Andrew W. Gordon

Mr. Gordon serves as Executive Advisor to Clearinghouse CDFI as well as collaborates on special projects including activities specific to Arizona, Native American communities and the FVLCRUM Fund. He also supports CCDFI’s Impact Team and the Native American Advisory Board. Prior to joining Clearinghouse CDFI in 2015, Mr. Gordon was the founding President of Arizona MultiBank CDC, the heritage nonprofit CDFI that was established in 1991 and evolved into Arizona MultiBank, a Division of Clearinghouse CDFI.

Before returning to his home state of Arizona in 1991, Mr. Gordon was SVP of the legacy economic development bank to the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Mr. Gordon currently serves on the Investment Committee of the Arizona Community Foundation’s Community Impact Loan Fund. He served as Chair of the Phoenix Local Advisory Committee of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) and Chair of its Credit Committee. Mr. Gordon was a founding Advisory Board member of a U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) licensed Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) and the SBA has recognized Mr. Gordon as a “Small Business Financial Services Champion of the Year”. Mr. Gordon taught the small business lending course at the former National Community Development Lending School. Mr. Gordon went to public elementary and high school in Arizona and worked at his family’s grocery store in downtown Phoenix. Mr. Gordon is a former VISTA volunteer, as described in the book, A Cry for Help. He received his Bachelors from Yale College and Masters from Harvard University.