Cooperative Fund of the Northeast

Covering Maine and working with 25+ housing, worker-owned business, food, and farmer co-op clients to secure financing for conversions and growth.  Tasks include underwriting loan applications, conducting outreach, supporting current and potential borrowers, working with community based organizations, and providing business technical assistance. Always looking for partnerships and co-lending arrangements!

Loan and Outreach Officer - Maine

MaineStream Finance

As a non-profit CDFI lender, we assisted Maine homeowners and business owners in realizing their dreams through advisory and financial services and coordinated programs around credit counseling, foreclosure counseling, home repair, and asset building.   We were able to reduce PAR90 from over 10% to less than 2%, cross-train and certify our counselors across multiple programs, launch multiple new loan products and programs, and helped raise several million in capital and grant funding.  We also helped found the coordinating body - Business Resource Partners of Greater Bangor.

Chief Executive Officer

International Executive Service Corps (IESC)

Led the growth of IESC's financial services practice area, focusing on financial inclusion in the sub-sectors of SME and agriculture finance and the geographic regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA and Asia.  Provided technical guidance to programs, particularly in Egypt, Liberia, Lebanon, Mali, and Yemen and as an OPIC-designated loan advisor and originator.

AVP, Financial Services

Independent Consultant

Primarily finalizing a contract with Pohl Consulting and WSBI (through EIB) to provide support to an MFI in Haiti on social performance management (SPM) implementation and serving as the interim Financial Services Practice Lead for IESC until my family's physical move to Washington, DC could be completed.

Development Finance Specialist

AZMJ LLC (cka Connexus)

• Provided technical assistance to local service providers in North and Sub Saharan Africa on youth enterprise & financial services and agricultural & rural finance development.
• Conducted in-depth analysis of businesses and financial institutions for investors and other clients.
• Assisted in the coordination of Social Performance Management (SPM) efforts, especially appropriate product development.

Senior Financial Services Specialist

MicroSave

• Managed $6 million Gates Foundation program, focusing on savings & mobile money for 10+ financial service partners with team of 12+. 
* Coordinated development of mobile-based savings product for Standard Bank (GAFIS-South Africa).  
• Coordinated development of seven (7) new toolkits and several resource documents, particularly in mobile money.  
• Managed Hyderabad office for 13 staff.  Led three practice groups and guided several other nascent practice groups.  
• Co-created leadership development program for 15+ high potential staff and new performance management system.  
• Merged $650,000 Unitus Social Performance Implementation Project (SPIP - Dell & Deutsche Bank foundations).

Vice President

• Conducted research and partner coordination in social performance management (SPM) tools for Imp-Act Consortium.  
• Provided analysis and reviews of Calvert Foundation’s existing MFI loan portfolio in Latin America and Eastern Europe.   
• Coordinated due diligence training of eight ACDI/VOCA staff for potential development finance investment fund.
• Co-created training of trainers (TOT) on “Building Analytical Skills for Microfinance Decision-Making” for 15 attendees.  
• Provided technical assistance for EDC/FHI (USAID) Youth Enterprise Development (YED) program in Bukavu, DRC.

Senior Analyst and Researcher

Capital Link, Inc.

Managed Capital Link’s role in the Medical Homes-DC $20 million initiative to improve and expand Washington, DC health centers, including budgeting and financing assistance.

Project Consultant - DC Medical Homes Lead

• Managed workloads, assessed development needs and recruited for a team of four (4) consultants who collectively provided assistance to non-profits in 29 states.
• Assisted management team in implementing policies, such as a new goals oriented staff assessment process as well as in strategic planning and budgeting.

Eastern Division Director

• Assisted 18 non-profit health centers in structuring & securing over $60 million in grants & loans through banks, CDFIs, tax credits (new markets & historic), federal loan guarantees and tax-exempt bonds.  
• Co-presented in over 10 training seminars at national and state level conferences.  
• Collaborated with team members in developing lending programs, creating and refining new quantitative tools, such as a lease versus buy analysis, developing a financing sources database, and co-producing three resource materials.

Capital Finance Consultant

Fleet Bank (cka Bank of America)

• Analyzed creditworthiness of commercial banking non-profit clients, primarily hospitals, nursing homes, and universities.   
• Aided relationship team in maintaining and monitoring portfolio of 35+ clients and over $100 million in credit facilities.  
• Created loan closing and renewal tracking database to monitor existing exposure and develop new business.  
• Led creation of Healthcare Industry White Paper, working across several departments and state offices, including risk management and economic forecasting, and covering several sub-sectors such as hospitals, mental health, & tertiary care.

Senior Financial Analyst - AVP

Univest Financial Services (also known as GMAC MortgageResCap and Ally Financial)

Participated in due diligence of seven (7) home mortgage securitization packages for secondary markets to ensure compliance with buyer standards.

Due Diligence Contractor

Community development finance professional with 25+ years of experience in microfinance, community development finance and commercial banking. Technical skills in product development, social performance, leadership/HR development, entrepreneurship/microenterprise development and operations.

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