Ben Metcalf leads the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation as well its sister organization Terner Housing Innovation Labs. He is also on the faculty of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning. Previously, Ben was appointed by former Governor Jerry Brown to lead California’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and he has worked in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C., including as an appointee of President Obama in the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary overseeing HUD’s Office of Multifamily Housing Programs.

Steve is President and CEO of Joshua Tree Consulting and Joshua Tree Conference Group. He is also a partner at RealtyCom Partners LLC, the apartment industry’s leading asset manager of telecom marketing rights on behalf of property owners. Steve previously served as Senior Vice President of BRE Properties, Inc. and as Vice President of the National Multi Housing Council. He started in multifamily as a Vice President of the New York State Housing Finance Agency, and served briefly as an associate at Prudential Securities in New York. Steve has a BA from Yale University and a MPA from Princeton University.

Gloria is the Program Director of Housing Security and Public/Private Partnerships at Crankstart Foundation, overseeing grantmaking and investments to address homelessness and housing affordability in the San Francisco area. Before joining Crankstart in 2023, Gloria was Executive Director of East Bay Housing Organizations, a leading local advocacy coalition promoting affordable housing. A long-time Oakland resident, Gloria has over 20 years of experience in social justice and community development in the Bay Area, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

Johnathan Logan, Jr. is the founder and managing principal of JDL Strategies, LLC—a nimble firm providing community development, real estate, management, finance, and community engagement consulting services to nonprofits, foundations, public agencies, and businesses. Prior to venturing out on his own, Johnathan was the Vice President for Community Engagement at the Marin Community Foundation (MCF) where he was responsible for leading strategy and grantmaking for the $1B Buck Family Fund of MCF and overseeing the foundation’s CommunityFirst social impact lending portfolio. Before that, he led the Marin City Community Services District where he designed and implemented various community development and policy initiatives. He has a Masters of Public Administration degree from City University of New York, Baruch College and a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Management from Oral Roberts University. He is also a proud National Urban Fellow and has served on various nonprofit, academic, and government boards and commissions.

Sam Cobbs is the CEO of Tipping Point Community, a leading philanthropic organization that finds, funds, and strengthens the most promising poverty-fighting solutions in the Bay Area. Since being at the helm, Sam has expanded Tipping Point’s approach by pairing effective direct service grant-making with policy work to disrupt the conditions that hold poverty in place. Prior to joining Tipping Point, Sam served as Chief Executive Officer of First Place for Youth, where under his leadership, the organization’s impact increased significantly—from serving approximately 600 youth in one location in 2006 to being a national program operating throughout the state of California and four other states. Sam graduated from California State University, East Bay, with a degree in psychology and a master's in counseling with an emphasis in organizational development.

Toussaint Bailey is the founder of Uplifting Capital, a platform empowering personalized impact through private investing for financial advisors and their clients. Before founding Uplifting Capital, Toussaint was CEO of Enso Wealth Management, a private wealth firm, overseeing its growth to nearly $2 billion. Before financial services, Toussaint spent over a decade as a practicing attorney. He serves in several advisory and board capacities, including for RIA Institute, Financial Advisor IQ, Alternative & Direct Investment Securities Association, Raphael House of San Francisco, Alliance for Safety and Justice, and Saint Mary’s College of California, among others. He has a JD from UCLA Law and a BSE from St. Mary’s College of CA.

Linda Assante is currently Chief Investment Officer of Uplifting Capital, a private markets impact investment manager. She serves as a senior advisor and working equity partner with Azimuth Capital Management, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the James Campbell Company, Mountain View Clean Energy, The Swig Company, Terreno Realty Corporation, Urban Alliance, and the Pension Real Estate Association Foundation. Linda is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for Lafayette College. Previously, Linda was a Managing Partner with Jasper Ridge Partners, a discretionary investment management firm serving prominent families, foundations, and global institutions, where she led the real assets team and was a member of the firm’s investment, portfolio construction, and valuation committees. She also held roles at The Townsend Group and J.P. Morgan. Linda has a BA in Economics and Business from Lafayette College.

Linda is a nationally recognized leader in affordable housing development and housing policy. For the past 20 years, she has served as CEO of Eden Housing, one of California's oldest and most successful non-profit housing development organizations. Linda has served on the boards of a wide range of housing policy organizations at the local, regional, state, and national levels. Currently, she chairs the National Housing Conference, the policy committee for the California Housing Consortium, and the steering committee for the International Housing Partnership Exchange.

Ahmad Thomas is the CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the region’s most dynamic business association. As a change agent and next-generation business leader, Thomas partners with 350+ member companies to promote entrepreneurial solutions to strengthen Silicon Valley's business competitiveness, bolster its innovation ecosystem, and create shared economic value throughout the greater Bay Area. Thomas holds a B.S. from Cornell University, a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sean Kline is a social innovator and social sector leader with a breadth of U.S. and international experience designing innovations to address poverty, economic insecurity and exclusion. Currently he advises the organization ideas42, a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change. Prior to this, he directed the Stanford Basic Income Lab, RSA’s US policy and innovation practice, and the city of San Francisco’s Office of Financial Empowerment, where he was a leading voice for municipal innovation and equity-driven policies that improve people’s lives and inspire replication. Sean is a published thought leader on poverty and social policy and has been quoted in a variety of media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, American Banker, Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and The Guardian.

Bryant Jenkins is Managing Principal at Sperry Capital, a full-service infrastructure advisory firm offering financial, strategic, and commercial advisory services to state and local government agencies, private sector organizations, and non-profit corporations. Bryant has over 20 years of experience advising public and private sector clients on developing infrastructure projects, including workforce housing, transportation projects, water and sewer utilities, schools, and hospitals. He holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Jackie Khor is an independent consultant who works with foundations, family offices and mission-driven intermediaries to develop and implement impact investment strategies that further social and environmental goals and generate financial returns. She is currently a Strategy Consultant for the MacArthur Foundation and a family office. She was most recently a Senior Advisor for Possibility Labs, an early-stage fiscal and donor-advised funds sponsor that is seeking to democratize access to philanthropy and impact-driven capital for solidarity economy communities, including historically underinvested communities of color. Jackie was also a Vice President and then Senior Advsor at Social Finance, a nonprofit impact finance and advisory organization. She has been an Investment Advisor to the California Wellness Foundation’s Investment Committee since January 2021. Her other advisory board roles include Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s Integrated Capital Strategy. Jackie’s background includes almost 30 years of experience across the financial, impact investing, and philanthropic sectors. She was Vice President for Programs at College Futures Foundation, a $500 million private foundation headquartered in Oakland, CA. Before that, just as the term impact investing was being coined around 2008, Jackie co-founded San Francisco-based Imprint Capital Advisors, one of the early impact investing firms that worked with foundations and family offices to develop and implement impact investment strategies and portfolios. Imprint was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2015. Jackie has also served as Associate Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, Director of Employment Programs for the New York City Partnership, and Vice President within Lehman Brothers’ Public Finance Division. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and her master’s degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management.

Matt Regan is Senior Vice President of Public Policy at the Bay Area Council. He currently oversees the Council’s work on Housing, Workforce Development, and Early Childhood Education as well as the Government Relations function. Matt holds an LLB from Middlesex University School of Law in London and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the University of Ulster School of Business.

Cedric Bobo is the CEO and Co-founder of Project Destined. This social impact vehicle trains urban youth and military veterans to be owners and stakeholders in the communities where they live, work, and play. Before founding Project Destined, Cedric spent over 20 years as an investor and an investment banker, including over ten years at The Carlyle Group, where he committed over $2 billion of equity capital. Cedric received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSME, summa cum laude, from the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Lola Woetzel is a senior partner of McKinsey & Company. She is the global leader of its Cities Special Initiative and the Asia-based director of the McKinsey Global Institute. She has also led McKinsey’s Energy and Materials practice in Asia and was the Founder and co-Chair of the Urban China Initiative. Dr. Woetzel has extensive experience developing strategies and organizations for companies and government institutions to promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth. Industries of particular interest include real estate, energy, mining, and infrastructure. She holds a BA, MA and a Ph.D. in Political Science and Government from the University of Southern California.