James Mackey joined BankUnited in 2025, and currently serves as the Company's Chief Financial Officer. Mackey is a seasoned business executive with extensive experience as a CFO for a variety of highly regarded financial institutions, helping to lead them through transformative periods of growth across finance, operations, risk and controls.
Most recently, Mackey served as the CFO for Wells Fargo’s consumer lending division. Previously, Mackey was the CFO for Freddie Mac and Ally Financial and was a divisional CFO for Bank of America’s corporate investments, corporate treasury and private equity divisions.
Mackey received a master’s in accounting and bachelor’s in business administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.