Board of Visitors

Joan Amble
Executive Vice President & Corporate Comptroller
American Express

Joan Amble, ’75, is Executive Vice President and Corporate Comptroller for the American Express Company and is responsible for all controllership finance functions across the Company.

Joan serves on the Board of Directors of Sirius XM Satellite Radio as Chairman of the Audit Committee.  In 2009, she was also appointed to the Board of Directors of Broadcom Corporation.  She also serves on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, the technical advisory board to the FASB.

Joan, a CPA, obtained her undergraduate degree from The Pennsylvania State University.  In 2005, Joan was honored with the Penn State Alumni Fellow Award, and in 1996 she was named the Smeal College of Business Department of Accounting’s Alumna of the Year. 

Joan is an avid proponent of helping women develop professionally and advance in the workplace.  In 2008, she served as keynote speaker at the inaugural Pennsylvania State University Annual Symposium Celebrating Women in Business, where she spoke about “Harnessing the Power of the Changing Workforce.”  She was also keynote speaker at the Women in Financial Leadership Conference, co-hosted by American Express in 2008, where she discussed the increasing diversity in the workforce and the resulting challenges and opportunities for companies.  In 2009, Joan was appointed to represent American Express on the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force, a private sector Task Force created by The Center for Work-Life Policy to examine issues and policies pertaining to female and minority talent.  She is also a co-founder of the U.S. W.O.M.E.N. mentoring program, launching in fall 2009.