Alexis Pascual

Alex Pascual has over 25 years of experience in banking, mainly in the business development side, working for large international banks, as well as regional and local community banks.  His banking experience encompasses dealing with large multinational companies as well as medium size and small business companies over a large spectrum of industries thus affording him a unique perspective and a particular set of skills that have allowed him to be very successful in the different roles he has held throughout his banking career. He started in banking in the 90s with Citibank Venezuela as a credit analyst / underwriter in the Oil & Gas sector where he later transitioned to an RM role and head of Commercial Bank for the country’s Southeast region. Alex relocated with his family to Miami in 2000 and worked for 8 years with Regions Bank where he held several leadership roles for the Miami market in the Business Banking and Middle Market sectors. In 2008 he joined local community bank TotalBank as SVP of Corporate Banking with responsibilities over the bank’s Trade Finance unit. He joined BBVA USA Bank in 2011as a founding team member of the Miami Commercial Bank and played an instrumental role in the growth of this start-up office leading to his promotion as Head of the Commercial Bank for the Miami market. In 2019 he joined First Horizon Bank to spearhead the growth of the bank in the Miami market as Head of the Commercial Bank and with responsibility to implement the bank’s Trade Finance program for South Florida. Alex currently works as a senior commercial banker for Amerant Bank, focused on C&I finance solutions for medium-size companies in the South Florida market. Prior to his banking career Alex worked as a production engineer in the Oil & Gas industry in his home country of Venezuela, where he had the opportunity to work doing financial analysis and economic feasibility studies of major oil & gas project investments which led to his interest in finance and the pursue of his MBA degree.