Erica McGeachy Crenshaw, a former Wall Street equity research analyst, left leading global investment bank Goldman Sachs in 2002 upon purchasing the Brooklyn, NY rights to AmeriSpec Inspection Services, the leading home inspection company in North America with over 400 offices throughout the U.S. and Canada. She subsequently engineered the acquisition of four additional territories in Queens and Long Island, NY. Within three years, Mrs. Crenshaw grew the business at a rapid clip and became one of the top 20 franchise owners in the AmeriSpec system.

After exiting AmeriSpec, Mrs. Crenshaw launched Execute Now! an outsourced finance and accounting firm. The company provides day‐to‐day strategic finance and accounting services to non‐profit organizations, charter schools, foundations, and school districts around the country. During her tenure as the Founder and CEO, Mrs. Crenshaw published

several articles about financial and executive leadership and strategic initiatives related to nonprofits.

Mrs. Crenshaw sold Execute Now! after five years in 2016 and currently spends time developing service projects which include Vantage Points, a race and culture-related set of dialogues. This program was originally launched in 2019 at Providence Day School in Charlotte, N.C. Mrs. Crenshaw effectively created a space for meaningful dialogue among groups with diverse backgrounds and points of view. She continues this work at her daughter’s current school, George School in Newtown, PA.

In addition, she is the former Founding Vice-Chair of Carolina Youth Coalition, which she helped launch in 2017. Among the many start-up responsibilities, she developed the organization’s long-term financial and strategic plans and investment policy. She also leads financial planning discussions with the organization’s investment managers.

Other board service includes Louisiana Key Academy’s Dyslexic Resource Center (DRC). She is a strategic advisor and mentor to the executive director. As a founding member of this board, Mrs. Crenshaw has helped the organization develop business models around dyslexic screening and certifications in the open market. Under Mrs. Crenshaw’s financial

guidance and leadership, the DRC recently secured a multi-year contract with the University of Alabama.

Past board experiences include the following: Ascension Economic Development Corp (Board Treasurer 2014-2016), Center for Planning Excellence, East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority Advisory Board, The Lady of Our Lake College Foundation and Louisiana Key Academy. She was also a member of the Aspen Institute Society of Fellows’ the Vanguard Chapter and The Rotary Club of Baton Rouge. Mrs. Crenshaw is a Chinese culture enthusiast who worked at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade in Shanghai, China while earning her Bachelor of Science and Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Florida A&M University’s School of Business and Industry.

In addition to being invited by organizations to speak to other entrepreneurs around the country, Mrs. Crenshaw has also been featured in several newspapers and magazines such as the following: Black Enterprise, Essence Magazine, New York Post, Real Estate New York Magazine, The Baton Rouge Business Report, and The New York Amsterdam News. She has also been a featured guest speaker on various radio programs and podcast based in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, New York City, and Washington, D.C. The NYC Commission on Women’s Issues recognized her as an exceptional role model for other would‐be entrepreneurs across the country.

Mrs. Crenshaw has also been the guest speaker at select conferences around the country hosted by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and many nonprofit state associations around the country.

As a retiree, Mrs. Crenshaw’s primary goal is to have more impact in her community. Her two mottos are “bloom where you are planted – serve with urgency” and “it is a blessing to be a blessing to others.” In her free time, she enjoys reading, traveling, playing Mah Jong, horseback riding, studying Mandarin, and boating and fishing with her husband. She lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area with her husband, Lorin Crenshaw, and 16-year-old boarding school daughter, who is a junior at George School.