Bank of America names Greg Curl CRO

Bank of America today replaced Chief Risk Officer Amy Woods Brinkley with Gregory Curl, a 31-year veteran of the Charlotte-based financial services giant. Curl most recently was global corporate strategic development and planning executive. He has been a key insider who has helped transform BofA from a regional bank to a global powerhouse. He had key roles in NationsBank's purchases of Bank of America (1998), Countrywide (2007), and Merrill Lynch (2008). Curl joined the NationsBank family when he was serving as vice chairman and COO of Boatmen's Bancshares which Nations acquired in 1996.

Brinkley, 53, has decided to retire, with the official line from BofA being that Ken Lewis and Brinkley "mutually decided that we needed a different approach to our risk management and it was a good time to change leadership." Brinkley has been a regular in lists of influential woman executives, and had made steady progression through the senior ranks at BofA. Brinkley joined NCNB in 1978 as a mangement trainee in the commercial credit department. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.