Michael D. Clark is a Principal and one of the owners of Alpha-Barnes Real Estate Services, LLC in Dallas, Texas. Established in 2000, A-BES has grown to become known as an industry leader in affordable housing management and compliance. Presently, Alpha-Barnes Real Estate Services manages over 20,000 units of affordable housing located in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Mr. Clark is a past President of the Texas Apartment Association.
Nancy Conk served for nearly 20 years as an executive director and CEO of nonprofit affordable housing and community development organizations. She has expertise in affordable housing development, property and asset management, community engagement, and advocacy. Her development financing expertise, enhanced by experience in community development lending as a relationship manager for a major national bank, spans work with varied housing types. Along with executive management positions reporting to boards of directors, Nancy has served on boards of numerous local, regional, and statewide organizations. Her current practice includes board governance coaching and organizational development consulting from her base in Sacramento, California.
Cathy Craig has spent 30 years developing systems and programs in affordable and supportive housing with a focus on organizational development, property and asset management. Before beginning her consulting practice in 2010, Cathy was senior program officer with Bay Area LISC where she developed and coordinated capacity building programs, including a leadership institute for community development organizations and an energy efficiency and green building program.
She also developed trainings and identified and shared best practices. Before joining LISC, Cathy served with Oakland Community Housing and Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. She has served on several boards and recently joined the board of Chinatown Community Development Corp. Cathy lives in Oakland, CA.
Jill Fioravanti aims to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to better meet their mission and maximize community impact. Jill works closely with staff and senior management teams, boards, and outside stakeholders to facilitate strategic planning and executive transitions, develop program and business plans, and provide technical assistance and executive coaching. She worked for ten years at Cabrillo EDC in Ventura, CA, filling several senior-level roles and has served as a housing authority commissioner. Jill earned a BA from Stanford University and MBA from UCLA. She is now based in the Washington DC area.
Jack Geary has led or participated in more than 50 organizational assessments for NeighborWorks America as well as assessments for HUD and others. Jack is a property management/asset management professional with over 30 years of experience in public housing and not for profit housing management and development. He holds an MS degree from the University of Massachusetts, John W. McCormack Institute for Public Management and has completed the State and Local Government Executive Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Jack teaches asset management and real estate development classes at NeighborWorks Training Institutes. As a private consultant based in Florida, Jack works nationally with developers, owners, and managers of affordable housing.
Eric Haralson is principal of Triage Associates, consulting with nonprofit agencies to best allocate scarce resources, writing policies and procedures, and underwriting loans. His affordable housing finance experience began in the early 80s with the founding an NHS affiliate and includes extensive coordination with nonprofit and for-profit producers, housing finance agencies, and funding sources to create innovative solutions. Eric is a reviewer for both OAS and OAD and an instructor for NeighborWorks Training Institutes. He has extensive executive level experience in banking and health care management. He recently retired as VP of Credit and Business Consulting at Fahe, Inc., a CDFI supporting development of affordable housing in Appalachia. Eric is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and lives in Knoxville, TN.
R. Ellen King has served with a variety of nonprofit organizations as a community organizer, development director, executive director, and housing authority commissioner. She has worked with the CDFI’s New Market Tax Credit, Native Initiatives, and Healthy Food Financing programs, National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling and LIFT grants for NeighborWorks America. Formerly, Ellen worked with Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) as national resident services director, as a management consultant with the Organizational Assessment Division of NeighborWorks America and as a program officer with Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Ellen is based in Kansas City.
Marsha Krassner has more than 30 years of professional experience in small business and community facilities lending. Marsha consults with a variety of mission-based organizations, including financial intermediaries, foundations, CDCs, CDFIs and CDEs. She is frequently called upon for her expertise in strengthening loan operations, developing new business and product initiatives, and crafting capitalization strategies, including writing tax credit, grant and funding proposals. She is also regularly retained to provide due diligence, underwriting services, and investment recommendations on behalf of Federal agencies, financial institutions, foundations, and investors. Before forming her own firm, Marsha held senior positions with the National Cooperative Bank and its CDFI affiliate, NCB Capital Impact. Marsha lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Juana D. Mejia has over 20 years of property and asset management experience. As director of Catholic Property Management, she currently coordinates property and asset management and resident services activities for 2,250 units of senior housing at 15 properties owned by the Diocese of Miami. Juana also has extensive experience as a trainer and consultant to the public and nonprofit sectors. She served for four years as director (and seven years as assistant director) of Urban Edge Property Management – a large Boston-based CDC. During her tenure, the community-based organization increased its managed portfolio by more than 100% and became nationally recognized as a top nonprofit management company.
John Moukad has over 20 years experience in the nonprofit and government sectors. He has served as a program administrator in New York State government, a program officer with The Enterprise Foundation, and a vice president at YouthBuild USA. Currently, as an independent consultant in community development, John’s work focuses on organization assessments, financial analysis, strategy development and capacity building. Special areas of expertise include nonprofit business analysis, lending and community development finance, and housing and real estate development. John is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Michael Schaaf focuses his consulting work on building community assets, enhancing access to credit and investment for low-wealth communities, and building capacity within nonprofit organizations and public entities serving them. Clients include CDFIs, CDCs, public agencies, banks, and national intermediaries with services including assistance in capitalization, business planning, market analysis and product design, and strategic planning. He has worked extensively with the full range of public programs and private resources for community development. Operating a consulting firm for 20 years serving a national clientele, Michael is based in the Boston area.
Marshall Tyndall brings to OAS 30 years of executive level experience in banking and finance. After serving for many years as a senior executive with Chase Bank of Texas, he joined LISC as senior program director for Houston. Marshall has been a consultant to NeighborWorks America for 10 years, conducting assessments of a wide variety of organizations, both within and outside the NeighborWorks network. For OAS, his assessments have included urban and rural CDCs, CAP agencies, and a community foundation. He has assessed real estate development, property management, and all other housing lines of business. Marshall lives in Houston, Texas.