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About Kim Laird

As a Director of Asset Management, Kimberly Laird leads the Asset Management team responsible for the direct management of the company’s Historic Tax Credit (HTC) and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) investments. The role also oversees NTCIC’s private credit investment portfolio, including financial, risk management, and compliance oversight.

Kim Laird has over 25 years of experience in Community Development Banking and has managed over $1 billion in equity and debt transactions utilizing Historic, New Markets, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit transactions.

“The work that we do at NTCIC is significant to improving the quality of life in local communities through increased economic development, transforming neighborhoods and expanding cultural opportunities for local residents.”

  • Kim Laird
  • Director of Asset Management

Before joining NTCIC, Kim was a Credit Risk Manager in Community Investment Capital at Synovus Bank, a regional bank headquartered in Georgia. She began her tax credit career with Wachovia Capital Markets Group where she managed the Southeastern asset management team focused on LIHTC investments. Later, she joined Bank of America as a Senior Vice President asset managing Historic, New Markets and Renewable Energy tax credit investments.

Kim received her B.S. in Accounting from The University of Kentucky. She is very active in The Redress Movement in Charlotte, NC and the NC Housing Coalition. Kim enjoys yoga, cooking and spending time with her two sons.

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Meet Camille

About Camille J. Strachan

Camille J. Strachan was elected to the National Trust Board in 1993 and is a founding board member of the Board of NTCIC. She is an attorney in private practice with more than 40 years experience in historic inner-city neighborhood preservation and revitalization. In New Orleans, she is a member of the boards of Felicity Street Redevelopment Project Inc. and Le Petit Salon. With her late husband, she was a founder of the Coliseum Square Association, a past NTHP Honor Award winner. Ms. Strachan is a native of Florida and a graduate of Rollins College and Tulane University School of Law.

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Meet Mark

About Mark Sissman

Mark Sissman was elected to the NTCIC Board in 2008. Mr. Sissman is the President of Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc., a Baltimore community development intermediary that provides market driven strategies and capital to increase home values. Sissman has previously acted as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hippodrome Foundation, a Baltimore development partner for the redevelopment of the abandoned Hippodrome Theater. He also served the Enterprise Foundation for fourteen years as President of the Enterprise Social Investment Corporation and Vice Chair for Strategic Initiatives. Under his leadership, ESIC was the nation’s foremost syndicator of the Low Income Housing Tax Credits. In January 1999, he joined Bank of America as Senior Vice President to organize the Bank of America Catalyst Fund, an equity initiative to support the rebuilding of America’s cities. Prior to assuming the presidency of ESIC, Mr. Sissman was the Deputy Housing Commissioner for the City of Baltimore between 1979 and 1984. Mr. Sissman is an attorney and served as Chairman of the Maryland Credit Assurance Review Committee, the Advisory Board of the Housing Development Reporter, the Board of the Empower Baltimore Management Corporation, and the Board of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. In Maryland, he served on the Board of the House of Ruth, a shelter for battered women, and has served as the Vice-Chairman of the Maryland Housing Policy Commission. Mr. Sissman was President of the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and served on the board of the Downtown Housing Council. He serves the Baltimore Community Foundation on its Community Development Committee and as a board member of its Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. subsidiary.

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Meet Barbara

About Barbara Sidway

Barbara Sidway was elected to the Board of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation in 2007. Her business, started in 1980, rehabilitated the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, winner of the Governor’s Livability Award and a National Trust Honor Award (1998). Other award-winning projects include the Odd Fellows Building in McMinnville, Ore., the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., and the Freedom Tower in Miami, Fla. Ms. Sidway is Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where she was elected in 2005 and is the Founding Chair of the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She was appointed by Oregon Governors as Chair of the Oregon Heritage Commission and Oregon 150 (the State’s Centennial Celebration) Ms. Sidway has served on the Boards of Historic Baker City, Inc. and the Baker County Chamber of Commerce. She was a co-recipient of the 2009 Leadership Award from the National Trust Main Street Center. Ms. Sidway holds a B. A. (Angell Scholar) in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. with Honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

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Meet Martin

About Martin L. Newman

Marty, a National Trust Community Investment Corporation Director Emeritus, served on the National Trust Board of Advisors for nine years, the National Trust Board of Trustees for nine years, and the National Trust’s Historic Hotels of America board for five years. He was Co-Chair of the 2008 National Preservation Conference in Tulsa, OK and he is now, once again, a proud member of the National Trust Board of Advisors.

“NTCIC is the perfect working example of how good work can both achieve mission AND sustain the organization. This is a subject with which I first engaged in 1994 and it gives me enormous pride to see the consequent success of this idea in the stellar work of NTCIC.”

  • Martin LJ Newman
  • NTCIC Director Emeritus

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Meet Joseph

About F. Joseph Moravec

Mr. Moravec is a member of the Real Estate Investment Advisory Committee of ASB Capital, a privately owned real estate investment management firm and a past Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His 40-year career has been spent as a practitioner, manager, and owner of investment properties and commercial real estate services companies. From 2001-2005, he served as the U. S. General Services Administration Commissioner of Public Buildings.

“NTCIC is, without qualification or ambiguity, enabling the adaptive reuse of historic buildings, often in underserved areas. It is pure historic preservation. After surviving the pandemic, NTCIC’s mission has grown steadily in scope and impact. It is an extremely well run, highly competitive and highly profitable enterprise.”

  • F. Joseph Moravec
  • Director Emeritus of NTCIC

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Meet Curt

About Curt Heidt

Curt Heidt was elected to NTCIC’s Board in 2009 and serves on the Executive, Audit and Governance Committees and chairs the Subsidiaries Oversight Committee. Curt is also an Advisor Emeritus of NTCIC’s parent company, the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Curt has 43 years of banking and financial expertise at the local, regional and national level ranging from the financing of housing to economic development strategies. From 1997 through 2016, Curt served as the Vice President of External Relations for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines where he led community, congressional, and technical assistance outreach. Curt has assisted in the development of numerous programs including the Rural Leadership Development Program, the Rural Capital Advance Program, grant programs for Native American housing, supportive housing initiatives, and the redevelopment of USDA 515 properties.

In addition to NTCIC’s Board of Directors, Curt is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Community Housing Initiatives, the Iowa Main Street Advisory Council, and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Rural Advisory Council.

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Meet Susan

About Susan Guthrie Dunham

 

Susan Guthrie Dunham was elected to the National Trust’s Board in 1995 and is a founding member of the NTCIC Board. She is the former President of Capital Development Corporation and currently serves as treasurer of Capstone Financial Group, Inc. Ms. Dunham previously served as the chair of the National Trust’s Board of Advisors (1993-95) and was an Advisor from the state of Oklahoma (1986-95). Ms. Dunham received a B.B.A. from South Arkansas University and is a graduate of the Louisiana State University Graduate School of Banking.

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Meet Rob

About Rob White

Rob White is a founding member of the NTCIC Board and is also a National Trust Trustee Emeritus and Advisor Emeritus. As a National Trust Trustee he chaired the Finance Committee and the Community Revitalization Committee, and was vice-chair of the Board of Trustees. Mr. White is the former Chairman and CEO of W.R. White Company, a Utah based manufacturing business. He was a board member of the Utah Heritage Foundation from 1984 to 2001 and served as its Executive Director from 2002 to 2005. From 2007 to 2012 he was co-chair of a $10million capital campaign to help fund the restoration of Ogden High School, a landmark public high school in Ogden Utah. Mr. White is a past president of the Egyptian Theater Foundation in Ogden, Utah. He has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Utah and an MBA from Harvard University.

 

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Meet Lauri

About Lauri M. Michel

Lauri Michel was elected to the NTCIC Board in 2008.  As Chief Risk Officer of Calvert Impact, Ms. Michel manages credit and enterprise risk, as well as risk management systems and infrastructure.  Previous roles at Calvert have included VP Risk Management and Special Projects, managing credit risk, loan administration, and IT, as well as Vice President of Underwriting, where she managed due diligence, underwriting, and monitoring support for Calvert’s loan portfolio. Before joining Calvert, Ms. Michel was Vice President at KEMA Advisors, a North Carolina consulting firm. She has also served as Vice President, Community Revitalization for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and as President of NT CDFI, Inc., the National Trust’s non-profit community development financial institution.

Ms. Michel’s professional background includes architecture, community development, and finance.  She has over fifteen years of experience in commercial real estate finance and managed New York City’s affordable housing development and finance programs as Deputy Commissioner for Development for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development. In addition to her service as Board Chair, Ms. Michel served as a member of NTCIC’s Investment, Governance, Audit & Finance, and Subsidiary Oversight Committees. She has also served as a Board member of the Historic Hillsborough (NC) Commission and the Hillsborough NC Tourism Board.

Ms. Michel holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M. Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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