Housing

Mr. Hoeppner is a Managing Director in RBC CM's Midwest/Large Client/Housing Groups and is Manager of the Minneapolis public finance office. Mr. Hoeppner has 19 years of banking experience, which includes work at a national financial advisory firm that specialized in providing quantitative cash flow analyses, pricing, and program development services for issuers of municipal housing bonds. Mr. Hoeppner has served as banker on senior managed issues for various State Agencies in Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Mr. Hoeppner received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Prior to joining RBCCM in February of 2008, Mr. Hoeppner spent 4 years in Citigroup’s public finance group and spent 5 years prior to that at a regional underwriting firm. In addition, he has his Series 7 and Series 63 Securities registrations.

Helen Hough Feinberg has been employed by RBC Capital Markets for approximately 30 years. She presently serves as the co-head of the firm’s Housing Finance Group with management responsibilities focused on the multifamily sector and State of Florida. Ms. Feinberg has approximately 25 years’ experience in the housing sector having served as underwriter or placement agent on a wide range of single family and multifamily transactions. Her affordable housing client base includes state and local housing finance agencies, public housing authorities, developer and non-profits.

Ms. Feinberg graduated from Wake Forest University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in both Economics and Spanish and she completed graduate work in Finance at the University of South Florida. She is a licensed General Securities Representative, Municipal Securities Principal and General Securities Principal. Ms. Feinberg currently serves as an advisory council member for the Florida Housing Coalition and a board member of the Coalition of Affordable Housing Providers. Ms. Feinberg was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush in 2003 to serve as Chair of the Affordable Housing Study Commission for a four year term and previously served as a member of Fannie Mae’s National Advisory Council for a two year term.

Mr. Barrish is a Director in the Cincinnati Municipal Finance office of RBC Capital Markets.

Mr. Barrish joined RBC Capital Markets in 2007, after having worked at Seasongood and Mayer, LLC, a regional investment banking firm since 2002. Mr. Barrish has served as the investment banker or financial advisor to many types of tax-exempt issuers, including state agencies, counties, cities, public universities and school districts. However, Mr. Barrish specializes in single family housing transactions. He has served as Financial Advisor to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency since 2002. Mr. Barrish has also structured single family housing bond financings (total par amount of more than $2 billion) for the Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and New Hampshire housing finance agencies and multi-family bond transactions for the Minnesota and Wisconsin housing finance agencies.

Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, Mr. Barrish was a structural engineer with Drexel University where he specialized in the diagnostic testing of long- span bridges.

Mr. Barrish is a registered securities representative, currently holding Series 7 and Series 63 licenses. Mr. Barrish holds a B.S. and M.S. in structural engineering from the University of Cincinnati and received an MBA in finance from Drexel University.

Debbie Berner is a Senior Quantitative Banker for RBC Capital Markets and has been employed by the firm since 1996.  Ms. Berner has over 25 years experience in the mortgage-backed securities industry and has authored research publications on industry product innovations.  For the past 17+ years, she has been providing technical expertise to state and local housing issuers in structuring single family programs utilizing both stand alone and open indentures as well as implementing and monitoring a TBA / Forward Delivery Program for several Florida clients.  To date, Ms. Berner has structured billions of taxable and tax-exempt mortgage backed securities and she serves as quantitative services manager for Florida Housing Finance Corporation’s open indenture.  Debbie holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mina Choo is a Managing Director at RBC CM's Municipal Finance Group's Housing Practice. She started her municipal banking career in 1994 working exclusively in housing. She has 20 years of experience senior managing 12 State and numerous local housing agencies issuing debt to finance single family mortgages and multifamily developments. She has senior managed over 100 single family bonds totaling almost $6 billion and 40 multifamily bond issuances totaling over $700 million. She has a wide range of quantitative experience, having structured issuances in open and close indentures, run consolidated, stand-alone rating agency and yield cash flows on DBC and cfX. Her senior managed State HFA clients have included: Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Washington.

Prior to her municipal banking tenure, Ms. Choo worked for 3 years as a management information systems consultant. She is NASD Series 7 and Series 63 licensed. She is a former board member of The Women’s Foundation of California and the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. She received her MPPM from the Yale School of Management and her BSE from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mitch Gallo joined RBC Capital Markets in 2005. Since 1999, he has been involved in financings for both non-profit and for-profit organizations, primarily consisting of public agencies, real estate developers, healthcare providers, and educational institutions. He has experience with multiple fixed income executions, credit enhancement alternatives, derivative strategies, and structured products. 

Mr. Gallo has a background in housing and real estate, and specializes in single and multifamily municipal bond offerings.  He has worked with the State Housing Finance Agencies of Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and New York City HDC, and also maintains a strong presence in the public housing community, having direct experience with such PHAs as Boston, Cambridge, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle.  Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Gallo spent nearly three years with a Fannie Mae DUS lender, where he specialized in the sizing and underwriting multifamily real estate loans.  Mitch is a graduate of Lehigh University and holds a BS in Business and Economics with a major in Finance. He is FINRA registered representative, currently holding Series 7, 63, 65, and 79 licenses.

Greg Goldberg has arranged financings for hundreds of affordable, mixed income and senior housing projects as well as community facilities with an aggregate par value of over $3 Billion.   He is experienced with both tax-exempt and taxable financing structures utilizing public offering as well as private placement / direct purchase executions.    His expertise includes financings utilizing FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bank and Bond Insured financing programs.  

Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, Mr. Goldberg was employed by Citi Community Capital and its predecessor firms, Capmark Finance, and Newman & Associates for nearly two decades.   Earlier in his career, he was a seniors housing developer and a financial advisor to non-profit retirement community sponsors.  He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado - Boulder and his MBA from Loyola University of Chicago.   As a registered representative, Mr. Goldberg holds both Series 7 and a Series 63 licenses from FINRA.   

Brent Hanlin has over 25 years of municipal finance transaction experience having structured financings in various sectors.  During the last 19 years of his career he has focused exclusively on affordable LIHTC projects, having arranged in excess of $2.0 billion of financings throughout the country.  Mr. Hanlin has served as underwriter/placement agent on both tax-exempt and taxable financing structures through public offerings as well as private placement / direct purchase executions.  His expertise covers the full range of affordable housing finance solutions including FHA and agency-enhanced structures, bank credit-enhanced structures, bank private placements and non-rated structures.

Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, Mr. Hanlin spent 17 years at Citi Community Capital and its predecessor firms, Capmark Finance, and GMAC/Newman & Associates as an investment banker and affordable housing lender.  Mr. Hanlin’s municipal finance career started as a quantitative analyst with A.G. Edwards & Sons during which time he structured publicly-offered transactions for various public sectors including higher education, school districts and general municipal debt, including derivative and reinvestment products.

Mr. Hanlin received his BA in Economics from Kenyon College and is a FINRA registered representative, currently holding the SIE, Series 52 and Series 63 licenses.

Ms. Janke joined RBC Capital Markets in 2005 and serves as a banker for a broad range of municipal issuers and credits in the Midwest and nationally, including states, counties, cities, higher education institutions, airports, and housing authorities. Her experience includes financings for the State of Minnesota, State of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, State of Alaska, and Alaska Municipal Bond Bank.

Ms. Janke graduated from Carleton College with a degree in Economics and holds Series 7, 52, 63, and 79 licenses. She is a founding member and Vice President for Membership of the Minnesota Chapter of Women in Public Finance. In addition, she was the 2016 President of the Minnesota Institute of Public Finance and a 2015-16 Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Prior to joining RBC, Ms. Janke was a member of the financing and development team for a public power facility in Minnesota.

McDaniel Jeantus joined RBC Capital Markets in July 2019 as an analyst in the Municipal Finance program after having completed an internship at the Firm the previous summer. He provides research, structuring and execution support for the Firm’s Municipal Housing Group. Mr. Jeantus holds a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and is currently registered with FINRA with Series 52, 63 and SIE securities licenses.

Hing joined RBC Capital Markets in New York in 2011 as a senior quantitative banker for our state housing agencies and student loan clients, following a 21 year career at Citi where he was the senior quantitative banker in their student loan group for over a decade, and was the lead banker for multiple accounts. Prior to that, he provided banking services to both state housing agencies and student loan agencies at Citi. Before joining RBC, Hing co-found Fynanz, Inc. (now known as LendKey) a private student loan startup, and served as its Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer for 2 ½ years, where he underwrote and originated over $60 million of private student loans. To date, Mr. Loi has structured over $150 billion in taxable and tax-exempt debt financings. Mr. Loi holds an Executive M.B.A. from Fordham School of Business, graduating with the highest academic honor, and a BA degree in Computer Science from Columbia University with a three year completion.

Derek McGreal is a Managing Director at RBC CM’s Municipal Finance Group’s Housing Practice. Mr. McGreal began working in public finance in 1981, specializing in the quantitative analysis of and the programming of computer software related to municipal bonds, including single family mortgage revenue bonds and municipal lease revenue bonds. After a year as a consultant to the World Bank, he returned to Municipal Finance in 1986 where he has worked with numerous state and local agencies, providing not only quantitative analysis and structuring of bond issues, but also day-to-day management of the financing process, both for single family and multifamily issues. He has structured a wide variety of transactions, including fixed and variable rate debt, tax-exempt and taxable, and has provided expertise in structuring and risk analysis for a wide variety of derivative transactions. Recently he was part of the team that developed the highly successful pass-through bond structure. He currently serves as a senior banker for the Colorado HFA, the Hawaii HFDC, the Iowa FA, the Indiana HCDA, the Minnesota HFA, the North Dakota HFA, the Washington SHFC, and the Wisconsin HEDA. In the past he has completed financings for many other state agencies including the Arkansas DFA, the Missouri HDC, the North Carolina HFA, and the Pennsylvania HFA, as well as local issuers in California and Colorado.

Mr. McGreal has a B.A. in Economics from California State University, Sacramento, and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, Mr. McGreal holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Ian Parker joined RBC Capital Markets' Municipal Finance Group in July 2019. Mr. Parker is based from the Firm's San Francisco office where he finances and structures complex financing transactions and solves affordable housing needs. Mr. Parker works with his general government clients in California along with other managing directors from the firm who are based in the State. Ian moved from Goldman Sachs, where he spent the last 11 years, most recently as Managing Director leading their San Francisco office. In this role, he served as lead banker for over 20 large governmental accounts. Prior to Goldman, he was at Merrill Lynch where he started his career in the Housing Finance Group, and held various roles in municipal finance in the New York and in debt capital markets in London. Mr. Parker received a BA in Government from Harvard.

Cameron Hill is an associate in the Housing Group at RBC Capital Markets. She joined RBC Capital Markets in 2016 after spending several years in commercial banking in Nashville, TN and Tampa, FL where she performed loan origination, credit analysis and client service functions. Ms. Hill has 4 years of experience in the housing sector and assists RBC CM bankers in coordinating and executing multifamily housing transactions and assists with single family transactions and TBA pipeline administration. She is a licensed General Securities, Municipal Securities, and Investment Banking Representative. Cameron graduated from Washington and Lee University where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

Jeff Sula is a Managing Director specializing in Housing Finance located in the Boston, MA Municipal Finance office of RBC Capital Markets. Mr. Sula joined RBC in July 2013 and has over twenty years of municipal investment banking experience, specializing in mortgage revenue bond transactions on behalf of State Housing Finance Agencies. Prior to joining RBC, Mr. Sula was a Director in the Public Sector Banking and Markets Group of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before that, he worked as an Executive Director in UBS’s Housing Group. He has served as the lead banker to numerous State HFAs across the country with experience structuring and executing both taxable and tax- exempt single and multi-family mortgage revenue bond transactions. Mr. Sula is a registered municipal principal with Series 7, 53, 63 and 79 registrations. He has a B.A. with a concentration in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Columbia Business School.

Patrick Zhang joined RBC CM in April 2011 after spending four years with the mortgage banking division at Citigroup.  Mr. Zhang served as a support banker in 16 senior-managed single family, taxable and tax-exempt, bond issuances totaling $900 million.  He has experience structuring fixed rate bond transactions for five state HFAs (Hawaii, Indiana, Montana, New Mexico and Washington).

Patrick Zhang holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Southern California and an MBA from Yale University School of Management.  He is FINRA Series 7, 63 and 79 licensed.