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Jennifer Tescher is the President and CEO for the Center for Financial
Services Innovation, which aims to transform the financial services
experience in America in order to better serve underbanked consumers and
help them achieve prosperity. Towards that goal, CFSI develops and
distributes real-world tested research and strategy, provides funding to
promising companies, and facilitates cross-sector business
collaboration.
Ms. Tescher founded
CFSI in 2004 and has since achieved notable success in raising the
profile of underbanked access and asset-building as an objective for the
industry. She has become a nationally known expert on this topic, with a
monthly column in American Banker, frequent interviews and articles in
the financial press, and major speaking engagements at a broad spectrum
of industry events, including: Best Practices in Retail Financial
Services; ATM, Debit and Prepaid Forum; BAI’s Retail Delivery; AARP’s
Diversity and Aging Crisis; Commission on the Future of Economic
Development’s (CFED’s) Asset Learning Conference; Financial Service
Centers of America’s (FiSCA’s) Annual Conference; and CFSI’s own
Underbanked Financial Services Forum, which she chairs as co-producer.
Additionally, Ms. Tescher previously served on the Federal Reserve
Board's Consumer Advisory Council.
Ms. Tescher serves
as a member of the Board of Directors for Project Match and the Credit
Builders Alliance and is a member of Bank of America's National
Community Advisory Council. A recipient of the Crain's Chicago Business
"40 Under 40" Award for 2006, Ms. Tescher received undergraduate and
graduate degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and a public
policy degree from the University of Chicago.
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