 Susan Vickers, RSM
Chairperson
Sister Susan Vickers is the Vice President, Community Health, for Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), a health care delivery system with facilities in California, Arizona and Nevada. She is responsible for initiating and coordinating System initiatives in community benefit, community investment, corporate responsibility and ecology. These initiatives are an expression of CHW's mission to partner with others in order to improve the quality of life of the broader community. Sr. Susan responsibilities include initiating and coordinating systemwide efforts to influence corporate accountability. She collaborates with other members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) to raise social responsibility issues with the management of companies in CHW's investment portfolio. Sr. Susan took a leadership role in developing CHW's systemwide commitment to improved environmental performance and in the decision making process which led CHW to endorse the CERES Principles for environmental protection and conservation. CHW is the first healthcare organization to endorse the Principles developed by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. Sr. Susan currently serves as development committee member of the Northern California Community Loan Fund, board member of Mercy High School, Burlingame, member of the Advisory Committee for the Catholic Healthcare Investment Trust (CHIT), member of the CHRISTUS Health SRI Advisory Committee, member of the Catholic Heath Initiatives Community Investments Committee and board member of the Mercy Investment Program.
Prior to joining Catholic Healthcare West, Sr. Susan served on the General Council of the Sisters of Mercy - Regional Community of Burlingame, California. She has worked as pastoral minister/administrative assistant in assisted rental housing for elderly and handicapped persons and spent twenty years in teaching and administering elementary schools. She has served as a Corporate Member of Mercy Housing System, a non-profit developer of affordable housing.
 Brad Swanson
Treasurer
Mr. Swanson has been a partner in Developing World Markets, a socially responsible fund manager and investment bank, since 2003. He has extensive experience leading financial transactions in global emerging markets. Prior experience includes senior positions at Global Environment Fund, a “green” private equity investment fund in Washington DC; Banque Nationale de Paris, where he headed emerging markets investment banking from London; and Bankers Trust, where he headed Middle East corporate finance from London. In addition, he has served in Iraq with the US Department of Defense and in western African with the US State Department. He wrote the chapter on “The Role of International Capital Markets in Microfinance” in Microfinance: Emerging Trends and Challenges (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009). He has a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia University.
 Kate Barr
PCG Board Director
Kate Barr is Executive Director of the Nonprofits Assistance Fund, a nonprofit CDFI based in Minnesota that operates several revolving loan funds serving nonprofit organizations locally and nationally. Kate has over 15 years of experience in lending and financial management, in a variety of areas including small business, commercial real estate, community development and childcare. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the St. Paul Capital Fund, a community development venture capital fund, Springboard for the Arts, a resource for artists and arts organizations, and Western Bank, a community bank in St. Paul. She has served on numerous other boards and committees of community and professional organizations. Kate previously worked as Senior Vice President at Riverside Bank in Minneapolis and Assistant Vice President at Resource Bank & Trust in Minnetonka.
 Leonard English
PCG Board Director
Leonard English has spent his career working for organizations promoting affordable housing and economic opportunity for low-income communities. Brown English Capital Advisors (BECA) is a double bottom line advisory firm that specializes in high quality community development mortgages that earn market rates of return while delivering measurable social impacts to low and moderate-income communities. Prior to co-founding BECA, Leonard served as the Investment Manager for the General Board of Pension’s Affordable Housing Mortgage Lending Program. In this capacity, he managed a $1.7 billion affordable housing loan portfolio and promotes the General Board’s socially responsible investing initiatives. Before joining the General Board, Leonard was Vice President of Commercial Real Estate at Brickyard Bank in Chicago, where he specialized in financing government subsidized housing projects and financing projects in low and moderate income census tracts. Prior to that, Leonard served as a Managing Director of Lakeshore Management and Consulting Group, where he worked developing financial strategies for local CDCs and faith-based housing development organizations. Leonard has also worked in the Neighborhood Banking Division at Northern Trust Bank, financing multi-family acquisition and rehab loans and as a Commercial Loan Officer specializing in SBA financing and terms on boards of various local non-profit organizations and community development organizations. Leonard holds a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and is currently pursuing an MBA with a focus in real estate finance.
 Ignacio Esteban
PCG Board Director
Ignacio Esteban is Executive Director of the Florida Community Loan Fund, a statewide nonprofit community development financial institution providing capital and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations working to revitalize low-income communities throughout Florida. Esteban brings 15 years of experience at the local, state and national level in the field of community development finance. His previous experience includes work with the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (New York) and with Community Trust Federal Credit Union (Apopka, FL)- a community development credit union serving farmworkers. A native of Puerto Rico, Mr. Esteban earned a degree in Finance and Business Administration from the University of Central Florida, and an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College where he was the 2005 recipient of the Martin L. Bell Scholarship. In 2007 the Orlando Business Journal named Mr. Esteban to its Forty under 40 list which recognizes Central Florida’s most successful and influential young professionals. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Opportunity Finance Network and on the advisory board for Rollins College’s Center for Leadership Development. Additionally Esteban serves on the advisory board for SunTrust Bank’s New Markets Tax Credit initiative and on the JP Morgan Chase National Community Advisory Board. He has also served on Washington Mutual’s Southeast Community Advisory Council.
 Kevin McQueen
PCG Board Director
Kevin McQueen has more than 20 years of experience working in the community development finance field. He spent the early portion of his career as a banker and loan officer for Citibank and National Westminster Bank underwriting and structuring business loans. Kevin later became a program manager at the National Congress for Community Economic Development, which serves nonprofit community development corporations. He worked as a Vice President at the National Cooperative Bank focusing on lending to nonprofits, cooperatively owned businesses, CDFIs, and other social enterprises. In 1996, Kevin opened New Columbia Capital Advisors, which provides management consulting and technical assistance to nonprofit and community development finance organizations. He has continued this work as a Partner with Brody Weiser Burns, a national consulting firm specializing in community development finance.
 Sr. Marguerite O'Brien
Secretary
Sister Marguerite O’Brien is Treasurer and is a member of the leadership team of the Congregation of St. Joseph. Sr. Marguerite has overseen the merger of finances of seven religious communities that formed the new Congregation of St. Joseph in 2007. Most of Sr. Marguerite’s life has been spent in West Virginia – growing up, studying and entering the Wheeling congregation, and ministering. Sr. Marguerite’s undergraduate degree is in chemistry, and after teaching high school science she became a licensed Medical Technologist. She returned to the classroom as a faculty member at Fairmount State College and Wheeling Jesuit University where she taught Medical Technology and served as a Residential Counselor overseeing campus resident life for 15 years. During the 1980’s, Sr. Marguerite served as Vocation Director until she was called to leadership to the congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Wheeling. She served as Vice President and later President of the Wheeling congregation. She has graduate degrees in Clinical Chemistry from Ohio State University and Liturgy from the University of Notre Dame.
Mark Regier
PCG Board Director
Mark Regier is Stewardship Investing Services Manager for Mennonite Mutual Aid (MMA), the stewardship agency of the Mennonite Church USA, and the MMA Praxis Mutual Funds. Mark oversees the implementation of MMA’s Stewardship Investing philosophy; screening and research systems; proxy voting and shareholder advocacy programs. Mark has served as the Governing Board chair for Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and is active with the organization’s Protestant Caucus. He is the founding chair of the International SRI Working Group (IWG), a global networking program of the Social Investment Forum US. He is a member of the Board of Managers for the Isaiah Funds, an interfaith investment partnership for disaster recovery which he helped establish. Mark also serves on the Advisory Board for the Good Steward Fund, a leading socially responsible hedge fund of funds. In 2006, Mark received the annual SRI Service Award, the social investment industry’s highest honor. Mark regularly speaks and writes on issues related to faith-based, socially responsible investing and serves as a resource to national and international organizations on faith-based investing concerns. Mark graduate cum laude from Bethel College (KS) with degrees in History and Communication arts and spent two years studying theology and ethics at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana.
 Charles D. Tansey
Board Director
Charles D. Tansey is Senior Vice-President for Small Business Outreach at Export-Import Bank of the United States, the nation’s official export credit agency. Mr. Tansey joined Export-Import Bank after working in several leadership positions over a ten-year period with NeighborWorks America, a non-partisan Congressionally-chartered and funded non-profit responsible for developing innovative partnerships with the private sector for building wealth in low-income communities nationally. Mr. Tansey spent twenty years in corporate banking and corporate finance at the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Bank of New York, and Commonwealth Capital Partners. In 1991, as a volunteer, he helped set up and manage the day to day operations of the $1.3 billion bailout agency for the privately insured banks and credit unions in the state of Rhode Island. Later, he helped set up and served as the Interim Executive Director of both the Minority Investment Development Corporation (RI) and the Rhode Island Coalition for Minority Investment. He was appointed by President Clinton as Associate Deputy Administrator for Capital Access at the SBA, managing the $50 billion in assets of the 7(a), 504, microloan, trade finance, New Markets and venture capital programs. As part of his responsibilities he designed and helped set up the SBA's Office of Lender Oversight, presided over the initiation of the SBA’s $10 billion asset sale program, and served on the Investment Committee for approval of SBICs and the Advisory Board of the CDFI Fund at the US Department of Treasury.
Mr. Tansey co-designed the software and the course for Sustainable Mission: Pricing, Funding and Managing Community Development Assets, and has authored the book, CDFIs, Capital Markets and Organizational Credit Risk. Mr. Tansey also serves as Secretary at The Appraisal Foundation Advisory Council, as Director on the Board of the Fair Mortgage Collaborative; and on the Advisory Boards for Wall Street Without Walls, UrgentVC!, Waveland Ventures, and CARS (the CDFI Assessment and Rating System). Mr. Tansey graduated from Phillips Academy Andover, and from Brown University.
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