Vincent Alvarez is a member of the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was elected as the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO’s (NYCCLC) first full-time president in 2011, and was re-elected in 2015. He had previously served as assistant legislative director of the NYS AFL-CIO. From 2007-2009, Alvarez was assistant to the executive director and then chief of staff of the NYCCLC. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) since 1990, Mr. Alvarez began his career with IBEW Local 3 in Flushing, New York, serving on numerous political campaigns, grassroots initiatives, and negotiating committees. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta, where he majored in business economics.
Subject: Denise Scott
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Denise Scott is the Chair and member of the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is executive vice president in charge of Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s (LISC) national and local programs. She served as a White House appointee to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), responsible for the daily operations of HUD’s six New York/New Jersey Regional offices. Prior to that, she served as the managing director/coordinator responsible for launching the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation; as the assistant vice president of the New York City Urban Coalition; as deputy director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Housing Coordination from 1990-1992; and as the director of the New York City Department of Housing and Development’s Harlem Neighborhood Preservation Program office. Scott has a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University and has taught at its Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation as a visiting assistant professor.
Subject: Rosa M. Gil
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Rosa M. Gil is Deputy Chair and member of the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is the founder, president and CEO of Comunilife, Inc. Gil served as a mayor’s health policy advisor. She is the former chairperson of the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, executive director of Woodhull Medical Center and Metropolitan Hospital, senior vice president of Generation and Northern Manhattan Health Network; senior vice president Mental Hygiene Services at the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation and executive deputy commissioner for Families and Children Services at the NYC Human Resources Administration. Dr. Gil is the former University Dean for Health Sciences at the City University of New York.
Subject: Sheldon Karras
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Sheldon Karras is the Chief Executive Officer of Fordham Capital Partners and founded Fordham Financial Services, Inc., the predecessor company to Fordham Capital Partners, in 2001. He began his career in commercial finance with Walter E. Heller and Company and later acquired the Vertiflex Company, a manufacturer of office products and furniture which was sold in 2000. Karras received his BA from the University of Illinois and attended the University of Illinois College of Law.
Subject: Michael Karras
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Michael Karras is the Executive Vice President of Fordham Capital Partners. Karras is a member of the Commercial Finance Association and the Turnaround Management Association. He received a BA in political science from Ithaca College. Prior to joining Fordham Capital Partners, he was a Sales Manager at Bretford until 2005, and a National Sales manager at Vertiflex until 2001.
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Subject: Mark Stetson
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Mark Stetson is the Executive Vice President Fordham Capital Partners. He was previously Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking for First Bank of Highland Park and Senior Vice President/Regional Market Manager for Fifth Third Bank. He received a BS in marketing from Illinois State University. Prior to joining Fordham, he was a Senior Vice President at First Bank of Highland Park until 2018. Prior to that Stetson was a Regional Market Manager at Middle Market Banking Group until 2016.
Subject: Van Taylor
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Nicholas Van Campen Taylor, known as Van Taylor (R-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician from Plano, Texas. He is the U.S. Representative for Texas’ 3rd congressional district. Taylor is a veteran of the Iraq War and a member of the Republican Party, he represented District 8 in the Texas Senate for a single term from 2015 to 2019. He also previously served in the Texas House of Representatives for District 66 in western Collin County. From January 2002 to December 2018, Taylor worked for Churchill Capital Company, a real estate investment banking and principal investment firm, as a real estate investment banker. He previously worked for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow Company. He graduated from Harvard University (BA, MBA).
Subject: William Timmons
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William Richardson Timmons IV (R-SC) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American attorney, entrepreneur, and politician from South Carolina. He is the United States representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district. The district is located in the heart of the Upstate and includes Greenville, Spartanburg, and most of those cities’ suburbs. He served as a state senator in the South Carolina Senate from the 6th district from 2016 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party. Timmons graduated from George Washington University (BA), and University of South Carolina (MA, JD).
Subject: Denver Riggleman
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Denver Lee Riggleman III (R-VA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia, currently serving in the United States House of Representatives for Virginia’s 5th congressional district. A former Air Force officer and National Security Agency contractor, Riggleman opened a craft distillery in Virginia in 2014. As a Republican, he ran for his party’s nomination in the 2017 gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race. Riggleman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018. He graduated from Rowan College, Burlington, Air University, University of Virginia, and Villanova University.
Subject: Lance Gooden
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Lance Carter Gooden (R-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 5th congressional district, having won the general election held on November 6, 2018. Gooden previously served in the Texas House of Representatives for District 4. He served two terms in the state House from 2011 to 2015 before he lost his re-election bid in the 2014 Republican primary election. He was returned to office in 2016 for this third nonconsecutive term in the legislature. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (BA, BBA).
Subject: Bryan Steil
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Bryan Steil (R-WI) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician who currently serves as the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. In 2003, Steil spent one year working as an aide to U.S. Representative Paul Ryan. Prior to being elected to Congress, Steil spent a decade in the manufacturing industry in Southeast Wisconsin. Prior to running for Congress, Steil was an executive for plastics manufacturer Charter NEX Film. He also spent time working for Regal Beloit, spending a short stint living in China while working for the company, and also spent time at McDermott Will & Emery as an attorney. He graduated from Georgetown University (BS), and University of Wisconsin–Madison (JD).
Subject: John Rose
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John Williams Rose (R-TN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. Rose was commissioner of agriculture for Tennessee. Rose co-founded Transcender Corp. , which was sold in 2000 for $60 million. Rose owns and is the president of Boson Software, LLC, which trains IT professionals. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University (BS), Purdue University (MS), and Vanderbilt University (JD).
Subject: Anthony Gonzalez
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Anthony E. Gonzalez (R-OH) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and former professional football player. A member of the Republican Party, he has been serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 16th congressional district since 2019. He played college football at Ohio State and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2018 and was sworn in on January 3, 2019. He graduated from Ohio State University (BA), and Stanford University (MBA).
Subject: Trey Hollingsworth
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Joseph Albert ‘Trey’ Hollingsworth III (R-IN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician who is the U.S. Representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district, serving since 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. Hollingsworth serves as the Vice Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets and a member of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion. Before serving in the House of Representatives, Hollingsworth was a small-business owner. After college, he began renovating and rehabilitating abandoned industrial sites. In 2008, Hollingsworth partnered with businessmen and chemists to start an aluminum remanufacturing operation in Indiana. With a net worth of $50.1 million, Hollingsworth is the 12th wealthiest member of Congress. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BS), and Georgetown University (MPP).
Subject: David Kustoff
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David Kustoff (R-TN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 2006 until 2008 and a United States Representative from Tennessee as a Republican. He graduated from the University of Memphis (B.A, J.D.). In 1998, Kustoff opened a law firm with Jim Strickland, whom he met at the University of Memphis. Both would become active in Tennessee politics; Strickland was elected Mayor of Memphis in 2015. He also served as George W. Bush’s campaign chairman in Tennessee during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. In 2006, President Bush nominated Kustoff for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
