Board & Governance

Robert Alpert has served as Chairman of the Board since October 2017. He is the Chairman and Co-CEO of P10 Holdings, Inc. He is also the co-founder and principal of 210 Capital,LLC. Mr. Alpert is a director of Elah Holdings, Inc., Collaborative Imaging, LLC. and Chairman of the Board of Redpoint Insurance Group, LLC. He is also the co-founder of Homebuilder Capital Advisors, LLC. and the co-founder and managing member of Merfax Financial Group, LP. Mr. Alpert previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of GlobalSCAPE, Inc. Prior to founding 210 Capital, Mr. Alpert was the founder and portfolio manager of Atlas Capital Management, L.P..

Eric Donnelly has served as a director and as Chief Executive Officer since December 2017. Mr. Donnelly has spent his 20-year career focused on supporting small businesses and developing low to moderate income communities with an emphasis on Hispanic homeownership. He has served as Capital Plus Financial LLC’s Chief Executive Officer since 2014 after having been hired by the company’s founder in 2012 to scale the 25-year social enterprise. Mr. Donnelly has grown the company into one of the largest Community Development Financial Institutions in the country and under his leadership has achieved its B Corp certification further reinforcing the company’s commitment to community impact as well as shareholder value growth. In 2005 after many years in commercial banking, Mr. Donnelly founded a national small balance commercial real estate finance company focused on delivering long term, fixed rate options to small business owners. He is an active Hispanic entrepreneur and leader whose passion it is to improve underserved and underbanked market segments. Mr. Donnelly is a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Mr. Donnelly is a director of InBankshares and International Bank, a community bank located in New Mexico and Colorado. He is a on the board of Financial Mentors of America, Inc. (FMA), an educational nonprofit which seeks to achieve social and economic transformation. He is a participant in the BBVA Momentum program for Social Entrepreneurs, a 2017 graduate of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Initiative.

James Pérez Foster is a seasoned board member with national banking and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) board experience. He is a technology executive and management consultant with more than 25 years of strategic growth, impact investment advisory and community engagement experience. A published expert on U.S. underserved market segments for global financial services and banking institutions, he is the founder of Bainbridge Advisors, LLC, a consulting and research firm that serves financial institutions and federal agencies. Pérez Foster also founded Solera National Bancorp, a federally chartered bank holding company that is credited as one of the first Hispanic-markets focused commercial banks in the country. He has a BA in International Relations from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Farzana Giga has served as Capital Plus Financial’s Chief Financial Officer since 2014. Ms. Giga’s background includes extensive experience in private equity, financial reporting and analysis, investor reporting and treasury for both private and public companies in Canada and the United States. Prior to Capital Plus, Ms. Giga served as CFO for a private equity firm focused on residential seller financing including acquisitions, mortgage origination and mortgage servicing for a portfolio exceeding $100M. From 2007 to 2009, she worked as an Investment Manager at Quadrant Capital Partners where she was responsible for loan acquisitions and financial analysis of residential and commercial real estate. Prior to Quadrant, Ms. Giga served as an Assistant Vice President at INYX Canada where she was responsible for all strategic and financial planning, budgeting/forecasting, cash flow analysis, mergers and acquisitions analysis including quarterly and annual SEC filings. Prior to INYX, Ms. Giga served as Director, Treasury at RR Donnelly responsible for managing a debt portfolio of $2B. Ms. Giga is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant in Ontario, Canada and received her Bachelor of Arts, Economics (Management & Accounting) from the University of Toronto.

Claire Gogel has served as a director since October 2017. Ms. Gogel was an Independent Director and member of the finance and restructuring committee at SunEdison, Inc., and had served in that position since 2016 when she was appointed as an independent director by Greenlight Capital. From 2009 to 2014, Ms. Gogel served as a partner and analyst at Greenlight Capital, a hedge fund in New York. From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Gogel was founder and portfolio manager of Perennial Advisors. Ms. Gogel’s professional experience also includes positions as a portfolio manager at Discovery Partners and as a research associate at Cardinal Investment Company. Ms. Gogel is a Board member and Chair of the Grant Committee for Capital for Kids, and has served in that position since 2005. Ms. Gogel is Board member and Chair of the Investment Committee for Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and has served in that position since 2015. Ms. Gogel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Honors from The University of Texas at Austin.

 

Ray Kembel is a tenured finance executive with a broad knowledge of real estate and credit finance. He is currently an Executive Vice President with Oakwood Bank in Texas. Prior to joining Oakwood Bank, Ray helped develop the Dallas commercial banking platform for Green Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNBC). Ray previously spent 10 years with Staubach Capital Partners, a private equity group under The Staubach Company umbrella, acquired by JLL (NYSE: JLL). He began his career with Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). Ray holds a BBA degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio and an MBA from The University of Dallas.

C. Clark Webb has served as a director since October 2017. Mr. Webb is the Co-CEO and a Director of P10 Holdings, Inc. He is also the co-founder and principal of 210 Capital, LLC. Additionally, Mr. Webb serves as the Chairman of the Board of Elah Holdings, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Collaborative Imaging LLC. Previously, Mr. Webb was Founder and Managing Member of P10 Capital Management, Co-Portfolio Manager of the Lafayette Street Fund and a Partner at Select Equity Group, L.P. Mr. Webb holds a B.A. from Princeton University.