Tax Exempt Bond Financing and Enterprise Zone Tax Credits: A Panel for the Fed and OCC

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Andrew is CEO of Empowered Banking, a management consulting firm offering marketing management, community development, financial service resources, and government relations. Over the past 20 years partners, clients, and friends have engaged Andrew to help them build a team, establish a business, produce targeted campaigns, develop products, and deploy technology for financial services, creative agencies, emerging business, government, healthcare, non-profit, real estate, and technology. Highly collaborative, Andrew has produced a workbook on community bank start-ups, a feasibility study for an OTS charter, driven double-digit improvements to sales force performance for 500+ financial sales officers and managers, and moderated a panel on the benefits of enterprise zone business lending for the Federal Reserve Bank and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. One of his current projects includes improving the return on REO disposition by working with Home Buyer Education graduates from HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agencies. Andrew currently serves on the board for the Long Beach Police Foundation and the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Board, which is responsible for oversight of federal Workforce Investment Act resources, delivering robust business solutions, and One-Stop Career Center solutions critical to workforce and economic development. Committed to engaging his community to drive sustainable solutions, Andrew has produced innovative events like Beer & Politics and the Spark Plug Tournament. Inspired by the founding of Colonial America during the Age of Enlightenment, when the Sons of Liberty met in taverns to discuss independence, Beer & Politics is a non-partisan event focused on producing positive political dialog over a pint of beer. The Spark Plug Tournament, is a live elevator pitch competition and speed networking event where the crowd chooses the most compelling idea as the winner. Andrew lives in Long Beach, California with his wife Jessica and their canine grifter – Louis.