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 CleanSlate, a reseller of computer software and services; SWAN Software Solutions; a Midwestern-based call center; The Anker Receivership Group (TARG), and Swan Realty Holdings, LLC (SRH). Mr. Anker also has an interest in Current Publishing, LLC, a holding and publishing company with several local newspapers. He was a founder of Monument Advisors, LLC, 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.
Among his many interests, Mr. Anker is a partner and the Board Chair for CleanSlate Technology Group; a partner and board member for SWAN Software Solutions; and the managing director of companies that are in the help desk, real estate, and receivership management businesses. Also, Mr. Anker is the associate editor and partner of Current Publishing, LLC. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Liberty Fund, Inc. and the Goodrich Foundation. Mr. Anker is a Trustee on the Indiana State Board of Trustees of Ivy Tech Community College and is the immediate past Chair. He also serves on the Board of Ivy Tech’s Foundation and on the Board of Indiana Agriculture & Technology School (IATS). He is a voting member of the American Institute of Economic Research as well as a member of The Mont Pelerin Society, The Philadelphia Society, and The Association of Private Enterprise Education.
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 (www.indianahumanities.org); service on the Board for Conner Prairie Interactive History Park (www.connerprairie.org); former President of the Indianapolis chapter of The Bastiat Society (www.bastiatsociety.org); and is the former President of Legacy Fund, Hamilton County’s Community Foundation (www.hamiltoncountycommunityfoundation.org), and an officer in the Central Indiana Community Foundation (www.cicf.org).
Mr. Anker has small-town community roots growing up on a farm in Carrol County, Indiana and holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Speech Communication from Indiana University 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. 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 of 2013-14 and is an alumnus of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Development program.
Mr. Anker and his wife Carolyn reside in Carmel, Indiana, and have two sons.