On Aug. 24, the Dallas Metropolis Council unanimously authorised 15 nominees to the inaugural Metropolis of Dallas Financial Improvement Company Board. The brand new board will oversee the Metropolis of Dallas Financial Improvement Company, which was authorised by town council in January 2022 to function a public developer and assist enterprise growth throughout the metropolis.
Biographies offered by the Metropolis of Dallas
Alan Dorantes
Alan Dorantes is presently a Senior Company Council at T-Cell USA. Previous to his place at T-Cell, Mr. Dorantes served as Chief of Workers/Basic Counsel for Feeding America, the nation’s largest starvation aid group. On this newly created function, he served as a essential accomplice to the CEO and the manager workplace, taking part in a connective function with each inside and exterior stakeholders serving to to construct robust relationships and guarantee efficient communication. Mr. Dorantes as chargeable for overseeing Feeding America’s authorized affairs in addition to board growth and governance. Previous to becoming a member of Feeding America, he was an Assistant Vice President, Senior Authorized Counsel of Human Assets at AT&T. Mr. Dorantes has championed variety as a member of the Dallas Hispanic Regulation Basis and is a member of the Institute for Inclusion within the Authorized Career. He’s energetic with a number of further group organizations as a member and board member.
Ardo Fuentes
Ardo Fuentes is the Senior Vice President of Investments at Stifel. He has served in numerous roles at Financial institution of America Merrill Lynch in New York Metropolis and Robert Stephens in San Francisco. Mr. Fuentes works to assist people and household workplaces handle their monetary wants, and helps companies coordinate their exit methods with their total wealth administration goals and pursue profitability enchancment. Throughout his tenure in New York, he was Vice President in International Company and Funding Banking, working as an Funding-Grade Debt Analyst. He’s a board member Dallas CASA and a member of the advisory board of E-LEAD at UTEP’s school of engineering; Mr. Fuentes beforehand served on the board of Uplift Training.
Chris Bradshaw
Ms. Bradshaw is the Enterprise Providers Assist Director for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Companies at Dallas School, with intensive expertise in enterprise growth, entrepreneurship and small enterprise. Ms. Bradshaw has had a profitable profession in enterprise growth and consulting within the space of alternative and taking the fitting steps to the subsequent stage for progress. She is expert at turning information into narratives to drive motion that helps small companies navigate the present financial state of affairs ahead into their subsequent enterprise alternative. “Collect the info, work the situations” is the adage she makes use of to inspire enterprise homeowners to suppose past the now and ideate blue sky alternatives. In her present function she oversees day-to-day operations of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Companies staff which incorporates recruitment, alumni engagement, accomplice administration, and program supply. She is a member of the Hispanic Ladies’s Community of Texas, a Accomplice with the Nationwide Affiliation of Ladies Enterprise Homeowners, the Ladies’s Enterprise Council-Southwest, the Dallas Fort Price Minority Provider Variety Council, and is energetic in a number of mentoring, training, and assist organizations.
Debra Hunter Johnson
Mrs. Johnson is the Founder, President, and Principal Marketing consultant of Reciprocity Consulting Group, LLC, a office/group technique and coaching firm. Mrs. Johnson can be a enterprise advisor, mentor, and investor to startups and early-stage companies. She has deep expertise in enterprise growth, entrepreneurship, group/high quality of place, and workforce/training. She is a discerning thinker on the matters of organizational design and tradition, management growth, and financial growth with greater than 30 years of expertise in human capital administration, authorized, and government administration within the airline, automotive, and consulting industries. Previous to turning into a small enterprise proprietor and entrepreneur, Mrs. Johnson served in a number of government management roles together with Vice President – International HR Providers and Affiliate Basic Counsel at American Airways and as an lawyer at Chrysler Company. She is an engaged group chief who presently serves on nonprofit hospital and basis boards.
Cynthia Figueroa
Cynthia Figueroa is the Managing Lawyer with The Figueroa Regulation Group, PLLC. She is an skilled lawyer, performing as counsel and common counsel for each non-public sector enterprise and public sector shoppers. She advises non-profits targeted on job coaching and training, overseeing the authorized laws. For over 30 years, her profession has targeted on work on the intersection of private and non-private sectors, serving to each to succeed. She is a devoted public and group servant with a breadth of information in finance which incorporates expertise as bond counsel to the Metropolis of Dallas on the Omni Lodge, Love Area Enlargement and Dallas Water Sewer bond tasks. Her background contains service on quite a few boards all through town of Dallas together with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, SMU’s Meadows Museum of the Arts, and The Household Place. She has served on the Texas Affiliation of Enterprise board of administrators. Her expertise additionally contains transportation and training issues for DART, NTTA, and DISD. She has served as a countywide elected official overseeing over 250 staff, courts and actual property, with a constituency of over 2 million folks in 30 cities, Dallas being the most important. She has been concerned in workforce and expertise growth, training, together with aiding to create profitable Early Head Begin Applications in Dallas. She has expertise with Group Improvement Firms, has assisted with previous Dallas Disparity Research, and has additionally served as an adjunct professor of legislation at SMU and as a listening to officer, overseeing liquor license appeals in Dallas.
Dania Duncan Moreno
Ms. Duncan Moreno is a Accomplice with Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP with expertise in public growth and group/high quality of place. She focuses her follow in each home and cross-border company and actual property transactions, representing worldwide and US firms within the acquisition, disposition, leasing, and growth of actual property properties for hospitality, retail, industrial, and residential tasks all through Texas, Mexico, and Latin America. She advises shoppers in reference to mergers and acquisitions, inclinations, joint ventures, and financing transactions in a broad vary of industries. Ms. Duncan Moreno is actively concerned with a number of authorized associations, has printed a number of articles, and has been acknowledged for her work within the authorized occupation.
Gilbert Gerst
Gilbert Gerst is a Senior Vice President and Company Supervisor of Group Improvement Banking at BOK Monetary Company chargeable for group growth lending exercise. He has over 35 years of expertise within the monetary providers business with experience in group growth lending and funding, financial growth, small enterprise financing, inexpensive housing, and workforce growth. Mr. Gerst has additionally been a Vice President with Chase Financial institution’s Group Improvement Actual Property Group and served on the board of many native organizations.
Holly Reed
Holly Reed is a Principal and Advisory Apply Chief at Ryan, LLC the place she works with inside tax specialists to make sure that firms pay the taxes they owe. Previous to this place she labored for 25 years at Southwestern Bell/SBC/AT&T in quite a lot of capacities, spending most of her tenure targeted on state and native initiatives that supported a wholesome group atmosphere to deploy capital. She was additionally employed as a Managing Director on the Texas Bullet Prepare the place she was in command of coalition constructing, authorities affairs, communication, media relations, and commenced working with minority enterprise, small enterprise, rural companies, and workforce growth. Ms. Reed has served in quite a few management positions and on the board of organizations on the nationwide, state, and native ranges.
Jimmy Tran
Proprietor & Space Developer, Code Ninjas and Principal, Oak Garden Group LLC
Mr. Tran is a enterprise proprietor, nonprofit volunteer, board member, and civic chief with expertise in company technique, enterprise growth, entrepreneurship, small enterprise, and training. He based Oak Garden Group LLC in 2010, which is an actual property funding agency that makes each direct and oblique investments targeted on actual property and different income-producing property. Mr. Tran can be the Proprietor and an Space Developer for Code Ninjas, a pc coding franchise the place children be taught coding by creating video games. He presently owns and operates 3 Code Ninjas facilities in Dallas, Coppell, and Southlake. Previous to turning into a small enterprise proprietor and entrepreneur, Mr. Tran led Company Technique and Mergers & Acquisitions exercise for a $10 billion+ enterprise section inside CBRE, the world’s largest business actual property providers firm. Previous to CBRE, he labored as a administration advisor for Bain & Firm in Dallas, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
John Stephens
Mr. Stephens presently serves because the Basic Accomplice of MJ Lupton Companions, a intently held fund investing in actual property, know-how startups, and diversified equities. His expertise contains enterprise growth, governance, inexpensive housing, and public growth. He’s the previous Senior Govt Vice President and Chief Monetary Officer of ATT the place he was chargeable for monetary planning, company growth, accounting, tax, auditing, treasury, investor relations, and company actual property. He has intensive expertise in tax incentive growth, New Markets Tax Credit, Alternative and Enterprise zones, and low-income housing and funding. His expertise with financial growth tax credit has assisted with profitable efforts with housing, youth recreation, homeless providers in addition to resort/enterprise growth. Since shifting to Dallas in 2008, John has been dedicated to giving again, working with nonprofits, the enterprise group, and others to handle the wants of our group. These efforts have led to a powerful perception that financial growth – working with the general group – generally is a vital optimistic step in assembly essentially the most urgent wants of the group. He has intensive expertise serving on the boards of personal firms, foundations, chambers, and different organizations.
Johnnie King
Johnnie King, Jr. is a local of South Dallas with over 40 years of expertise within the Dallas enterprise group. He’s presently President and C.O.O. of KG Concessions, LP. and Area Enterprises, LP., which personal and function airport concessions together with Pappadeaux, Pappasitos and Fridays at DFW Worldwide Airport. Previous to the concessions enterprise, Mr. King owned and operated The King Group, Inc., one of many largest African American-owned promoting and public relations businesses within the nation. The King Group’s consumer record included Dallas-based companies – Southwest Airways, The Southland Company, Brinker Worldwide, Blockbuster, TGI Fridays, in addition to The Texas Lottery. The King Group’s main awards embrace the Dallas Advert League “Minority Company of the Yr” and a world “Batchy” Award for commercials for the Texas Lottery. Mr. King spent his early skilled profession at The Southland Company in numerous roles of administration, advertising and marketing and promoting. His final place was Society. He’s concerned with quite a few group applications and organizations all through town.
Kim Noltemy
Ms. Noltemy is the President & CEO of the Dallas Symphony Affiliation with community- constructing expertise and a monitor document of utilizing the humanities as an financial driver. Since her arrival in 2018, the DSO has launched into a daring strategic plan that has demonstrated a long-term influence domestically and nationally. Highlights of her tenure embrace the creation of an fairness, variety and inclusion plan that’s reworking the group from creative programming to board composition; the transition of administration of the Meyerson Symphony Heart from the Metropolis of Dallas; and the implementation of a Southern Dallas Residency, together with the creation of the Younger Musicians program serving greater than 800 college students to this point. She negotiated a partnership with Bloomberg Media for the worldwide distribution of six DSO live shows, leading to a 2022 Daytime Emmy Nomination. Noltemy launched the DSO’s Ladies in Classical Music program, an initiative designed to extend feminine illustration within the area. Noltemy serves on the board of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and she or he is a member of the Constitution 100, Dallas Meeting, Dallas Summit, Dallas Worldwide Ladies’s Discussion board and Govt Ladies’s Roundtable. Previous to the DSO, Noltemy was the Chief Working and Communications Officer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Linda McMahon
Linda McMahon is the President & CEO of The Actual Property Council (TREC). TREC is the most important and most influential business actual property group within the State of Texas with over 2,000 members and 675 member firms. Ms. McMahon is aware of each business actual property and Dallas properly with three a long time in banking, together with 15 years with JP Morgan Chase financial institution main the Southwest Area Group Improvement Group. She is keen about constructing communities, and presently serves on a number of boards and commissions.
Michon Fulgham
Ms. Fulgham is a Principal Consulting Advisor and serves on Inwood Nationwide Financial institution’s CRA staff. targeted on Group Improvement Lending and CRA efficiency as a Coach-Director. She brings virtually 5 a long time of expertise in group financial growth, lending, and public-private partnership growth throughout the nation with governmental entities and nonprofit boards in addition to contract and regulatory compliance. Prior native expertise contains serving as a Vice President of Group Reinvestment Providers within the Dallas/Fort Price area for Compass Financial institution, chairing a Metropolis of Dallas TIF board, mediating community-bank merger utility protests, and serving as an Superior Ombudsman-Mediator for the Division of Protection. Ms. Fulgham is thought for her management, collaboration and consensus-building abilities, bringing expertise in public growth, enterprise growth, governance, and group/high quality of life via championing inexpensive housing entities and in search of ‘finest practices’ sources in the direction of growing modern strategies to influence assembly enterprise, LMI, and group wants. She has additionally served on the board of a number of native organizations.
Walter ‘Alan’ Walne
Walter Walne is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Backside Lien Consultants, Inc. He has owned a collision restore middle for greater than 40 years, with eight places in North Texas. He was a member of the Dallas Metropolis Council and served as chair of the Enterprise and Commerce Committee. Mr. Walne has additionally served on quite a few boards and commissions whereas operating and increasing his enterprise, to incorporate serving on the board of Trustees for Parkland Hospital and as chair of the finance committee when Parkland designed and broke floor on their new website.
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