Abdul H Mohamed,
Vice President
Citizens Business Banking Group

Mr. Mohamed's clients are companies with revenue from $500K to $10 million. In addition to small business lending, he manages a team of 10 Business Banking Officers that provide specialized banking services including Business Checking/Savings deposit accounts. Citizens Bank is also a premier in Small Business administration (SBA) lender that offers an array of affordable credit programs designed to help the needs of your business such as:

• Conventional Business Line of credit (a convenient and affordable financing solution for short term needs)
  
  
• Conventional Business Term Loans (to finance equipment or permanent working capital)
  
  
• SBA lines of credit and loans credit to grow your business or improve your cash flow)
  
  
• Letters of credit, Quick lease, Business Credit Card, and overdraft line of credit.

He is also well versed in various lending toward lower to moderate-income neighborhoods. Citizens Bank is the number 1 SBA lender in MA. Citizens Bank works with local CDC (Technical assistance providers) to help small businesses grow and provide specialized lending in LMI areas.

Mr. Mohamed started his banking career in 2000 with Citizens Bank where he completed the Bank's small business lending credit analysis course. He is a 1997 graduate of University of Ottawa with a Bachelors of Art degree in Economics.

Born in Somalia, Mr. Mohamed resides with his wife and 2 kids in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Dr. Scott Schuh 
Pastor, Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Church of Wilmington, MA &
Senior Economist & Policy Advisor,
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Dr. Schuh has two decades experience as a professional economist, and has been active in ministry in the Boston area since arriving in 1997.

In addition to his work at the Boston Fed, he has worked as an Economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a Research Associate for the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and a Staff Economist for President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers.  He has taught at the Johns Hopkins University and Boston College.  Schuh is best known for two influential books documenting how the processes of job creation and destruction are vital to understanding economic growth and business cycles.  As a macroeconomist and forecaster, he specializes in productivity, investment, and monetary policy.  Recently, he began studying consumer payment behavior and its relation to monetary theory.  His research is published in scholarly journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of International Economics.

Schuh pioneered the Good News Live! cable TV program, a community-based evangelism effort in Wilmington, MA, from 1997-2001 while serving as an “unofficial, unpaid, part-time, associate pastor.”  Since 2003, he has served as an elder-pastor of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in the Woburn-Wilmington area.  He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Center for Urban and Ministerial Education (CUME) in Roxbury.

Schuh earned a B.A. (economics and journalism) from California State University—Sacramento in 1985, and a Ph.D. and M.A. (economics) from Johns Hopkins University in 1992.  He was ordained as a deacon at Montrose Baptist Church in Rockville, MD in 1989, licensed to preach by Montrose in 1997, and appointed and affirmed as an elder-pastor of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in Woburn, MA in 2003.

Bishop Gilbert A. Thompson
Senior Pastor
Jubilee Christian Church, Boston, MA

Bishop G. A. Thompson is originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

He holds a BA degree from the Moody Bible Institute (1971), and a ThM degree from the Boston University School of Theology (1975).

He has been a pastor for over 30 years and now pastors Jubilee Christian Church (formerly New Covenant Christian Church), a powerful inner-city church in Boston, Massachusetts.  This church, founded by Bishop Thompson in 1982, has grown to be one of the largest congregations in New England with an active membership of over 5000 believers.

He was consecrated to the apostolic office of bishop (September 29, 1999) as a presbytery of bishops and pastors from several Christian denominations gathered to anoint him.

He is the Presiding Bishop over the network of churches called – Church Without Walls International.  The phrase: “A Church Without Walls” is the name of a vision God gave him to transform inner cities – spiritually, economically, socially, educationally, politically, and culturally by the power of God and community collaboration.

Bishop Thompson has authored several books and teaching manuals on doctrine and foundational truth. He and his wife, Yvonne, have been married since February 1967, they have eight children, and fourteen grandchildren.

Wayne Threatt
Managing Principal
T&C Associates

Mr Threatt has extensive financing experience from angel startup financing to venture capital to initial public offerings. Threatt has structured and negotiated a diversity of transactions: financings, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances and captured millions of dollars in funding/financing for startups, spin-offs, buyouts. Recently he arranged a private placement for a high growth electronic consumer products company which exceeded $ 100 M in value. Threatt was responsible for the deal from conceptualization through close including sourcing capital, negotiation, deal structure and due diligence.

Mr Threatt has years of general management, marketing and business development experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments in industries that span the gamut from hardware and software technology to branded consumer goods.

He is a graduate of the University of Chicago (physics), University of Pittsburgh (MS Physics) and the Harvard Business School.

About T & C Associates
T & C Associates assists companies in structuring debt and equity financings, executing mergers and acquisitions, completing management buyouts, and developing corporate financing strategies.

Andrew L. Ward
Financial Representative
The Bulfinch Group

Andrew L. Ward is a Financial Representative with The Bulfinch Group. Andrew is a dedicated representative who works with individuals, families and business clients to help them build and protect wealth. Andrew utilizes a process which integrates a wide range of wealth solutions that organizes his clients’ financial world, integrating individual strategies into a consolidated, comprehensive plan. The process ensures that everything is done to maximize wealth, and is done to help clients realize their goals, hopes and dreams. Andrew’s mission is to have each client recognize their full economic potential.

When working with clients, Andrew utilizes a powerful financial tool called The Living Balance SheetSM. This tool is used by clients to help them more easily manage their assets and liabilities; monitor their cash flow; assess their savings strategies; understand their retirement and investment funds; and determine whether their insurance protection is up-to-date and adequate, all under a single platform.

Prior to joining The Bulfinch Group, Andrew worked with New England Financial and Fidelity Investments, where he focused on strategic planning, process improvement, and overall financial management.

Andrew graduated from Bentley College in Waltham, MA with a BS in Finance. Andrew is active with Bentley’s Alumni Association and is a member of the Bentley College President’s Club which contains about five-percent of all Bentley College Alumni. He is also a member of the Boston chapter of NAIFA (National Association of Insurance Financial Advisors).

Andrew resides in Cambridge, MA, and enjoys playing golf, physical fitness and reading motivational books in his free time.

Robert C. Williams, Jr.
Principal
New Vision Financial, Inc.

Mr. Williams provides direction, coordination and focus for effective operations of New Vision Financial, Inc.’s major lines of business. He represents the company in critical relationships with major clients and other key parties. Mr. Williams’ duties also include market wide responsibilities for coordinating the delivery of financial products and services related to the Private Client Group ensuring consistent consultation of the banking and investment processes, to help meet all of your personal and commercial financial goals.

Mr. Williams brings a wealth of experience as a former Vice-President and Client Manager for the Middle Market segment of Bank of America's Government and Municipal Banking Group; where he focused primarily on Growth and New to Company relationship development and client retention and acquisition. Mr. Williams is a principal of Boston Resources, LLC, a government relations firm, and Urban Lifestyles, LLC a residential and commercial real estate builder and developer.

Mr. Williams currently serves as a member of the Board of the New England Legal Defense Fund, NAACP, The Roxbury Community Health Center Board of Directors, The Executive Committee, Algonquin Club of Boston Executive Committee/Marketing Committee Chairman. Mr. Williams’ educational background includes Merrimack College, Georgetown University, Harvard University's National Fellows Program, and the Massachusetts School of Law where he earned his JD.

*Mr. Williams is a Registered Representative with and securities offered through Intersecurities, Inc., Member NASD, SIPC.