Alex Sanchez is president and CEO of the Florida Bankers Association, which has membership of small, regional and large financial institutions that together employ tens of thousands of Floridians, safeguard more than $800 billion in deposits. Sanchez served on the EXIM Bank Advisory Committee from 2018 to 2020. He was appointed by President George W. Bush as a Board member to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board from 2003-2010, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2003. Sanchez served in the United States Air Force from 1976-1981.