CEOI MEMBER SINCE 2019

Penny Pennington is the managing partner of Edward Jones, a leading financial services company dedicated to helping its 8 million clients turn their life plans into financial plans. Under her leadership, the firm delivers on its purpose to partner for positive impact, to improve the lives of its clients and colleagues, and together, better its communities and society. Ms. Pennington, as the firm’s sixth managing partner, is guiding Edward Jones through a cultural renewal and strategic transformation that is purpose-driven, leader-led,and team-based. She began her career with Edward Jones as a financial adviser in 2000 after a 14-year career in banking and was named a principal in 2006. She held various leadership roles in the firm’s St. Louis home office before being named managing partner in 2019. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and she was named No. 43 on the Fortune Most Powerful Women list in 2022. That same year, she was elected to serve a three-year term as a large-firm governor of the FINRA board of governors. She is an active member of the St. Louis community, serving on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and the Washington University in St. Louis board of trustees.