Board of Directors

Meet Our Board

Eugenio Von Chrismar CARVAJAL

Chairman of the Board

Jorge Gonzalez

Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Diego yarur arrasate

Director

gRISEL vega

Director

Neisen kasdin

Director

jorge becerra

Advisor

fernando capablanca

Director

Ronald lindhart

Director

Charles C. Papy III

Director

Jaret L. Davis

Director

George befeler

Advisor

IGNACIO YARUR Arrasate

Advisor

Jorge Gonzalez is Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of City National Bank of Florida, the state’s third-largest financial institution, which is among the Top 100 in the country.

Jorge has more than 30 years of banking experience and has held various high-profile executive positions. A native Miamian, he places community, education, health, and culture at the heart of his driving philosophy.

Since he took the reins of City National Bank of Florida in 2009, Jorge has diversified and expanded the bank to include: Business and Personal Banking, Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking, Private Banking, Wealth Management, Commercial Real Estate, and specialty finance subsidiary BciCapital.

Driven by the vision to be Florida’s iconic bank, Jorge has grown the bank from $3 billion in tangible assets to over $25 billion. Currently, City National Bank of Florida has more than 900 employees and 32 Banking Centers from South to Central Florida. Jorge helped redesign the bank's business model in an innovative way, focusing on our clients and our community while emphasizing an exceptional client experience, building long-lasting relationships, and investing in the communities we serve.

Under Jorge’s leadership, City National Bank of Florida has received numerous awards and industry recognition. In 2013 and 2019 City National Bank of Florida was named Business of the Year by the South Florida Business Journal and was awarded the Outstanding Community Service Award for the work City National Bank of Florida does did in the community in 2012.

In 2016 and 2017, City National Bank of Florida was ranked among the “Best Banks to work for” by American Banker magazine. The readers of the Daily Business Review have voted City National Bank as the “Best Community Bank”, “Best Business Bank”, “Best Bank for Commercial Real Estate”, “Best Bank for Jumbo Loans”, “Best Private Bank”, “Best Foreign National Mortgage Lender”, and “Best Wealth Management” for seven consecutive years.

The bank’s value proposition, “We are large enough to give you what you want and small enough to provide it the way you want it,” and the shared purpose, “Exceptional Never Settles,” are the guiding principles behind the team’s passion, grit, and commitment to exceeding expectations.

City National Bank of Florida is rated 5-star “Superior” for safety and soundness – the highest possible – by BauerFinancial, the leading bank ratings firm. City National Bank of Florida has maintained this rating since June 2012, based on a number of critical factors, including impressive capital ratios and liquidity as well as exceptional credit quality.

In addition, Jorge has twice been named “Ultimate CEO” by the South Florida Business Journal and recognized among the “Top Ten Leaders” by Hispanic Executive Magazine in 2017. In 2019 he received the SFBW Apogee Award and was honored as Corporate Citizen of the Year by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Jorge is active in several charity and community organizations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Nicklaus Children’s Hospital System and the Institute of Contemporary Art. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Prior community roles include executive committee positions with United Way, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Beacon Council, Downtown Development Authority, Museum of Discovery and Science, and the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business from Florida International University and is a graduate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School Executive Leadership Training program at the University of North Carolina. Jorge is married to Melinda Gonzalez and is the proud father of teenage twins.

Mark B. Rosenberg is the fifth president of Florida International University (FIU), one of the 25 largest universities in the nation.

A political scientist specializing in Latin America, Dr. Rosenberg is the first FIU faculty member to ascend to the university’s presidency. He has more than 30 years of higher education experience.

From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Rosenberg served as chancellor for the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida, which enrolls more than 300,000 students, employs 10,000 faculty, and operates an $8 billion budget. As chancellor, Dr. Rosenberg led the system’s strategic development, financial planning, and policy initiatives, working closely with Gov. Charlie Crist and Legislature to secure support for State University System of Florida priorities.

Prior to becoming chancellor, Dr. Rosenberg was integrally involved in the expansion and development of FIU into a major public research university. As provost and executive vice president for academic affairs from 1998 to 2005, Dr. Rosenberg spearheaded the establishment of a law school in 2002 and a medical school in 2006. Under his leadership, FIU increased enrollment to 37,000 students, implemented major campus construction projects, and was invited to join the select national honor society Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Rosenberg was also instrumental in moving FIU into the top tier of Carnegie Foundation research universities.

Dr. Rosenberg’s academic career began at FIU in 1976 as an assistant professor of political science. In 1979, he founded the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center, which today is one of the nation’s premier federally supported research and teaching centers focusing on the region. Dr. Rosenberg subsequently served as the founding dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs and vice provost for international studies. He has also been a Visiting Distinguished Research Professor at The Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and a Visiting Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), in Mexico.

Dr. Rosenberg earned a B.A. in 1971 from Miami University of Ohio and a Ph.D. in political science with a graduate certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. He has written or co-edited seven books and numerous scholarly articles in leading journals. His latest book, "The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility" (2007), is a Harvard University project co-authored with Luis Guillermo Solis of Costa Rica. Governmental and media organizations have frequently sought Dr. Rosenberg’s expertise on Latin America. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has testified before Congress numerous times, and has served as a consultant to the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Firmly committed to community service, Dr. Rosenberg has also been active with the Jewish Federation of Greater Miami and was a founding contributor to the Organization for Leadership Advancement in Miami. He has been serving on the Board of Governors of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and on the South Florida Commission on the Nursing Shortage. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Holocaust Memorial as part of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, and on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU). Most recently, he was appointed to serve as Treasurer of the President’s League for the Sunbelt Conference, on the Board of Directors of City National Bank of Florida, on the Board of Directors of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), a member of the Florida’s Task Force on Educational Excellence, and on the Executive Committee for the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative (SMTI) as part of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

Dr. Rosenberg and his wife Rosalie, are members of Temple Menorah in Miami Beach.

Ronald Lindhart is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Banking Strategies International.

Since 2012, Ronald has led Banking Strategies International, LLC, a company that provides strategic and regulatory advisory services to banks and other financial institutions.

Ronald is also the lead independent trustee of The Community Development Fund, an open-end mutual fund whose investment objectives are focused on promoting the construction of additional, affordable housing by investing in debt securities deemed to be qualified for banks under the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.

Prior to founding Banking Strategies International, Ronald was a career bank regulator with 37 years of experience with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Administrator of National Banks. His positions at OCC’s included Deputy Comptroller of the Currency for Compliance Management and Director for International Banking & Finance. He also managed the South Florida office for the OCC, at various times and in several capacities, for more than a decade.

In October 2008, after the Lehman Brothers collapse and immediately after financial rescue legislation was signed by President George W. Bush, Ronald joined a select tactical implementation team of OCC officials detailed to the U.S. Treasury Department to help establish the initial operations of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). TARP eventually recovered $442 billion of the $427 billion that was paid out to stabilize bank capital cushions and promote lending in the U.S. banking system. In May 2005, and at the specific personal direction of the Comptroller of the Currency, he led the critical evaluation of the effectiveness of the OCC's overall Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) bank supervision program in the wake of highly-publicized and very serious BSA/AML compliance lapses identified at Riggs Bank, N.A. of Washington, D.C. Riggs Bank was fined $25 million by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Ronald holds a Master's Degree in Regulatory Policy from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Boise State University.

He is a thesis graduate of the American Bankers Association's Stonier Graduate School of Banking and also a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, the premier senior executive development arm of the U.S. Government.