Rose Blackwood, CFA

Rose Blackwood leads Bank of America’s corporate real estate strategies for the Wealth Management business. She oversees a multibillion-dollar portfolio and ensures real estate decisions support revenue growth, business performance, and enterprise priorities. Her work focuses on making clear, disciplined choices in complex environments, especially during periods of rapid change across the real estate industry. Her work sits at the intersection of internal business priorities and external market environment.

She has spent nearly fifteen years at Bank of America and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to relocating in 2018, Rose worked in Houston as part of the CFO organization, supporting the Global Commodities business. In that role, she led financial planning and analysis through multiple franchise transitions and helped build the capital planning framework supporting the Comprehensive Capital Adequacy Review (CCAR) requirements.
Rose’s perspective is shaped by a global career across three countries and four cities. Before joining Bank of America, she held progressive leadership roles at the Bank of Nova Scotia, primarily at its Toronto headquarters. She later supported the bank’s US expansion by building out its finance function in Houston. She began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she developed a strong foundation in financial discipline, critical thinking, problem solving, and communication.

Across her career, Rose has helped organizations navigate moments that demand clarity and courage. This includes expanding into new markets during the financial crisis, adapting global businesses to regulatory change, and repositioning large scale real estate portfolios to reflect how people work today. She brings a steady, practical approach to solving complex problems and identifying opportunity.

Rose holds an MBA in Finance from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a CFA charter holder.She is committed to paying it forward through community involvement and mentorship. Rose serves as a board member and mentor with Wayfinders, a Charlotte based nonprofit focused on economic opportunity for underserved youths. She previously served as president of the Multicultural Women Leadership Council, supporting more than 1,200 multicultural women leaders.

Best advice from a mentor and executive coach: “Some people think of their career or passion as a static problem to solve, like being locked alone in a room to solve a Rubik’s cube. When in reality, we need to put ourselves out there to try different things, have different experiences and meet different people – and your purpose will present itself”. Embrace the journey!