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, Acting CEO
Leslie
Elgood is the Acting 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.
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.
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.orgTammy 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.
John Rice, President, IMPACT-New Mexico
John
Rice is President of IMPACT-New Mexico, Business Growth Services. He
leads NMCC's management services team by providing "in the trenches,"
hands-on client mentoring and critical customized assistance for
performance improvement so that client firms are ready and able to use
equity investment effectively for growth of business performance while
earning appropriate returns on equity and risk.
Prior to joining the NMCC team, John was President of ASi/Q, a crisis management services firm specializing in building businesses, launching successful startups, and executing business turnarounds throughout the United States. In this capacity, he served as CEO and interim Chair of diverse companies ranging from software products to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals. John has served clientele ranging from the Fortune 500 to sole practitioners and handled problems ranging from substantial public company mergers, to executive succession and terminations, litigation stoppage negotiations, formulation and execution of growth 'breakout strategies,' and negotiations of company divestitures and acquisitions.
Prior to ASi/Q, John served as President and CEO of Associated Southwest Investors, Inc., a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Corporation (MESBIC). Prior to that he was President & CEO of Crestek, Inc., a public company that engineers, designs, and manufactures custom ultrasonic systems and automated material handling systems in Trenton, New Jersey.
John lectures frequently on breakout growth strategies,
manufacturing for the 21st Century, crisis management, corporate
turnarounds, venture capital, and financial structuring and strategies.
He serves on the Boards of Directors of ASiQ and the Rotary Club of
Albuquerque. He is Chair of New Mexico Angels (previously NM Private
Investors), and a founding Chair of the Center for Entrepreneurship at
the University of New Mexico. He serves on the Albuquerque Economic
Forum. John is an honors graduate of Harvard University and lives with
his family of four in Albuquerque, NM. He is a voracious reader, expert
skier, avid bicyclist, and pathetic golfer.
email: johnr@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.
Thomas Keleher, Fund Advisor
Thomas Keleher former NMCC Managing Director is now living in Amsterdam where he is an investor with A2F (Access to Finance). Tom oversees investments in developing countries through the Faso Investments Fund. He served
as the inaugural Managing Director securing and managing assets for
nearly 20 investors. While Managing Director, he led 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 Sasn 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.
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E-mail: tkeleher@nmccap.com