About me
Carlos P. Naudon is President and CEO of Ponce Bank and its publicly traded financial holding company, Ponce Financial Group (NASDAQ: PDLB). He is also President of the Ponce de Leon Foundation, endowed by Ponce Bank to support not-for-profits that contribute to financial, racial and climate equity within the communities that the Bank serves.
As President, Naudon has reinvigorated Ponce Bank’s 62-year mission to provide financial services to the underserved but highly deserving immigrant communities and low-and-middle income stakeholders in and around New York City and other similar communities. The Bank has been recognized as a Minority Depository Institution (MDI) as well as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), one of fewer than 50 banks so designated in the U.S. Ponce Bank was recently rated the #1 Latinx Bank in the country for community investment by Mighty Deposits, an independent rating resource for mission-oriented banking.
Naudon has served as Regulatory Counsel and Advisor to many banks during almost 40 years as an Attorney and CPA focused upon banking law and he is owner and publisher of The Gold Book: The Manual of Bank Operations, long a trusted resource within the banking community. He was recently appointed to the New York Federal Reserve Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Minority Institutions Council of the ICBA and serves on the board of the Independent Bankers Association of New York State. He is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Brooklyn Hospital Center and former Chairman of the Board of ModernMD, which has urgent care facilities throughout Brooklyn, NY.
