Aim to reach C-suite of a bank: IB or consulting?

My career aspiration is to reach the C-suite of a financial institution and I want to best optimise my skilset for it

I'm especially interested in bank strategy / capital allocation so I have an interest in Risk functions and CIBs (Dimon, Solomon, Venkat)

However, I recognise it is faster to also enter from an MBB (see Gorman, Fraser, Nunn, Thiam)

For optimisation purposes, which would be the best in this current generation?

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