Andy Nakahata – IBank CEO/Executive Director
Andrew “Andy” Nakahata was appointed as the Executive Director of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), effective October 2025.
He served as Chief Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at IBank from March through September 2025.
Prior to joining IBank, Nakahata was Director and Western Region Head of Public Finance at TD Securities LLC from 2024 to 2025. Nakahata was Managing Director and Regional Head of Public Finance for the West Region at UBS Financial Services Inc. from 2017 to 2024. He was Managing Director and Head of the West Region at the National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation from 2015 to 2017. Nakahata was Director and Co-Head of the Higher Education Group at Citigroup from 2010 to 2015. He was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan from 2009 to 2010. Nakahata was Vice President of Public Sector and Infrastructure Banking at Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1994 to 2010. He is Treasurer of the Board of Trustees at San Francisco University High School and member of the Board of Directors of Asian Americans in Public Finance.
Nakahata earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Wesleyan University.
