Colleen Taylor | Atlanta Spotlight

By Staff Writer Atlanta Trend

• Jul 30, 2022

Colleen Taylor has been named as an independent director on the Board of Directors of Lowe's.

Ms. Taylor brings to the Lowe’s Board many years of senior leadership experience in the highly-regulated financial services industry with expertise in banking, merchant services and payments, as well as a strong background in a number of other critical areas, including strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and brand management. In her roles, Ms. Taylor has been responsible for technology risk management, the development of complex enterprise technology roadmaps and cybersecurity oversight. Additionally, Ms. Taylor is a highly experienced people leader and has led large global sales, product management and operations teams

From August 2019 to September 2020, Ms. Taylor served as Executive Vice President, Merchant Services at Wells Fargo & Company, a banking and financial services company. Prior to that, Ms. Taylor served as Executive Vice President, New Payments at Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company in the global payments industry, from March 2017 to August 2019, and in a variety of other roles, including as Executive Vice President, Head of Treasury Management, Merchant Services and Enterprise Payments at Capital One Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services holding company, from April 2009 to March 2017.Ms. Taylor has served as President, U.S. Merchant Services at American Express since September 2020.

Ms. Taylor served on the board of Bill.com Holdings, Inc. from September 2020 to June 2022. She graduated from Atlanta's Spelman College, where she now serves on its Board of Trustees.