Background
Killefer, Nancy was born on November 16, 1953 in Key West, Florida, United States.
Killefer, Nancy was born on November 16, 1953 in Key West, Florida, United States.
Bachelor of Science in Economics, Vassar College, 1975. Master of Business Administration in Science Management in Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979.
She was nominated for the Chief Performance Officer presidential cabinet position in the Obama administration in 2009. In 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a more than $900 tax lien on her home for failure to pay state unemployment tax on household help. She resolved the matter five months after the lien was filed.
Killefer withdrew her nomination as CPO on February 3, 2009.
Killefer received her Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in economics from Vassar College.
Nancy Killefer is a Director in the Washington, District of Columbia, office of McKinsey & Company, the global management consultancy. She left McKinsey & Company from 1997 to 2000 to serve as Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer, and chief operating officer at the United States Department of the Treasury.
After returning to McKinsey in 2000, she joined the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, a public-private entity akin to a corporate board that oversees the Internal Revenue Service. She served there from 2000 to 2005 and was its Chairperson from 2002 to 2005.
Killefer is the granddaughter of long-time major league baseball catcher and manager Bill Killefer.
Board directors The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Partnership for Public Service, Vital Voices.
Married Robert Cumby. Two children.