The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) announces Jim Lempenau joined the Board of Trustees. Lempenau, a Bergen County resident, works in Corporate Architecture at Mizuho Financial Group. Founded in 1998, the NNJCF, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, provides collaborative leadership, builds effective partnerships, and pools diverse resources to enrich the quality of life in Northern New Jersey.
“We are delighted to announce Jim Lempenau joined the NNJCF Board of Trustees,” said Michael J. Shannon, President and Co-Founder of the Foundation. “In addition to his employment at Mizuho Financial Group, he brings experience serving on nonprofit boards of trustees. He has already provided us with excellent advice and informed financial insights.”
Jim Lempenau of Mizuho Financial Group named to Northern New Jersey Community Foundation.
Mizuho Executive Brings Leadership Experience
Lempenau, a technology executive with 20 years of leadership experience in financial services, currently works in Corporate Architecture at Mizuho. Previously, he served as Deputy Head of Technology at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. He also served as Vice President of Wealth Trading Technology at Broadridge, Managing Director, and Head of Trading Platforms & Middle Office at Hilltop Securities. He led global teams through large-scale system builds and cloud migrations. Lempenau holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Biochemistry from Hamilton College and an Executive MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Among his activities in the community, he served as President of the Board of Trustees of the River Edge Swim Club. Lempenau has been actively involved for the last 11 years with Scouting America, serving as a Scout Master with an all-boys troop. In addition, he helped launch one of the area’s first all-girl Scouting troops. Furthermore, he helped start the non-profit organization, River Dell Girls Tennis Booster Club. He also rewrote the bylaws for the River Dell Parent Teacher Association.
Foundation: A Regional Resource
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation serves as a regional resource. The organization carries out a mission to improve community life in its work through four intersecting programs. These programs include Belonging and Opportunity, Community Philanthropy, Creative Communities, and also Green and Healthy Places. Central to the NNJCF’s success is fostering collaboration among local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profits, and community groups.
The Foundation leverages the power of creativity and collaboration to make life better for residents of these eight counties in North Jersey: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Union and Warren. This is accomplished primarily by building diverse collaborations to address critical issues in communities, connecting people working to help their communities with valuable resources, leading catalytic placemaking projects to inspire creativity and leadership, and helping generous donors support causes that matter. Key initiatives and projects include the I.C. National Heritage Area project, ArtsBergen, Illumination 250, the New Jersey Creative Communities Conference, Mind Your Feelings, Green Infrastructure for Environmental Justice, and Hackensack River Nation. The NNJCF also hosts donor advised funds, other specialized funds and sponsored projects.
For further information about the NNJCF, its mission and work, visit the organization’s website. For further information about the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation’s work, call 201-568-5608 or send an e-mail.
