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Lee Lee joined the Synovus Financial Corp. family in 1986 in the Trust Department of Columbus Bank and Trust Company, Synovus' lead bank. From 1989 through 1994, she served as Director of Training, Vice President and Senior Vice president for Total System Services, Inc., the global solutions provider for commerce that is more than 80 percent owned by Synovus. In 1995, she was named Senior Vice President and Human Resources Division Officer for Synovus Service Corp. In 1996, she was promoted to President and Chief People Officer of Synovus Service Corp. She was named Vice Chairman of Synovus in 2000 and currently serves as the Chief People Officer for the holding company. Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Auburn University, 1983
Graduate, Duke University Executive Education, 1990
Graduate, Cannon Financial Institute Trust School, 1988
Current Affiliations:
Member, Financial Services Roundtable
Past Chairman, The Alexis de Tocqueville Society of United Way
Member, YMCA Task Force Committee
Chairman, Leadership Development Task Force - Governor's Commission for a New Georgia
Member, Library Foundation
Recent Honors:
Named among U.S. Banker Magazine's "25 Most Powerful Women in Banking," 2003
Named "Woman of the Year in Technology," by the Technology Association of Georgia
Named among U.S. Banker Magazine's "25 Most Powerful Women in Banking," 2004
Summary:
Lee Lee James is the Vice Chairman and Chief People Officer of Synovus Financial Corp., a multi-billion dollar, diversified financial services company that provides a broad set of products and services that touch people around the world. Synovus is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia, and has a rich history of growth and success that dates back to 1888. Under Lee Lee's direction as the company's Chief People Officer, the Synovus Financial Corp. team has consistently been selected as one of FORTUNE magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For In America, affirming the company's goal of being the employer of choice in the communities it serves.
Lee Lee joined the Synovus family in 1986 in the Trust Department of Columbus Bank and Trust Company. In 1989, she was named the Director of Training for Total System Services, Inc., one of the world's largest companies for outsourced payment services that is more than 80 percent owned by Synovus. A year later, Lee Lee was named Vice President and Human Resources Director for TSYS, and in 1994, she was named Senior Vice President. In 1995, when the HR areas of TSYS and Synovus merged as Synovus Service Corp., she was named Senior Vice President and HR Division Officer. Promoted to Synovus Service Corp. President and Chief People Officer in 1996, she became one of the youngest company Presidents in a corporate history that dates back to 1888. Lee Lee was named Vice Chairman of Synovus in May 2000 and currently serves as the Chief People Officer for the Synovus family of companies.
In 1990, Lee Lee and others at Total System Services, Inc. (TSYS) worked with officials from the State of Georgia to implement the first-ever Georgia Quickstart Computer Programming Training Program to provide computer programming education for TSYS, Inc. entry-level programmers a program that continued at TSYS until Governor Zell Miller introduced ICAPP (Georgia's precedent-setting Intellectual Capital Partnership Program) during a TSYS news conference in March of 1996. These programmer education programs have given individuals the opportunity of a lifetime to either begin a career or change it later in life.
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