Full Name
Sumeet Chugani
Job Title
Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President
Company
Apple Bank for Savings
Speaker Bio
Sumeet is Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at Apple Bank, where heads the Consumer Banking, Corporate Insurance, and Corporate Real Estate Legal Teams. Prior to joining Apple Bank, he led Citizens Bank legal in merchant installment, personal loans, credit cards, consumer payments, and digital marketing. Prior to his in-house roles, Sumeet was a regulatory consultant at PwC, and a consumer financial services litigator at Akerman LLP and Diaz, Reus & Targ LLP. During his time at Citizens, Sumeet acted as head of diversity and inclusion for Citizens Bank Legal, and the Community Pillar of PRISM—Citizens Bank’s multicultural business resource group. At Apple Bank, Sumeet has initiated a 1L diversity externship program, 1L diversity summer internship program, and numerous pro-bono naturalization clinics, during his time in leadership. He has a new summer 1L diversity summer internship program class coming in 2021. Sumeet has led and continues to lead various civic and diversity-driving organizations, including being former president and director of the South Asian Bar Association of Florida. Sumeet further pushes diversity and inclusion as a committee member of the Minorities in the Profession Committee of the New York City Bar, and the South Asian Bar Association of New York. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Literacy Trust, an organization seeking to ensure that all students are literate by the end of second grade by leveraging what already exists in our school communities to increase educational capacity to create more fluent, motivated, self-confident readers.
Sumeet Chugani