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Deborah Wright is a member of the Kraft Foods Board of Directors and is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Carver Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: CARV), the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered savings bank and the nation's largest publicly traded African- and Caribbean-American operated bank with approximately $735 million in assets and 160 employees. Carver operates ten full service branches in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. "Black Enterprise" magazine named Carver the Financial Services Company of the Year in 2006. "The American Banker", the financial industry's daily newspaper, named Ms. Wright "Community Banker of the Year" in December of 2003.
Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Wright was President and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation from 1996 to June of 1999. She previously served as Commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani from January 1994 through March 1996. Previously, Mayor David N. Dinkins appointed Ms. Wright to the New York City Housing Authority Board, which manages New York City’s 189,000 public housing units.
Ms. Wright serves on the boards of Time Warner, The Partnership for New York City and the Children’s Defense Fund. She is a member of the board of managers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and served as a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University.
Ms. Wright earned her bachelors degree, Master of Business Administration and Juris Doctor degree from Harvard University. | 