Forbes.com lists Chief Risk Officer Gregory L. Curl as one of the "Top Executives at Bank of America". According to his profile, "On June 4, 2009, the Corporation announced that Gregory L. Curl, 60, has been named as Chief Risk Officer, effective June 30, 2009. Gregory Curl currently serves as Global Corporate Strategic Development and Planning Executive. Curl began his career in 1974 in St. Louis with Boatmen's Bancshares as a commercial loan officer. From 1976 to 1978, he served as a special assistant to U.S. Senator John C. Danforth. He returned to the bank in 1978 and continued to serve in many capacities, including Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Boatmen's. Since 1996 he has served in several capacities at Bank of America including Vice Chairman of Corporate Development and Global Corporate Planning and Strategy Executive since 2001. Curl received a bachelor's degree in political science from Southwest Missouri State University and a master's degree in government from the University of Virginia. He was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1970 and was a Philip Dupont Scholar and a McIntire Fellow at the University of Virginia. He served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and the Middle East from 1970 to 1974. Curl is a director of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia, The Enstar Group, Inc., Grupo Financiero Santander Serfin, and China Construction Bank."