Suzanne Boas
President
Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS)
Suzanne Boas is president of Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS) of Greater Atlanta. As president, Boas leads a national nonprofit community-service agency that provides confidential budget counseling, money management education, debt management programs, bankruptcy counseling and education, and comprehensive housing counseling.
Boas is considered a national leader and authority on the credit counseling industry. She has grown the agency from a 35-employee organization focused on in-person budget and credit counseling in metro Atlanta to more than 500 employees providing a wide range of credit counseling services in all 50 states in person, over the telephone and online.
She has served on the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) and on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Fannie Mae National Advisory Council. She is a peer reviewer for NFCC’s accrediting agency, the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Prior to joining CCCS of Greater Atlanta in 1991, Boas was Vice President of Credit and Consumer Affairs for Macy’s South in Atlanta for 16 years. She also held positions in the human resources department of Aetna Life and Casualty Company in Hartford, Connecticut, and in the estate administration department of Bankers Trust Company in New York, New York.
Boas serves on the Advisory Board of the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University, and previously served on the Board of Visitors of Emory University. She is a founding member of the Georgia Consortium for Personal Financial Literacy, which sponsors the Georgia Saves program. A graduate of Leadership Atlanta, she is a member of the Atlanta Rotary Club and serves on the Finance Committee of Westminster Schools, the Advisory Board of the Midtown Assistance Center and the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. She has previously served on the Board of CHRIS Homes, therapeutic group homes for abused children. She has served on the Vestry and was Junior Warden of All Saints’ Episcopal Church. In 2002, she was selected as a Center for Social Innovation fellow by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Boas is a graduate of Sweet Briar College in Amherst, Virginia.