Community Capital New York adds VPs for lending

Julieta Parra McPherson and Carlos Hernandez have joined Community Capital New York as vice presidents for lending, the nonprofit alternative lender in Hawthorne announced.

Julieta Parra McPherson

Community Capital officials said the executives will contribute to the agency”™s mission of creating economic opportunity for a strong portfolio of borrowers across all product lines, including loans to small businesses, affordable-housing developers and nonprofits and social enterprises. They will also provide one-on-one bilingual coaching and support to borrowers as part of Community Capital”™s business development services.

McPherson, who will be responsible for Westchester County, was a business training coordinator for the Latino Economic Development Center in Minneapolis  before relocating to Mount  Kisco in 2013. Community Capital officials said she has extensive experience training small businesses and micro-entrepreneurs in the areas of business development, marketing, customer service and finance.

Most recently, McPherson developed a series of entrepreneurial training programs for the Women”™s Enterprise Development Center, the Child Care Council of Westchester and the White Plains Library.

Carlos Hernandez

A certified public accountant, Hernandez is responsible for Community Capital lending in Rockland, Orange and Sullivan counties. He previously was an investment counselor at David Lerner Associates in White Plains and served as chief financial officer for The Vidal Partnership in Manhattan and CTM Media in Stamford.

In a career that began at Deloitte, Hernandez has developed particular expertise in evaluating new concepts, start-ups and business entities, according to his new employer.