Manolo Sánchez is a director at Fannie Mae (FNM), Affirm (AFRM), Stewart Information Systems (STC) and the Boeing Employee Credit Union (BECU) after having served as chair & CEO of BBVA Compass for over a decade.  At Rice University’s Jones School of Business, he teaches disruption in financial services. Manolo is an advisor to several fintech and blockchain start ups.


His banking career at BBVA, spanned over 27 years, with executive positions in the US, Mexico, France and Spain. Manolo has served as a director of OnDeck Capital, BanCoppel Mexico, the American Bankers Association, the Institute of International Bankers, the Greater Houston Partnership, the Financial Services Roundtable and BITS (the technology policy division of FSR).  


Manolo has volunteered extensively in the communities where he has worked, with a focus on education, health, and the arts.  He serves as a trustee of Texas Children’s Hospital. Manolo is a past director of KIPP Texas, the Center for Houston’s Future, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Symphony.

A graduate of Yale University, Manolo earned master’s degrees in international relations from the London School of Economics and in advanced European economics from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. 
A native of Murcia, Spain, Manolo first came to the US as high school exchange student. In addition to English and Spanish, he speaks French, German and Arabic. A naturalized US citizen, he lives in Houston with his wife and three children.