Hank Bennett Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

A practical and results-driven executive with more than 15 years developing, refining, and implementing organization/government-wide goals and objectives on local, state, and federal levels.Most recently, I was the Deputy of the Chief Operating Officer at the nation’s largest university system, the State University of New York (SUNY) where I was tasked with re-envisioning the digital experience for students and staff at the 64 campus, 400,000 student institution. The goal was to achieve greater, high-quality access to college degrees, particularly for underserved communities throughout the state of New York. Over the course of two and a half years I championed all of the operational aspects of developing a comprehensive $500 million investment strategy, which was adopted at one of 3 pillars of the SUNY Chancellor’s agenda.I also have expansive depth and breadth of experience at the highest levels of higher education, banking, budgeting, corporate policy, government policy, start-up entities, crisis management, presidential and state politics, facilities and events management, and many other fields. I was part of the original team who successfully started a sudo-de novo small community bank in 2009 in Oklahoma; grew the bank to over 100 employees, with over 135 investors by raising over $37 million; purchased a bank with $10 million in assets and grew it to over $450 million in assets in less than 6 years, where I participated in dozens of community and banking related activities. I am well-versed in the entire lifecycle of achieving policy goals, from ideation to implementation; including researching, analyzing, preparing findings and recommendations, advocating for them, gaining broad support, and seeing them through to full implementation.

Albany, New York Metropolitan Area

Advised the President of the Rockefeller Institute of Government on various policy issues.

Albany, New York Area

Albany, New York

Served the President of the two corporations in various capacities.

Washington, District Of Columbia

Presidential Appointee. Ensured that Small and Disadvantaged businesses have access to the billions of dollars of contracting opportunities USDA offers annually. Improved small and disadvantaged business contracting by $600 million in 4 months.

Jenks, Oklahoma

Part of team who started a new community bank in Oklahoma. Small business and professionals commercial lender. Board Secretay. CRA officer.

Did Undergrad Work. Some Masters Work., Economics

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Business/Managerial Economics

Nearly had a double major in Music Business (3 classes short), and sadly they didn't offer minors in MB at that time.

Economics

Did undergrad work.