Vilas Kuchinad leads the Innovation business within Bank of America's Global Sustainable Finance Group (GSFG). The Innovation team focuses on fostering and engaging with new sustainable asset classes and emerging climate technologies including carbon capture, hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuels, waste-to-energy, water infrastructure, sustainable agriculture/aquaculture, mobility, and solutions for the built environment. In partnership with Bank of America's Commodities business the Innovation team brings scaling capital to carbon markets through financing solutions to scale projects that generate voluntary carbon offsets. The Innovation team works with partners across Bank of America to identify key climate funds with whom BofA can deepen overall working relationships.

Prior to Bank of America Vilas worked at Deutsche Bank in its structured finance business focused on private credit for sustainable, infrastructure, energy, and middle market credit. He started his career in real estate development focused on acquisitions for two national developers.

Vilas is Chair of the Ambassadors Board of DREAM. DREAM is an educational and youth development organization, serving over 2,500 children in the New York City area.

Vilas is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.