Aileen Gribbin, a Partner at Forsyth since 2007, has over 25 years of experience in the affordable housing and community development field, including positions with government agencies, not-for-profit development organizations and the nation’s first affordable housing REIT. Since joining Forsyth, she has been a development and financial advisor on over $1 billion in affordable housing development and preservation transactions for a broad range of both for-profit and not-for-profit clients.

Prior to joining Forsyth, she was an Associate Commissioner with the NYC Department of Housing, Preservation & Development where she was responsible for the executive management of the agency’s Division of Housing Finance.

Aileen has a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business, a Master of Urban Planning degree in Housing Policy from Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Bachelor of Science degree in Resource Economics from Cornell University. Ms. Gribbin is currently on the Board of Citizen’s Housing and Planning Council, NYSAFAH and the Local Farms Fund.

Charles Brass has more than 40 years of experience in housing development and finance. At Forsyth Street, Mr. Brass provides consulting services to both for-profit and not-for-profit developers seeking to develop affordable and mixed income housing.

Prior to joining Forsyth Street in 2009, he was Executive VP for Development at Atlantic Development Group, where he brought 2,000 units and several hundred thousand square feet of commercial and community space to construction. From 2003-06 Mr. Brass served as Senior VP for CPC Resources developing and preserving affordable housing properties in New York City and State. For most of the prior two decades, Mr. Brass held various positions at the New York City Housing Development Corporation, including president from 2002-03, where he created many of the HDC Programs that comprised the City’s New Market Housing Place Plan. During his tenure, he was responsible for designing and implementing various financing programs that resulted in the creation of more than 20,000 units of affordable housing.

Mr. Brass worked at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development from 1981-84 where he worked in both its Policy/Intergovernmental Relations and Development divisions.

He was a member of the Board of the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies from 1988-2003 and President of NALHFA from 1993-96. He currently serves on the Executive Board of Settlement Housing Fund and previously was on the board of the New York Hosing Conference.

He has also served as an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.

He is a graduate of SUNY at Binghamton and holds a Masters of Arts in History from UNC - Chapel Hill where he also completed all his required class work for a Masters in Regional Planning.

Peter Beck, Managing Director at Forsyth Street, has over 20 years of experience in real estate finance and development consulting. Mr. Beck works in the firm’s Affordable Housing group, where he advises private and not-for-profit landlords and developers on the construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition and refinancing of housing using tax-exempt bonds, tax credits, project-based Section 8 subsidy, and other forms of governmental assistance, along with private and conventional financing sources.

He has been involved in structuring numerous Low Income Housing Tax Credit transactions, together representing over $1 billion in total development cost. Mr. Beck has also advised clients on financing student housing, military housing, non-profit community facilities and mixed-income “80/20” developments, and has provided assistance to developers in obtaining zoning approvals for large scale residential development. Mr. Beck’s experience at Forsyth Street also includes financing real estate projects through the capital markets. He has provided underwriting, financial analysis and due diligence support for financial institutions on projects financed through tax-increment finance (TIF) bonds and other forms of structured finance.

Prior to joining Forsyth Street in 2003, Mr. Beck spent 5 years as a financial and management consultant with Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler, Inc., specializing in public-private development and affordable housing. Mr. Beck has a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Amy Chandra joined Forsyth Street in 2011. In the last 5 years, her work has focused on the firm’s affordable housing practice, where she assists developers with underwriting, financing analysis, and due diligence for the rehabilitation and new construction of affordable housing. Her particular concentrations include tax credit financing, City loans and subsidies, and State and City loan conversions. In these roles, she has helped close new construction and preservation transactions totaling over 4,000 units.

Her earlier role at the firm was primarily in the firm’s Fund Management and Renewable Energy divisions. She assisted in the administration of funds that finance property acquisitions in New York City and Los Angeles as well as the restructuring of a complex international microfinance fund program that offered microloans to women in Tanzania and Uganda. She also provided qualitative and quantitative analyses on the firm’s renewable energy partnerships.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wesleyan University.

Olga Jobe, Senior Vice President at Forsyth Street, has over twenty years of experience in the financing and development of supportive housing, senior housing and affordable housing in New York City. Ms. Jobe has closed on more than $600 million in financing for affordable projects ranging in size from 60 units to 263 units. Her career began as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP working on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions before returning to graduate school to pursue a M.S. in in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.

Prior to joining Forsyth Street in 2022, she has held management positions at Breaking Ground, Comunilife, Inc. and Habitat for Humanity New York City. Ms. Jobe has earned an B.A. from New York University, a J.D. from Fordham University and a M.S. from Columbia University.

Amina Amer is a recent graduate from Columbia University with a Masters of Science in Real Estate Development. She has learned to underwrite multiple affordable housing deals incorporating programs such as HPD’s SARA program and HPD/HDC’S mix and match program. She has recently joined the Forsyth team and is diligently executing monthly requisitions on multiple projects, as well as contributing to assembling an RFP by assisting with underwriting, financing analysis and due diligence.

Meghan joined Forsyth in 2018 and has over fifteen years’ experience as an assistant, administrator and office manager. Her responsibilities include office management and administration across all divisions as well as administrative support to the company’s Chairman/CEO.

Meghan received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Administration from Berkeley College in NYC.