Team

Chief Financial Officer Carla Martinez is a native New Mexican and graduate of the New Mexico School of Law with extensive experience in both private practice and the public sector. Martinez previously served as the Chief Administrative Officer for the New Mexico Department Justice. Other former roles include Chief Administrative Officer for the Second Judicial District Attorney’s Office, Chief of Staff for Operations for the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General and Deputy State Auditor for the New Mexico Office of the State Auditor. She also served for four years as a Board Member and Chair of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board. Martinez is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Donna has over 28 years in state and local government finance. Donna serves as the Director of Finance and Administrative Services at the City of Albuquerque.  Her prior role was the City Controller. Donna was a CFO for three state agencies over her years in state government, which included serving as the Assistant Commissioner of Administrative Services for the New Mexico State Land Office. She has a BBA from UNM with a concentration in Accounting, an MBA from the College of Santa Fe with a concentration in Management Information Systems.  She has three active certifications:  Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Donna is the National Treasurer-Elect for AGA, she served in many roles at a national, regional and local level with AGA. She is also a member of the GFOA Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting Standing Committee.

Erik is a lifelong resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico and has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry of which 21 years have been in Public Finance servicing New Mexico clients. Since 2012 Erik has been the primary banker for over $4.0 billion and 400 transactions for New Mexico clients. Mr. Harrigan focuses solely on New Mexico clients and actively participates in the development of long term finance plans for New Mexico universities, not for profit hospitals, utilities, school districts, cities, counties and various finance authorities. Most recently he has been involved in financings for various higher education institutions, school districts, regional water authorities and various financing authorities.  Erik holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with an emphasis in international finance from the University of New Mexico and is a member of the NYSE and NASD.