a l P H a AWA R D OF MERIT as senior Vice President and Director of Community investment services for the Federal Home loan bank of atlanta (FHlbank atlanta), arthur l. Fleming is the FHlbank atlanta’s designated community investment officer. Arthur manages and directs the FHlbank atlanta’s community investment, economic development, and affordable housing products and services activities to achieve the FHlbank atlanta’s residential and economic development business objectives. arthur has over 20 years of experience in a variety of financial services, legal, housing development, and academic roles. before joining the FHlbank atlanta, Arthur was the Chief Lending & Investment Officer for the opportunity Finance network, inc., (oFn) a national community development financial institution (CDFi) based in Philadelphia, Pa. as Chief lending and Investment Officer, Arthur was responsible for managing and supervising OFN’s financial services unit and all lending, underwriting, and portfolio management services associated with oFn’s $50 million lending balance sheet. Arthur also focused on new financing strategies and products, managed assets services, and debt and equity capitalization for oFn. Prior to oFn, arthur served as the senior Director for the Southeast Region and Director of Housing Finance for the Fannie Mae Foundation. before joining the Fannie Mae Foundation, he was an in-house consultant for a Wall street inner-city investment fund where he created a business plan for a residential acquisition and development private equity fund. Prior to that, arthur spent four years at GMaC Residential, starting as VP of Community Lending and later promoted to sVP, Managing Director/Housing initiatives. at GMaC he managed and executed the enterprise-wide platform for franchise growth,
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profitability, and market share in the emerging markets lending sector. arthur designed and executed mortgage product and business development strategies, a bond master servicing plan and community-lending platforms that were highly profitable. One notable product Arthur managed resulted in an incremental $1 billion in retail and wholesale loan production over an 18-month period and by comparison tripled GMaC’s penetration into targeted consumer markets. at GMaC, arthur was also able to create a faith-based construction product and a new-immigrant mortgage product. He originated and closed targeted subdivision transactions and delivered over $35 million in community development loan approvals. before joining GMaC, arthur was the founder and executive Director of the Community Financing Consortium, inc (CFC) from 1990 to 1999. the CFC board leadership consisted of sixteen regulated banks and savings and loans. arthur was responsible for closing over $100 million in first mortgage and over $100 million in subordinate debt and equity resulting in over 800 single-family mortgages and 1,300 multifamily tax credit and other rental housing. arthur was the primary underwriter and credit analyst for each transaction. at the CFC arthur also created a loan pool for subdivision acquisition and development and created a loan pool for small rental property development or rehab. Prior to the CFC, arthur was the attorney/ senior associate for the FaU/FiU Joint Center for environmental and Urban Problems where he managed practical research projects, published several articles and taught graduate courses in urban planning, economic development and growth management law. arthur is the recipient of many awards in recognition of his contributions to the affordable housing industry and was honored by the Governor of Florida and by the Palm beach County Commission with a proclamation making June 17, 1999 “arthur Fleming Day in Palm beach County”. arthur has served on many boards and is on the executive Committee for the Martin luther King Washington DC Memorial Foundation. arthur received his undergraduate degree from Florida state University in 1981, and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning in 1984 and Law (JD) degree from the University of Florida in 1985. Chris Womack is executive vice president and president of external affairs for southern Company, one of america’s largest producers of electricity. in this role, Womack directs the company’s public policy strategies and oversees the company’s federal and state governmental and