Our Team
Leadership
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Jennifer Tescher
Jennifer Tescher is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on consumer...
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Laura Barger
Laura Barger is the Financial Health Network’s Chief Marketing Officer. Under her leadership, the marketing and communications team executes...
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Carole Brite
Carole is the Financial Health Network’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. She leads the Shared Services Team...
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Sarah Gordon
As Chief Strategy Officer, Sarah Gordon leads the development and ongoing evolution of the Financial Health Network’s organizational strategy....
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John Thompson
As Chief Program Officer, John is responsible for leading all of the Financial Health Network’s programmatic activity, including its...
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Staff
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Fawziah Bajwa
The Financial Health Network’s mission of improving the financial health of Americans requires collaboration and partnership with many diverse...
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Mesha Bailey
As as a Senior Associate on the events team, Mesha Bailey is responsible for helping with the planning, logistics...
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Claire Barner
Claire is the Senior Manager of Operations in the Shared Services Department. She is responsible for legal and insurance...
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Mia Barricini
As the Financial Health Network’s Director, Development, Mia is responsible for the strategy and execution of the organization’s fundraising...
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Naomi Adams Bata
72% of people living in America are not financially healthy. For Naomi Adams Bata, Senior Director of Communications, being...
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Beth Brockland
As a Senior Director, Beth leads the Financial Health Network’s strategy for financial health in the workplace. With her...
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Nancy Castillo
As a Vice President of the Program Team, Nancy orchestrates excellence in delivery by ensuring high quality program operations...
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Laura Cummings
Laura is a Director on the Program Team. She works with financial service providers to develop products and services...
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Andrew Dunn
As a Senior Data Associate, Andrew Dunn applies a data-centric lens to all aspects of his work. He takes...
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Elizabeth Dwyer
Elizabeth is a Manager on the Program Team at the Financial Health Network. In her role, she works to...
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Darren Easton
Darren leads the Financial Health Network’s membership—over 150 organizations committed to creating the future of financial health. In this...
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Mark Feldman
As a Director on the Program Team, Mark Feldman leverages his background in consulting and financial services to help...
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Jose Galindo
Jose is a Director on the Program Team focusing on the Financial Solutions Lab, a joint effort between JPMorgan...
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Andrea Galvez
Andrea is Senior Director, Membership & Marketing, leading the strategic direction of all member experience efforts at the Financial...
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Thea Garon
Thea Garon leads the U.S. Financial Health Pulse, a groundbreaking research initiative designed to monitor and track the financial...
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Stacy Huston
As the Director, Digital at the Financial Health Network, Stacy is responsible for digital platforms and environments. She believes...
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Heidi Johnson
Heidi believes that a deep understanding of consumers’ motivations and preferences can illuminate a path for innovation that supports...
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Mimi Joy
Mimi is the Head of Partnerships at the Financial Health Network. She manages Membership expansion, focusing on delivering value...
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Arjun Kaushal
Arjun believes that financial empowerment is a key accelerator to helping underserved communities realize their full potential. As a...
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Devina Khanna
Devina is passionate about financial health and the role of technology in expanding access to quality financial products. She’s...
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Sohrab Kohli
As a Manager at the Financial Health Network, Sohrab designs initiatives that address significant consumer challenges. He has led...
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Hannah Kramer
Hannah is an Associate on the Program Team at the Financial Health Network and applies her background in communications,...
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Kelsey Kruslak
As an Associate on the Marketing and Communications team, Kelsey supports member experience and manages digital marketing efforts. She...
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Tanya Ladha
Tanya is a Director working with a wide variety of financial services providers to identify, integrate and distribute high-quality...
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Maria Lajewski
Maria enjoys working at the intersection of technology and behavior change, and is passionate about products and programs that...
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Rob Levy
Rob Levy is Vice President, Research and Measurement at the Financial Health Network where he leads the research and...
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Jennifer Majka
As the Financial Health Network’s Staff Accountant, Jennifer Majka assists within the functions of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and...
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Farah Manjiyani
Farah is motivated to enhance the lives of the most vulnerable through improved financial health. As a Program Associate,...
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Stephanie McKeiver
Stephanie currently provides executive support to the COO, Senior VP, and VP. With a twenty-seven year background in the...
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Dan Miller
Dan believes companies should make financial health a strategic focus for how they do business. As a Manager on...
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Chandni Ohri
Chandni believes that financial health is critical to leading a happy and fulfilled life. She works to improve the...
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Sarah Parker
Sarah is a Senior Director on the Program Team, working on the Financial Health Network’s public thought-leadership. She manages...
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Brenton Peck
Brenton Peck is a Sr. Manager, Business Development at the Center for Financial Services Innovation. Leveraging his previous roles...
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Garry Reeder
In his role as Vice President of Innovation and Policy, Gary sets the strategic direction and be responsible for...
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Jacquelyn Reineke
Jacquelyn is a Manager on the Communications team at Financial Health Network. In this role, she supports content development,...
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Maurice Richardson
Maurice is the vice President of Finance. He is responsible for managing the accounting and finance functions of the...
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Alejandra Ruales
Alejandra is passionate about economic development and believes the power of technology as a key tool to building a...
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Josh Sledge
As a Senior Director on the Financial Health Network’s Program team, Josh supports innovative financial services providers working on...
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Corey Stone
Corey has had a long association with the Financial Health Network, first advising on its inception, then leading one...
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Kristian Torres
As an Associate on the Operations Team, Kristian supports business operations with his expert Salesforce skills, creative solutions, and...
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Rhonda Turner-Pettis
Rhonda is passionate about improving financial health and fighting predatory financial practices. As Manager of Member Support, she helps...
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Allegra Twichell
Allegra is an Administrative Assistant at the Financial Health Network. She helps with facility operations, HR and recruitment, and...
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Nadia van de Walle
As a Manager on the Programs Team, Nadia leads consulting engagements and research with the goal of improving consumer...
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Marisa Walster
Financial Health can impact you everyday, across all aspects of your life. Marisa is motivated to use her expertise...
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Trey Waters
A Manager on the Program Team, Trey is passionate about developing innovative products that can improve financial health and...
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Eric Wilson
Eric Wilson believes that rigorous analysis is key to helping the financial industry orient around financial health. As an...
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Board of Directors
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Mark Ernst, Board Chair
Mark is the Managing Partner of Bellevue Capital, a private investment firm specializing in early-stage venture capital and mezzanine financing. Investments...
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Adrienne Harris
Adrienne is the former Chief Business Development Officer and General Counsel of insure-tech company States Title, Inc. She previously...
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Gina Harman
Gina Harman is the CEO of Accion’s U.S. Network, the only nationwide nonprofit microfinance and small-business lending network in...
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Brett King
Brett King is the founder of Moven, the first app and debit card to provide real-time behavioral feedback to...
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Roderick King, MD, MPH
Roderick King is the CEO of the Florida Institute for Health Innovation, Assistant Dean, Public Health Education and Director,...
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Len Laufer
Len is the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director, Cerberus Technology Solutions, LLC, which is the Firm’s operating...
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Ben Mangan
Ben Mangan has used the past 25 years to spark prosperity and possibility in new ways. Early in his...
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Judith Samuelson
Judith Samuelson is founder and Executive Director of the Business and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, driving the...
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Jennifer Tescher
Jennifer Tescher is President & CEO of the Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on consumer financial health. Tescher...
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Ellen Seidman, Member Emeritus
Ellen Seidman is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, focusing on housing finance and community development. She is...
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Senior Advisors
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Arjan Schütte
Arjan Schütte is the founder and a managing partner of Core Innovation Capital, a leading venture capital fund investing...
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Rachel Schneider
Rachel Schneider is currently the Omidyar Network Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (FSP), and co-author of...
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Arjan Schütte
Arjan Schütte is the founder and a managing partner of Core Innovation Capital, a leading venture capital fund investing...
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Rachel Schneider
Rachel Schneider is currently the Omidyar Network Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program (FSP), and co-author of...
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Funders and Supporters
The Financial Health Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We are grateful for the support that the following organizations and individuals provide to further our mission.
Founding Partner
Operating and Program Support Provided by
Individual Donors
Anonymous (3)
Todd and Diane Baker
Jo Ann Barefoot
Susan Ehrlich
Mark Ernst
Len and Terry Laufer
Nancy and Kevin Rhein
Jane Thompson
How We Work with Philanthropic Organizations and Partners
Since our founding, the Financial Health Network has worked with a long list of philanthropic organizations and funders committed to improving financial services for all Americans.
Philanthropies, organizations, and individuals committed to social change play a critical role in the Financial Health Network’s mission to improve financial health. From financial support to strategic guidance, deep funder relationships make possible a wide variety of in-depth consumer research and programs that test innovative ideas, inform high-quality product design, and scale solutions that promote consumer success.
Because of strong support from nationally-recognized organizations committed to social change, we conduct key research to improve people’s lives, including the U.S. Financial Diaries project, annual Financially Underserved Market Sizing Papers, the 2014 Financial Health Consumer Study, and more.
We Welcome Cy Pres Awards
The Financial Health Network welcomes “cy pres” awards to support our work to improve the financial health of consumers, especially the underserved. Cy pres awards allow unclaimed settlement funds from class action lawsuits to be distributed to organizations that further the interests of the underlying class members. Class counsel often has the ability to nominate charitable organizations like the Financial Health Network to receive these funds.
The Financial Health Network has been a recipient of cy pres awards in the past in cases involving credit practices and consumer protection. If you have any questions about whether the Financial Health Network might be appropriate for cy pres in a particular case, please contact Mia Barricini at mbarricini@finhealthnetwork.org.