Mr. Castillo serves as CEO of Native Community Capital (NCC), a 501c3 tax-exempt, Department of Treasury certified, Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and licensed mortgage bank in New Mexico and Arizona. His experience includes work in the non-profit, tribal government and private sector. He has held leadership roles in the CDFI Industry since 2009. In 2019 Mr. Castillo facilitated the merger of three previously independent Native CDFI’s to create NCC.

Today Mr. Castillo oversees day-to-day operations, maintains and develops strategic partnerships with banks, public-sector agencies, as well as CDFI and foundation partners to raise public- and private-sector capital to support housing, economic development, and small business financing on tribal lands.

Mr. Castillo co-authored a 2023 report entitled Redlining the Reservation: The Brutal Cost of Financial Services Inaccessibility in Native Communities and contributed a chapter to “Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America: Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship” (Cambridge University Press 2019).

Mr. Castillo is a member of the Board of Directors for 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 Council for the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s inaugural Advisory Committee on Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Housing. He also serves on the boards of various regional Native-led non-profits and 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.