AJ Jackson

President, LEO Impact Capital at JBG Smith

Speaker

Brian Allan Jackson (AJ) is strategic leader, experienced at building and managing platforms in the private, public and non-profit sectors to achieve financial returns and impact.

He is President of LEO Impact Capital, an investment management platform that acquires, finances and operates workforce housing using a Impact Framework to generate financial returns for investors and increase residents’ financial well-being. LEO’s business lines include investments (debt & equity), asset management, and advisory services. LEO is a subsidiary of JBG SMTH (NYSE:JBGS), where AJ sits on the Investment Committee.

Previously AJ was managing partner with EYA, LLC, a Washington, DC area urban infill development company, where he led more than one billion dollars of double and triple bottom line social impact investments. Earlier in his career, AJ served as Chief of Staff to the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

AJ serves on the Board of Directors for Up For Growth, a national, cross-sector member network committed to solving the housing shortage and affordability crisis through data-driven research and evidence-based policy. He also serves of the Advisory Board for Center Creek Capital, the Fannie Mae Affordable Housing Advisory Council, the National Multifamily Housing Council's Workforce Housing Committee, and is Chair of the Advisory Board at the Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate at the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Earlier in his career he led the successful merger of two regional trade associations to create the Maryland Building Industry Association, one of the nation's largest regional homebuilder organizations.

AJ earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Alabama and an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.