Eileen M. Friars

Eileen M. Friars is a business advisor and private investor.  She is the former President of Bank of America Credit Card Services, leading Bank of America in becoming the 5th largest credit card portfolio in the US, with over $20 billion in assets.  Prior to her assignments with Bank of America, Ms. Friars was President of NationsBank Card Services, Senior Executive Vice President of C&S/Sovran Corporation, and Senior Vice President of The MAC Group, a strategy and general management consulting firm.  Ms. Friars earned her BA in economics and government from Simmons College in Boston in 1972, and her MBA at Harvard Business School in 1974. 

In December of 1998, Ms. Friars was recognized by Working Woman Magazine as one of the thirty women who could be CEO of a major company.  Active in a variety of business and community organizations, Ms. Friars is a member of the Simmons College Board where she chairs the Finance Committee and on the Harvard Business School’s Visiting Committee. Ms. Friars currently serves as Board Member and Education Chair of the Committee of 200.