| Charles D. Tansey is the Senior Advisor in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer at NeighborWorks America. He is responsible for developing financial programs, projects and transactions that facilitate the formation of wealth among America’s poorer communities and constituencies.
Mr. Tansey has spent over 30 years in corporate banking, corporate finance and community development at the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Bank of New York, Commonwealth Capital Partners, the US Small Business Administration and NeighborWorks America. During the recession of 1991-2, Mr. Tansey helped set up and manage the $1.3 billion bailout agency for the privately insured banks and credit unions in the state of Rhode Island. Later, he served as the Interim Executive Director of both the Minority Investment Development Corporation (RI) and the Rhode Island Coalition for Minority Investment. During the Clinton administration, he served as Associate Deputy Administrator for Capital Access at the SBA, managing the $50 billion in assets of the 7(a), 504, microloan, PRIME, trade finance, and venture capital programs. As part of his responsibilities he designed and helped set up the SBA's Office of Lender Oversight, presided over the initiation of the SBA’s $10 billion asset sale program and served on the Investment Committee for approval of SBICs. In addition, he co-chaired the Inter-Agency Work Group on Micro-enterprise, and served as a member of the Advisory Board of the CDFI Fund at the Department of Treasury.
Mr. Tansey has published a number of articles and has lectured extensively. Mr. Tansey designed the software and helped design the course for the Sustainable Mission. He has served on a number of boards and committees. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of Partners for the Common Good, and on the Advisory Boards for Wall Street Without Walls and CARS.
He was born on the east side of San Jose, California, and is married with two children. He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover, and from Brown University.
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