Executive Vice President

Sarah Willis Ertur

Sarah is the Executive Vice President (EVP) of SaverLife, a national nonprofit organization using technology and insights from our 600,000+ members to improve the financial health of people living on low-to-moderate incomes. As an executive team member, Sarah works to drive organizational-wide strategy, growth, and operational excellence - overseeing communications, finance, revenue, and enterprise risk management. She works collaboratively across the organization and with external partners to ensure SaverLife can meet and exceed our ambitious goals. 

Her career spans time as a researcher, funder, advisor, and nonprofit leader in both emerging and developed markets. She is energized by creating and implementing solutions that foster a more inclusive financial system that benefits people living on lower incomes, people of color, and other historically underserved groups, and one that enables broad wealth-building and prosperity. 

Most recently, Sarah spent four years at JPMorgan Chase as an Executive Director, leading the firm’s Financial Health strategy and portfolio within the Office of Corporate Responsibility. In that role, she refreshed the firm’s global financial health strategy, built an outcomes-oriented measurement framework, advised the business on best practices to improve products and services, and invested in strategic fintech and research initiatives to spur private sector and policy solutions. 

Before JPMorgan Chase, Sarah was the Director of Financial Health for MetLife Foundation where she established the Foundation’s global digital and innovation strategy with an emphasis on Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Together with grant partners, she designed and led multi-country innovation challenges and accelerators to harness the ingenuity of social entrepreneurs to drive financial inclusion. She served as a senior associate at the Clinton Global Initiative, working to establish private-sector-led commitments to economic growth. She has also authored research for the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Turkey. 

Sarah earned her M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. in International Affairs and German Studies from the University of Minnesota. She has always loved learning, languages, traveling, and classical music - interests which she has combined by marrying her Turkish husband (a tenor), and performing (sometimes together) at international music festivals when living in Turkey and Germany. Sarah lives in the Washington DC area with her husband and daughter.