As Chief Revenue Officer, Sarah Gordon leads CFSI’s business development function as well as the organization’s expansion beyond financial services to new audiences such as employers and higher education through focused market development.
Sarah previously served as Chief Strategy Officer leading the development and ongoing evolution of CFSI’s organizational strategy. Having recently celebrated her eleventh anniversary at CFSI, Sarah’s past roles include leading efforts to foster promising product, service, and strategy innovations through a variety of financial and nonprofit supports. She helped stand up the Financial Solutions Lab and directed programs such as the Financial Capability Innovation Fund and the Nonprofit Opportunities Fund.
Sarah got her start in financial services as a financial coach to low-wage manufacturing workers in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. She was also Associate Director at Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC), a leading workforce development nonprofit.
Sarah serves on the Board of Moneythink, recognized by President Obama as one of the most promising social innovations in America.
Sarah is a graduate of Northwestern University and lives in Evanston with her husband and young daughter.