The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has added Jerry Ford to serve as a municipal advisor representative on its Board of Directors, filling the spot left vacant after Jill Jaworksi left her position to become the chief financial officer for the City of Chicago.
Ford is a familiar face to the MSRB, having served on the board for fiscal years 2017-2020, chairing the board's Finance and Stakeholder Engagement Committees. For the rest of 2023, he'll serve on both the Audit and Risk Committee and Finance Committee. The board is still seeking another muni advisor representative to join, with applications closing June 16.
"We're grateful to welcome Jerry back to the Board at this pivotal time as we consider and adopt priorities and a supporting budget for the 2024 fiscal year," said MSRB chair Meredith Hathorn.
He is a president of Ford & Associates and advises clients on credit, structure, and sale of new money and refunding issues, direct placement of bank loans, use and structure of interest rate swaps and termination of existing swaps.
Before starting his own firm in 1998, Ford was a public finance underwriter and financial advisor for a southwest regional bank and for a major privately held investment bank. His advisory practice included K-12 education, local infrastructure and not-for-profit organiations.
Before switching over to the banking side, he was a senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, where his responsibilities included providing financial and economic analysis to military research and development programs, providing financial models for funding research development as well as implementation of military equipment and programs.
He also worked in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
He got his bachelor's degree from California State University at Los Angeles and a master's in public administration from the University of Southern California.
Ford is based out of Tampa, Florida, where he is also a founder of First Nesters, a charitable organization that furnishes first homes for young adults leaving foster care.
