Collaborating Through Intermediaries

Asad Mahmood

Asad Mahmood is Director of the Community Development Finance Group at Deutsche Bank. Mahmood is responsible for a $350 million loan and investment portfolio, which seeks both a financial and social return. He is also responsible for Deutsche Bank Microfinance efforts and is the General Manager of Deutsche Bank Microfinance Development Fund, which was established 7 years ago and has 38 relationships in 24 countries. Mr. Mahmood is the central force in creating a pioneering $75 million commercial microfinance fund which has raised most of its money from some of the largest institutional investors in the world. Mr. Mahmood is on the Board of the Microfinance Information Exchange sponsored by The World Bank, and sits on the Advisory Committee of The Rockdale Foundation. Mr. Mahmood is also the founder of the Microfinance Club of New York which brings microfinance leaders to present their work and holds discussions on salient issues.

Jean Pogge

Jean Pogge, Executive Vice President, Funding and Operation Division, of ShoreBank, specializes in operations, strategic, marketing, financial management and nonprofit governance. She is responsible for the overall management of the National Funding Group, a centralized sales unit responsible for national deposit raising from institutional and individual Development Depositors across the country. Development Depositors establish bank accounts with the ShoreBank banks to support their innovative community development work.