CFPB Announces Leadership Changes

January 6, 2017

On Friday, January 6, 2017, the CFPB announced staffing changes, with the following individuals joining the Bureau’s leadership team:

 

  • Leandra English is returning to the CFPB to serve as the chief of staff.  Ms. English has previously served in a number of senior leadership roles at the Bureau, including deputy chief operating officer, acting chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, and deputy associate director of external affairs. Most recently, she served as the principal deputy chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management. 
  • Jerry Horton will serve as the CFPB’s chief information officer. Before joining the Bureau, Mr. Horton worked at the Department of State where he started and led the office of the chief architect for sate’s global information presence.
  • Paul Kantwill will serve as the Bureau’s assistant director for servicemember affairs. Prior to joining the Bureau, he served as the director in the office of legal policy, office of the under secretary of defense, personnel & readiness at the pentagon. In this capacity, Mr. Kantwill was the Department of Defense’s legal policy expert on the financial industry and the effects financial products and services had on military members and their families.   
  • John McNamara will serve as the CFPB’s assistant director of consumer lending, Reporting, and Collections Markets.  He previously served in the same capacity in an acting role, and before that was the debt collection program manager at the Bureau.  
  • Elizabeth (Eli) Reilly will serve as the CFPB’s chief financial officer. Ms. Reilly previously served as the deputy chief financial officer at the Bureau, joining as one of the agency’s first employees in 2010.