Director of OFG Bancorp since 2016.
Néstor de Jesus has more than 30 years of experience as an investment banker serving Puerto Rico private and public sector clients.
From 1984-2014, Mr. de Jesus was an investment banker in Puerto Rico with Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Since 1996, he was Director of the Puerto Rico Office, Municipal Bond Division. His clients included higher education institutions, hospitals, real estate developers, manufacturing companies, hotels and tourism-related projects, and public sector issuers of revenue and general obligation bonds. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Rovira Biscuit Corporation, Rovira Foods and Academia Maria Reima Inc.
From 1979-1984, Mr. de Jesus served as Senior Consultant and Supervisor for the Management Consulting Group in the San Juan office of Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young). His work focused on financial operations and management controls in the manufacturing, commercial, healthcare and government sectors.
Mr. de Jesus has a 1975 BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a 1979 MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. He has been a board member of a number of Puerto Rico organizations, including the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority, Ana G. Mendez University System, Puerto Rico Convention Bureau, Wharton Club of Puerto Rico, and the Puerto Rico Financial Analysts Association.