Jennifer Anderson

Jennifer Anderson is a senior executive with more than 30 years of professional experience in financial services. Ms. Anderson has worked in both the private and public sectors, serving as chief financial officer, enterprise leadership, treasurer and investment professional. Ms. Anderson’s career path has focused on evolving, complex environments, supporting the building and restructuring of organizations.

Ms. Anderson is currently serving as interim chief financial officer for CommonBond Communities, a regional affordable housing organization, with a vision that every person has a dignified, affordable home that supports independence and advancement within a flourishing community. Ms. Anderson is also the founding board director and investment committee member for RuralWorks Partners, LLC, a Rural Business Investment Company.

Previously, Ms. Anderson was chief financial officer and president of Community Reinvestment Fund (CRF), a national Community Development Financial Institution, with responsibility for its operations and financial health. Ms. Anderson led the five-year strategic growth plan and its successful execution, increasing the organization’s impact across the communities it serves.

Prior to CRF, Ms. Anderson was vice president and treasurer at AgriBank, NCB, where she led the redesign of the liquidity strategy for the organization. Prior to AgriBank, Ms. Anderson spent several years with the predecessor organizations to Ally Financial. While there, Ms. Anderson led the growth strategy for new trading products and in 2005 she accepted an international assignment to lead the capital markets activity for three continental European countries. As a result of the global financial crisis, in 2007, Ms. Anderson was asked to lead the restructure of the European companies and to create an exit strategy on behalf of the U.S. parent company.

In the early part of her career, Ms. Anderson spent seven years at Bank of America, San Francisco, as a fixed income trader and financial analyst.

Ms. Anderson earned a B.S. in economics with a math emphasis and minors in math and international relations from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.