Curtis Howse is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Home & Auto platform at Synchrony.
In this role, Howse is responsible for offering comprehensive payments and financing solutions for purchases across a broad network of home and auto merchants. He focuses on helping consumers manage, maintain and improve their homes and vehicles with a variety of financial products that are easy to afford and use.
Howse has held multiple senior leadership roles at Synchrony including the EVP and CEO of Payment Solutions and the EVP and Head of Direct-to-Consumer. In this role, Curtis drove growth and digital innovation for Synchrony Bank, a $63B+ consumer bank platform offering an array of deposit and savings solutions, as well as the Synchrony Mastercard.
Prior to Synchrony’s separation from GE, Howse held roles in operations and business development at GE’s Commercial and Consumer Finance divisions. This included serving as CEO for GE Money Mexico.
Howse is an executive sponsor of Synchrony’s African American Diversity Network. He also serves on the Business Advisory Board of the College of Business at Dillard University.
Howse earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry University.