Director and Chairman of the Board since October 2011. President and CEO of BXM Holdings, an investment fund specializing in community bank investments, since November 2010. Between 2009 and 2010, President and CEO of Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiary Midwest Bank and Trust. Previously, he spent 17 years with Popular Inc. as its Executive Vice President and as President of Popular Inc.’s subsidiary Banco Popular North America. Prior to joining Popular, Mr. Herencia spent 10 years with The First National Bank of Chicago (now J.P. Morgan Chase) in a variety of roles, including Deputy Senior Credit Officer and Head of the Emerging Markets Division.
In March 2016, Mr. Herencia was appointed as an independent director of Banner Corporation and its subsidiary Banner Bank. He has been an independent director and the chairman of the board of privately held Byline Bancorp and its subsidiary bank, Byline Bank, since June 2013. Mr. Herencia served from December 2010 until September 2015, as an independent director of privately held SKBHC Holdings LLC, and its two subsidiary banks, American West Bank and First National Bank of Starbuck.
Mr. Herencia was appointed in 2011 by President Obama to serve on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation’s Board of Directors and was re-nominated in April 2013. Mr. Herencia is a Trustee of DePaul University and Northwestern Memorial Foundation in Chicago. He serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Chicago, the Navy Pier Corporation in Chicago, and Operation Hope in Los Angeles. Between 2003 and 2007, Mr. Herencia was a member of the Board of Directors of The ServiceMaster Company LLC, a public corporation, where he served as Chairman of its Audit and Finance Committee.