Mark Santero

Mark Santero is President and CEO of NRECA’s investment management subsidiary, RE Advisers. He also was elected CEO of Homestead Funds, the mutual fund company created by NRECA, by the investment vehicle’s board of directors.

Santero brings more than 30 years of experience in investment management to RE Advisers. Most recently, he was the CEO at Dreyfus Corporation, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Investment Management. He was chief operating officer of BNY, where he oversaw the legal, administration and technology departments and a staff of more than 500 professionals in intermediary sales, institutional sales, operations and investments.

He also served as head of distribution operations at OppenheimerFunds, where he was responsible for strategic planning and budgeting, client service, sales operations, distribution technology, event planning and sales data science capabilities. Before that, he oversaw the Global Investment Division of Ivy Asset Management.