Rebeca Rainey

Rebeca Romero Rainey is the chairman and CEO of Centinel Bank in Taos, N.M. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Pacific Coast School of Banking. Upon graduating from Wellesley, she returned to Taos with the dream of continuing her family business of running the town’s only local community bank. In 1999, she was promoted to president and CEO of the bank and is the third generation of her family to run the bank. Centinel Bank has $190 million in assets and maintains the market share of deposits in the community. Romero Rainey is a past president of the Independent Bankers Association of New Mexico and is currently vice chairman of the Independent Community Bankers Association. From 2009 thru 2012, she served two terms on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s Advisory Committee on Community Banking. In October 2011, she joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. She is actively involved in several local nonprofits. She currently is president and co-founder of the Bridges Project for Education, a nonprofit focused on helping first-generation college students, and is past president of the Northern New Mexico Birth Center. She is also on the board of the New Mexico Economic Partnership. In 2009, Romero Rainey was selected as “Taos Citizen of the Year,” and she has been awarded the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Outstanding Women.