A Team of Professionals
The Indian Land Capital Company staff and board of directors bring years of experience to the operation and management of ILCC. The leadership has extensive experience in Indian Country, working in the fields of banking and finance, business and housing development, as well as working with Indian lands. Our collective understanding of tribes, community development finance, and tribal land issues helps us design financing that can meet the specific needs of tribes.
ILCC Leadership
Gerald Sherman, President and CEO (Oglala Lakota)
Board of Directors
Cris Stainbrook, Chairman of the Board of ILCC
President/CEO, Indian Land Tenure Foundation (Oglala Lakota) Read bio
Elouise Cobell, Vice President of ILCC
Executive Director, Native American Community Development Corporation (Blackfeet Tribe) Read bio
David Tovey, Secretary/Treasurer of ILCC
Executive Director, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Umatilla) Read bio
Jay Marcus, Board Member of ILCC
Director of New York City Programs,
NCB Capital Impact Read bio
Chandra Hampson, Board Member of ILCC
Senior Lender, VP and Director of the Indian Country Initiative, ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia (Winnebago/Chippewa) Read bio
Affiliates
ILCC’s affiliate, the Indian Land Tenure Foundation, can provide assistance with developing land purchase and management strategies and can help with preparations for borrowing from Indian Land Capital Company. For tribes seeking assistance with business or housing development, the Native American Community Development Corporation can lend expertise.
Learn more About ILCC
Gerald Sherman
President/CEO
Gerald Sherman President, an Oglala Lakota, grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is the founding director of the Lakota Fund, a well known CDFI and one of the first micro enterprise loan funds in the United States. Sherman spent a number of years in banking, working with Norwest Bank (now Wells Fargo), the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and First Interstate BancSystem of Montana. His banking career focused on community development and finance on Indian reservations. He has also worked for the Four Times Foundation, investing in Indian entrepreneurs on select Indian reservations.
Sherman is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, which is affiliated with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He is also a board member of Indian Dispute Resolution Services of Sacramento, California.
