Staff & Board
The Housing Fund’s team is a dynamic group of individuals, ready to assist in meeting the affordable-housing and equitable community-development goals of Tennessee’s communities.
2024 Board Roster
Officers
Rodrick Butler
Chair
Northwestern Mutual
Tera Bloecher
Vice Chair
U.S. Bank
Directors:
Doug Lesky
Zeitlin Sotheby’s International Realty
Kim Hollingshead
Hollingshead & Associates, PLLC
Philip McCutchan
Hancock Whitney
Lorrie Shearon
Community Representative / THDA (retired)
Jessica LeVeen Farr
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Michael Frazee
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Derrick Williams
First Horizon Bank
Keith Miles
Community Representative / MP&F (retired)
Angela Curtis
BRAVV
Ron Crutcher
Crutcher & Associates, LLC
Charmin Bates
Creative Girls Rock
Martha Silva
Conexión Américas
Our Staff
Marshall E. Crawford, Jr., MPA
President and CEO
An experienced nonprofit executive, Marshall Crawford shares The Housing Fund’s commitment to helping individuals and communities create and maintain affordable, healthy places in which to live and work. As President and CEO, his responsibilities include organizational leadership, strategic planning, resource development, and the management of loan portfolios, lending operations, and community/external relations.
Meet Our Team
Senior Leadership
David Parrish
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
David is responsible for strategic leadership and accounting operations. He provides leadership for the organization, along with standard and custom financial reports to the CEO and Board of Directors, to assess THF’s overall financial status.
Angela Belcher
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Angela provides leadership and strategic vision to the organization. She enhances all operational, managerial and administrative procedures, reporting structures and operation controls for The Housing Fund.
Communications
Emma Gottlieb
Communications Coordinator
Emma oversees both internal and external communications for The Housing Fund. She collaborates with various programs and initiatives to enhance community outreach, crafting and executing communication strategies that advance the organization’s goals and objectives.
Community Economic Development
Lou Evans
Business Development Manager
Lou is a Business Development Manager that works across all lending programs and initiatives, providing community outreach efforts develop opportunities that advance The Housing Fund’s organizational goals and objectives, primarily in West Tennessee.
Hunter Haislip
Credit Analyst, Community & Economic Development
Hunter supports the Community & Economic Development team with credit analyses for the financial information of builder-developers interested in utilizing THF’s resources to construct or rehab affordable housing and other community facilities.
Consumer Lending
Candice Winburn
Senior Mortgage Advisor
Candice leads client interactions and processes for our Shared Equity and Home Improvement loans. She also conducts outreach and works closely with THF’s lending partners.
Freda Harris
Senior Mortgage Advisor
Freda provides guidance and counseling to consumers interested in homeownership opportunities. She also leads our homebuyer education and money management activities.
Community Impact
Rachel Kelley
Vice President & Director of Community Impact
Rachel manages the Community Land Trust, which serves middle-TN to ensure long-term housing affordability. Also, she is responsibile for the oversight of all community grants and related activities for community impact.
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Trantell Knight
Community Impact Specialist
Trantell is responsible for managing the grant resources provided to individuals and families to help create and maintain affordable and healthy places for low- and moderate-income people to live.
Joanna Foust, MBA
Relationship Manager
Joanna is a business development strategist that works across all programs and initiatives providing community outreach efforts to develop and implement marketing strategies that advance The Housing Fund’s organizational goals and objectives.
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Finance
Joseph Lackey
Vice President & Controller
Joseph works closely alongside THF’s CFO to plan and organize financial and accounting activities, prepare financial statements and records, and advance client-service software and systems.
Hannah Hadley
Staff Accountant
Hannah works in the Finance Department with a focus on cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and special projects as assigned.
John Hawk
Staff Accountant
John manages The Housing Fund’s diverse loan portfolio, contributes to building borrower relationships, and has the lead responsibility for the processes and databases that THF uses to analyze, service and report on its loan portfolio.
Heather Zawacki
Staff Accountant
Heather is a staff accountant on The Housing Fund’s finance team with a primary focus on accounts payable, loan portfolio management, and any special projects as assigned.
Housing for Today's Tennessee Families
The Housing Fund provides three consumer-lending products to facilitate homeownership for low-to-moderate income buyers: Down Payment Assistance, Shared Equity homeownership, and a Community Land Trust for Davidson County.
Invest in Housing Solutions
Our investors are generating competitive returns while enabling a more inclusive Tennessee economy. Lenders interested in partnering with The Housing Fund to meet Community Reinvestment Act requirements, reach out to our President & CEO Marshall Crawford: [email protected].
