James Spound is President of R4 Capital Funding, the mortgage lending platform of R4 Capital, which has sponsored and services more than $3 billion of tax-exempt debt since its establishment in 2016. Previously, Mr. Spound served as President of Red Stone Tax Exempt Funding, which he joined in September 2011 to recapitalize and reestablish the firm’s bond practice providing financing for 12,000 affordable housing units in 21 states, representing nearly $700 million of tax-exempt bond acquisitions. Prior to that, Mr. Spound was a Senior Managing Director at Centerline Capital Group (fka CharterMac and Related Capital Company) and co-head of its commercial real estate division where he established Centerline’s affordable housing lending practices including a direct purchase program for tax-exempt bonds that originated in excess of $2.8 billion between 1998 and 2008, and led Centerline’s expansion into GSE lending for affordable housing.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Science in Management from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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