David C Darnell

David C. Darnell is president of Global Commercial Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He leads a team of commercial banking professionals who provide integrated delivery of the bank’s full capabilities to one in three mid-size businesses across the U.S. Global Commercial Banking comprises Middle Market, Business Banking, Commercial Real Estate Banking, Healthcare, Institutions and Government Banking, Bank of America Business Capital (assetbased lending) and Dealer Financial Services. Darnell is based in Charlotte and a member of the company’s executive management team. Before assuming his current position in July 2005, Darnell led the bank’s Middle Market Banking group for four years. Prior to that, he led the bank’s consumer and commercial banking operations in the central region of the United States, based in St. Louis. Before moving to St. Louis, he served as executive vice president and Commercial Division executive for Bank of America in Florida. He joined the bank as a credit analyst in Greensboro, N.C., in 1979. Active in the community, Darnell is a member of the Wake Forest University board of visitors for the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, a board member of the Museum of Science and Industry, and a member of the executive committee for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. A native of Charlotte, Darnell received an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate degree in business from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C