As President and CEO of the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), Harold leads the nation’s leading financial intermediary and network of CDFIs, with over 400 members including community development credit unions, banks, venture capital, and loan funds, that provide affordable, responsible financial products and services in low-income rural, urban, and Native communities nationwide. Prior to joining OFN, Harold served as CEO for the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (Wacif), leading one of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area’s leading CDFIs focused on access to capital products and services, and advisory programs to entrepreneurs. Prior to Wacif, Harold served as Director of Entrepreneurship at Prosperity Now, and from 2011 to 2013, Harold was appointed by the Mayor to serve as Director of the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development, where he served as the city’s chief small business advocate, negotiated over $300 million in contract set-aside’s for small businesses, and led the city’s agency responsible for supporting the development, economic growth, and retention of small businesses. In 2021, Harold was appointed by President Biden to serve on the US Department of Treasury’s Community Development Advisory Council and serves on the Community Investment Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.