CFPB announces Consumer Advisory Board appointees

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced appointments to the agency’s Consumer Advisory Board, Community Bank Advisory Council, Credit Union Advisory Council and Academic Research Council.

The Dodd-Frank Act stipulates that the CFPB must establish a Consumer Advisory Board, tasked with advising the bureau’s staff on an array of consumer financial issues, the bureau noted in a press release. The board is comprised of members representing several districts of the Federal Reserve System, recommended by the Federal Reserve Bank.

The Community Bank Advisory Council and Credit Union Advisory Council offer consultation regarding financial issues related to community banks and credit unions. The Academic Research Council engages in the strategic research planning process and research agenda and offers feedback on research methodologies and collection strategies.

Members of these entities do not receive a salary and are not eligible to officially represent the CFPB or the Federal Reserve System, the release notes.

Consumer Advisory Board

• Scott Dewald, president and CEO, REI Oklahoma (Durant, Okla.) [10th District – Kansas City]
• Chelsie Evans Enos, executive director, Hawaiian Community Assets (Honolulu) [12th District – San Francisco]
• Thomas Okuda Fitzpatrick, executive director, Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia – HOME of VA (Richmond, Va.) [5th District – Richmond]
• Stephen Gardner, president and executive director, Clarifi (Philadelphia) [3rd District – Philadelphia]
• Cashauna Hill, executive director, The Redress Movement (New Orleans) [6th District – Atlanta]
• Nick Mitchell-Bennett, executive director, cdcb | come dream. come build. (Brownsville, Texas) [11th District – Dallas]
• Amy Nelson, executive director, Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (Indianapolis) [7th District – Chicago]
• Denise Notice-Scott, president, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) (New York) [2nd District - New York]
• Fern Orie, CEO, The Matriarch Group (Green Bay, Wis.) [9th District – Minneapolis]
• Angeles Ortega, CEO, Mi Casa Resource Center (Denver) [10th District – Kansas City]
• Juan Bonilla Santiago, vice president, economic inclusion and wealth building, United Way of Massachusetts Bay (Boston) [1st District – Boston]
• Shanelle Smith Whigham, SVP, national community engagement director, KeyBank (Cleveland) [4th District – Cleveland]
• Sam Walls III, CEO, Arkansas Capital Corp. (Little Rock, Ark.) [8th District - St. Louis]

Community Bank Advisory Council

• Derek Henderson CPA CAMS, chief compliance officer, DR Bank (Darien, CT)
• Sergio Ora, president and CEO, Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Co. (Nashville, Tenn.)
• Victor Ramirez, senior vice present, fair & responsible banking, Beneficial State Bank (Oakland, Calif.)

Credit Union Advisory Council

• Sharon Grieger, chief risk officer, Vantage West Credit Union (Tucson, Ariz.)
• Andrew Grimm, president and CEO, Apple Federal Credit Union (Fairfax, Va.)
• Kimberly Jones, vice president, director of partnerships and community, Self-Help Federal Credit Union (Chicago)

Academic Research Council

• Neale Ashok Mahoney, professor of economics and George P. Shultz Fellow at SIEPR, Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.)
• Katja Seim, Sharon Oster professor of economics and management, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
• Suzanne Bliven Shu, dean of faculty and research, John S. Dyson Professor in marketing, SC Johnson College of Business (Ithaca, N.Y.)
• Abigail Sussman, professor of marketing, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago)