Nicole Lockett

Managing Director, Development at Genesis Companies

Speaker

As Managing Director of Development at Genesis Companies, Nicole draws on decades of industry acumen in the public and private sectors to finance complex housing developments for the firm. In this role, Nicole crafts and executes affordable, mixed-use, and mixed-income real estate development projects involving Year 15 re-syndication, conventional debt, taxable and tax-exempt bonds, LIHTCs, Public Housing conversion, and a range of other public and private funding sources and structuring tools.

Prior to joining Genesis, Nicole served as a Senior Developer with Pennrose Properties and as a Development Manager for the Philadelphia Housing Authority, the country’s fourth largest. Nicole currently serves on the Board of the New York Real Estate Chamber (NYREC), Citymeals on Wheels, is a CPC ACCESS Program Advisory Board Member, and serves on the Advisory Boards of NYU’s Furman Center and the New York Housing Conference. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Rice University and a Master of Science of Real Estate Development from Columbia University. She has been recognized by Crain’s New York Business as a Notable Leader in Real Estate, by GlobeSt as a Healthcare and Senior Housing Influencer, and by City and State New York in partnership with Kasirer as a New York Women's Thought Leader of the Year in Real Estate.