Board

Mike Perrine, Managing Director for Baker Tilly Capital LLC, was formerly the Central Texas Market President for Capital One Bank and has over 25 years of banking and corporate finance experience in numerous leadership capacities.

As Market President, Mike was responsible for leading the bank’s community focus and philanthropic commitment to meet the unique needs of the communities that Capital One Bank serves in the Central Texas area. His commercial lending responsibilities include structuring middle market and corporate debt transactions for public, private and municipal/not for profit clients in a wide range of industries. Prior to joining Capital One Bank, Mike spent over 10 years as the Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded multi-state retail organization.

In his role as CFO, Mike had primary responsibility for the IPO, along with all banking, accounting, SEC reporting and financial operations. Mike is a 1986 graduate of the University of Texas, Austin with a BBA degree in Finance and has completed formal credit training and assignments in operational efficiency/process management.

Donna C. Normandin is currently Senior Vice President and CRA Officer for Frost Bank, a corporate position she has held for the past 18 years, working at Frost for over 30 years. In this position, she is a responsible for the banks Community Reinvestment Act and community development portfolios for regulatory examination purposes for the corporation and keeps a pulse on national issues as they affect CRA such as the recent Dodd-Frank. She is also the conduit between the bank and local centers of influence such as the City of San Antonio, County Commissioners, state & national officials and many other agencies

She is a graduate of the University of the Incarnate Word where she earned her MBA and BBA. Donna is a graduate of Leadership San Antonio XXVI, co-sponsored by The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and The San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and was co-chair for LSA XXVIII.

As a Director Intergovernmental Affairs for Capital Metro and the Austin Transit Partnership, Eric leads both organizations advocacy at the state, regional and local levels. Eric works to ensure that elected officials, policymakers, and stakeholders have the opportunity to provide input on the organizations initiatives and strategic decisions.

Eric also serves on the boards of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber, Community Advancement Network, and the LBJ Presidential Library’s Future Forum. He is a graduate of the Hispanic Austin Leadership and Leadership Austin Emerge programs.

Eric is an alumnus of St. Edward’s University, and since first seeing the view of the city from the Hilltop has called Austin home.

Cecilia Castelo’s responsibilities encompass service experience, small business and community development, regulatory compliance, sales, and employee performance management of 34 Woodforest branches throughout the greater Austin and San Antonio, TX markets.

Castelo joined Woodforest in 2001 as a retail banker in Sequin, TX. She has successfully managed the bank’s Converse, TX and Seguin, TX branches, as well as the DeZavala, TX branch, San Antonio’s flagship 24 hour location for Woodforest. Castelo was promoted to Assistant Vice President in 2008 and in 2011 she was promoted to Regional Manager for the San Antonio area. In 2017 Castel was promoted to Vice President of Retail Banking.

Castelo is a graduate of the Bank Operations Institute of Texas and currently serves on the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Small Business Committee. Castelo is passionate about making a difference in the community, often volunteering and providing support in the areas of affordable housing, economic development, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship.

Nina Nelms is a proven Senior Executive with 28 years of success across finance, entertainment, education, technology, and engineering. Leveraging extensive experience in financial operations and process improvement, she is a valuable asset for higher education, entertainment, or organizations looking for strategic insights, growth, cash flow, and mergers and acquisitions. Her broad areas of expertise include change management, high performance team building and development, cost-reduction strategy, supplier negotiations, purchasing and procurement, supplier diversity, Six Sigma, supply chain management, supplier sustainability and new technology implementation, including robotics.
Throughout her executive career, Nina has held leadership positions at Bank of America, Dell and The Coca-Cola Company. She has been responsible for creating enterprise-wide strategies for environmental, social responsibility and governance (ESG), robotics process automation (RPA), offshoring and supplier diversity for Bank of America, generating $20M in first year cost-savings at Dell using global sourcing initiatives, leading a category management team with $8B of spend, about 20% of third-party spend for the entire global banking enterprise, driving 8 LOB category strategies to hit business objectives and delivering a supplier rationalization analysis reducing Dell’s supply base >90% with $11M savings.
Nina earned a B.A. in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin, an M.B.A. from University of Phoenix and is Certified Six Sigma. She also proudly serves as Lead Faculty Area Chair since 2012 and an Adjunct Professor since 2010 with University of Phoenix, School of Business, teaching graduate courses in Management, Supply Chain, Critical Thinking and Organizational Behavior and Development. She coaches and mentor’s faculty and students in other official university roles.
Nina currently lives in Austin, Texas where she is active with the Austin Community Volunteers, Junior Achievement, and National Black MBA Association’s Leaders of Tomorrow. She mentors others via Bank of America’s CFO Mentoring Program and LEAD. Nina is a member of the Order of Eastern Stars (OES), the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE) and is on the Advisory Board of Huston–Tillotson University’s School of Business and Technology.

Jack Nelson is a successful entrepreneur across several different industries. He is currently CEO of Skimmer, Inc. the leading SaaS provider for the swimming pool and spa industry. Prior to that, Jack was CEO and co-founder of Propel Financial Services, a specialty finance company focused on financing real estate taxes. Jack led Propel from inception through three different sales of the company, including one to a public company. Propel was repeatedly recognized in one of the Top Places to Work under Jack’s leadership. From 2008 to 2012, Jack also built and ran his own law firm. Jack has a J.D. from The University of Chicago School of Law and a BBA (Finance/Business Honors) and a BA (Plan II Liberal Arts) from the University of Texas at Austin. Jack has served on leadership positions for St. Andrew’s School, Generation Serve, The University of Texas, and the University of Chicago School of Law.

Eugene Sepulveda is CEO of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, a partner & director at Capital Factory, and a senior advisor and treasurer for Austin Mayor Steve Adler. Eugene brings nearly 40 years experience at the intersection of finance, startups, banking, community development and politics. He and his husband, Steven Tomlinson, are committed to and invest in social justice and economic opportunity.