Lunch & Learn with Hunt Capital Partners

Jeff Weiss is a founding partner and President of Hunt Capital Partners. As President, he oversees all activities of Hunt Capital Partners and its subsidiaries, related to the sponsorship of Federal and State Low-Income Housing, Historic, and Solar Tax Credit Investments funds. Mr. Weiss has specialized in affordable housing for more than 30 years with a focus on raising equity and structuring project partnership agreements with multiple layers of debt. Before founding Hunt Capital Partners, Mr. Weiss served as Senior Vice President at Alliant Capital from 2006 to 2010. In that role, he led the firm’s private label syndications and managed acquisition and project management activities. Prior to Alliant, he was the Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at Simpson Housing Solutions (formerly Kaufman and Broad Multi-Housing Group) from 1997 to 2006, where he oversaw tax credit syndication and asset management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Weiss worked as a Financial Development Officer for the City of Los Angeles Housing Department, where he coordinated new and existing bond issues and conducted feasibility analyses for proposed projects. Mr. Weiss currently serves on the University of Southern California (USC) Lusk Center for Real Estate Executive Committee and is a member of the Urban Land Institute. From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Weiss was a guest lecturer at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy for the Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development Program, where he taught graduate level courses on real estate finance, feasibility analysis, and affordable housing. Mr. Weiss received a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Finance from San Diego State University, a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California, and a Juris Doctor from Southwestern University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

John Lee is managing director of Investor Relations and Funds Management at Hunt Capital Partners LLC (HCP). He has more than 19 years of experience in the affordable housing industry. Lee is primarily responsible for overseeing the Investor Relations department that builds and maintains HCP’s investor relationships and the Funds Management department that prepares, analyzes and monitors financial projections for all operating partnerships and fund level investments. Additionally, he is responsible for overseeing both federal and state tax credit syndication activities which include working with investor partners and attorneys structuring proprietary and multi-investor fund investments. While at HCP, he contributed to the development of the state tax credit syndication platform, allowing federal and state tax credit investors to allocate funds efficiently. This initiative optimized equity for projects and delivered attractive returns to investors. Prior to joining HCP, Lee was an underwriter for a nationally recognized nonprofit tax credit syndication firm and an accountant at Novogradac & Company. Lee is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine.