Shyla Sheppard

Ms. Sheppard joined New Mexico Community Capital in 2005.
At NMCC, she performs an array of activities including deal sourcing, community outreach, providing value-added assistance to portfolio companies, managing portfolio company and deal flow information, assisting the Managing Director with investor relations and making investments for the NMCC funds.
She assists on the boards of Aero Mechanical Industries and Armed Response Team.
Ms. Sheppard is also spearheading NMCC's investment-cultivating efforts with Native American communities and entrepreneurs.
The goal of this initiative is to promote and encourage entrepreneurship and business development in Native communities to spur not only economic growth, but also cause broader positive economic development results.
Having first-hand experience growing up in an area with only an elementary school and clinic and twenty miles from the nearest gas station or grocery store, she is passionate about using business to find creative solutions to the economic disparities that pervade rural and under-served locales.
Ms. Sheppard graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics.
She was raised on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota and is a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes.