Matt Engler

Bio:

Matt Engler is the Head of Production for Affordable Housing at Wells Fargo Community Lending & Investments, where he oversees the bank’s national platform for construction lending and equity investing in LIHTC properties. He has worked in affordable housing finance for over 20 years across a variety of roles in investment banking, LIHTC equity investing, lending, and debt and equity capital raising and structuring. Over the course of his career, he has financed well north of $20 B of affordable housing transactions, ranging from closing debt and equity at the property and fund level to structuring and executing a wide variety of hedges to large-scale pooled securitizations and risk-transfer transactions.

Prior to re-joining Wells Fargo, Matt served as the head of capital markets at an affordable-housing-focused credit fund. Earlier in his career Matt worked in public finance investment banking with a number of bulge bracket firms, including Wells Fargo, invested in LIHTC properties for a life insurance company, and raised equity from institutional investors in syndicated LIHTC funds at a specialty broker-dealer, where he served as C.O.O.

Matt holds a B.A in Physics from Bowdoin College, an M.A. in Economics from Tufts University, and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Yale School of Management.