Sean Spear
Chair – President & CEO, Community HousingWorks
Sean is the President & CEO of Community HousingWorks. Prior to joining Community HousingWorks in 2020, Sean was the Assistant General Manager at the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department where he was responsible for leading its housing production efforts and directing the operations of its Housing Development Bureau. He also most notably served as the Executive Director of the California Debt Allocation Committee (CDLAC) from 2009-2015, administering the $3.8 Billion private activity bond program for California. Throughout his career he has developed both new project financing structures (especially for affordable housing preservation), as well as designed and implemented billion dollar governmental programs with the goal of building better communities for those in greatest need.
Kasey Burke
Vice Chair – President, Meta Housing
Kasey Burke is a veteran of the real estate development industry, and has been involved with the development of more than 3,800 multifamily units to date. Kasey joined Meta Housing in 2002, and as President of the firm, he guides the strategic direction and positioning of the company, spearheading its ongoing growth.
Kasey, who has worked with Meta Housing for more than a decade and most recently served as its Executive Vice President, is extensively skilled in site acquisition, entitlement processing, financing, design development, construction, and lease-up. In addition, he specializes in securing funds from federal, state and municipal sources, and oversees all of Meta Housing’s tax credit and bond application.
Susan Friedland
Treasurer – CEO, Satellite Affordable Housing Associates
Susan Friedland became the Executive Director of AHA in 2006, and was named ED of SAHA in 2012. During her time at AHA, the organization doubled its housing portfolio, significantly grew its net worth and won numerous local and national awards. Previously, Susan was the Director of Housing Development with Fifth Avenue Committee, a community-based development corporation in Brooklyn, NY. During her tenure there, she developed 15 housing developments, 10 retail spaces and two community facility projects. She received the National Award for Women in Planning from the American Planning Association and was recently honored by the Girl Scouts for her work promoting green building.
Michael Costa
Secretary – President & CEO, Highridge Costa Housing Companies
Michael is responsible for overseeing all activities at Highridge Costa Companies. The companies specialize in the development, financing, construction, syndication and asset management of affordable and mixed-income housing for families and seniors throughout the U.S., utilizing low-income housing tax credits, as well as other types of public and private financing. Over the past 23 years, Michael and his team, under the companies’ various identities, have been responsible for developing and growing a portfolio of approximately 27,000 housing units in more than 275 communities throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, all of which were financed using tax credits. Throughout a career spanning nearly four decades, Michael has supervised the development and financing of nearly 40,000 units of multifamily affordable and market-rate housing.
Linda Mandolini
Policy Chair – President, Eden Housing
Linda Mandolini has served as President of Eden Housing for 16 years, with prior positions as Director of Real Estate Development and Project Developer. Under her strong leadership, Eden Housing has become one of the most productive and successful nonprofit affordable housing developers in California. Linda oversees affordable housing production, resident support services, and property management, and a staff of 382 employees.
Since Linda became President, the organization has received numerous awards including being named as one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017, and Healthiest Employers in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Journal.
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Caleb Roope
Membership – President & CEO, The Pacific Companies
Caleb is the President and CEO of five interrelated companies in the areas of development, finance, architecture, and construction. He has 20 years of professional real estate experience with a concentration in affordable housing development, and over his career has successfully constructed more than 100 multi-million-dollar apartment communities for low- and moderate-income families and senior citizens. Caleb has extensive experience producing assets that combine the resources and priorities of the public and private sectors such as federal low-income housing tax credit projects, inclusionary multifamily housing developments, and charter schools.
Ann Silverberg
Immediate Past Chair – CEO, Related California Affordable, Northern CA Division
As Chief Executive Officer for Related California’s Northern California Affordable Division and recently opened office in Portland, Oregon, Ms. Silverberg is responsible for the strategic direction, overall management and daily operation of the company’s Northern California affordable pipeline and portfolio.
Prior to joining Related California, Ms. Silverberg was Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at BRIDGE Housing Corporation where she was responsible for directing and overseeing their Northern California Division. She led the development and redevelopment of more than 8,000 affordable, mixed-income, mixed-use and transit-oriented housing units, including the acquisition and redevelopment of nearly 1,000 public housing units in San Francisco and Sacramento, the joint venture development of mixed-income residential units with Essex in the Transbay area of San Francisco, and 306 mixed-income residential units in Milpitas.
Laura 
Archuleta
President, Jamboree Housing Corporation
In ten short years, Laura Archuleta has guided Jamboree from a small, Irvine-based local housing developer with 750 units into a statewide provider of affordable housing with more than 6,700 units for families and seniors in 35+ communities.
Laura’s commitment to enhance the quality of life for residents who live in the communities she serves spans nearly 20 years, resulting in the production/preservation of more than 10,000 housing units being leased or sold to lower-income families and/or seniors. She co-chaired the State’s Proposition 1 C Campaign Finance Committee in 2006-its passage equating to additional funding to increase affordable housing options for California residents.
Holly Benson President & CEO, Abode Communities
Holly Benson is responsible for the executive oversight and integration of Abode Communities’ multidisciplinary work and impact. A 25-year veteran in the affordable housing industry, Benson’s depth of experience is underscored by her contribution to the development and executive operations of Abode Communities’ housing portfolio, which includes nearly $700 million of economic investment throughout California.
She currently serves as Chair, Land Use & Finance Committee for Housing California, is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco’s Affordable Housing Advisory Council, and is past president of the Southern California Association for Nonprofit Housing.
Tia Boatman Patterson President & CEO, CCRC
Tia joined CCRC with years of executive leadership experience in both the public and private sectors. After obtaining her law degree, Patterson was agency counsel for Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency. After additional experiences, she returned to SH&RA as its general counsel. In 2014, Patterson accepted a gubernatorial appointment to serve as the executive director of California Housing Finance Agency, where she brought about positive organizational changes and significantly grew loan production and impact. In 2021, Patterson accepted a presidential appointment with the Office of Management and Budget as its associate director of housing treasury and commerce.
Geoff Brown
President, USA Properties Fund
Geoffrey C. Brown is President of USA Properties Fund. USA Properties Fund develops, through construction or acquisition and rehabilitation, affordable housing for families and seniors, primarily in California and Nevada. In addition, its subsidiary, USA Multifamily Management, manages its own projects in a portfolio consisting of approximately 4,000 units.
Before joining USA in 1989, Geoff was employed at Sanwa Bank California in their Real Estate Industries Division. During his tenure at Sanwa Bank as Vice President and Manager of the Pasadena Real Estate Office, he oversaw the construction lending activity for residential and commercial loans.
Rebecca Clark
President & CEO, LINC Housing
Rebecca Clark, President and CEO of LINC Housing, has more than 30 years of experience in creating strong communities and healthy residents through affordable housing. Her experiences range from leading varied nonprofit companies to consulting on governance and organizational development, driving public policy outcomes and effecting necessary changes in the system. She believes in the power of collaboration to create and redevelop healthy and vital communities integrating housing, employment, healthcare, services, education, and more.
Prior to taking the helm at LINC, Rebecca served the affordable housing industry as an independent consultant. She founded Clark Consulting Group to help nonprofits and governments achieve their goals. As a nonprofit executive she served as CEO of National Community Renaissance, executive vice president of BRIDGE Housing, managing director of LINC Housing, and president and executive director of Hope Through Housing Foundation.
Kristen Clements
Housing Dept Division Manager, City of San Jose
Kristen has worked at the intersection of financing and policy for affordable housing and community development for the past 25 years. She has spent the last 19 years at the City of San José’s Housing Department, working on both policy and production of affordable homes. Kristen co-created the City’s first Anti-Displacement Strategy, tenant preferences to fight displacement, and San José’s 2023-2031 Housing Element. She helped to create about 5,000 affordable homes in San José, overseeing $390 million in loan originations and a portfolio of approximately 19,000 affordable homes and $648 billion in loans. Before joining the City of San José, Kristen worked in affordable housing lending at Bank of America, made grant awards for affordable housing at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and was a consultant to public agencies. She is the Vice Chair of the Planning and Transportation Commission in San Carlos, California, and was a founding board member of the Community Foundation of San Carlos.
Justin Cooper
Membership Chair – Partner, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Justin Cooper is chair of Orrick’s nationally prominent housing finance group. He has an active multifamily housing revenue bond practice in California and elsewhere in the western United States, serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and lender’s counsel. He acts as lead multifamily bond counsel for a number of California local agencies and for the California Housing Finance Agency. Justin also has significant experience representing lenders in workouts on defaulted multifamily housing bonds and loans, including overseeing foreclosures, and has represented banks and issuers in multifamily financings involving total return swaps, secured puts and other derivative-based products.
Michael Gaber
Senior Vice President , PNC Bank
Michael Gaber is Senior Vice President of Originations at PNC Bank. PNC Bank is the 5th largest bank and one of the country’s largest syndicators. Before coming to PNC Bank he worked for 25 years for a national syndicator, with the last 15 years as COO. He has also been responsible for the direct oversight of tax credit syndication, asset mangement, fund management and development divisions. He served as Chairman of the Board and President of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition for four years, been on the Board of Directors of the National Housing Conference, the Board of Directors of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing and has served as a Trustee for the National Association of Home Builders in California. In his various capacities, he has participated in hundreds of meetings with members of the United States Congress, the Administration and Agency leaders throughout Washington DC and California.
Lisa Gutierrez
Senior Vice President, US Bancorp Community Development Corporation
Lisa Gutierrez serves as Director of the West Team for debt originations at the Community Development Corporation.
In this role, Lisa leads the affordable housing debt platform in California, Arizona, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest. Her expertise includes managing low-income housing tax credit and tax-exempt bond business development efforts for seven states in the western region. Additionally, she has experience negotiating and serving as a resource for the U.S. Bank team in structuring deal terms and conditions with developers, syndicators, and other financing sources.
A graduate of California State University Sacramento, Lisa currently serves on the boards of the California Community Reinvestment Corporation (CCRC) and Jamboree Housing Advisory Board.
Ben Metcalf
Managing Director, Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Ben Metcalf is the Managing Director for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California Berkeley where he oversees the center’s staff and sets the strategic priorities for its research and policy efforts. The Terner Center’s work is focused on solving housing affordability challenges through policy, practice and innovation.
Prior to joining the Terner Center, Ben served as Director of California’s Department of Housing and Community Development, under Governors’ Brown and Newsom. Ben played an instrumental role in the passage and implementation of the 2017 Housing Package and oversaw the Department during a period of significant expansion of the state’s financial and regulatory reach into housing and land use matters.
Prior to joining HCD, Ben worked in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C., including as an appointee of President Obama in the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary overseeing HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs. Before that, he developed mixed-income and mixed-use communities with California-based BRIDGE Housing Corporation.
Carol Ornelas
CEO, Visionary Home Builders of California
For the past 30 years, Carol has served as Chief Executive Officer for Visionary Home Builders of California, formerly ACLC, Inc.; a non-profit residential development company and provider of social services in housing related issues. VHB is headquartered in Stockton, California. Under Carol’s direct leadership, Visionary Home Builders has built and rehabilitated more than 1200 units of rental housing and more than 500 residential homes for first time homebuyers within San Joaquin, Sacramento, Stanislaus and Merced counties. Carol is one of 49 leaders nationwide selected for the NeighborWorks® Achieving Excellence in Community Development program in collaboration with Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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Ann Sewill
General Manager, Los Angeles Housing & Community Investment Dept
As GM, Ann Sewill plans and directs all LAHCID activities and operations that develop and preserve decent, safe and affordable housing, neighborhood investment and social services. She brings 30 years of experience in local housing and community development work to this role.
Immediately prior to joining the HCIDLA, she served as Vice President at the California Community Foundation for 14 years, overseeing the health and housing portfolio. Her work included grant making, lending, public policy and advocacy portfolios, supporting the development of affordable housing to stabilize communities and end homelessness, and to address root causes affecting the health of Angelenos.
Doug Shoemaker 
President, Mercy Housing California
Doug joined Mercy Housing California as their President in 2010. He is responsible for leading MHC’s operations in California including the oversight of affordable housing development, fundraising and strategic planning.
Shoemaker has more than 15 years experience in the affordable housing and community development industry. Prior to joining MHC, Shoemaker was the Director of Mayor’s Office of Housing in San Francisco where he successfully led the City’s major housing initiatives, including HOPE SF (the City’s comprehensive public housing transformation efforts). As the chair of the Citywide Loan Committee, he oversaw lending on dozens of affordable housing developments, including the City’s pioneering supportive housing programs. a legislative advocate, she represents the California Housing Authorities Association and the California Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies.
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Jim Silverwood
President & CEO, Affirmed Housing Group
James Silverwood, President and CEO supervises and supports the Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Development, and Vice President of Construction at the firm. Jim has over 34 years’ experience in real estate development, in his early years as a general contractor and later as a developer. Under his direction, Affirmed Housing has secured over $800 million dollars in financing and tax credit equity and has continued to grow in the field of affordable housing by developing innovative new construction and acquisition / rehabilitation communities across California.
Jim has been active in regional, statewide and national legislative issues. He has served on numerous Boards and Committees such as the Board of Directors of the San Diego North County Building Industry from 1989 to 1992 and California State Treasurer Matt Fong’s Housing Finance Advisory Committee from 1997 to 1998.
Ari Beliak
President & CEO, Merritt Community Capital
Ari Beliak is President and CEO of Merritt Community Capital, California’s mission-based non-profit investor in affordable housing. Throughout his career, Beliak has been instrumental in the development of over 8,500 affordable housing units. Under Ari’s leadership, Merritt closed on its two largest funds in history, raising over $200 million and bringing Merritt’s total affordable housing investment in California past the one-billion-dollar threshold.
Prior to Merritt, Ari spent seven years as Senior Vice President for Bank of America, leading the $2.2 billion financing of the nation’s largest affordable housing project, the San Francisco Rental Assistance Demonstration. Ari’s rich background includes practicing law for Sidley Austin, serving in various real estate finance capacities at Wells Fargo Bank, and consulting for A.T. Kearney.
Cecile Chalifour
West Division Manager, J.P. Morgan Chase
Cécile Chalifour is West Division manager for Community Development Banking, within Commercial Real Estate at Chase, where she manages a team originating construction and permanent debt projects to affordable housing projects. With two decades of community development and finance experience, she previously served as the California Region director for the Low Income Investment Fund, leading lending activities related to affordable housing, charter schools and community facilities. Prior to that, she was a director at Citi Community Capital, where she originated construction, permanent, and gap financing for a variety of residential, commercial and mixed-use community development properties.
Chalifour serves on the Southern California Leadership Council for Enterprise Partners. She previously was a member of the Board of the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing and the California Coalition for Rural Housing.
Tom Collishaw
President & CEO, Self-Help Enterprises
Tom Collishaw has been President and CEO of Self-Help Enterprises since 2014. Self-Help Enterprises is a nationally recognized community development organization whose mission is to work together with low-income families to build and sustain healthy homes and communities. Since 1965, Self-Help Enterprises’ efforts have touched the lives of over 65,000 families. Self-Help Enterprises’ service area is comprised of nine counties – Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare County – in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, the world’s most productive agricultural area.
Laura Hall
President & CEO, EAH Housing
Laura Hall has been with EAH Housing since 2008, and became president and CEO in 2019. As president and CEO, she is responsible for the operations, real estate development, real estate management and services for over 25,000 residents and over 700 employees. Laura has more than 25 years of leadership experience, including real estate development – new construction and acquisition/rehabilitation, facilities management and client services.
Prior to her tenure at EAH Housing, Laura was responsible for strategic planning, operations management, and regulatory compliance of a corporation providing community-based programs, totaling nearly 1,000 employees and $70 million in revenue. She managed projects spanning from site acquisition and response to Requests for Proposals (RFP), to supervising the transition from business development to operations. She possesses substantial expertise in the areas of contract negotiations, customer development and retention. In addition, she worked to raise awareness within the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the government regarding the need for community services.
Anand Kannan
President, Community Preservation Partners
As President Anand oversees the origination, acquisition and rehabilitation, and preservation of existing affordable housing properties by WNC and Community Preservation Partners (CPP), WNC’s subsidiary that specializes in affordable housing preservation and development; and its joint venture partners.
In his most recent position at WNC as President of CPP, his leadership enabled the group to preserve and rehabilitate over 13,000 units in 18 states with a total development cost of over $3 billion. Prior to joining WNC in 2010, he served as an associate director with a regional property developer where he developed or consulted on more than 90 affordable rental properties. Anand received the Young Leader Award from Affordable Housing Finance in 2016. He is a former member of Vistage International and a council member in the Urban Land Institute’s Workforce Housing Group.
Stephanie Klasky-Gamer
President & CEO, LA Family Housing
Stephanie Klasky-Gamer leads LA Family Housing with nearly 30 years of experience in social and economic justice work and an in-depth knowledge of housing policy, finance, and development. Stephanie leads this nationally recognized and award winning organization with oversight of its real estate development and comprehensive homeless services departments. Under her leadership, LA Family Housing has transformed into one of the region’s largest homeless service providers and a premier developer of environmentally sustainable affordable housing in Southern California.
Stephanie is a passionate advocate and is considered an expert in the field of community development, serving in many leadership roles that shape and promote housing and homelessness policy. She currently sits on the Governor’s Council of Regional Homelessness Advisors, the UCLA Ziman Center Affordable Housing Advisory Council, and US Bank’s Advisory Board. Stephanie is active with Women Presidents Organization and was an Affordable Housing Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles for four years.
Margaret Miller
President, the John Stewart Company
Margaret Miller joined the John Stewart company in 2004 as a Project Manager and now serves as JSCo’s President for Development. In this capacity, she supervises the firm’s Project and Asset Managers and oversees the full range of corporate activities related to developing affordable and mixed-income multifamily housing, including identifying and acquiring properties, business development, project design, obtaining entitlements and environmental approvals, financial structuring, loan packaging, construction oversight and regulatory compliance. She also co-leads JSCo’s expanding Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts.
Margaret’s experience includes a wide variety of tasks relating to planning, community development and real estate. While earning her Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, Ms. Miller worked at Avalon Bay Communities, a national real estate developer, where she worked on development proposals and conducted market research informing amenity and design decisions at the firm. Prior to moving to New York City Ms. Miller formed and managed a real estate Investment partnership that purchased multiple residential rental properties in Idaho.
Jordan Moss
Founder & CEO, Catalyst
Jordan is the founder of Catalyst Housing Group, a mission driven affordable housing provider investing at the intersection of innovation and impact. Founded in 2015, Catalyst addresses wealth and opportunity gaps through the scaled delivery of pioneering capital solutions that empower generational change for its residents and communities.
Jordan has spent the past two decades actively engaged in the investment, acquisition, development, financing, and management of more than $4 billion of institutional multifamily transactions.
Emeritus Directors
Theodore Chandler
Chief Operating Officer (COO), AFLCIO
Ted Chandler is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) with over 20 years of experience in housing finance and community development, including 15 years with Fannie Mae and six years with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). As COO, he oversees company operations including Multifamily, Marketing, Investor Relations, Labor Relations, and Communications.
Formerly as Vice President of marketing for Fannie Mae’s Western Regional Office in Pasadena, CA, Ted was responsible for managing relationships with national mortgage banking customers. He joined Fannie Mae as Director of the Boston Partnership Office, where he worked with lenders, developers, government officials, community and nonprofit organizations, and industry partners to customize Fannie Mae financing to meet local needs. During his time with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Ted served as Chief Executive and Chief of Staff. He was later Deputy Executive Director of the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency in Boston.
Will N. Cooper, Sr.
Chairman & Director, WNC & Associates, Inc.
Wilfred N. Cooper, Sr. co-founder and Director of the California Housing Consortium, is also the founder, Chairman and a Director of WNC & Associates, Inc. WNC is a specialist in affordable housing and owner of over 150 affordable rental properties (over 7,000 units) in the state of California.
Will is a recognized leader in the affordable housing industry. He has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and the House about affordable housing issues. He is a Life Director of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), a National Trustee for NAHB’s Political Action Committee and the 2003/2004 Chairman of NAHB’s Multifamily Council. Will is also a Director of the National Housing Conference (NHC), and a member of NHC’s Board of Governors.
Janet Falk
Janet Falk has extensive experience in the development and financing of nonprofit housing. She was the Vice President for Real Estate Development for Mercy Housing California (MHC), where she oversaw all of MHC’s development activities statewide. She is particularly knowledgeable in utilizing the low income housing tax credit and tax-exempt bonds for nonprofit projects and in the ways in which local and state governments can most effectively assist in the development and preservation of affordable housing.
Prior to joining Mercy Housing, Janet served as Executive Director of the California Housing Partnership Corporation from 1999 to 2002. At CHPC, she specialized in the refinancing of federally assisted projects and the policy issues involved in the preservation of at-risk housing. Prior to joining CHPC, Janet was the Co-Director of Community Economics, Inc. for 19 years. She also worked for five years as a housing and community development specialist for local government agencies in the Bay Area.
Terry Freeman
President, Terry Freeman & Associates
Terry brings more than thirty years of experience to her company’s focus on providing advisory services in the areas of real estate finance, development, asset management and troubled assets for developers, owners, lenders and government entities. She also joint ventures with local developers to develop multifamily rental communities, and specializes in senior retirement communities and apartment communities with an affordable component.
Ms. Freeman is a frequent speaker at real estate industry conferences. Recent speaking engagements include presentations on real estate finance and development at the Urban Land Institute, California Housing and Finance Agency, California Redevelopment Association, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California, Housing California and Novogradac & Company conferences. Ms. Freeman has authored articles on affordable housing finance for Multifamily Executive, Affordable Housing Finance and Novogradac & Company’s Housing Bond Report.
Jack Gardner
President & CEO, The John Stewart Company
Jack Gardner joined JSCo as its President and CEO in 2001, bringing eighteen years of diverse experience in the financing, development and management of affordable housing to the company. Jack’s professional background includes the public, non-profit and private sectors. He has served as Senior Housing Development Analyst for the City of Santa Monica, Southern California Program Manager for the Low Income Housing Fund, founding Executive Director of the Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, Executive Director of Resources for Community Development in Berkeley and Acquisitions Director for Edison Capital Housing Investments.
Jack is experienced in both the new construction and preservation of residential properties and his historic renovation projects have received the Governor’s Historic Preservation Award, the Los Angeles Conservancy Award and the California Preservation Foundation’s Affordable Housing Award.
Hunter Johnson
Hunter Johnson, President and CEO of LINC Housing, has more than 30 years experience in development, affordable housing, and structuring public/private partnerships. During his career, he has had a hand in developing more than 16,000 homes throughout California. Hunter has led the 25-year-old non-profit in its growth from 1,100 to more than 6,000 affordable units across the state.
Prior to joining LINC, Hunter was Director of Development for American Development Consultants in Palm Springs, a firm specializing in facilitating development projects for non-profit and for-profit housing sponsors, cities, redevelopment agencies, and Indian Tribes. Previously, Hunter served as Executive Director of the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency and as Chief of Rehabilitation for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.
G. Allan Kingston
Vice Chairman of the Board, National Community Renaissance Corporation
Allan recently joined the board of National CORE, the non-profit successor to SoCal Housing and the National Housing Development Corporation. Previously, for 18 years as the President/CEO of Century Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing lender, Allan helped create more than 11,000 units of affordable housing in 220 developments, located in 66 communities throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Prior to joining Century, Allan 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.
Alex Sanchez
Executive Vice President, ROEM Development
Alex Sanchez joined ROEM Development Corp as Executive Vice President in 2015. He previously served as Executive Director of the Housing Authority of County of Santa Clara. The Housing Authority is of one of the nation’s largest public housing authority and led that agency to become the first of its type to receive a Standards & Poors rating of “Strong Performer”, the highest designation a public agency can achieve.
Alex has worked in the public sector for the past 25 years for various California communities. His primary expertise is in housing finance, community development and redevelopment. Prior to assuming his duties as was Director of Housing for the City of San Jose and the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara, Alex served as Director of Housing for the City of Santa Ana and Deputy City Manager and Assistant Executive Director of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Bell Gardens.
Dianne Spaulding
Spaulding Associates
Dianne Spaulding recently transitioned from her position of Executive Director for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California after 23 years. Dianne is an active contributor in the field of housing and community development. At the national level, Dianne is a member of the National Housing Conference Board of Trustees. She is also the Past
President of Housing California, the largest statewide coalition of homeless and
housing providers in the nation, a position she held for over five years and a board on which she served for over a decade. Dianne is currently serving a third term as an appointed member of the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Great Communities Collaborative sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation along with other national funders such as Ford Foundation.
Johrita Solari 
Board Chair and Visionary Officer, Solari Enterprises, Inc.
Johrita Solari, has more than 40 years’ experience in real estate property management, specializing in affordable housing. Mrs. Solari co-founded Solari Enterprises, Inc. As Board Chair and Visionary Officer of Solari Enterprises, Inc. a full-service property management company specializing in the management of affordable multifamily housing. She is responsible for a management portfolio consisting of over 7,800 affordable multifamily housing units in over 128 locations and commercial properties throughout California. Solari Enterprises, Inc. is also recognized as a Specialist in Housing Credit Management (SHCM) company
She is the former vice-chair of the California Housing Consortium Board of Directors, Past President and Founding Member of National Affordable Housing Management Association and serves on Board of Directors of various industry and community associations. Johrita holds a
variety of designations and certifications among those are a certified National Affordable Housing Management Professional-Executive, and Specialist in Housing Credit Management. She holds an active Real Estate license, serves on the Advisory Board of the Assisted Housing Management
Insider and Tax Credit Housing Management Insider.