Michelle Coons
Chair, Investment Committee, UNMF

Michelle Coons has spent 26 years in the banking industry in New Mexico and became the commercial banking manager for the southwest division for Bank of the West in August 2006. The states that she is responsible include New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. Bank of the West has more than $60 billion in assets, operates in 19 states primarily west of the Mississippi and is wholly owned by BNP Paribas, one of the world’s largest banks. Michelle currently serves as chair of the UNM Foundation’s investment committee. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from UNM Anderson School of Management with a concentration in finance and general management in 1983 and was inducted into its hall of fame in 2003. Michelle was awarded a Zia Award by the UNM's Alumni Association in 2005. She is also past president and chair of the UNM National Alumni Board, the Robert O. Anderson Schools Foundation Board and the Robert O. Anderson Schools National Advisory Board. Other community involvement includes United Way of Central NM, past chair of the Association of Commerce and Industry and the New Mexico Women’s Forum.