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 success; and Henry makes each relationship personal and local – one client, one colleague, and one community at a time. 

Prior to his executive appointment, Henry was Head of Specialty Markets Group (“SMG”), BMO Commercial Bank U.S. with P/L responsibilities for several U.S. industry-based businesses: (i) Asset Based Lending, (ii) Food, Consumer & Agribusiness, (iii) Franchise Finance, (iv) Mid-Corporate Banking, and (v) Healthcare. Prior to SMG, Henry was BMO’s Illinois Market Executive and Head of Diversified Industries Group, focusing on commercial middle market banking. 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 National Bank in the early 1990s and has been a relationship manager for commercial and industrial middle-market companies. 

Henry is very active in the civic community. He currently serves on the executive board for The 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 United Way of Metropolitan Chicago’s Corporate Cabinet, Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois, the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, Leading India’s Future Today, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago Associate Board.  He was founder of the Chicago Chapter of Real Estate Lenders Association and is currently a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. 

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.