Brian D. Doubles

Career

1. 2021 – now
   Synchrony Financialsrc
   President & CEO; director
   CEO effective 2021-04-01
2. 2019 – 2021
   Synchrony Financialsrc
   President (reporting to CEO Margaret Keane)
   Appointed 2019-05-02; led the long-term strategy and digital payments push per the 2026 proxy
3. 2014 – 2019
   Synchrony Financialsrc
   EVP & Chief Financial Officer (also Treasurer at the 2014 IPO)
   CFO from February 2014 through the July 2014 IPO and the GE split-off; title with Treasurer per S1A-2014
4. 2009 – 2014
   General Electric (GE Capital North American retail finance, Synchrony's predecessor)src
   Chief Financial Officer
   Director of the bank subsidiary (now Synchrony Bank) since 2009
5. 2008 – 2009
   General Electric (global consumer finance)src
   VP, Financial Planning & Analysis
6. 2007 – 2008
   General Electric (U.S. mortgage business)src
   CFO, then CEO, leading the business's wind-down
7. 2006 – 2007
   General Electric (North American retail finance)src
   VP, Financial Planning & Analysis
8. 2001 – 2006
   General Electricsrc
   Internal audit staff, roles of increasing responsibility
9. 1998 – 2001
   General Electricsrc
   Management leadership program

Achievements

• Has spent his whole career in GE's consumer-finance business and Synchrony, from a 1998 GE leadership program to CEO in 2021src
• CFO through the 2014 IPO and the separation from GE, then President from 2019 and CEO from April 2021 in a planned succession from Margaret Keanesrc
• Ran GE's U.S. mortgage business as CFO and then CEO while it was wound down, 2007-2008src
• GAAP net income was $2.238bn in FY2023, $3.499bn in FY2024 and $3.552bn in FY2025. The FY2024 figure includes a $1.1bn gain on the Pets Best sale, per the proxysrc
• In 2025 the company returned $3.3bn to stockholders, added or renewed more than 75 partners including Amazon, and was named #2 on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For listsrc

Education

• Michigan State University, BS Engineeringsrc

Background

• Family The 2026 proxy's related-person section names employed relatives of two other executives (Howse, Wenzel) and none of Doubles; no family-relationship statement covering him was found in itsrc
• Boards Director of Synchrony Bank since 2009; member of the Business Roundtable and the Bank Policy Institute. No outside public-company boardsrc
• Legal Named as a defendant, as CFO, in the 2018 securities class action alleging that Synchrony overstated its underwriting discipline (In re Synchrony Financial Securities Litigation, D. Conn.); the case settled for $34m in cash in 2023src
• Other Since a late-2024 security review the board requires him to use private aircraft for all travel, including personal travel, and gives him personal protectionsrc
• Other Gave up the GE-era supplementary life insurance when he became CEO, moving to the standard employee plansrc
• Other On 2026-06-29 the company chose not to replace the Chief Technology & Operating Officer role when Carol Juel moved to run the Digital platform; its duties were spread across the executive team, and the new CTO reports to Doublessrc