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Neighborhood Lending Partners Staff

Debra Reyes

Position carries primary responsibility for all company planning and organizational oversight, including the business plan that projects its growth and direction. Manages all company operations and is responsible for establishing systems and procedures to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. Has primary responsibility for oversight and completion of company's business development activities.

Oversees company resources, including staff. Responsible for company's financial status to ensure profitability, company programs and services to ensure high quality and profitable products that fulfill NLP's mission. Oversees loan production at levels consistent with the approved budget and that portfolio is profitable and of high quality.

Mary Fellows

Mary Fellows is NLP's EVP/COO. Mary has over 10 years experience in contract management and compliance reporting for state and federal programs.

Mary also tracks program impact to insure NLP's operations are in alignment with the Company's overall mission. She has created compliance mechanisms and maintained records, and completed the reporting for NLP's CDFI and HUD awards. Mary worked for several regional and community banks as a commercial lender and underwriter prior to coming to NLP. Mary received a BBA from Roanoke College.

Carlos Rivas

Directs the financial affairs of the organization and prepares financial analysis of operations, including interim and final financial statements with supporting schedules for the guidance of management.

Responsible for the company's financial plans and policies, accounting practices, maintaining of fiscal records and preparing financial reports.

Involves supervision of general accounting, property accounting and maintenance, budgetary controls loan servicing, Information and Technology systems and Human Resources.

Kris Byrem

Provides administrative support for Executive Officers of the organization, managing appointment schedules, maintenance of corporate documents and membership listings, the preparation and distribution of corporate meeting notices, minute recording, distribution of meeting packages and the coordination of all corporate meetings and events.

Responsible for all maintenance and input into HUD's DRGR regarding the NSP2 program.

Maintains the company website, social media and the development of marketing and promotional materials.

Linda Stevens

Linda Stevens has 23 years of banking operations, 15 of which were with The Business Bank in Northern Virginia. Seven of those years, she worked remotely after moving to the Tampa area in 2007.

She joined NLP in January of 2015 as an accounting assistant.

She handles day to day general ledger activity as well as accounts payable. She is responsible for reconciling and maintaining bank accounts and various general ledger accounts on a monthly basis, as well as other duties consistent with her position.

Thais Pepe

Thais Pepe has over 15 years of experience assessing economic feasibility of commercial real estate projects and the viability and risk of loans. During this period she performed financial analysis under state and federal government programs such as State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL), Multifamily Tax-Exempt Housing Revenue Bond (MMRB), State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Program, and Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (HC) program.

She joined NLP in January 2020 as the Vice President/Senior Lender. In this capacity she is responsible for leading NLP’s business development and loan origination efforts to housing developers, nonprofits and economic development groups across the States of Florida and Georgia.

Thais holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Tampa, which she graduated in 2004.

Jenn Bryant

Jenn assists in servicing NLP’s multi-million-dollar loan portfolio for affordable housing from construction phase to permanent phase and until the loan matures. Jenn is also responsible for assisting with general ledger activity as well as accounts payable. She is the default back up person and cross supports all departments.