Connie Max

Connie Max currently serves as LISC’s Executive Vice President of Lending. Ms. Max leads the daily operations of the lending division including, originations, closings, and asset management of its $425 million portfolios. Ms. Max also supports efforts to raise and deploy special funding sources. Most recently, Ms. Max served as Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for the Nonprofit Finance Fund managing the approval and portfolio management processes. Previously, she served as the Director of Prudential Financial’s Social Investment Division, managing a portfolio of socially-motivated investments of debt, equity, and tax credits.

Prior to joining Prudential, she was a Managing Director with ShoreBank Advisory Services and as an advisor to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in this role she launched and led a three-country commercial loan program (Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia). Her community development work began when she left a mainstream mortgage loan bank position to volunteer in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. She speaks Spanish and some Russian holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration with a Finance concentration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a Master’s in International Business Administration from The American Graduate School of International Management.