Ryan is NDC’s Vice President of Development, overseeing the full project pipeline while spearheading the acquisition and development initiatives.
Ryan brings over twenty-five years of market rate and affordable development, debt and equity financing, asset management, and project management experience to Novin Development. His long tenure in the multifamily housing and affordable housing industries has provided for creative market rate, affordable, and mixed-income projects working with multiple private and public stakeholders.
Ryan helps lead Novin Development’s acquisition and development with a focus on obtaining private and public funding, completing public RFPs and NOFAs, and project management duties. Before joining Novin Development, Ryan worked at Linc Housing as their Director of Acquisitions focusing on affordable acquisition throughout California. Ryan also worked for BRIDGE Housing as their Sr. Acquisitions Manager in the similar acquisition and development capacity. At BRIDGE Housing, Ryan worked on new development opportunities from public and private entities including an RFP award of a 17-acre site in So. San Francisco to develop 1,000+ mixed-use and mixed-income units at the Balboa Reservoir site. Ryan also sourced and closed on an existing 330-unit acq/rehab project in Seattle, WA and 110-unit acq/rehab project in Portland, OR. While working at CCH, Ryan focused on new affordable opportunities including site sourcing, funding applications, and entitling an 80-unit TOD project in the Bay Area and securing approximately $43M of State HCD funding. Ryan also worked on various project management duties while at CCH completing four occupied rehabs and refinances executing FHA 223(f) loans in California and Oregon. On the market rate development and debt & equity finance side, Ryan has worked for Equity Residential, Lincoln Property Company, KeyBank Private Equity, and GMAC Commercial Mortgage having completed successful market rate development projects, arranged debt financing, and JV equity partnerships throughout CA, OR, and WA.
Ryan has completed his Bachelor of Business Administration degree, Real Estate from Georgia State University, Master of Business Administration, Finance from Georgia Southwestern University, Master of Real Estate Development from The University of Arizona, and Master of Urban Planning from San Jose State University. Ryan has earned the CCIM designation and is a licensed Real Estate Broker in California.