Jon Clarke is a vice president and the chief lending officer for Enterprise Community Loan Fund (ECLF). He is responsible for managing the production of the loan officers covering Enterprise’s national footprint. With over 20 years of experience, Jon manages loan officers in the loan underwriting, structuring and closing processes, and reviews all loans prior to submission to the chief credit officer and loan committee. Additionally, he structures, underwrites and closes complex transactions and leads the implementation of new programmatic lending efforts. 

Jon joined ECLF in 2010 as a loan officer after serving as a senior program officer at Impact Capital in Seattle. There he served as chief credit officer for two loan pools totaling $30 million. Additionally, he reviewed and underwrote funding applications from non-profit organizations for the construction of housing and community facilities throughout Washington state and oversaw Impact Capital’s overall lending activities. Prior to this position, Jon served as a senior housing developer at Beacon Development Group managing the development of multiple affordable housing projects for non-profit and Housing Authority clients throughout Washington State. 

Jon received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Holy Cross and a master’s in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison concentrating in Housing and Land Use.