Hope Tate is a retired Banking professional with 40 years of experience in the capital needs of private and non-rated businesses, not-for profit organizations, entrepreneurs, and high net worth individuals. She has worked in structuring complex transactions, risk and portfolio management, business development and sales management, product management and development, professional development, bankruptcy and workout, mergers and acquisitions. Her professional career has led her through many leadership and managerial positions with various divisions of Citibank and later Citigroup. Hope received her BA from Meredith College and her MBA in Finance from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. In addition to serving as treasurer of OTR, she is former Board Member and Past President of Friends of the North Carolina State University Libraries, a Former Board Member of the New York Chapter of the Fund for UNICEF, former Chairperson of the Board of the Annie Tinker Association for Women and, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blue Ridge School in St George Va.