Board of Directors

ICA’s Board of Directors includes entrepreneurs, community organizers, community bankers and economic development experts.

• Pedro Arce,Vice President Eastern Bank.  Mr. Arce is a trustee at Cambridge College and a founding member of the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council. He is also a member of the Community Development Advisory Board at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

•  Christina A. Clamp, Professor of Community and Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University. Christina is an expert on the Mondragon system of cooperatives and the role cooperatives can play in community economic development.

• Susan Clare, Chair.  Former Executive Director of the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, ICA’s Community Development Loan Fund. Prior to joining LEAF, Ms. Clare was Director of Chemical Bank’s Education and Health Lending Department. She also volunteers as Treasurer of Oxfam America.

• Gerardo Espinoza, Ex-Officio Board member and Executive Director of the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, ICA’s Community Development Loan Fund.  Mr. Espinoza has over twenty years of banking and investment management experience.

• Joe Kriesberg, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC).  Prior to joining MACDC, Mr. Kriesberg worked for eight years on energy and environmental issues for non-profit organizations in Washington, DC and Boston.

• Newell Lessell, Ex-Officio Board member and Executive Director of ICA where he has worked with a range of companies including businesses in health care, recycling, temporary services, the foundry industry, wood products, agriculture and the automotive sector.

• Alexander H. Pyle, Partner at Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green PA, a Boston-based law firm.  Mr. Pyle’s practice focuses on advising entrepreneurial companies on corporate and transactional matters, including financings, securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and technology licensing.

• Cindy Stewart, Chief Credit Officer, NCB Capital Impact.  Ms. Stewart has over 18 years of commercial and community development banking experience.  Prior to NCB Capital Impact Ms. Stewart was with Coastal Enterprises where she managed a Low Income Housing bank investor consortium and the SBA 504 program.

• Rand Wilson, Communications Coordinator, Center for Strategic Research, AFL- CIO.  Mr. Wilson has held positions with several local unions and was Director of the Massachusetts Jobs with Justice for a number of years. He is President of the Center for Labor Education and Research, a trustee of the Center for the Study of Public Policy.