Meet Our Ignite Capital Team

Jay Nwachu
President and CEO


Lindsey Henley
Director of Portfolio Operations


Tobi Olaniyi
Impact Investing Associate

Investment Committee


Candace Chance, Founder & CEO, The VPI Firm

Patti Chandler, Finance and IT Consultant

Bonnie Crockett, Director, Small Business Lending
Baltimore Community Lending

Bree Jones, Investment Committee Chair, Founder, Parity

Eric Lin, Director of Lending, Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC)

Jay Nwachu, President, Ignite Capital
President & CEO, Innovation Works

Chris Grant, Founder, Yoke Management Partners

Ken Malone, Co-Founder, Early Charm Ventures

Chris Warman, Program Officer, Baltimore Community Foundation

Maggie Villegas, Executive Director
Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network

Board of Directors


Patti Chandler, Finance and IT Consultant

Murray Dalziel

Al Gourrier, Director of Nonprofit Management and Social Entrepreneurship, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore

Bree Jones, Founder, Parity

Carrie McKellogg, CEO REDF Impact Investing

Father Richard McGowan
Treasurer, USA Northeast Province of Jesuits

Jay Nwachu, President, Ignite Capital
President & CEO, Innovation Works

Dan Rizzo, Innovation Fellow, Inovalon

Mary Ann Scully, Dean, Loyola School
of Business and Management

Danielle Torain-Victor, Founder & Principal Consultant, Torain Advisory, LLC

 

 

Finance Committee

Patti Chandler, Finance and IT Consultant

Jerlyn Korkoya, Assurance Senior Manager, Ernst & Young

John McLean, Jr., Senior Vice President and CFO
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Joshua Perry, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Brown Advisory

Advisors


James Wahls, Senior Vice President, Programs and Initiatives, Mission Investors Exchange; Managing Director, Revolve Fund

Erika Seth Davies, CEO, Rhia Ventures

Rodney Foxworth, Co-Founder, Worthmore