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Brian D. Doubles

  • President & CEO; director, SYF since 2021-04src

Synchrony's President & CEO since April 2021; its CFO through the 2014 IPO

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design8094% performance-conditioned · operating income, revenue, strategic, eps, roe, relative tsr, time only · 93.5% for · 0.60% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
51src
In the role
6 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
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Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 6

  • Target pay was raised to peer median in July 2025, mostly through equity. 2025 SCT total $21.4m, up from $18.8m; CEO pay ratio 337:1src
  • 2025 annual bonus paid 115.4% of target even though average receivables fell $1.5bn against a +$2.0bn target (0% on that 20% leg). The qualitative strategy & culture leg scored 180%src
  • 2023-2025 PSUs paid 177.2%: EPS and ROE were adjusted to neutralise the CFPB late-fee rule and its mitigants, restructuring charges and new deals, then lifted by the maximum 120% TSR modifier (89th percentile)src
  • The proxy calls 94% of his target pay performance-based, counting everything except salary (about 6%), including RSUs that vest on time alone (45% of the LTI)src
  • Sold 217,554 shares for about $14.9m on 2026-03-02 under a 10b5-1 plan adopted 2025-10-27. The sale included exercising the 2017 and 2018 options and selling those shares the same daysrc
  • Company-mandated security and personal aircraft use cost $804k in 2025, out of $1.24m in all other compensationsrc

In their favour 2

  • Company TSR over 2023-2025 was about 158%, ranking at the 89th percentile of the pay peer groupsrc
  • Say-on-pay passed with 93.5% of for-and-against votes at the June 2026 meeting (90.6% in 2025). Hedging and pledging are banned, and he exceeds the 6x-salary ownership guidelinesrc

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

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

11
  1. Filing Synchrony Financial DEF 14A (accession 0001601712-26-000017) · 2026-04-29
  2. Filing Synchrony Financial 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001601712-26-000025) · 2026-06-25
  3. Filing Synchrony Financial 8-K Items 5.02/7.01, Juel to CEO Digital, technology and operations leadership changes (0001601712-26-000027) · 2026-06-29
  4. Filing Synchrony Financial 8-K Item 5.02, CEO succession (0001601712-21-000028) · 2021-01-12
  5. Filing Synchrony Financial 8-K Item 5.02, Doubles named President, Wenzel named CFO (0001601712-19-000128) · 2019-05-03
  6. Filing Synchrony Financial DEF 14A, executive officer biographies (0001193125-16-529411) · 2016-04-04
  7. Filing Synchrony Financial S-1/A, IPO registration, management table (0001193125-14-293060) · 2014-08-04
  8. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1601712 (FY2025 10-K, 0001601712-26-000006) · 2026-02-06
  9. Filing Form 4, Brian D. Doubles (reporting CIK 1614719), RSU vesting/grant 2026-03-01 and 10b5-1 sales 2026-03-02 (0001614719-26-000006) · 2026-03-03
  10. Filing Form 4, Brian D. Doubles, 2023-2025 PSU vesting of 2026-01-21 (0001614719-26-000002) · 2026-01-23
  11. Web search result WebSearch: In re Synchrony Financial Securities Litigation (D. Conn. 3:18-cv-1818), BLB&G case page: defendants and $34m settlement · 2026-09-24