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In a paywalled story published by Crain’s Detroit Business, IFF CEO Kirby Burkholder shared IFF’s plans to continue expanding the organization’s presence in Detroit by growing the local team and increasing investments in the region. Included below is an excerpt from the article and a link to the full story on the Crain’s Detroit Business website.
For the first time in 38 years, the CEO of Chicago-based community lender IFF will work out of Detroit — a sign of the nonprofit’s growing ambitions in the city.
Kirby Burkholder, who became the CEO of IFF on Jan. 1, said the organization’s plans to nurture Detroit into a hub for IFF include expanding its investments and growing its Detroit team.
It also helps, he said, that he’s been based in the Detroit metro area for over a decade.
“Detroit is the place that we’re really trying to kind of nurture as a hub,” Burkholder said. “There’s a real desire for anchored investment, where we start to bring all of IFF’s resources and programs to bear in geography, and so there’s a real intention about those investments in the community.”
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