About Me

As President & Chief Executive Officer of Opportunity Finance Network (formerly National Community Capital), Mark is primarily responsible for Opportunity Finance Network’s vision and strategy. He speaks often and to diverse audiences about the past, present, and future of the opportunity finance field. Mark is leading the organization toward its goal of creating a high-impact, high-volume financing system providing tens of billions of dollars annually benefiting millions of low-income and low-wealth people.

Mark joined Opportunity Finance Network in February 1995. Under his leadership, the organization has introduced several innovative products (the Equity Equivalent investment, the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System™ (CARS™), and performance-based financing). In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Mark to the CDFI Fund Advisory Board in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He also currently serves on several national boards, including the CDFI Data Project (which he chairs) and the CDFI Coalition, as well as advisory boards to the Center for Community Development Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and several New Market Tax Credit community development entities. He is immediate past Chairman of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.