New Mexico Community Capital Hires CFO/Fund Manager
January 26, 2005
Santa Fe - New Mexico Community Capital. today announced that it has hired Thomas F. Keleher as its Chief Financial Officer and Fund Manager and Chief Financial Officer of its first fund. Mr. Keleher is a fourth-generation New Mexican who lives in Corrales with his with wife and two children.For the last three years, Mr. Keleher was previously based in San Francisco where he served as Senior Equity Portfolio Manager at for Columbia Management Group in San Francisco, a firm with approximately $160 billion under management. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Keleher held various management positions, including Director of Research, at Newport Pacific, an investment management firm mutual fund company headquartered in San Francisco which managed approximately $ 2.5 billion before it was acquired by FleetBoston in 2001. At both Columbia and Newport Pacific, Mr. Keleher managed funds targeted at investing in emerging markets outside the United States. In 1995 and 1996, Mr. Keleher was a Professor of Finance and International Business Marketing at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador where he also provided consulting services to a micro lending financial institution and to Foundation Funedesin, investigating and identifying market opportunities for products produced by communities in the Amazon River Basin.
"Tom is a perfect fit for New Mexico Community Capital", says Jarratt Applewhite, the company's CEO. "It is fantastic that after conducting a national search that attracted highly qualified candidates from around the country, we were able to hire someone who already lives here with deep roots in New Mexico. Tom's knowledge of New Mexico, his significant professional achievements and, most importantly, his passion for NMCC's work, make him an ideal candidate."