VANESSA MONTAÑEZ
Senior Vice President; Head of Community Lending
City National Bank
Vanessa Montañez, DEL (doctorate of executive leadership) is working hard make homeownership possible and sustainable for historically underserved communities. With more than 25 years of experience in residential lending and sales and business development management, Montañez is a purposeful and passionate leader with a strong lending background and highly effective strategic management experience. She was hired by City National Bank to the newly created role of senior vice president and head of community lending.
In her role, Montañez is creating and managing a team that is responsible for building strategies and programs to expand mortgage lending to serve historically underserved communities through community outreach and financial education. Reinforcing City National’s commitment to serving underserved communities, she is leading a community loan program aimed to increase homeownership that will start in California and expand to all the communities the bank serves.
