
How holistic credit decisioning offers an innovative approach to financial assessment

Max Axler is Synchrony’s Chief Credit Officer responsible for credit, fraud, collections, recovery and authentication analytics and strategies deployed across Synchrony’s partners and Synchrony’s bank, as well as merchant and venture underwriting. Synchrony offers the CareCredit health and wellness credit card.Prior to joining Credit, Mr. Axler helped lead the IPO of the company from GE. Mr. Axler rejoined Synchrony from GE in 2013, where he was CFO of GE’s Franchise Finance business. Mr. Axler joined GE upon graduating Michigan State University and was part of their Corporate Audit Staff, working in 6 different countries across 8 different GE business models.

February 16th 2026