Simon “Mac” McNeil is the Executive Director of NCRC’s Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF). He is a top performing executive with multinational business experience that understands how to motivate large and small staffs of leaders to achieve high-level and demanding goals, while balancing employee work satisfaction. Named as one of the 10 Most Influential Black Corporate Leaders to Watch in 2023 by CIO Views Magazine, he most recently reported to the CEO of the Sanneh Foundation as Executive Vice President and led all business functions and senior leadership teams of the organization to include, data management, external affairs and partnerships, finance, fundraising, human resources, learning and development, operations, programming, risk and threat management, strategic branding and sustainability, strategic initiatives, and technology.

Mac has 19 years of finance and executive leadership experience with large banks such as JPMorgan Chase, where he was a 1st Vice President District Manager in Arizona and Southern California, and at Bank of America as Vice President/Operations Market Manager in the Inland Empire of California. Mac was the executive operations leader for 60 financial centers and had direct responsibility for a $2 billion P&L and over 500 employees. He was Vice President Operations for Synchrony Bank and led the Operations Optimization team to include Agile project management methodology, process improvement transformation, robotic process automation, intelligence character recognition implementation, the IRA and Trust front office operations teams and the bank correspondence and ATM card teams with operations in Charlotte, North Carolina; Merriam, Kansas; and Manila, Philippines.

Mac also has executive leadership experience in the CDFI space. He led all enterprise operations as Senior Vice President of Operations for the Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, which included asset management, credit underwriting, customer engagement, data management and analytics, loan origination and closing, loan servicing, process governance, risk and controls, technology and vendor relations.

Mac began his leadership career in the United States Army as an Intelligence Analyst in the Special Operations Command, specializing in psychological operations and is a Desert Storm Veteran. 

Mac has a doctorate (ABD) from the University of Phoenix in Management in Organizational Leadership, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and a BS in Business Administration from Pfeiffer University.

Mac has served on several boards to include Feeding America of Greater Riverside, Inspire Life Skills Training, and was the co-lead for the African American Network Charlotte for Synchrony.  He has also been featured in Who’s Who of Black Charlotte.