Dawson Her Many Horses is the Head of Native American Banking for Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo Commercial Banking has relationships with 1 out of 3 federally recognized Tribes, and it has committed $3.4 billion in credit and holds $4.1 billion in deposits for tribal governments and tribally owned enterprises nationally.

Dawson’s career spans commercial and investment banking with a focus on Native American gaming and tribal economic development. He began his career in 2004 at Merrill Lynch, where he worked as an investment banking analyst and Director of Native American Business Development. In 2008, he left finance to go to business school, and he rejoined Bank of America Merrill Lynch after receiving his M.B.A. degree in 2010. Dawson joined Wells Fargo in 2018, and he was promoted to Head of Native American Banking in 2021. He is one of a handful of Native Americans to work in banking, and he’s used his position to elevate issues impacting tribal communities within the financial community and among policymakers.

Dawson is the first Native American trustee on the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is a member of the Native American Visiting Committee at Dartmouth College, and he sits on the Leadership Council of the Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. In 2003, Dawson founded the Native American employee group at Merrill Lynch, and it still exists today at Bank of America. He is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.