Mark Kaufman

Mark Kaufman
Mark Kaufman
CDFI Representative 

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Neighborhood Impact Investment Fund 
Baltimore, MD 

Mark Kaufman is the CEO of the Neighborhood Impact Investment Fund, a place-based Certified CDFI that supports disinvested neighborhoods in Baltimore City. 

Previously, Mark was most recently Executive Vice President at City First Bank, a Certified CDFI with a 30-year history of providing mission-oriented capital in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia, and President of the bank’s non-profit holding company. 

He served as Counselor to the Deputy Treasury Secretary in the Obama Administration with responsibility for domestic finance issues for three years and as Maryland’s Commissioner of Financial Regulation for five years in the wake of the financial crisis. 

In addition to his work in government, Mark has over 15 years of finance experience as an investment banker.  He is a Trustee and Director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, a board member of the Jacob K Javits Foundation and a member of the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta.