Henry Munez

BMO U.S.

Vice Chair

Henry J. Munez is Vice Chair, BMO U.S. with client development responsibilities that maximize profitable revenue growth across all LOBs from Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, Personal & Business Banking and Capital Markets. As a chief connector, multi-generational relationship building is a key tenet for sustaining success; and Henry makes each relationship personal and local – one client, one colleague, and one community at a time. Henry is a proud Chicagoan – born in Humboldt Park, raised in Highland Park, and is currently living as “empty nesters” with his wife Erin in the Wicker Park neighborhood for nearly 30 years. Henry holds a joint M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and York University’s Schulich School of Business (“Kellogg-Schulich”), as well as a B.A. in Economics and Finance with a minor in Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Prior to his executive appointment, Henry was Head of Specialty Markets Group, BMO Commercial Bank U.S. with P/L responsibilities for several U.S. businesses: (i) Asset Based Lending, (ii) Food, Consumer & Agribusiness, (iii) Franchise Finance, (iv) Mid-Corporate Banking, and (v) Healthcare. Henry was also BMO’s Illinois Market Executive and Segment Head of Commercial Middle Market and Diversified Industries Group-Illinois. Before joining BMO in 2008, Henry was Managing Director, Division Head at LaSalle Bank N.A., leading a team in the National Institutional Real Estate Group, covering private equity sponsors and real estate operating companies based in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. markets. He started his banking career as a credit analyst at LaSalle in the early 1990s and has been a relationship manager for commercial and industrial middle-market companies.

Henry is also very active in the community. He currently serves on the executive board for Chicago Botanic Garden as Government Affairs Chair and is a Director for the Western Golf Association (a/k/a Evans Scholars Foundation) on its Long-Range Planning Committee. He has previously served on the executive boards of Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois (Chair), the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois (Vice Chair), the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (Vice Chair), Leading India’s Future Today, Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago Associate Board and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.