J. Mark Slack

Mark Slack has 30 years of experience in commercial real estate finance and has been involved with affordable housing since 1996. His expertise in affordable housing, lending, equity, loan servicing, development, and consulting gives him a broad perspective on Affordable Housing. Mark has assisted with financial due diligence services on over 10,000 affordable housing units with a total capitalization of $2 billion. From 1999 to 2009, he was with AIG-SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners, Inc., a leading national LIHTC equity investor. At SunAmerica, Mark arranged the equity investment and debt guarantees for Antioch Manor Estates, part of the Antioch African Methodist Church vision to create the premier retirement community in African Methodism. Mark earned his B.A. from Washington & Lee University and his MBA with a concentration in Real Estate and Urban Land Development from Virginia Commonwealth University.

From 2011 to now, Mark served the Commonwealth of Virginia through Viridiant (www.viridiant.org), a state-wide green building verification and consulting non-profit (and its predecessor the Richmond Region Energy Alliance.) Mark is on Viridiant Board participates on the Development Committee. Mark's community service also includes volunteering for project:HOMES from 2009 to 2019. He served as the project:HOMES board chair from 2015 to 2017. Mark remains active in fundraising for each of these nonprofits.