Suzanne Boas

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.

In addition to serving on The Community Foundation’s Board, Boas also serves on the Investment Committee, and she led her organization to earn The Community Foundation’s Managing for Excellence Award in 2001. Boas and her husband are donors with The Community Foundation as well.
 
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 and the Advisory Board of the Midtown Assistance Center. 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, Va.