Kim Carver

Kim Carver is the Senior Vice President of Government Relations at Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Company in New Orleans, Louisiana. In that role, Kim handles all relationships and efforts with federal, state and local elected officials on behalf of the bank.  Additionally, he manages the human resources and corporate training departments and represents the bank with numerous economic development and community organizations.

Kim is active on many boards and holds several appointed commissions.  He was most recently reappointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to his second term as a Commissioner on the Louisiana Tobacco Finance Corporation, is immediate past Chairman of the Louisiana Lottery Corporation Board of Directors, a and is a member of the Public Policy Committee and Finance Committee for GNO, Inc.  He recently served on St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister’s Budget Streamlining Work Group and Blue Ribbon Committee for the Performing Arts Center. He is a previous appointed board member of the Louisiana Tourism Development Corporation & the New Orleans Board of Zoning Adjustments, and has served on transition teams for federal, state and local elected officials in Louisiana.  Kim is a board member of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) as well as a graduate of several leadership programs including the New Orleans Leadership Institute, Leadership St. Tammany and is currently in the class of CABL’s Leadership Louisiana.

Kim holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological & Environmental Engineering from the Louisiana State University and completed his Masters of Business Administration from the University of New Orleans.  He holds certificates from the Graduate School of Banking at LSU and LSU Continuing Education Department in Human Resource Management. Kim is a fellow of the Institute of Politics at Loyola University in New Orleans and the Early Childhood Policy Leadership Institute at Tulane University Medical School.  He has completed training in the Trust Based Relational Intervention from Texas Christian University’s Institute of Child Development in Fort Worth, Texas.

Kim is a fierce advocate in the field of foster care and adoption.  Through his personal journey through foster care and adoption, Kim joined several friends in starting CrossroadsNOLA – a faith based non-profit organization that recruits, supports and develops high quality/high caliber foster families for the 5,000+ Louisiana children in care.  Kim now serves on the board and is the Treasurer of CrossroadsNOLA, which has expanded its reach to include over 50 church network partners across southeast Louisiana. He partnered with New Orleans based culinary phenomenon District Donuts Sliders & Brew to launch a food truck – the District Streatcar – to raise public awareness about the plight of children in foster care in Louisiana, to give the public a lower barrier of entry to be involved in solving the problem & to generate a revenue stream for the work of recruiting foster families as 100% of the profits from the food truck support the work of CrossroadsNOLA.

Along with Dean of the Loyola School of Law in New Orleans Madeleine Landrieu, state Senator Ronnie Johns, Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, Kim founded the Louisiana Institute of Children in Families – an organization to support the work of a foster and adoption caucus within the Louisiana Legislature.  He serves on the Advisory Board for Secretary Marketa Walters of the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. Kim most recently helped launch Louisiana Fosters with Louisiana First Lady Donna Edwards - a broad call for the public to assist with the plight of the state’s foster care system – one of the first such initiatives in the country.  

Kim and his wife Kristyn Smith Carver, PhD live in Mandeville with their three daughters Ellie (9), Caroline (7) and Suzie (6).   All adopted, and the youngest from foster care, Kim’s daughters are his inspiration for dedicating his time and resources towards improving the outcomes for children in care in Louisiana.