Management Team
Joseph L. Falkson
Senior Managing DirectorDr. Falkson is a co-founder of NAC and manages all aspects of its day-to-day operations. He leads NAC’s tribal financial services consulting practice; specifically, linking tribes to Federal financing programs such as the Community Development…
Christian Hillabrant
Managing DirectorMr. Hillabrant, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of OK, recently
joined NAC. He has had a long and distinguished career in the telecommunications
industry, having worked…
Gavin Clarkson
Managing DirectorDr. Gavin Clarkson, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, has resumed his role as Managing Director of Native American Capital, a position he has held since 2007. While on leave, Dr. Clarkson served in…
Marco Rubin
Managing DirectorMr. Rubin advises Native American Capital’s business and private equity consulting operations. He has served on the Boards of Directors of several of NAC’s tribally-based finance and economic development enterprises.
Advisory Board
Leonard Smith, executive director of the Native American Development Corporation (NADC), Billings, MT, a foundation supported economic development facilitator, supporting all of the American Indian tribes of Montana and Wyoming, as well as investing in a variety of projects supporting non-reservation based American Indians. Mr. Smith is an enrolled member of the Assiniboine & Sioux tribe of the Ft. Peck Reservation in Montana. He assistd NAC in searching for, screening, and reviewing a variety of tribal and non-tribal American Indian business projects.
The Ohrstrom Family Foundation. A nationally recognized philanthropist, Mr. Ohrstrom sits on the boards of several foundations and corporations. He is the chairman and founding member of the Committee on Outcome-Based Benefits (COBB) – an organization that seeks to improve the cost efficiency and cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatment.
Dr. Zelman is president of the Zelman Education Consulting Group. Previously, she served as senior VP for education and children’s programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and was the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Ohio for ten years, leading Ohio from 29th to fifth in the 2009 Education Week Quality Counts Report. Under her leadership, average student test scores increased, earning Ohio the Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education. Dr. Zelman has held executive posts at the Missouri and Massachusetts Departments of Education and chaired the Department of Education at Emmanuel College in Boston. Dr. Zelman holds a PhD in education from the University of Michigan.