{"id":4815,"date":"2026-03-23T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=4815"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:50:20","slug":"booker-cornea","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/speaker\/booker-cornea\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Cornea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\"><strong>Booker Cornea<\/strong>, (<em>Saskatchewan M\u00e9tis Nation<\/em>) Associate Vice President \u2013 Market and Shareholder Engagement, First Nations Bank of Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">Booker is a proud Citizen of the Saskatchewan M\u00e9tis Nation and currently resides with his family on Treaty 4 Territory in Regina, Saskatchewan. He brings over 20 years of experience partnering with Indigenous communities and businesses. He has been instrumental in launching FNBC\u2019s $100M Infrastructure Lending Program with the Canada Infrastructure Bank, and the $100M Business Acquisition Financing Program with the Business Development Bank of Canada, both designed to increase access to capital for Indigenous communities across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">Booker is passionate about empowering Nation Builders and advancing Indigenous economic growth.&nbsp; As he puts it: <em>\u201cWe do the financial part of Nation Building.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">Connect with Booker on LinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/booker-cornea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4816,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"conference_year":[44],"speaker-type":[],"class_list":["post-4815","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","conference_year-44"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"conference_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference_year?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-type?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}