Chinwe Onyeagoro
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
312.850.0600 | chinwe.onyeagoro@o-hcommunitypartners.com

Ms. Onyeagoro has assisted socially responsible investors, foundations, non-profits, financial institutions, and government agencies around the country in designing and implementing strategic growth plans, community outreach and engagement initiatives, and performance measurement systems. She has worked with many of these public and private organizations to successfully complete hundreds of community and economic development programs. Over the last four years, OHcp has successfully raised a total of $115 million in grants, competitive loans, tax incentives, and government subsidies for clients throughout the country.

Under her leadership, OHcp designed and launched a performance monitoring tool that is focused on assisting nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies with measuring the economic and social impact of programs and investments. This system has been customized to support energy efficiency retrofit programs around the country and tracks energy performance improvements, job creation and retention outcomes, as well as W/MBE supplier spending.

She is also the founder and editor of New Equity Daily (www.newequitydaily.com), a blog and search engine that provides news and information about financing for small businesses and real estate investors, including grants, subordinated loans, tax credits, bonds, socially responsible equity financing.

Prior to establishing OHcp, Ms. Onyeagoro worked as one of four investment analysts overseeing the Pritzker Realty Group’s $3 billion in real estate assets, including a sizable inventory of retail, mixed-use, multifamily, senior living, and Alzheimer’s care facilities. Previously, Ms. Onyeagoro worked for ten years in the field of management consulting for global strategy firms, including McKinsey & Company and The Monitor Group. As a McKinsey consultant, she provided strategic business and financial advisory services to executives of Fortune 1000 companies across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, and retail. As a Monitor Group consultant, she conducted market research, strategy consulting, and analytics consulting services to public and private sector clients. Internationally, Ms. Onyeagoro has consulted with one of the largest agricultural equipment firms based in Tel Aviv, Israel and a government owned postal service company in Madrid, Spain.

Ms. Onyeagoro graduated magna cum laude with a joint degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Harvard University. She is a member of The Aspen Institute’s 2008 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and Lambda Alpha International. She is a licensed real estate broker and a member of the National Association of Realtors. In 2007, Ms. Onyeagoro was named one of Chicago’s 40 under 40 by Crain’s Chicago Business. In 2008, she received an Emerging Leaders Award from the Anti-Defamation League of Chicago. That same year, she was presented with the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago’s Women of Achievement of Award.

Ms. Onyeagoro sits on the board of a number of civic organizations, including the Economic Club of Chicago, Advantage Capital Partners, Insight Center for Community Economic Development, Taproot Foundation, Center for Neighborhood Technology, CNTEnergy, The Cara Program, 2016 Olympics Next Generation Leadership Advisory Council, Chicago Cable Access Network – TV, and the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee. She is an active member of the Social Venture Network and the Social Enterprise Alliance.

Ms. Onyeagoro and her work have been featured in Reuters, Crain’s Chicago Business, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Defender, Lake Front Outlook, and the Hyde Park Herald.

Ms. Onyeagoro is proficient in three foreign languages, including Spanish, Japanese, and Igbo.