NATIONAL CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Operations
- Executive Vice President
With over 30 years in corporate trustee positions for national banks in regional and statewide executive positions, Caroline Oakes brings a new level of experience, expertise, and service to NCCD, its partners, and its clients.
Ms. Oakes has broad experience with tax-exempt financing projects from their early development stages through closing, construction, and ongoing project management considerations. She worked on one of the first tax-exempt student housing projects while at First Union in Nashville, and has continued a specialty in that field.
Ms. Oakes has a commitment to intensive document review at all stages of a deal or project to ensure that compliance and service are closely aligned. She has worked with bondholders and professionals in default management, forbearance, and project stabilization. She has also served as a resource for multiple parties in navigating successful public-private partnerships.
Ms.Oakes earned a bachelor's degree in business administration magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Mr. Eden was a founder of the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance, an industry-leading organization that provides guidance to those actively engaged in the government and non profit leasing and financing. For the last thirty five years Mr. Eden has served as an advisor, consultant, and developer of projects serving K-12 institutions, higher education, and state and local governments. In the course of this time period he has become nationally recognized as an expert on the subject of tax-exempt project finance. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he received an AB degree and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer of INTERA Incorporated
Eric Markland currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of INTERA Incorporated, an environmental engineering and water resources company based in Austin, Texas, with projects and offices located worldwide.
Prior to INTERA, Mr. Markland has served in executive leadership roles for environmental, nuclear, and civil engineering firms, as well as an institutional real estate investor/developer. In these roles, Mr. Markland has been responsible for corporate development and acquisitions, financial structuring, human resources, information technology, marketing, facilities, risk management and contracting activities. He has led the negotiation, due diligence, and execution of numerous acquisition and divestiture transactions, as well as all financial matters associated with opening offices and acquiring corporate entities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Mr. Markland is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for Corporate Growth (Central Texas Chapter), is an Advisory Board member for Solid Rock Brewing Company, and is chairman of the Regents School of Austin Endowment Committee. Mr. Markland and his wife have two wonderful daughters - Marlena and Ava.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- CEO of Norwood Investments
Frank P. Krasovec has founded, built and monetized various successful companies over the last 30 years.
Mr. Krasovec is CEO of Norwood Investments, an entrepreneur driven investment and advisory firm. For over 30 years in this role, Frank has developed, led and provided strategic relationship development for companies in the United States, Europe and China.
Mr. Krasovec is a graduate of Ohio University, undergraduate and MBA programs. In 2005, he was elected Chairman of the Ohio University Foundation board of directors, where under his leadership, the endowment has more than doubled. Mr. Krasovec was also appointed as a Trustee on the Ohio University Board of Regents in 2008 by Ohio Governor Strickland. He now serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Ohio University Foundation.
Mr. Krasovec currently serves as Chairman and is the co-founder and primary sponsor of Dash Brands, a major quick service restaurant platform in China. In 2011, the company purchased the development rights for Domino's Pizza in China. This includes Shanghai and Beijing and certain adjacent provinces. Dash's strategy is to anchor the Domino's brand with 200+ stores by 2017. In addition, Mr. Krasovec also serves as a Senior Advisor to Swiftarc Capital, an international investment fund for public consumer goods companies in frontier markets, and Senior Advisor and partner in Texas Next Capital, a Texas based buyout fund. Prior to this, Mr. Krasovec was lead investor and/or CEO for Norwood Promotional Products (NASDAQ), Littlefield Real Estate/Norwood Properties and Rust Investment Group - Cable TV, Media Venture Capital.
Mr. Krasovec has two grown children and lives in Austin Texas with his wife Margaret. Mr. Krasovec serves on the Boards of the Paramount and State Theatres and has been active in the Austin/San Antonio chapters of Young Presidents Organization as a founding member and World President's Organization (WPO), among several other charitable involvements in the Austin community.
Jeb Brown is an attorney in Houston representing purchasers and developers across the real estate spectrum, including office buildings, golf courses and country clubs, master-planned residential projects, industrial, retail and restaurant projects, and multifamily projects. Mr. Brown also advises a variety of businesses in their formation, mergers and acquisitions and dispositions, as well as raising equity funds from private and institutional investors, and negotiating debt transactions with lending institutions.
Mr. Brown has a B.A. degree in history from The University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law. He and his wife Kristen are the proud parents of three boys: Tucker, Barron, and Hyatt.
Job Titles:
- Director of Administration
Libby Butler Santos has provided compliance and financial management services to NCCD and its LLCs since 2018. Her focus is on bond compliance, both pre- and post-issuance, including reporting requirements to a spectrum of state and federal entities. She works with bond trustees and project managers to ensure a smooth flow of payments, and also prepares NCCD financial projections.
Ms. Santos has previously owned and managed retail and wholesale businesses in Monterrey, Mexico, and her hometown of Austin, including design, sales, and importing of art and specialized home furnishings. She attended the University of Alabama and SMU, majoring in communications, and is currently working on a degree in accounting.
Richard T. Gilbane began his career in Providence, Rhode Island some forty years ago as a fourth generation owner of Gilbane Building Company, founded in 1873. His senior most staff position with the company began in 1981 as the founding vice president and manager of the Southwest office, a position his nephew Daniel M. Gilbane now holds. Mr. Gilbane has an M.S.C.E. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. from Harvard College. Now retired, Mr. Gilbane and his wife, Cate, have two grown children and live between Austin, Texas and Cape Elizabeth, Maine. They are both involved in several charitable causes, governance with their family companies, and civic participation.
Sharon Foster has served as NCCD's contract Chief Financial Officer since 2017. She is a consulting CFO with vcfo, an Austin based financial consulting firm. With more than 25 years of experience, she has significant background working with start-up to mid-sized businesses, providing operational, modeling and strategic expertise.
Ms. Foster has worked as a CFO in the construction, manufacturing, medical devices, software and electronics industries. In these roles, her responsibilities have included mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting and modeling, venture capital funding, process improvements, operations management , human resources and more. She received her bachelor's degree in accounting from Texas A & M University.