Our Team (In alphabetical order)

Jarratt Applewhite, Founder

Jarratt Applewhite is the founder of New Mexico Community Capital (NMCC). Jarratt has been a successful entrepreneur and public service leader for more than two decades in New Mexico. His public sector activities have focused on affordable housing, education and economic development. Jarratt has chaired mayoral and statewide task forces, served on numerous boards in Santa Fe and Albuquerque and has held elective office as a school board member in Santa Fe. Jarratt's most recent business experience, prior to NMCC, was co-founding SAMBA Holdings, Inc., which was honored in 2004 as the fastest growing technology company in New Mexico for the prior five-year period.

Before founding SAMBA in 1998, Jarratt spent two decades as the founder of the Phase One family of commercial real estate companies where he had a national practice with expertise in large commercial transactions and turnaround assignments for governments, developers, and financial institutions. Jarratt made a living for ten years as a farrier; his other equine-related experiences include horse training and movie stunt work.

email: jarratt@nmccap.org

John Driscoll, Managing Director

John Driscoll is the Managing Director of NMCC. He is responsible for the management of its for-profit subsidiaries, and directs investment activities. John has more than 20 years experience as a senior executive. He has been involved in over 20 acquisitions in his career, covering all aspects of investment transactions from due diligence, structuring, negotiating, and exits. He has overseen the integration of acquisitions as well as the sale of business divisions.

Prior to NMCC, John served as President and Chief Operating Officer of SunScript Pharmacy and COO of Heritage Healthcare, two major health care companies located in New Mexico. He also served as Senior Regional Vice President of Omnicare, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. This experience gave John direct P&L an operational experience for organization sizes from $5 million to over $750 million in revenue, with up to 45 operations in as many as 23 states. Prior to his operations experience, John was Chief Financial Officer with a division of Diagnostek, Inc. a publicly traded health care company in New Mexico. John was also a manager with KPMG. His industry expertise while in public accounting included financial institutions, health care, public companies and governmental entities.

John is a graduate of University of New Mexico with a dual concentration in finance and accounting. He is a licensed CPA.

email: jdriscoll@nmccap.com

Leslie Elgood, CEO

Leslie Elgood is the Chief Executive Officer for NMCC. She has 24 years of hands-on fundraising and management experience within higher education, cultural organizations, social services, religious and health care agencies. Leslie is focused on building non-profits with strong bottom line objectives that are directly engaged in the economic and social success of the region. She spends a good deal of her personal and professional energy working on issues central to the building of a sustainable economy for New Mexico.

Previously, Leslie served as Director of Development and President of the University of New Mexico Foundation. Prior to moving to New Mexico in 1999, she was Director of Development and General Manager for SFBS (Catholic Charities in N. California), and Executive Director of Sutter Hospitals (Foundation), California's second largest not-for-profit health care system. She also served as a program officer for the Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan.

Leslie holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Michigan and a masters's certification in book publishing from New York University.

email: leslie@nmccap.org

Zach Grafe, Analyst

Zach’s responsibilities include deal flow information management, financial analysis, and due diligence research of potential investments for the NMCC funds. He assists the Associate and Managing Director at all stages of the investment process, including managing portfolio company information.

Prior to joining NMCC, Zach spent a summer working with Acción International, a nonprofit microfinance company that provides capital and training to low-income entrepreneurs around the world. While at Acción, he worked with the Council of Microfinance Equity Funds, an industry association of microfinance equity investors. In the summer of 2006, Zach was chosen from a pool of applicants to intern with the NMCC Fund team.

Zach is a native New Mexican and is passionate about encouraging development in the state, particularly in underserved areas. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M University with a BBA in finance.

email: zach@nmccap.com

Annette La Pietra, Director of Operations

Annette La Pietra is the Director of Operations for New Mexico Community Capital. She has over 15 years of experience in business management ranging from manufacturing to service industries. Her responsibilities include all accounting functions, IMPACT-NM client interface and invoicing, and nonprofit and operational projects.

Prior to her work with NMCC, Annette served as Business Operations Manager for a manufacturing facility in Albuquerque. She had broad responsibilities for the management and support of sales, manufacturing, purchasing, information technology and customer service. She has served for over seven years in operations management and client relations work in businesses in both Arizona and New Mexico.

Annette’s strong leadership skills have extended to community involvement. She served as the President of the American Women’s Club of Berlin, Germany, President of the PTO for the John F. Kennedy School, and as an Ambassador of the Broome County Chamber of Commerce in Binghamton, New York.

email: annette@nmccap.org

Christopher Madrid, Vice President, Northern New Mexico

IMPACT- NM, Business Growth Services

Christopher is in charge of all IMPACT activities in Northern New Mexico. He assists businesses of all sorts and sizes to develop growth strategies and to find resources that will help them execute these strategies. He identifies companies that require IMPACT’s unique tipping point services and arranges to provide them. He counsels and supports entrepreneurs to succeed.

Raised in Northern New Mexico, Christopher went on to receive his Undergraduate and Law Degrees from UNM after serving a tour of duty in the Marine Corps. He practiced law in Santa Fe and later served as a prosecutor for several years until he was accepted to the University of Texas MBA program.

Christopher worked as an investment banker and as a consultant for Latin American corporations before returning to New Mexico to run a small business with 60 employees. His passion has always been to return home, start his own business and teach entrepreneurship. Christopher owns a Consulting and Development Company in Taos, teaches Entrepreneurship at UNM Taos, and is contracted to implement the Sirolli Enterprise Facilitation project in the Enchanted Circle Region.

Christopher has served on the New Mexico Human Rights Board, New Mexico Public Schools Insurance Authority and the State Workforce Development Board.

email: cmadrid@nmccap.org

Tammy McCarty, Chief Financial Officer

Tammy McCarty is the Chief Financial Officer for New Mexico Community Capital. As CFO, she oversees the organization’s financial operations, including economic forecasting and modeling to ensure NMCC's future success. In addition to financial oversight, Ms. McCarty also provides support services to IMPACT-NM Business Growth Services, primarily helping to restructure and implement stronger financial disciplines to its clients.

Ms. McCarty has more than 20 years of experience in the financial arena ranging from public accounting to service and manufacturing in the private sector for both large and small companies. She has worked in highly regulated environments including FAA and FDA and while in public accounting participated in audits, tax and compilation for a variety of industries.

Prior to NMCC, Ms. McCarty served as Chief Financial Officer or as the advising officer for Contract Manufacturing, Radiopharmaceuticals, Cosmetics and Composite Structures. Since 1995, she has been dedicated to advising a number of turn-arounds and start-up companies, focusing on cash management, restructure of operations, implementation of financial software and financial administrative functions. She has a broad scope of skills including management of data, personnel, implementations, forecasting and reporting requirements while maintaining focus on the bottom-line performance in difficult environments.

email: tammy@nmccap.org

Shyla Sheppard, Associate

Shyla joined New Mexico Community Capital in 2005. At NMCC, she performs an array of activities including deal sourcing, community outreach, providing value-added assistance to portfolio companies, managing portfolio company and deal flow information, assisting the Managing Director with investor relations and making investments for the NMCC funds. Shyla assists on the boards of Aero Mechanical Industries and Armed Response Team.

Ms. Sheppard is also spearheading NMCC’s investment-cultivating efforts with Native American communities and entrepreneurs. The goal of this initiative is to promote and encourage entrepreneurship and business development in Native communities to spur not only economic growth, but also cause broader positive economic development results. Having first-hand experience growing up in an area with only an elementary school and clinic and twenty miles from the nearest gas station or grocery store, she is passionate about using business to find creative solutions to the economic disparities that pervade rural and under-served locales.

Shyla graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics. She was raised on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota and is a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes.

email: shyla@nmccap.com

Thomas Keleher, Fund Advisor

Tom Keleher, former NMCC Managing Director, is now living in the Netherlands where he is a Principal with A2F (Access to Finance). Tom advises a variety of organizations on Access to Finance issues and is a team member with A2F's Faso Investments Fund. FASO Investments is focused on investing in African financial institutions.

Tom served as NMCC's inaugural Managing Director securing and managing assets for nearly 20 investors. While Managing Director, he led the construction of NMCC's investment infrastructure and the organization's investment activities. Tom has served as Board member and Board observer for a wide variety of portfolio companies.

Prior to joining NMCC, Tom managed the Emerging Markets strategy for a subsidiary of Bank of America in San Francisco. He was the Portfolio Manager for the Newport Emerging Markets Fund and a member of the firm's Asian and International investment teams with approximately $3 billion in assets under management.

Previously, Tom worked as a professor of finance at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. While in South America, Tom performed consulting work for a financial institution in the capital city and for a foundation in the Amazon Basin.

After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, Tom earned a Master's degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has over a decade of experience in the investment management industry and holds the C.F.A. designation. Tom is a native of Corrales, New Mexico.

E-mail: tkeleher@nmccap.com