Irvin M. Henderson
President & CEO
Irvin M. Henderson is the principal of Henderson & Company, a development company with expertise in the areas of community development and historic preservation, commercial, residential and enterprise development. Mr. Henderson has an extensive track record in downtown revitalization, multi-family development and commercial development for urban core infill. He is the former president and CEO of Henderson Financial Services and the former CEO of Gateway Community Development Corporation. Mr. Henderson is immediate past chair of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation, a trustee of the Community Capital Trust, a trustee emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, past chair and current board member of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, finance and audit chair of the National Main Street Center, advisory board member Monticello and board member of several new markets tax credit community development entities. He is re-developing the New Granada Theater with the Hill CDC in the historic Hill District of Pittsburgh along with 40 units of housing and the ICA GreenRise Center in Chicago. He is developing the historic Masonic Temple and the A. G. Gaston Office Building in Birmingham as historic national monuments in Alabama. He is developing a post-industrial business center in the Ensley neighborhood in Birmingham. Over the last few years, he completed a manufacturing facility in Lumberton, N.C., apartments in S.C. and a Job Creation Center for the Arc of Hilo, in Hawaii.