abstract:Kerry K Killinger (born June 6, 1949, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American businessman and a former chairman and chief executive officer of Washington Mutual, a failed savings and loan association that became the largest bank failure in U.S.
James Vanasek, a former chief risk officer at WaMu, testified to a Senate investigative panel Tuesday that he urged chief executive officer KerryKillinger to take WaMu in another direction as the mortgage market heated up in the mid-2000s.