Jennifer is a Senior Managing Partner and co-head of Watt Investment Partners, and is responsible for sourcing and executing real estate investment opportunities. Jennifer has nearly 20 years of experience in real estate investing with an emphasis on development, land use and the entitlement process. As such, she has spent considerable time at the intersection of finance, public policy, community engagement and law. More recently, Jennifer has focused on public-private-partnership opportunities and the use of innovative financial structures to address the affordable housing crisis.

Prior to joining Watt, Jennifer was a Vice President at OneWest Bank where she managed a portfolio of distressed commercial real estate debt. From 2006 through 2009, Jennifer was a Vice President at Apollo Real Estate Advisors where she was responsible for West Coast acquisitions and completed the entitlement of a 1.0mm square foot development in Hollywood. Previously, Jennifer held positions at Arch Street Capital Advisors, an international real estate investment advisory firm, and at Deutsche Bank Securities in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group.

Jana Sims spearheads the day-to-day activities of the SDS Supportive Housing Fund, closing each investment, undertaking the asset management, underwriting investments, and participating in fundraising. Ms. Sims started with SDS as the Asset Manager for the American South Real Estate Fund in 2018. Prior to joining SDS, Ms. Sims spent five years at The Resmark Companies (“Resmark”), managing more than $1B of multifamily assets across the Western United States. Her focus spanned the development, operations, and disposition phases. Her responsibilities included the underwriting and asset management of wholly-owned and joint venture assets. Prior to Resmark, Ms. Sims was a Senior Consultant for CAST, a management consulting firm, working exclusively with financial services/banking corporations to provide analytical and project management support on a variety of engagements to create efficiencies and enhance bottom line results. Ms. Sims is a graduate of Pomona College where she majored in Economics.

Max is co-founder and CEO of Nico, the Neighborhood Investment Company. Nico has pioneered a new model for community wealth and is the sponsor of Nico Echo Park, Benefit Corp., the world’s first Neighborhood REIT.

Max has worked in real estate investment and the hospitality industries for 15 years, including as CFO of Storage Deluxe and a principal of Mile End Delicatessen in Brooklyn.

Max enjoys exploring neighborhoods, spending time with his family, and cooking. He is a renter and lives in Silver Lake with his wife Kari, son Oliver, and dogs Bako and Remy.

Erin Smith is the LIHTC Syndicator Relationship Manager in Bank of America’s Community Development
Banking (CDB) group. In her role, Erin works closely with syndicator partners to help finance affordable
housing and generate local economic opportunities nationally in the communities we serve. She also serves as
ESG Champion for her line of business, where she connects the capabilities of CDB to the broader ESG goals of
the Bank of America enterprise. Erin joined the bank in 2016 and most recently served as vice president and
business development officer with Banc of America Community Development Corporation (BACDC). Erin
resides in Charlotte, NC.

Before joining the bank in 2016, Erin worked in New York City, starting her career in the KPMG Audit Real Estate Financial Services Practice where she served as Lead Senior Representative of the Northeast.
Following KPMG, Erin spent three years working at JPMorgan Chase as a Real Estate Financial Manager
in charge of more than $6 billion of office and industrial real estate assets.

Pamela is a Senior Director with Nuveen’s Impact Investing group.  As the real estate lead for the Impact Investing team, Pamela manages a portfolio of real estate assets ranging from affordable housing to fund investments focused on people and planet.  She is passionate about the mission of providing safe, quality affordable housing to increase housing stability and improve the quality of life for underserved populations.

Pamela has more than 20 years of transaction experience in real estate starting with CBRE, where she primarily focused on multifamily investment sales in the southeastern region of the US.   In 2007 Pamela joined Nuveen Real Estate, formerly TH Real Estate and TIAA-CREF Global Real Estate, and has transaction experience across several portfolios inclusive of acquisitions, capital markets, impact investing and dispositions within the US.  Pamela received her Master’s of Business Administration in Real Estate and Finance from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She obtained her Bachelor’s of Art Degree in English and Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  She is also a board member of the Real Estate Executive Council and Bold Charter School located in the Bronx, NY. She’s an active member of the Urban Land Institute and City Parks Foundation real estate committee.

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