Raul A. Anaya is head of Local Markets Strategy and is a member of the company’s executive management team. In this role, Anaya oversees the company’s efforts to integrate and deliver its full capabilities and business strategies locally through its 97 U.S. markets, including leading overall local markets strategy and execution, the company’s Market President network and Local Markets Organization (LMO), and coordination across our eight lines of business and staff support areas to deliver for clients, employees, and communities nationwide.
Anaya also leads the company’s work to amplify influence in local markets through the Bank of America Alumni Network. Through this effort, he drives out local market plans that strengthen connections with thousands of former teammates in local U.S. and international markets.
In addition, Anaya serves as president of Bank of America Greater Los Angeles, leading integration of Bank of America’s business lines to ensure delivery of the bank’s global financial services to individuals and businesses in the Greater Los Angeles region. In this capacity, he is currently leading Bank of America’s comprehensive wildfire response and rebuilding efforts for the Greater LA region. Anaya leads a cross-functional team dedicated to addressing the end-to-end, long-term needs of clients, employees and local communities, and partners closely with federal, state, and local officials and non-profit organizations heavily engaged in the work.
Active in the community, Anaya serves on the boards of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce (past chair), the AltaMed Health Services Foundation (past chair), UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the Angeleno chapter of YPO Gold.
Anaya joined Bank of America in Houston in 1989.