Carla Brooks

Partner, Managing Director

Carla Brooks is a Partner and Managing Director for the Fund Management team. Having built a successful career over the last 30 years in bank regulation and oversight, Ms. Brooks has played an integral role in developing Commerce Street’s fund management business. She serves as a member of the Investment Committee for Commerce Street Financial Partners, LP, Service Equity Partners, LP, Genesis Bank Fund, LP, Commerce Street Income Fund, LP and Commerce Street Income Fund II, LP.

Ms. Brooks’ prior positions include Commerce Street’s predecessor firm, SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc.; California Federal Bank, FSB, where she was First Vice President of Corporate Acquisitions in the Office of the Chairman; and KPMG, working in both the Regulatory Advisory and the Corporate Recovery Practices. Ms. Brooks also spent seven years with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas where she was the manager of applications processing in the supervision and regulation department.

In 2009, Ms. Brooks was ranked No. 12 on U.S. Banker and American Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Nonbank Women in Finance list. She was also selected as an honoree for the Dallas Business Journal’s Women in Business Awards as one of the region’s most outstanding woman business leaders. Notable 2008 industry accomplishments for Ms. Brooks included being ranked 13th on U.S. Banker’s Nonbank Women in Finance list. She was also a key member of the team which received the country’s first-ever shelf charter approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Ms. Brooks currently serves on the advisory council of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking™ program. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business and economics from Coe College in Iowa and has a Master of Science degree in finance from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a licensed Certified Insolvency and Reorganization Accountant and also holds multiple securities licenses.