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Romero Rainey at ICBA's Washington, D.C., off ice,
where she'll work with the association's staff to
advance the community banking agenda.
a $50 furniture loan was turned down. This experience
sparked Romero's idea to create a bank that would
provide everyone in his community with equal access
to fi nancial services.
Over the next decade, he and his wife, Elizabeth, worked
to secure 300 investors in Centinel Bank of Taos, which
opened for business in 1969.
Almost 50 years later, Eliu Romero's granddaughter
remains inspired by his determination to make things
happen. " I think, for me, that's part of the legacy, "
Romero Rainey says. " It's not only about continuing the
bank and helping to make dreams come true; it's that
determination to tackle a problem as a challenge, turn it
into an opportunity and fi gure out how to create a win-win
scenario for everybody involved. "
Both Romero Rainey's parents and her maternal
grandmother worked at Centinel Bank of Taos, and
Romero Rainey herself became a part-time teller at age
15. She left New Mexico to attend Wellesley College in
Massachusetts, and visions of a big-city life and a career
involving international travel appealed to her. But as
graduation drew nearer, her perspective shifted.
" It began to become more real to me: What would the
impact be? How could I make a diff erence? " she says. " I
could work hard and have a lot of fun, but what would I
really have to show for it at the end of the day? "
It was community banking that soon pulled her back to
her roots and ultimately became her calling. After earning
degrees from Wellesley and the Pacifi c Coast School of
Banking, Romero Rainey returned to Centinel Bank of
Taos. She became its president and CEO in 1999 at age 22,
making her the youngest bank president and CEO in the
k
" There's an incredible opportunity for us
to defi ne more what being a
community banker is. "
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