Marsela Pecanac

Marsela’s unique career intertwines corporate and private banking experience with substantive human rights and education assignments, over nearly two decades.

Combining her cross-cultural experience with her passion for mission-based organizations and nonprofits, Marsela now serves as SVP of deposit management and heads the Nonprofit & High Impact Investor practices at New Resource Bank (NRB), working with close to 200 nonprofits and foundations. Prior to NRB, Marsela created customized growth strategies for one of the fastest growing European banks, Raiffeisen in Vienna, Austria, working with McKinsey and Boston Consulting across most of Europe.

Parallel with banking, Marsela fights the unworkable status quo for children, education, human rights, and the environment. She grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and witnessed the war and siege from 1992-1995. Today, she serves on the Advisory Board of Jericho Foundation, a U.S. founded and run non-profit in Michigan, which for supports bright, underserved Bosnian youth to get a college education and get employed in Bosnia, so that the best and the brightest stay and build the country.