Curtis Howse

Global Business Leader | Class of 2023

Curtis Howse, born in Little Rock, AR to Marion Howse, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Home & Auto Platform at Synchrony, one of the nation’s premier consumer financial service companies.

As CEO, Curtis leads a $30 billion business platform that offers comprehensive financial solutions across a broad network of home and auto merchants. During his career, he has partnered with OneTen, a coalition of leading companies committed to creating a more inclusive corporate America and helped create the Synchrony Black Experience Plus Network (BE+), which fuels the aspirations of minority and marginalized groups, such as women, people of color, and the LBGTQ+ community within the industry. Additionally, Curtis became a leading voice of the GE African American Forum (AAF), a successful corporate diversity affinity group with more than 30,000 members worldwide that offers career guidance to thousands of Blacks in the industry and has led to double their number of senior-level executives.

Curtis’ commitment to his community includes partnering with the Steve Landers Auto Network to develop an African American Affinity Network focused on creating career development forums, promoting racial equality, and mentoring African American employees of the auto network’s 38 locations across the U.S. Under his leadership, Synchrony made a substantial commitment to HBCUs including University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) and pledged their first contribution to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) “C-Suite” internship program in 2022. In addition, he attracted other senior-level Black executives to coach and mentor more than 2,000 students at UAPB. Curtis is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including Savoy Magazine’s Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America (2021 & 2022), GE Vanguard Award for Diversity Leadership, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Presidential Citation for Developing Leaders, and 100 Black Men of America to name a few. He is mentioned in several publications, including Better Homes and Gardens and Furniture Today.

Curtis is married to Regina Davis Howse, and they reside in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a member of Second Baptist Church in Little Rock and identifies his faith as the foundation of his success in both career and community service endeavors.