Meet Our Board and Staff

Paul Quintero

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining ACCION New York and New Jersey as the Chief Financial Officer and Interim Chief Executive Officer,  Mr. Quintero served as Senior Vice President of Business Investments at the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), where he successfully closed over $25 million in direct investments and $57 million in triple-tax exempt financings for community development projects that include the largest "big-box" retail development in Manhattan, the largest microloan fund in New York State history, the first new medical school in Harlem in over 30 years, the first auto dealership north of 57th street, the first bowling alley north of 42nd street and other development firsts.

Before joining the Empowerment Zone in 2003, Mr. Quintero was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers, where he worked in the Global Communication and Media Group within the investment banking division.  Prior to Lehman, Mr. Quintero worked as a senior associate at Schroder & Co., where he worked in the Industrial Manufacturing Group.  Before joining Schroder, Mr. Quintero began his investment banking career with Chase Securities (now JPMorgan Chase) where he coordinated and managed syndicated loan financings and merger and acquisition transactions for both domestic and Latin American clients across a range of industries.  Prior to investment banking, Mr. Quintero worked as a senior staff accountant for Deloitte & Touche.

Mr. Quintero, a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), earned a BA in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Washington and was one of the 100 students selected by the Washington state legislature for a four-year full tuition scholarship under the Washington State Scholars Program.  Paul was selected as a fellow from the Robert F. Toigo Foundation and completed his MBA from Columbia Business School.