DOUGLAS J. BYSTRY is the founder and CEO of Clearinghouse Community Development Financial Institution, one of the country’s most active providers of community development financing. For more than forty years, he has worked with nonprofits, financial institutions, government agencies, and community organizations to expand access to capital and create economic opportunity.

His work spans affordable housing, healthcare financing, Native American economic development, minority wealth creation, and community investment—and he has directed billions of dollars toward projects in some of the country’s most underserved communities.

Bystry has spent his career at the intersection of public service and private enterprise. He is based in California.