Mr. Castillo serves as CEO of Native Community Capital (NCC) – a 501c3 tax exempt not for profit organization, Department of Treasury certified, Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).  NCC maintains offices in New Mexico and Arizona.  In addition to overseeing day-to-day operations Mr. Castillo’s primary role is to maintain and develop strategic partnerships with banks, public-sector agencies, as well as CDFI and foundation partners to raise public- and private-sector capital for housing, community- and economic development financing on tribal lands.

Mr. Castillo led a 2019 corporate merger of three previously separate, established, Native Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI).  The vision realized is the combining of talent, assets and markets to pursue a shared goal of closing the financial gap between tribes and the financial sector and operating under the new name of Native Community Capital. Thereafter, additional precedent was set when NCC secured its status as a licensed mortgage bank in 2020 to further focus it’s work of addressing the unmet demand for residential construction and mortgage lending on tribal trust lands.

Mr. Castillo’s professional contributions to tribal community- and economic development began in 1997 through work first with the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., later in tribal government and financial institution settings, and since 2009 in the CDFI industry. Mr. Castillo is a member of the Board of Directors for several Native non-profit organizations and also the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Housing Assistance Council, and Arizona Industrial Development Authority.  He serves as a trustee for the Vitalyst Foundation and is a member of Community Advisory Councils for the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s inaugural Advisory Committee on Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Housing. He volunteers on the Governor of Laguna Pueblo’s Housing Priority Team.

Mr. Castillo holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from ASU.  Mr. Castillo is of Nahua Indian descent.