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The Journey with Christian D Evans

How to be an Active World Leader in Politics & Philanthropy w/ Shekar Narasimhan

May 22, 2023
54:40

🎁 Gift for All Podcast Listeners Below 👇 Shekar Narasimhan is the Managing Partner at Beekman Advisors which provides strategic advisory services to companies and investors involved in real estate, mortgage finance, affordable housing and related sectors. Shekar is a Co-Founder for the Remergent Communities Fund, an Opportunity Zone Fund, focusing on small towns and cities in the Southeast U.S. He also serves as Chairman of Papillon Capital, focused on sustainable infrastructure investing. Prior to Beekman Advisors, Shekar Narasimhan was a Managing Director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company, one of the nation's leading providers of commercial mortgage financing. Immediately prior to Shekar’s time at Prudential, he was Chairman & CEO of the WMF Group, a publicly traded, commercial mortgage financial services company. WMF was one of the largest such firms in the country before being acquired by Prudential in 2000. Shekar is a former Chairman and Commissioner for the Virginia Housing Development Authority. Previously, he also served as a Member of the Board for Housing and Community Development in Virginia, and as a Commissioner on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Shekar is currently serving on the boards of Broadstone Net Lease, Inc., Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Democracy Alliance and the Sorenson Institute for Political Leadership. He is on the Council of Advisors for the Center for American Progress and is a member of the Urban Institute’s Policy Leadership Council. He has served on many boards, including the Low Income Investment Fund, the Community Preservation and Development Corporation, the National Housing Conference and the National Multi Housing Council. Shekar also served several terms on the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) Board of Directors, was the first Chair of the MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Board of Governors (COMBOG) and founded its Multifamily Steering Committee. He was elected as the first Chair of the Fannie Mae DUS Advisory Committee. He is a sought-after speaker on housing finance and affordable housing and is considered a leading expert on rental housing issues in the United States. Shekar co-founded and is President of the Dharma Into Action (DhIA) Foundation, an association of Dharmic American leaders and philanthropists collaborating to create a community-based think tank that identify and respond to urgent needs in the community by providing resources, knowledgebase and relevant information to serve Americans in need. He was on the founding board of Indiaspora, a nonprofit organization founded by community leaders to unite Indian Americans and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage. Shekar was also Co-Founder of Upakar Foundation, a higher education scholarship fund. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shekar-narasimhan-30824b3/ Website: https://www.beekmanadvisors.com/ __________ Learn More @ www.christiandevans.com __________ CONNECT WITH ME: TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdujUXWv/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristianDEvansEliteSideHustler/videos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evansandfamily/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christian_d_evans/?hl=en Journey with Christian Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-with-christian-d-evans/id1396344349 🎁 REDEEM GIFT 🎁 Free 7-day Trial of BizableTV (Top Rated Business Content From High Level Entrepreneurs) Learn More @ https://bizabletv.com/pages/bizabletv-christian-d-evans

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