After nearly three months of searching by Bank of America for a replacement for Kenneth Lewis, the US bank has selected an in-house replacement as chief executive. Here Financial News charts the rise through the ranks of Brian Moynihan, the man who has stepped up to a role very few were prepared to take.

A graduate of Brown University and the University of Notre Dame Law School, Moynihan also serves on the boards of directors at YouthBuild Boston, a Massachusetts-based non-profit body focused on improving the skills of young people, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, another youth-targeted body whose premier partner is Bank of America.