Terry W Anker
Biography
As Chairman of The Anker Consulting Group, Inc., Terry Anker has served as owner, advisor and catalyst for businesses in a variety of industries in the areas of executive management, matters of formation, acquisition of capital from public and private sources, efficient use of resources, automation and integration of community-mindedness in the planning process.
His varied business interests include The Anker Consulting Group (ACG); SWAN Software Solutions; a Midwestern-based call center (CrossConfirm); The Anker Receivership Group (TARG); CleanSlate Technology Group, Inc., a reseller of computer software and services; and SWAN Realty Holdings, LLC. Also, Mr. Anker is the Associate Editor and Partner of Current Publishing, LLC. with assets including several local newspapers. He was a founder of Monument Advisors, a mezzanine bank serving the capital and financial services needs of business concerns throughout the Midwest, and has served as a Director on the Board of Symons International Group (formerly NASDAC: SIGC), an insurance holding company and IGF, a large multi-state crop insurance concern.
He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Liberty Fund, Inc., and the former Goodrich Foundation. Mr. Anker is a Trustee on the Indiana State Board of Ivy Tech Community College and is the past Chair. He also serves on the Board of Ivy Tech’s Foundation, is a former Chair, and on the Board of Indiana Agriculture & Technology School (IATS). He is a Voting Member and Trustee of the American Institute of Economic Research as well as a member of The Mont Pelerin Society, Philadelphia Society and The Association of Private Enterprise Education. He is Chair of the City of Carmel Municipal Facilities Building Corporation, responsible for millions of dollars in municipal bonds and building projects in Indiana’s fastest growing city.
His many previously-held leadership positions include: a former member of the Indiana University Alumni Association Executive Council; a former Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Board; past President for Indiana Humanities; service on the Board for Conner Prairie Interactive History Park; former President of the Indianapolis chapter of The Bastiat Society; and is the former President of Legacy Fund, Hamilton County’s Community Foundation, and an officer in the Central Indiana Community Foundation. Additionally, he has attended and led numerous community leadership training and education seminars including serving as Curriculum Dean of the Hamilton County Leadership Academy Class and is a graduate of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Series and the FBI Citizens Academy. He has been named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Indiana 250, a Range Line Pioneer by the City of Carmel and a Sagamore of the Wabash by the Governor of Indiana. For the last two decades, he has been a regular speaker throughout Europe and the United States for the Free-Market Road Show of the Austrian Economic Center in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Anker has small-town community roots growing up on a farm in Carroll County, Indiana and holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Speech Communication from Indiana University with a minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies in Bloomington as well as a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the School of Law in Bloomington, where he earned Dean’s Honors. Upon relocating to Indianapolis, Mr. Anker managed the development of the I.T.S., a technology solution for the electronic submission of court filings for HPS, Inc., which culminated in the sale of the technology to a major telecommunications firm. Politically active since serving as Student Body President for Indiana University, Mr. Anker also led the bi-partisan and multi-disciplinary Marion County Regulatory Review commission, an organization charged with streamlining city-county government bureaucracy, as part of the Stephen Goldsmith mayoral administration of Indianapolis. Mr. Anker and his wife, Carolyn, an executive at Eli Lilly and Company, reside in Carmel, Indiana, and have two sons. He enjoys running and other outdoor sports on Indiana’s many beautiful waterways, reservoirs, and lakes.