy

Tufts University, Fletcher School
   M.A., law and diplomacy

Business History
Maria Teresa Tejada is an expert partner at Bain & Co., Inc. in the global financial services practice. She advises clients on corporate strategy, risk management and governance topics. Prior to joining Bain & Co., Inc., Ms. Tejada was the chief strategic enterprise risk officer at Wells Fargo & Company with a focus on leveraging enterprise risk programs for regulatory remediation, as well as deputy chief risk officer and chief credit officer at KeyCorp where she was responsible for group-level risk oversight. Ms. Tejada spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs between New York and London in emerging markets fixed income and Latin America investment banking, rising to managing director of credit risk management and advisory for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. Early in her career, she worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in various bank regulatory roles. Ms. Tejada has spent nearly three decades in financial services as a trusted advisor to executive management teams and public company boards. She has also been actively engaged in people development, as well as diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Ms. Tejada joined FactSet’s board of directors in 2022 and has been a board director of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History since 2014 where she served as vice-chair, she was also co-chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee and a chair succession task force member. Ms. Tejada has volunteered for many years with the United Way and has served as Leadership Committee chair.

Pacific Life Responsibilities
Ms. Tejada is a director of Pacific Mutual Holding Company, and serves on the Audit Committee and the Investment and Finance Committee.