Staff

Dana Lieberman

Chief Business Officer

Dana Lieberman joined IFF in 2012 as director of compliance and investor programs, responsible for managing and coordinating IFF’s investor relationships, compliance initiatives, and New Markets Tax Credits-related activities. She was promoted in 2013 to managing director of lending, with responsibilities for the leadership and management of the loan origination program and staff across IFF’s footprint, and in 2017, she became chief lending officer and senior vice president for Capital Solutions, providing broad, executive-level oversight of the organization’s regional nonprofit financing program.

As SVP/chief lending officer, Dana grew the Capital Solutions team in numbers and leadership skills and supported innovation in sustainability, housing, and community development, leading to her promotion to chief business officer. In this new role, Dana oversees a team of 30+ professionals working in loan origination, portfolio management, and structured finance and provides enterprise-level strategic leadership, management, and full income statement accountability for IFF’s loan deployment plans.

Prior to joining IFF, Lieberman was chief operating officer of a social enterprise bakery and transitional jobs training program affiliated with a Chicago social service agency. She began her career in commercial banking and spent 13 years with LaSalle Bank and Bank of America in Chicago.

She received her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves on the Loan Committee and Community Advisory Committee for Partners for the Common Good, a community development financial institution based in D.C.