Chair
Serving for a one-year term, the Chair of the Board holds the top leadership position in the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and leads the Board Officers, joining a long line of South Florida leaders who for over a century have built the community and many of the institutions of today.
Hector J. Ponte
Chair, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
Southeast Region Executive
Wells Fargo
Hector J. Ponte is the Region Executive for Wells Fargo’s South Florida region. He oversees 105 Wells Fargo branches and more than 1,100 employees across Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. A 38-year veteran in financial services, Ponte began his career as a part-time teller with Florida National Bank in 1986, a Wells Fargo predecessor, and has held various branch, district and regional leadership roles. Most recently, he served as the Region Bank President for Broward County, formerly known as Wells Fargo’s Southeast Florida region.
A South Florida native, Ponte is very active in the community. In addition to his role as Chair of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Committee, he is Immediate Past Chair of the Miami-Dade Public Education Fund, where he has been a board member for more than 20 years. Hector also sits on the boards of directors of the United Way of Broward, Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance CEO Council and the Broward Workshop. Additionally, Ponte serves as the executive sponsor of the company’s South Florida Employee Impact Team (EIT), which leads community and volunteer projects for the company’s employees across Palm Beach, Broward, Miami Dade and Monroe counties.
In 2012, Ponte was inducted into the Miami-Dade College Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was awarded the Distinguished Citizens Award by the South Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America and selected by the National Diversity Council as a 2016 Top Latino Leader Award Winner. He was also named as one of the South Florida Business Journal’s Business of Pride Outstanding Voices in 2018 and received the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Alliance’s 2018 CEO Council Economic Development Leadership Award.
For the last seven years, Ponte has been named to the South Florida Business Journal's Power Leaders list, as well as the publication's Power Leaders in Banking list. In 2022, Ponte received the South Florida Business Journal Ultimate CEO Award and the South Florida Business and Wealth Magazine Diversity & Inclusion Award. He is a graduate of Miami-Dade College and is fluent in Spanish.
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