Georgetown alums join McCourt School Advisory Board

The McCourt School of Public Policy proudly welcomes two new members to its Advisory Board . James Healy (MBA’10), president of Digital Disbursements, and Geoffrey Okamoto (MPP’11), managing director at Goldman Sachs, will join more than 20 dynamic leaders in politics, policy, business and philanthropy to offer expertise on strategic priorities and support its aspiration to be the most inclusive public policy school in the nation.

James Healy (MBA’10) is president of Digital Disbursements, a digital payments provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bank, and founder of JFH Capital, an investment firm focused on business services. Healy previously held various leadership roles at Icahn Automotive Group (IAG), including chief financial officer and senior vice president of corporate development and strategy. He also served as chairman of the Precision Tune Auto Care board and as a director of AAMCO Transmissions. Before IAG, Healy was vice president of business development at FastPay, a lending and payments company, and spent five years with GE Capital in various leadership roles. He started his career with Ford Motor Company.

Healy is the VanEck Digital Assets Initiative co-director and an adjunct professor, teaching financial technology and blockchain at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is a board member of Bingeable Network, an entertainment platform utilizing blockchain technology, an advisory board member at Arro, a fintech lender focusing on financial inclusion, chairman of The Healy Foundation and a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Healy is also a co-owner of the Phoenix Rising Football Club.

Healy earned his MBA from Georgetown University and his bachelor’s degree from Villanova University. He is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall.

McCourt School alum Geoffrey Okamoto (MPP’11) joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in the Office of Government Affairs in 2022. He leads the firm’s efforts on international public policy, coordinating cross-jurisdictional issues and engaging with global policymakers. Okamoto previously served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he managed relationships with G-7 and G-20 nations and oversaw institutional strategy, lending policies and risk management. Okamoto also oversaw economic surveillance and use of IMF resources by large economies and the IMF’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the IMF, Okamoto served as acting under secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs and acting assistant secretary for international finance. He also served on the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee’s senior staff and was a KPMG consultant. Okamoto is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Bretton Woods Committee. He also sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for California State Polytechnic University Pomona’s College of Business Administration. 

Okamoto earned a master’s degree in public policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy and a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from CalPoly Pomona. He was also a visiting student at Corpus Christi College Oxford.