Finance | Insurance 2023: JANET N. TOPE

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, REGION BANK DIRECTOR FOR GREATER VIRGINIA REGION, WELLS FARGO, RICHMOND

Published August 30, 2023 by Virginia Business

Many executives at Tope’s level have a long list of employers on their résumés. Tope has just one: Wells Fargo. The Florida State University alumna “stumbled into” the bank in 1988 straight out of college with her business degree in hand and has been there ever since.

In 2017, she was promoted to director of the Richmond, Peninsula and Hampton Roads regions for the nation’s fourth largest bank, which was ranked 47th on the Fortune 500 in 2023 and has more than 7,500 of its 238,698 worldwide employees in Virginia.

Outside work, Tope serves as a board member for Communities in Schools of Richmond, in addition to serving on the Regional Leadership Circle for the Greater Richmond Partnership.

PERSONAL MOTTO: Do what you say you are going to do and have compassion as well as grace.

HOW I BALANCE WORK AND PERSONAL LIFE: This is tough to do without planning on my calendar — everything goes on my calendar, and I set boundaries.

FAVORITE APPS: Find My and Amazon

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