Northern New Jersey Community Foundation Welcomes Mizuho Executive Jim Lempenau of River Edge to the Board of Trustees
(Hackensack, New Jersey; November 2, 2026) ─ The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) announces Jim Lempenau has been named to the Board of Trustees. Lempenau, a Bergen County resident, works in Corporate Architecture at Mizuho Financial Group.
Founded in 1998, the NNJCF, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, provides collaborative leadership, builds effective partnerships, and pools diverse resources to enrich the quality of life in Northern New Jersey.
"We are delighted to announce Jim Lempenau has joined the NNJCF Board of Trustees,” said Michael J. Shannon, President and Co-Founder of the Foundation. “In addition to his employment at Mizuho Financial Group, he brings experience serving on nonprofit boards of trustees. He has already provided us with excellent advice and informed financial insights.”
Lempenau is a technology executive with 20 years of leadership experience in financial services, currently working in Corporate Architecture at Mizuho. Previously, he served as Deputy Head of Technology at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Vice President of Wealth Trading Technology at Broadridge, and Managing Director, Head of Trading Platforms & Middle Office at Hilltop Securities, leading global teams through large-scale system builds and cloud migrations. Lempenau holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Biochemistry from Hamilton College and an Executive MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Among his activities in the community, he served as President of the Board of Trustees of the River Edge Swim Club. Lempenau has been actively involved for the last 11 years with Scouting America, serving as a Scout Master with an all-boys troop and helping launch one of the area’s first all-girl Scouting troops. In addition, he helped start the non-profit organization, River Dell Girls Tennis Booster Club, and he rewrote the bylaws for the River Dell Parent Teacher Association.
A Regional Resource
The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation serves as a regional resource and carries out a mission to improve community life in its work through four intersecting programs: Belonging and Opportunity, Community Philanthropy, Creative Communities, and Green and Healthy Places. Central to the NNJCF's success is fostering collaboration among local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profits, and community groups.
The Foundation leverages the power of creativity and collaboration to make life better for residents of these eight counties in North Jersey: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, Union and Warren. This is accomplished primarily by building diverse collaborations to address critical issues in communities, connecting people working to help their communities with valuable resources, leading catalytic placemaking projects to inspire creativity and leadership, and helping generous donors support causes that matter. Key initiatives and projects include the I.C. National Heritage Area project, ArtsBergen, Illumination 250, the New Jersey Creative Communities Conference, Mind Your Feelings, Green Infrastructure for Environmental Justice, and Hackensack River Nation. The NNJCF also hosts donor advised funds, other specialized funds and sponsored projects.
For further information about the NNJCF, its mission and work, visit the organization's website at www.nnjcf.org. To get involved in the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation's work, call 201-568-5608 or send an e-mail to nnjcf@nnjcf.org.
About Northern New Jersey Community Foundation
Founded in 1998, The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 organization based in Hackensack, New Jersey, works with local governments, school districts, businesses, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups to improve community life. Through collaborative partnerships, regional problems are identified and resolved. Opportunities are discovered and explored by talking and learning from each other and sharing ideas, best practices, services, and resources. The Foundation works to grow more creative and inspiring places, greener and healthier places, and more places of belonging and opportunity. For more information, visit www.nnjcf.org, send an email to nnjcf@nnjcf.org, or call 201-568-5608.
Photo Caption:Jim Lempenau
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Jim Lempenau
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