The MIC Community

Antonio Marquez

Principal and Founder of Comunidad Partners

Antonio Marquez serves as Principal and Managing Partner of Comunidad Partners. He is chairman of the firm’s Investment Committee. He is responsible for strategic planning, culture building and capital raising. Antonio founded Comunidad Partners in honor of his family’s immigrant heritage to provide improved opportunities and a better life for people who live in communities that the company serves. He has been involved in multifamily real estate transactions working or partnering with a number of firms, namely Nuveen, Carlyle, GE Capital, Prudential, Hines and Singerman. Marquez serves on the National Multifamily Housing Council (“NMHC”) as Chair of the Workforce Housing Committee and a member of the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee. He is founder and co-chairman of Veritas Impact Partners, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission of improving social impact and creating positive outcomes for residents living in affordable and workforce housing communities. Antonio is also Chairman of the board of Multifamily Impact Council, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to establishing impact investing principles and data-driven impact reporting frameworks for the multifamily housing industry. He is a founding board member of Real Estate Association for Latinx professionals (REAL), a nonprofit organization focused on the professional advancement and equity of Latinx commercial real estate professionals.

Nick Ogden

Founder and CEO of The Clear Blue Company

Nick Ogden is the Founder and CEO of The Clear Blue Company (CBC), a Nashville-based private equity real estate firm. CBC manages over $850 million in assets and oversees 6,067 units across 16 markets in the Southeastern United States. CBC’s primary focus is on addressing the affordable housing crisis while delivering attractive returns to investors and promoting upward mobility for its residents. Nick is a strong advocate for increasing the supply of workforce housing as the key solution to this issue. CBC is tackling this challenge at a regional level through two main strategies: preserving existing workforce housing and developing new units. The long-term goal is to use their expertise and regional influence to impact national housing policy that will increase supply. Nick’s connection to Nashville began in 2003 when he moved to the city to attend Vanderbilt University, where he later met his wife. Currently residing in East Nashville with his wife and three children, he actively engages with the community as a Board member of Nashville Classical Charter School and the East End Neighborhood Association. Beyond his role at CBC, Nick is an engaged entrepreneur. He is an active participant in the Entrepreneurs Organization and serves as a mentor through the Nashville Entrepreneur Center and Urban League’s Red Academy. His commitment to addressing housing issues and fostering community development reflects his deep ties to Nashville and his dedication to creating positive change.

Greg Mackinnon

Director of Research, Pension Real Estate Association

Greg MacKinnon is the Director of Research for the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), a non-profit trade association for the global institutional real estate industry, a position he has held since 2009. His role includes providing the industry with information, research, and thought leadership on real estate investment issues. Prior to joining PREA, Greg was professor of finance at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada. His research on real estate investment has been published in the top academic journals, he writes extensively in industry publications, frequently speaks at industry events, and has been widely quoted in the media. Greg has been named a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute, a Fellow of the Real Estate Research Institute, is co-editor of the bi-annual special real estate issue of The Journal of Portfolio Management, and was previously co-editor of the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management. He sits on the Board of the Real Estate Research Institute and is a past Board member of the Atlantic Canada CFA Society. Greg holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Alberta and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Amanda Nunnink

Co-Head of Impact Housing at Kayne Anderson

Amanda Nunnink is co-head of the Impact Housing team at KA Real Estate. She is responsible for sourcing, analysis, underwriting and execution of investment strategies and works with joint venture partners to oversee day-to-day management of KA Real Estate’s multifamily housing impact investments. Nunnink has 20 years of experience in commercial real estate. Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2021, she spent 10 years at Freddie Mac, holding leadership positions across multiple business lines. Most recently, she led a team dedicated to Equity in Multifamily Housing, tasked with creating loan and structured products to generate sustainable improvements for renters and the rental housing industry. In her time at Freddie Mac, she was also head of Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Investor Relations team, responsible for supporting the sale of $75B in structured securities annually and managing strategy and communications for over 400 unique investors. Her experience at the firm also included loan production and structuring on a national level, managing a team that contributed $15B in annual production volume. Prior to joining Freddie Mac, she held various production roles for banks and investment groups. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Case Western Reserve University.

Shekar Narasimhan

Managing Partner, Beekman Advisors

Shekar Narasimhan is the Managing Partner at Beekman Advisors which provides strategic advisory services to companies and investors involved in real estate, mortgage finance, affordable housing and related sectors. Shekar is a Co-Founder for the Remergent Communities Fund, an Opportunity Zone Fund, focusing on small towns and cities in the Southeast U.S. Prior to Beekman Advisors, Shekar Narasimhan was a Managing Director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company, one of the nation’s leading providers of commercial mortgage financing. Immediately prior to Shekar’s time at Prudential, he was Chairman & CEO of the WMF Group, a publicly traded, commercial mortgage financial services company. WMF was one of the largest such firms in the country before being acquired by Prudential in 2000. Shekar is a former Chairman and Commissioner for the Virginia Housing Development Authority. Previously, he also served as a Member of the Board for Housing and Community Development in Virginia, and as a Commissioner on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Shekar is currently serving on the boards of Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Democracy Alliance, the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership, and the Multifamily Impact Council Research Fund Board of Trustees. He is on the Advisory Committee for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy, the Council of Advisors for the Center for American Progress and is a member of the Urban Institute’s Policy Leadership Council. He has served on many boards, including Broadstone Net Lease, the Low Income Investment Fund, the Community Preservation and Development Corporation, the National Housing Conference and the National Multi Housing Council. Shekar also served several terms on the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) Board of Directors, was the first Chair of the MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Board of Governors (COMBOG) and founded its Multifamily Steering Committee. He was elected as the first Chair of the Fannie Mae DUS Advisory Committee. He is a sought-after speaker on housing finance and affordable housing and is considered a leading expert on rental housing issues in the United States. Shekar co-founded and is President of the Dharma Into Action (DhIA) Foundation, an association of Dharmic American leaders and philanthropists collaborating to create a community-based think tank that identify and respond to urgent needs in the community by providing resources, knowledgebase and relevant information to serve Americans in need. He was on the founding board of Indiaspora, a nonprofit organization founded by community leaders to unite Indian Americans and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage. Shekar was also Co-Founder of Upakar Foundation, a higher education scholarship fund. Shekar has received numerous awards and recognition in the real estate industry including the MBA’s highest honor in 1999 and the Fannie Mae Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Dean H.J. Zoffer Distinguished Service Medal from the University of Pittsburgh. Shekar holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has earned the designation of Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB).

Kelley Shepherd

Director of Investments for the Leon Levine Foundation

Kelley is the Director of Investments for the Leon Levine Foundation and L&L Management, the Levine family office. Kelley joined the Foundation and Levine family office in 2024 as their first Director of Investments. He brings fifteen years of experience as an institutional investor and allocator. He spent the first decade of his career at Cambridge Associates managing impact investing portfolios for some of the country’s largest foundations, family offices, and religious institutions. More recently, he helped lead an impact-focused fintech startup. Prior to his investment career, Kelley worked as an educator and college minister. He holds a B.A. In Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, an M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School, and is a CFA charter holder. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children.

Rachel Mavrothalasitis

COO, Multifamily Impact Council

Through over a decade of designing, implementing, evaluating, and communicating impact programs across the financial return spectrum, Rachel Mavrothalasitis has honed her expertise as an impact investor and tactician focused on the U.S. housing market. From 2018 to 2023, Rachel served as Director of Impact for Turner Impact Capital, a private equity, real estate firm dedicated to delivering socially enriching health, education, and housing infrastructure nationwide. There, she oversaw impact measurement and management for the firm, with dedicated attention to the suite of onsite resident services, such as health, safety, and credit building programs, offered to over 55,000 multifamily tenants. This work also included impact target setting, data pipeline and key performance indicator design, stakeholder engagement, policy creation, and investor and external reporting, including to third-party frameworks such as GRESB. Prior to her work at Turner Impact Capital, Rachel worked in crisis intervention, first with young children in the foster care system, and later as Director of Housing Advocacy for a low-barrier, trauma-informed service center for young people experiencing houselessness and housing insecurity. There, she oversaw youth advocacy, the rollout of the west Los Angeles Coordinated Entry System, and the design and delivery of all housing programs and partnerships, including a supportive housing program for parenting youth and LA’s first Host Homes program. Seeing the opportunity to leverage this range of direct service and administrative experiences to support emerging and reorienting impact funds and housing operators define their ESG and impact processes, Rachel launched Reach&Root Partners, LLC, in 2023, a consulting and advisory services firm. Since, she has been inspired by her clients’ creativity and commitment, and honored to drive strategy articulation, partnership development, and governance and data design on their behalf. Rachel is thrilled to be joining the Multifamily Impact Council for a focused engagement to advance the Multifamily Impact FrameworkTM and propel membership, furthering MIC’s meaningful contributions to the industry and ultimately elevating the experience of multifamily households broadly. Rachel graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley with Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Public Health and a concentration on maternal and child wellbeing, and with honors from the University of Southern California, earning a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Social Work. Rachel sits on the Impact Capital Managers Talent and Diversity Working Group, NCREIF ESG Committee, and Pension Real Estate Association’s Social Impact Committee, which recently published the “What Is the S in ESG? A Guide for Real Estate Investors” to which Rachel was an active contributor. Rachel is a proud San Diegan, parent, and yogi and enjoys finding common ground to deliver outstanding results.