IMPACT NOTE - Key Persons

Adrian Washington

Job Titles:

First Vice Chair
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Neighborhood Development Company

Adrian Washington has over 20 years of experience in urban real estate development, construction and management. He founded Neighborhood Development Company in 1999 and served as president from 1999 to 2005. From 2005 until early 2007, he took a leave of absence from NDC to serve as the president and chief executive officer of the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation (AWC), the entity charged with leading a $10 billion, 20-year initiative to revitalize Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia Waterfront and surrounding communities. Adrian grew up in the city's Anacostia neighborhood and is a lifelong resident of D.C. He has a B.S. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. In addition to the Enterprise Community Development Board of Trustees, Adrian also serves as first vice chair on the board for the Barker Adoption Foundation.

Al Gentry

Job Titles:

Business Development Executive
Principal, Cornerstone Development LLC

Al Gentry is a business development executive with more than 35 years of experience in manufacturing, developing and operating factories and real estate. His career reflects notable accomplishments in new development, acquisitions, asset management, debt structure, complex capital stacks, retrofitting assets and disposition. Al's multi-disciplined talents are transferable to a wide variety of corporate boards in the areas of policy making, strategic planning, governance and regulatory and compliance where he has impacted several boards, advisory groups and committees as chairman. Al directed implementation policies that became protocol for federal agency programs. In his position as an executive in the Treasury Department of International Paper, the world's largest paper company, Al sought board approval for developing and operating billion-dollar manufacturing facilities round the world. Al worked as a real estate asset manager and acquisition executive overseeing a $2.5 billion portfolio for Fortune 500 international insurance companies, Aetna and John Hancock, where he presented acquisition investments to the corporate board. Al is the managing principal and owner of his own firm and crafted the value proposition for site development, architectural design, construction and leasing for $1 billion of mixed-used market rate and affordable development.

Alice Carr

Job Titles:

Head of Community Development Banking at JPMorgan Chase

Alice Carr is head of Community Development Banking at JPMorgan Chase, a national real estate business that lends to and invests in community and economic development projects in underserved markets across the United States. Her team finances the construction and rehabilitation of housing affordable to low-income families and seniors in more than 80 cities in the United States. The team also facilitates investments in economic development projects, such as charter schools, health care clinics and food grocers. Alice has over two decades of finance experience. Prior to joining Chase in 2011, Alice served as a managing director and Western regional director for Citi Community Capital, the community lending division of Citigroup, where she managed a group that originated construction, permanent and gap financing for a wide variety of residential, commercial and mixed-use community development properties. Previous to her 12 years at Citigroup, Alice worked at the Low Income Investment Fund in San Francisco. Alice serves on a variety of boards and committees including chair of the Southern California Leadership Council for Enterprise Community Partners, chair of the board of directors for California Community Reinvestment Corporation and treasurer of the board of directors for the Los Angeles Conservancy. Alice earned a Bachelor of the Arts from Occidental College, graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and receiving honors and distinction in double majors of American Studies and German Literature. Alice holds a Master of the Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, in Urban Planning with a concentration on housing finance and community development. Alice is based in Los Angeles.

Andrew Garvey

Andrew is an experienced builder, leader and risk manager of investment management and financial services operations. He has a robust reputation as an accountable decision maker with strategic vision and hands-on implementation skills to meet financial targets. Andrew was most recently a senior managing director of ORIX Corporation USA's Real Estate, Municipal and Infrastructure Capital Business Group and head of ORIX USA's Municipal and Infrastructure Investment Group. He also served as president, chief executive officer and a board member of ORIX Commercial Mortgage Servicing Holdings, LLC. Andrew led and managed all of the municipal and infrastructure investment activities for ORIX USA. He also had overall responsibility for Boston Financial Investment Management, Lancaster Pollard and RED Capital Group, LLC. Additionally, he was a member of the ORIX USA Executive Committee and sat on the firm's Investment Committee. A 30-year veteran of the finance industry, Andrew has had a diverse investment management, capital markets and investment banking career in municipal, public sector, infrastructure, real estate, higher education, not-for-profit and health care sectors. Prior to joining ORIX, Andrew worked at Morgan Stanley, where he headed the Municipal Securities Division and was responsible for sales, trading, proprietary trading, derivatives, financial products, short-term and long-term syndicate and public finance. Before that, he helped build the Municipal Financial Products Group at Lehman Brothers. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Angelique Kelly-Lara - CHRO

Job Titles:

Chief People Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Enterprise Community Partners

Angelique Kelly-Lara is senior vice president and chief people officer at Enterprise Community Partners. Angelique leads all human capital work across Enterprise to drive success in talent management and acquisition; training and development; compensation, benefits and retention; diversity, equity and inclusion; and organizational development. She also partners with business, program, shared services and operational leaders to align the necessary people capabilities that allow Enterprise to deliver on its mission and objectives. A seasoned HR executive with 25 years of experience, Angelique joined Enterprise in 2020. She was previously vice president of global talent acquisition at Choice Hotels International, one of the largest hotel chains in the world. Prior to that, she held senior human resources positions at McDonald's USA, Bankers Life and Casualty Company, and Aramark Corporation. Angelique earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and an MBA in Human Resources Management from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She was recognized as a 2019 HR Leader of the Year by DCA Live, has served on the boards of Family Rescue, Center for New Horizons, Martin Luther King, Jr. Boys and Girls Club, Northern Virginia and DC Ronald McDonald House, and currently serves on the board of Calvary Women's Services DC.

Ayonna Blue Donald

Job Titles:

Vice President, Ohio Market for Enterprise Community Partners
VP, Ohio Market

Ayonna Blue Donald is vice president, Ohio market for Enterprise Community Partners. Ayonna leads Enterprise's work across the state, advancing housing-based programs and creative policy solutions that help Ohioans achieve housing stability and economic mobility. A longtime public servant for the city of Cleveland, Ayonna served as director of the city's Department of Building and Housing from 2017 to 2021 and most recently served as the chief of Commercial Services and Governmental Affairs for the Department of Port Control. As the director of Cleveland's Department of Building and Housing, Ayonna oversaw the enforcement of the city's land use ordinances; eliminated thousands of vacant and abandoned properties throughout the city; reinstated a systematic rental inspection program; established strong relationships with community leaders; and worked hand in hand with the Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition to legislate and implement a lead safe certificate program. Originally from Detroit, Ayonna first made Cleveland home when she earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University. She also holds a juris doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law. Ayonna has served as the president of the Greater Cleveland Delta Foundation Life Development Center and was named a Woman of Note by Crain's Cleveland Business in 2021.

Baaba Halm

Job Titles:

New York Market Leader for Enterprise Community Partners
VP, New York Market

Baaba Halm is the New York market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit on a mission to make home and community places of pride, power and belonging, and platforms for resilience and upward mobility for all. Baaba leads a 50-person cross-functional team delivering program, capital and policy solutions to address New York's most complex housing challenges. Under Baaba's leadership, the New York market is increasing the housing supply, advancing racial equity, and building resilience and upward mobility through developing and deploying programs that focus on preservation, homelessness, fair housing, justice involved housing, faith-based development, economic mobility, leveraging the affordable housing sector to create career pathways, supporting BIPOC developers, and much more. Over more than 30 years, Enterprise has invested over $3.9 billion to create or preserve over 73,000 homes in New York. Baaba has two decades of experience in housing, community development, and policy, and a deep commitment to racial equity. She most recently served as the executive deputy commissioner and chief diversity officer at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). There, she was second in command to the commissioner, overseeing six divisions; divisions included Asset & Property Management and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion/EEO. During her tenure, she crafted the Equitable Ownership Requirement benefiting minority-owned developers and the agency's first in-kind program to foster the participation of minority vendors across the entire affordable housing portfolio; led HPD's assessment of equity and inclusion practices to strengthen the recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce; and partnered with Enterprise to create the Pathways to Opportunity Program for minority and women-owned business enterprises and nonprofits to become marketing agents for affordable housing projects. Over Baaba's career, she has been deeply involved with housing policy and developed extensive relationships with New York legislators. As assistant commissioner managing the Government Relations and Regulatory Compliance department at HPD, she led legislative strategy and negotiation, working with federal, state, and local elected officials on policies from mandatory inclusionary housing to tenant protections. During her eight years with the New York City Council, she served in various legal and leadership roles, with responsibilities ranging from steering communications strategy to negotiating and drafting legislation. Baaba also brings rich experience from her work in the nonprofit sector at Covenant House New Jersey and Housing Works, where she focused on issues such as homelessness and housing discrimination. Baaba received a bachelor's degree from Morgan State University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Barbara Poppe

Job Titles:

Principal of Barbara Poppe & Associates LLC

Barbara Poppe is principal of Barbara Poppe & Associates LLC, established in 2014, which works with communities and organizations to tackle complex issues by developing a collaborative, cross-sector approach that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement strategies, continuous communications processes and a set of mutually reinforcing activities. By helping organizations develop the capacity and adaptive leadership skills to be an effective backbone structure, they can undertake a systems approach that achieves results and community impact. Areas of focus include homelessness, affordable housing, public health and anti-poverty strategies. Barbara served as the executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness from November 2009 to March 2014. During her tenure, Poppe oversaw the federal response to homelessness by working with 19 federal agencies to create partnerships at every level of government and with the private sector to reduce and end homelessness. In June 2010, Barbara and four cabinet secretaries announced Opening Doors, the nation's first-ever comprehensive federal plan to prevent and end homelessness. Barbara has more than 25 years of experience working on homelessness with housing-related nonprofit organizations. She served as the executive director of the Columbus, Ohio-based Community Shelter Board (CSB) from October 1995 to November 2009 and as the executive director of Friends of the Homeless, Inc. from June 1990 to October 1995. Barbara holds a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology from the University of Cincinnati.

Brian McLaughlin

Job Titles:

President of Enterprise Community Development, Inc
President, Community Development Division

Brian McLaughlin is President of Enterprise Community Development, Inc (ECD) and President of Enterprise Community Partners' Community Development Division. Brian is charged with leading operations and the overall strategic direction of both organizations, as well as Enterprise Residential - the company's property management company. ECD is an owner, operator and developer of housing spanning 113 communities with a portfolio valuation of more than $1.3 billion supporting 21,000 residents. Brian has spearheaded the merger of the three legacy companies brought together to create ECD, ultimately expanding its workforce to more than 500 associates who make up one of the 50 largest private owners of affordable housing in the country and the sixth largest among nonprofits. Brian oversees a team with expertise in community planning, development, design, construction, asset management, property management and resident services. Enterprise Community Partners, ECD's parent company, is a national nonprofit that develops community-based programs, advocates for affordable housing policy and invests capital to build and preserve affordable homes. Brian brings diverse experience in managing real estate business lines across the nonprofit, public and for-profit sectors. Brian's 25-year career also includes directly leading development of mixed-use, market rate, workforce, historic tax credit and Low Income Housing Tax Credit-supported housing. Brian began his career working in the nonprofit community development field in Boston and in York, Pennsylvania. He later served nine years at Fannie Mae across multiple positions, including as a senior asset manager and a multifamily underwriter, leading the company's short sale product line during the Great Recession, and serving as special assistant to its president and CEO where he directed the company's executive office. From 2003-2006, Brian served as an assistant secretary for Maryland's Department of Housing and Community Development, where he led the state's largest and primary division of government responsible for neighborhood revitalization programs and investments. From 2014-2018, Brian was the co-founder and CEO of Lantian Development, a Maryland-based private equity and development company where he built a $150 million portfolio that included more than 1.1 million square feet of office and institutional assets across 403 acres of land in the DC metro region. An honors graduate of Duke University, Brian also holds a master's degree in city planning from MIT and a master's degree in economics from American University. Brian serves on the boards of the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, and has been appointed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as a branch board director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Carl Jenkins

Job Titles:

Managing Director and Group Head of Community Investments for BMO Harris Bank N.a

Carl Jenkins is managing director and Group Head of Community Investments for BMO Harris Bank N.A., the U.S. banking subsidiary of BMO Financial Group. He oversees Community Reinvestment Act investments targeting lower middle market companies and community-based real estate development in all BMO Harris markets. Presently, Carl manages a team and alternative investment portfolio with assets under management of approximately $900 million. Additional responsibilities include chairing the board of BMO Private Equity U.S. Inc. and serving on the investment committee for BMO Capital Market's Impact Investment Fund. Before his current position, he served as a commercial real estate lender for BMO Capital Markets and the BMO Harris Community Development Lending team. Prior to joining the bank, Carl worked for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national community development financial institution. He earned his bachelor's degree in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and holds an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina. He currently serves on the board of directors for several external organizations: National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, Alden Foundation, The Disability Opportunity Fund and Goodman Theatre of Chicago. Carl also serves on the advisory committee of multiple private equity funds.

Carmen Landa Middleton

Job Titles:

Director, Strategic Security Operations, the Walt Disney Company

Carmen Landa Middleton wore several different hats during her 33-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including as deputy executive director, a member of the agency's executive leadership team, as the #4 position, the director of CIA's Open Source Center, and the CIA's chief diversity officer. At the time of her retirement, Carmen was the highest-ranking Latina in the Intelligence Community. In 2017, Carmen founded Common Table Consulting, LLC, working with companies and organizations to strengthen their competency in leading and engaging with diverse organizations. In March 2020, Carmen began a new role with The Walt Disney Company as the director of strategic security operations. Carmen has been recognized for her excellence in public service, coupled with her commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. She is a recipient of the Working Mother Media National Security Annual Legacy Award, the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award, National Intelligence Superior Service Medal and the CIA Director's Award. She is a member of several advisory and directors' boards, including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Intelligence Community Studies Board.

Cathy Dolan

Job Titles:

Financial Professional

Cathy is an experienced financial services professional with more than 35 years in banking and finance, the most recent being in community and economic development finance. From 2010 through 2015, she was chief operating officer at Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the leading national network of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), where she was responsible for business development, executive management and public representation of OFN. She was instrumental in the development of the U.S. Treasury's CDFI Bond Guarantee Program and helped issue the first bonds in 2014 and 2015. Cathy joined OFN from Wells Fargo, where she was director of community lending and investment, leading affordable housing finance for the Eastern U.S. and New Markets Tax Credit financing throughout the country. Prior to her time at Wells Fargo, Cathy led the community development finance practice at Wachovia from 2000 to 2008. Before her focus on community and economic development finance, Cathy led Wachovia's financial services investment banking practice, specializing in the insurance and asset management industries. Early in her banking career, she was a managing director at Chase Manhattan Bank, spending time in Santiago, Chile, and New York in trade finance, corporate lending and financial restructurings. She holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, Rob Bierregaard, a noted ornithologist.

Christine Madigan

Job Titles:

EVP & Chief Business Officer, Community Development Division
Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Enterprise 's Community Development

Christine Madigan is executive vice president and chief business officer of Enterprise's Community Development division and Enterprise Community Development, an Enterprise Community Partners affiliate and the leading fully-integrated developer of affordable homes in the Mid-Atlantic and the fifth largest nonprofit developer in America. Christine has worked in the real estate industry for more than 25 years and brings residential real estate development, investment management, financing and asset management experience to the organization. Since joining Enterprise in 2001, Christine has overseen the development of numerous rental and for-sale communities serving seniors and families in the Mid-Atlantic region. In addition to managing Enterprise's development team, Christine is responsible for its asset management department and apartment investment program. Prior to joining Enterprise, Christine led the mid-Atlantic regional office of MetLife Real Estate Investments. There she led the performance of the company's apartment, office and hotel portfolio in Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., and managed the team responsible for commercial leasing transactions, operations, strategic planning, debt financing and investment sales for the MetLife's real estate assets in the region. Christine earned her master's degree in business administration from the Yale School of Management, and her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University.

Christopher Herrmann

Job Titles:

Senior Vice President of Enterprise
SVP, Real Estate Equity

Chris Herrmann is senior vice president of Enterprise's real estate equity business, operating under Enterprise Community Investment, an Enterprise Community Partners affiliate. He is responsible for raising, structuring and managing equity funds, as well as managing the teams that originate and close investment opportunities, asset manage the portfolio and report to investors. Chris has been involved with this business at Enterprise since it was created in 2013. The team's portfolio includes more than 10,000 affordable and workforce homes and represents more than $1 billion of assets under management. Chris was previously a director with Enterprise's Housing Credit investment team from 2006 to 2012, where he analyzed, evaluated and underwrote affordable housing investments that leveraged the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit) and the Federal Historic Tax Credit. Chris has been involved in housing finance since 2005. Before joining Enterprise, he worked with John Hancock Realty Advisors in Boston, where he directly invested in affordable housing projects that leveraged the Housing Credit, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and state tax credit programs. Chris graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a dual concentration in finance and entrepreneurship.

Christopher Kizzie - VP

Job Titles:

Vice President
VP, Advisory Services

Chris Kizzie is vice president, Advisory Services, at Enterprise Community Partners. Chris leads Advisors' work with partners to raise up new ideas and standards to cultivate more inclusive and equitable communities, so that all people have a place to live, grow and thrive. Chris oversees the strategy and implementation of our technical assistance and capacity building platforms focused on place-based systems change and impacting communities and people across our national footprint. His team has supported over 700 communities across the country and their partners to develop equitable housing solutions, advance economic mobility efforts, expand partnerships and increase local capacity. Since joining Enterprise in 2014, Chris has helped grow our advisory team into a diverse consultancy, expanding Enterprise's reach and impact through partnership with the many communities we serve. Chris has led housing strategy efforts for the cities of Denver and Charlotte; Prince George's County, Maryland; and the Truckee Meadows region of Nevada. Chris earned a master's degree in business administration from University of Maryland University College and a bachelor's degree in government and politics from University of Maryland College Park.

Cynthia Muller

Job Titles:

Director
Director, Mission Investments, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Cynthia Muller is the director, mission investments, at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, based out of Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, she is responsible for developing and managing strategic impact investment activities that address systemic barriers that create vulnerable conditions for historically marginalized communities and children. Her work includes sourcing and deploying market-rate investments to increase social change impact; ongoing analysis of solutions and trends; developing relationships within the field; fostering alliances with community, corporate, government and philanthropic partners; and supporting the overall direction and implementation of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's strategic framework. Prior to joining the foundation, Muller developed and managed Arabella Advisors impact investing practice where she helped foundations and individuals understand the field of impact investing and developed strategies and structure investments to accomplish their social and environmental goals. During her tenure she oversaw deal sourcing and structuring of investments in health, education, microfinance, housing and green technology-both domestically and internationally. Muller also led several evaluations of impact investment portfolios, and she regularly presented and blogged about trends and practices within the field. Muller previously led strategic initiatives at Capital Impact Partners, where she developed and managed impact investments and worked on nationally focused investment funds and initiatives targeting health, food, education, energy efficiency and economic development. Cynthia serves on the boards of Groundswell and Enterprise Community Loan Fund. Muller holds a Master of Business Administration from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Stanford University. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer, Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

Darrin L. Williams

Job Titles:

Banker
Chief Executive Officer, Southern Bancorp, Inc

Darrin Williams is a banker, securities and consumer protection attorney, former legislator and passionate advocate for financial inclusion. Currently serving as the chief executive officer of Southern Bancorp, Inc., Darrin oversees the strategic direction and operations of each of Southern Bancorp's three Community Development Financial Institutions. Focused on the net worth building strategies of homeownership, entrepreneurship and saving, Southern Bancorp believes that wealth building isn't just for the wealthy; they seek to be wealth builders for everyone. In addition to serving on the CDFI boards of Southern Bancorp Bank and Southern Bancorp Community Partners, Darrin is also a board member of the Little Rock Chapter of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; an advisory board member for two New Market Tax Credit community development entities - Advantage Capital and BancorpSouth; a director of the Community Development Bankers Association, the trade association for CDFI banks; a director of the GABV; a member of the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Racial Equity Working Group; and a member of the Clinton Foundation's Inclusive Economic Recovery task force. Prior to leading Southern, Darrin served as managing partner at the law firm of Carney, Williams, Bates, Pulliam & Bowman, PLLC, where his firm recovered over a billion dollars for aggrieved institutional investors and consumers in class action litigation against some of the nation's largest publicly- traded companies. Darrin also served three terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives (2008-2013), including serving as Speaker Pro Tempore of the 89th Arkansas General Assembly. Darrin received his bachelor degree from Hendrix College, his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University School of Law and his Master of Laws degree in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

David Bowers - VP

Job Titles:

Vice President
VP, Mid - Atlantic Market & Sr. Advisor, Faith - Based Development Initiative

David Bowers is vice president, Mid-Atlantic market and senior advisor, Faith-Based Development Initiative for Enterprise Community Partners. David's work includes facilitating affordable housing and community development transactions, and policy implementation in collaboration with public and private sector stakeholders in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas. David leads a team that provides access to financing, capacity building and technical assistance to local developers, and participates with local coalitions advocating for increased resources for affordable housing and community development. Throughout David's tenure, his team co-initiated and co-convened the Housing Leaders Group of Greater Washington, lead the Purple Line Corridor Coalition, initiated several efforts including the Faith-Based Development Initiative, as well as a transit-oriented preservation and resident displacement prevention initiative (GreenPATH), and the D.C. Green Communities Initiative. Prior to joining Enterprise, David was a program manager for a single-family housing program at the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. Before joining the trust, David was a financial and programs advisor at the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. Before that, he worked in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, at the time the ranking member of the Senate VA-HUD Appropriations Committee. David earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and his Master of Divinity degree from Howard University. He is an ordained minister and the founder of the all-volunteer NO MURDERS DC movement, launched in 2000.

Donald H. Layton

Donald H. Layton is an industry veteran with more than 40 years of experience in banking, financial services and housing finance. Layton retired from Freddie Mac on June 30, 2019 after serving as CEO for seven years, a position he took as a public service. Prior to joining Freddie Mac in 2012, Layton served as chairman and then CEO of E*TRADE Financial from 2007-2009. He spent most of his career at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors, rising through the ranks from a trainee to eventually become vice chairman responsible for managing about half of the company. Layton's responsibilities spanned capital markets and investment banking, consumer banking and operating services. From 2002 to 2004, he was responsible for Chase Financial Services, the consumer and middle-market business. He was co-chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan, the investment bank of the company, from 2000 to 2002 and oversaw its entire range of global activities. Prior to the merger of Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan in 2000, Layton was responsible for Chase's worldwide capital markets and trading activities, including foreign exchange, risk management products, emerging markets, fixed income and the bank's investment portfolio and funding department. As well, he was responsible for Treasury & Securities Services, the operating services unit of the company, from 1999 until his retirement from JPMorgan Chase in 2004. In addition to Enterprise, he sits on the boards of the nonprofits International Executive Service Corps and Children's Health Fund, and serves as chairman emeritus of New York City's Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing homelessness in New York City, after having served as its board chairman for a decade. He served as a senior advisor to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association from 2006 to 2008. Layton received simultaneous Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar.

Dora Leong Gallo

Job Titles:

President and Chief Executive Officer, a Community of Friends

Dora Leong Gallo has worked in the community development field for over 30 years. Since 2003, she has served as president and CEO of A Community of Friends (ACOF), a nonprofit affordable housing developer whose mission is end homelessness through the provision of quality permanent supportive housing for people with mental illness. In her role, Dora is responsible for execution of ACOF's strategic priorities and is an advocate for increasing the supply of affordable homes for those most vulnerable. Under her guidance, ACOF's portfolio has grown 240 % and the organization currently operates 41 supportive housing communities throughout Los Angeles and Orange County, housing over 2,600 people. Prior to joining ACOF, Dora worked in local government for the City of Los Angeles and the Culver City Redevelopment Agency. She also served in various capacities on the staff of former Los Angeles City councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas (now a county supervisor), including chief of staff. Dora is currently on the board of trustees of Enterprise Community Partners and the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. In addition to serving on numerous policy working groups, she is a member of the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and the Supportive Housing Alliance, an advocacy group of supportive housing developers in Los Angeles County. Dora received a master's degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

Drew Warshaw - COO

Job Titles:

Chief Operating Officer
Chief Operating Officer of Enterprise Community Partners

Drew Warshaw is the chief operating officer of Enterprise Community Partners. As COO, Drew leads Enterprise's operations and oversees the implementation of Enterprise's five-year strategic plan. Drew's career spans both private and public sectors where he has led large, complex, mission-driven organizations, helping to build one of the country's largest renewable energy businesses and spearhead one of the nation's most important turnarounds. Prior to joining Enterprise, Drew helped build and lead Clearway Energy Group, among the largest renewable energy companies in the United States. At Clearway, he launched and managed the company's Community Solar business, which deployed more than $1 billion in capital across dozens of solar farms to become the industry leader in developing, financing and operating such renewable energy projects. Before Clearway, he helped launch the renewables division of NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 250 company, a division which was later acquired and reorganized as Clearway. Prior to Clearway, Drew served in several public sector roles, first at the think tank Center for American Progress, and then as assistant secretary to the governor of New York. Later, Drew became chief of staff at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, where he helped manage the second-largest transportation agency in the country, with 7,000 employees, a police department, an annual budget of $7 billion and a long-term capital plan of $30 billion. While at the Port Authority, Drew was pivotal in the turnaround of the World Trade Center rebuilding, creating a process and roadmap to get the project back on track. For his central role, Drew was recognized by New York magazine as a "wunderkind" and by Crain's New York Business as one of its youngest "40 Under 40" honorees. Drew graduated with a B.A. from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. A lifelong New Yorker, Drew serves on the board of directors of Union Settlement, one of New York City's oldest nonprofit service providers, serving more than 10,000 residents in East Harlem.

Ed Brady

Job Titles:

President and Chief Executive Officer, Home Builders Institute

Before being appointed president and chief executive officer of the Home Builders Institute in 2018, Ed led a multimillion-dollar home building and development company doing work in Illinois and Tennessee. He holds his Tennessee contractor's license. A second-generation home builder growing up in the business, he first learned carpentry from a union master carpenter in college. Ed was the National Association of Home Builders 2016 chairman, after serving as president of his local and state organizations. Following the 2008 financial crisis, he served on the Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission, working with other leading experts to advance the nation's housing policy. In 2009, he was elected and currently serves as a director of the Chicago Federal Home Loan Bank, as well as on the board of Enterprise Community Partners, a leading affordable housing organization. He has served on boards for Illinois Habitat for Humanity and other economic development and housing-related boards. Ed holds a bachelor's degree in political business from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Edward Norton

Job Titles:

Lifetime Trustee, Enterprise Community Partners Board

Edward Norton is a two-time Academy Award nominated actor, director, writer and producer. His grandparents, Jim and Patty Rouse, founded Enterprise, and he worked for two years in the New York office under Bill Frey. He has served as a trustee since 1998.

Elise Balboni

Job Titles:

Investment Strategist
President, Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Inc.
Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Capital Programs

Elise Balboni joined Enterprise Community Loan Fund in February 2021 and serves as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and capital programs. Elise is an impact investment strategist and finance professional with two decades of experience in the CDFI industry. From 2013-2018, she served as LISC's managing director for lending. Previously, she served as a consultant for nonprofits and foundations in the area of charter school facility financing and as LISC's vice president of education programs, where she had responsibility for oversight of LISC's charter school financing unit. Earlier in her career, Elise served as an associate in municipal finance at CS First Boston and as budget director for the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways and Means. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Elizabeth "Liz" Blake

Job Titles:

Director of Green Brick Partners, Inc
Habitat for Humanity 's Senior Vice President
SVP of Advocacy, Government Affairs and General Counsel ( Retired ), Habitat for Humanity International

Liz Blake served as Habitat for Humanity's senior vice president, Advocacy, Government Affairs and General Counsel for nine years. Since retiring in late 2014, Liz has continued as a volunteer with a focus on secure tenure, land rights and gender issues impacting development in developing nations. Liz serves as an advisor to C432 on job creation projects in the apparel, social services and tourism sectors in Haiti. In Atlanta, her work is focused on the revitalization of five Westside neighborhoods through her work on the board of the Westside Future Fund. Prior to 2006, Liz was executive vice president and general counsel of US Airways, Trizec Properties and GE Power Systems. She was also vice president and chief of staff of Cinergy Corp., now part of Duke Energy. Prior to that she was a partner with the Frost and Jacobs law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio, and associated with Davis Polk and Wardell in New York. Additionally, Liz is a director of Green Brick Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ), is chair of Emory & Children's Pediatric Institute and vice chair of the board of the Westminster Schools, Inc. Liz serves on the boards of the International Women's Forum, Atlanta chapter, and the Marcus Autism Center. She also served ten years on the board of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and is a past chair of the Ohio Board of Regents. In December 2016, Liz concluded her term as chair of the Carter Center's Board of Councilors. Liz is a graduate of Smith College and Columbia University School of Law.

Emily Alvarado - VP

Job Titles:

Vice President
Board Member for the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance
VP, Pacific Northwest Market

Emily Alvarado is vice president, Pacific Northwest market, for Enterprise Community Partners. She oversees Enterprise's work in Washington and Oregon to create and preserve affordable homes and brings programmatic solutions to scale through policy advocacy. Her work includes directing Enterprise's Washington Early Learning Loan Fund and the Puget Sound Taxpayer Accountability Account Early Learning Facilities Fund. Before joining Enterprise, Emily worked at Seattle's Office of Housing, which she joined in 2014 and was named director in 2019. During her tenure, she stewarded more than $275 million in investments that supported affordable rental housing and homeownership opportunities for more than 3,600 families. She worked to implement community preference as a way to counter displacement, paved the way for new approaches to community-driven affordable housing connected to light rail and accelerated production of Permanent Supportive Housing. Emily also forged partnerships with stakeholders across the city to advance housing production and preservation programs. Emily has extensive policy advocacy experience including leadership positions in nonprofits such as Pittsburgh UNITED, a coalition of community, labor, faith and environmental organizations, and the Housing Consortium of Seattle-King County. She was named to the Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 Under 40" list in 2020. Emily also serves as a board member for the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance and the Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund. She holds a bachelor's degree from Scripps College and a juris doctor from the University of Washington School of Law.

Gayle Filo - President

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President
President, Enterprise Residential

Gayle Filo is president of Enterprise's property management business, Enterprise Residential, an Enterprise Community Development affiliate. Gayle has over 30 years of experience in managing affordable and conventional apartment communities, as well as privatized military housing, commercial real estate, condominiums, and HOAs. She has managed numerous acquisitions, dispositions, new construction lease-ups, and renovations, holding senior leadership positions at several companies. Gayle has a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College, and she has earned various professional certifications including the Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation through IREM including: Certified Defense Privatization Manager (CDPM Levels I & II) designation through PHMA/IREM/NAA; and the Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) designation. She is also a Certified Occupancy Specialist. Gayle is on the board of directors for the local chapter of IREM and an active member of the Maryland Affordable Housing Coalition (MAHC) Property Management Committee.