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Dan Nissenbaum is the chief operating officer of the Urban Investment Group, a division of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, with responsibility for overseeing Production, Portfolio Management and Operations/Finance. Mr. Nissenbaum manages a team providing community development loans and investments across a range of products which fulfill the Bank's Community Reinvestment Act obligations. He has worked in the field of real estate and community development finance for 21 years with positions at Chemical Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank CDC, JPMorgan CDC, Merrill Lynch CDC and HSBC Bank. Mr. Nissenbaum also has overseen CRA regulatory compliance, philanthropy and outreach programs. He holds positions on several boards which include: the Low Income Investment Fund, the Center for Housing Policy, The Center for NYC Neighborhoods, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Foundation. Mr. Nissenbaum earned a Bachelor's Degree from Grinnell College, and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

John L. Kelly is a partner with Nixon Peabody LLP in the affordable housing group of the firm’s real estate department, and serves as the co-chair of the New York Housing Conference. He is also former president of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association. Mr. Kelly serves on New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Neighborhood Investment Advisory Panel. He started his legal career as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Kelly has extensive experience representing both for-profit and nonprofit developers, owners and operators in complex real estate transactions. He has developed specific expertise in federal, state and local housing programs. He has a Bachelor's degree from Ithaca College and a JD with honors from University of Connecticut School of Law.

Maureen Friar became president and CEO of NHC in February 2010. A recognized and respected industry expert, Ms. Friar has more than 25 years of extensive experience in housing advocacy, policy analysis, fundraising and non-profit management. As executive director for 14 years, she grew the Supportive Housing Network of New York from an ad hoc coalition into a vibrant and effective statewide advocacy association representing 34,000 units of affordable rental housing linked to services for homeless and special needs populations. Prior to joining NHC, Ms. Friar served as a marketing consultant to the National Equity Fund, the largest nonprofit investor in federal low-income housing tax credits, and as a fundraising and management consultant to Community Access, a New York nonprofit agency that provides supportive housing, employment training and advocacy for persons with psychiatric disabilities. Her many achievements were recognized by the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, which honored her with the 2006 Advocate of the Year Award for Excellence. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University, a Master’s degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, and was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York at Columbia University.

Theodore S. Chandler is a founding board member and director emeritus of the California Housing Consortium, a regional affiliate of the National Housing Conference. Mr. Chandler currently serves as the chief operating officer of the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. He was previously vice president at Fannie Mae, where he worked in housing and community development in the Boston partnership office.  Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Chandler was the deputy executive director at the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency and served as the chief executive and chief of staff at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Mr. Chandler received his law degree from Stanford University and Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College.

Shekar Narasimhan is managing partner for Beekman Advisors, Inc. and CEO of Beekman Helix India Partners, a real estate merchant bank. Previously, he was managing director for agency and funds management at Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. Prior to that, he was chairman & CEO of The WMF Group, Ltd., a publicly traded commercial mortgage financial services company which was acquired by Prudential in 2000. Mr. Narasimhan built WMF to a position recognized as a leader in providing multifamily and commercial real estate financing in the United States. Mr. Narasimhan has served on the Boards of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), National Multi Housing Council (NMHC), Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and Cooperative Development Foundation. He has chaired and moderated numerous forums on multifamily and affordable housing, commercial securitization and technology for the MBA, NMHC, NHC, Fannie Mae and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Mr. Narasimhan has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

G. Allan Kingston, is vice chairman of National Community Renaissance, a nonprofit organization providing affordable housing and services to families and seniors. Mr. Kingston also is the immediate past chair of the National Housing Conference. Previously, he was president and CEO of Century Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing lender based in Los Angeles. Mr. Kingston is a board member of the National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, the National Housing Development Corporation, the Center for Housing Policy, The Campaign for Affordable Housing and LA Family Housing, and he is the former chairman of the California Housing Consortium. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, and Housing California. Prior to joining Century, Mr. Kingston directed the private real estate development activities and projects of large corporations for several years, and was a partner in several commercial real estate and residential projects in California, Hawaii and the Midwest. His focus on housing issues began with public service, where he served as executive director of the Fresno Redevelopment Agency, as Deputy Director of the Oakland Redevelopment Agency, and with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its predecessor agency. In 2004, Mr. Kingston was named one of the twelve most influential people in housing by MultiHousing News. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a Navy veteran.

Elizabeth B. Bluhm is a member of the Executive Committee of Red Capital Group and heads red Capital’s San Diego office, which provides a full range of debt and equity products for multifamily housing, including Fannie Mae DUS and FHA loans and credit enhancement, tax credit equity and construction financing for affordable housing projects, mezzanine capital, and tax-exempt bond financing. Ms. Bluhm joined Banc One Capital, the predecessor entity of Red Capital, in 1993, and directed the firm’s low income housing tax credit business until relocating to San Diego to open Red’s office there in 2001. She has more than 20 years of real estate and capital markets experience, with responsibilities having encompassed investor relations, project acquisitions and asset management. Previously, Ms. Bluhm was a Vice President in institutional sales at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York and Los Angeles, specializing in municipal bonds. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the California Housing Consortium and as a member of the Housing Committee of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Bluhm was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Scripps College with a BA in Philosophy and holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Carol Lamberg has been the executive director of the Settlement Housing Fund Inc. (SHF) in New York since 1983 and staff director of the New York Housing Conference since 1976. Ms. Lamberg has been with SHF since 1975, when she joined the staff as associate director. Prior to this, she was vice president of Roger Schafer Associates, working as a consultant on housing issues. Ms. Lamberg also worked as a research assistant at Harvard University.

John K. McIlwain is a senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute and holds the ULI/J. Ronald Terwilliger Chair for Housing. Prior to joining ULI, Mr. McIlwain served as senior managing director of the American Communities Fund for Fannie Mae, and was president and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation. Before joining Fannie Mae, he was a partner in the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy. He served as executive assistant to the assistant secretary for housing at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and began his career at the Maine State Housing Authority. Mr. McIlwain has a Bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a JD from New York University.

Jeffrey Lubell became executive director of the Center for Housing Policy in 2006 and is a recognized expert in housing and community development policy. Prior to becoming head of the Center, Lubell worked as an independent consultant specializing in analyzing and developing recommendations for strengthening national, state and local housing and community development policy. From 2000 to 2003, he served as director of the policy development division of the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also worked from 1998 to 2000 as a housing policy analyst for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit organization that is one of the leading independent authorities on programs affecting low-income families. Lubell is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College.