Parity Zone Symposium

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Dan Nissenbaum

Daniel A. Nissenbaum

Chief Executive Officer, Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF)

Daniel A. Nissenbaum is Chief Executive Officer of the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF). LIIF is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that has invested $3.6 billion in community projects since its inception, 40 years ago.  LIIF is a national CDFI with staff and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.

LIIF has served more than 2.5 million low income people by providing capital for 99,000 affordable homes for families and children, 362,000 spaces of child care and 112,000 spaces in schools.

LIIF also encompasses the National Affordable Housing Trust, a mission-driven nonprofit syndicator of Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in which LIIF has a controlling interest. Together with NAHT, LIIF has $2 billion in assets under management, and maintains an “A” rating with S&P.

Prior to assuming the leadership of LIIF, Mr. Nissenbaum was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he oversaw Community Reinvestment Act compliance for the firm’s Urban Investment Group and capital investment for the 10,000 Small Businesses program. Previously, he also held real estate and community development finance positions at Chemical Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank Community Development Corporation (CDC), JPMorgan CDC, Merrill Lynch, and HSBC Bank. In these roles, Mr. Nissenbaum was involved in debt and equity financing, including construction lending, revolving credit facilities and other community development transactions for for-profit and non-profit intermediaries.

He holds positions on several boards including the Morgan Stanley Community Development Advisory Board, National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, the National Housing Conference, and Invest Detroit. Mr. Nissenbaum earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Grinnell College and a Master’s of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.