Maggie Ference

Maggie is a Senior Vice President and the Regional Bank Small Business and SBA Director for Huntington National Bank, a $200 Billion Dollar Regional Bank based out of Columbus, Ohio. With a background in financial underwriting, commercial closing due diligence, and SBA Program Eligibility, Maggie has built a career specializing in business solutions and is very active as a small business advocate in the communities that Huntington serves. Maggie is currently overseeing the National SBA Franchise and Small Business Teams, with a focus on making and servicing loans from $1,000 - $25 Million in size, throughout the entire small business life cycle beginning at start-up and continuing through $50 Million in revenue size. Working with start-ups on business plans, helping small businesses expand into commercial companies, finding aging owners a generational solution for the sale of their business, and even helping those customers who fall on hard times, small business solutions are her passion. As a member of NAGGL and several other small business associations, Maggie works closely with private and public segment leaders nationwide to communicate Huntington’s mission for small business. She is the business representative on the bank’s ESG (Environmental Social and Governance) Board, focusing on Huntington’s impact on our customers, colleagues, and community. Maggie is also a member of Huntington’s National Community Advisory Council, where she works with community leaders across the Midwest to drive bank policies, procedures, and philanthropy to better support the ever-changing neighborhoods where we are based. Maggie is proud to be the Chair of Huntington’s Political Action Committee (HBI-PAC) enabling meaningful, transparent, and publicly accountable political participation. Maggie earned her BSBA degree from Ohio Dominican University and is a graduate of the CBA Executive School of Banking at Furman University, SC. She was a 40 Under 40 2019 Award winner in Columbus, Ohio, where she resides in with her family. Maggie is on the Board of Directors for ECDI, the nation's most active small business CDFI. She is currently serving as the President of the Development Board at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She is also proud to be celebrating her 14th year as a rider and fundraiser for Pelotonia, a grassroots bike tour in the fight to end cancer.