Kevin T. Kabat

Kevin Kabat began his career in the banking industry at Merchants National Bank as a consultant before working at Old Kent Financial Corporation where he served in a number of management and executive positions.

Between 2001 and 2003, Kevin was the President of Fifth Third Bank (Western Michigan). In 2003, he assumed the role of Executive Vice President of Fifth Third Bancorp before ultimately becoming President in 2006, serving in that role until September 2012. In 2007, he became the Chief Executive Officer of Fifth Third Bancorp before retiring from the company in 2016. While serving as Chief Executive Officer of Fifth Third Bancorp, Kevin also served on its board of directors, as chairman from 2008 to 2010, and as vice chairman from 2012 until his retirement. He also served as a Director of E*TRADE Financial Corporation, a financial services company, from June 2016 until October 2020. Kevin has served on the board of directors of UNUM (NYSE: UNUM) since 2008, assuming his current role as chairman in 2017 after having previously served as its lead independent director since 2016. Since 2015, Kevin has also served as a director of NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI), an energy holding company, and has served as chairman since 2019.

Kevin earned a B.A. in behavioral and social sciences from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. in industrial and organizational psychology from Purdue University.