Bio

Clark Khayat serves as Chief Financial Officer of KeyCorp, which is among the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies. He is a member of Key’s Executive Leadership Team and Executive Council and oversees Key’s finance operations. Prior to this role, Clark was Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for KeyCorp, responsible for corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic investments. In this capacity, he also oversaw Corporate Treasury, Financial Planning & Analysis, Line of Business Finance and Investor Relations. Clark’s unique skill set spans business, law, consulting, and investment banking. Clark’s hands-on operating experience was earned while at Key as Group Head of Commercial Payments. In that capacity, he applied his consulting and advisory experience directly into day-to-day management decisions of running a business while redesigning and implementing a new strategic direction for the business. Prior to his role in Commercial Payments, Clark led Corporate Strategy at Key. Earlier in his career, Clark was Senior Controller of Personal Lines for the Progressive Corporation, where he was responsible for all aspects of its $13.5 billion personal lines (auto, special lines and home partnership) business performance. During his tenure at Progressive, he also served as business leader for corporate development, capital management and investor relations activities. Clark has also held several senior leadership roles in strategy and finance, including at National City Corporation (now PNC) where he led Corporate Finance and Strategy and Corporate Planning. Prior to his tenure at National City, he was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. Clark is an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University and was a board member of BuyerQuest, a Cleveland based, SaaS Company in the procure-to-pay space. He has served as a Director of Akoya, LLC, a data aggregator, Board Observer at SaaS companies, Avidxchange, a Charlotte-based accounts payable automation provider, and Instamed, a Philadelphia-based provider of healthcare payments solutions and was a board member at the Payment Company (“PayCo”) of The Clearinghouse, a financial services consortium comprised of the nation’s largest 25 financial institution. Clark holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.