Luz Urrutia

Luz Urrutia is CEO of Accion Opportunity Fund, the nation's leading nonprofit providing small businesses with access to capital, networks, and coaching. She is a recognized financial services pioneer and an executive with a track record of leading change, bringing new solutions to market, investing in the future of consumers and small businesses, raising capital, and driving scale. Her career has been focused on financial services and serving underserved populations across society—from unbanked/underbanked immigrants to the previously banked, to small business owners. Luz has successfully led numerous organizations through change, including guiding a start-up bank for Hispanic immigrants, geographically expanding to an early stage consumer lender, and transitioning an established global financial services provider from payday lending. Previously, Luz was Vice President of Retail Sales & Service at Oportun, Co-Founder and President/Chief Operating Office at El Banco de Nuestra Comunidad, and Managing Director at Wachovia Bank.

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Opportunity Fund