William Wolf

William (Will) Wolf is Chief People Officer for Sallie Mae. He oversees talent acquisition and development, total rewards, HR information systems and analytics, employee relations, and HR controls and compliance. He and his team also oversee the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and strategies and programs that drive a mission-led culture at Sallie Mae.

Will brings more than 20 years of HR leadership experience to Sallie Mae most recently serving as Chief Human Resources Officer at Santander U.S. While at Santander, he fully transformed all aspects of Human Resources function for U.S. businesses and its 17,000 employees. He also led Santander’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and pioneered its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Prior to Santander, Will served as the global head of talent acquisition and development at Credit Suisse where he led training and development, recruiting, HR information systems, and people analytics. Prior to Credit Suisse, Will was a partner at McKinsey & Company in Washington D.C., where he worked on people strategies with clients from more than a dozen industries and in 25 countries.

Will earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Richard Jenrette Fellow.

He and his wife, Allison, raised four children in Alexandria, VA. They are devoted supporters of a summer camp for Cerebral Palsy and Downs Syndrome campers on Martha’s Vineyard. Will also serves as a Director of the Kenan Institute at UNC.