CLI Event: HBCUs & Community Engagement – 11/16/21
HOPE is honored to present Professor Mark Quinn, from Xavier University of Louisiana. Professor Quinn’s presentation will advance ideas about community engagement by learning how XULA has worked with the surrounding community.
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Speaker
Mark L. Quinn
Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship
Xavier University of Louisiana
Mr. Quinn is the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Xavier University of Louisiana. He teaches entrepreneurship, directs the Xavier University Entrepreneurship Institute and founded the X-ncubator, Xavier’s student business incubator.
Previously he served as Executive Director of the Greater Newark Enterprises Corporation, a certified Community Development Financial Institution of the US Department of the Treasury. He began his professional career on Wall Street as an Examiner with the National Association of Securities Dealers (now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He then worked in Pensions with a major insurance company and as a securities registered representative.
His career in small business development and community development finance spans more than 25 years. He managed public sector loan funds for urban commercial real estate development and small business development totaling $60 million, and created an entrepreneurial development program that was administered throughout the State of New Jersey. He has also served as Executive Director of economic development and community development organizations where he administered programs that built the capacity of small businesses, renovated and managed commercial real estate, and implemented various community supportive service programs. Other real estate development activities include serving as a Senior Project Manager for a mixed use project that involved constructing 144 residential units, 12,000 sq ft of commercial space, and obtaining $2 million in equity via low-income housing tax credits.
He has served as an adjunct instructor of finance at Rutgers Business School, and as a guest lecturer in college level courses on entrepreneurship and public policy.
Additionally, he has served on the Boards of Directors of Foundation for Louisiana, Association for Enterprise Opportunity, and Arts Council New Orleans. He was also Treasurer and Manager of the Xavier University Employees’ Federal Credit Union.
Mr. Quinn’s passion is stimulating and supporting wealth creation among disadvantaged and emerging populations. He enjoys music (jazz in particular), sports and family.
Mr. Quinn received his BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from Rutgers University.
