Robin Halsband

Asset Management

Robin Halsband has over twenty-five years of experience dedicated to community development finance. She has expertise in lending to various sectors including charter schools, health clinics, and affordable housing. At Forsyth, Robin is Senior Vice President of Credit & Risk, within the Asset Management Division. She helps manage existing affordable housing funds and provides strategic input in the development of new funds.

Prior to joining Forsyth, she was an independent consultant for nonprofit community development financial institutions (CDFIs). She helped her clients in strengthening lending operations, developing capital deployment strategies, and underwriting. Before consulting, she was Senior Director at LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) where she worked on the development and ongoing management of off balance sheet loan funds dedicated to affordable housing and small business lending.

Earlier in her career, she was a Senior Vice President at City First Enterprises (CFE), a DC-based nonprofit loan fund. At CFE, she formalized the organization’s lending operations and led the growth of the loan portfolio. Prior to CFE, she was the Director of Capital Projects at the DC Primary Care Association where she oversaw the deployment of $100 million in capital for upgrading the facilities of DC’s community health centers. To capitalize these projects, she secured $70 million in equity funding from the DC government and leveraged an additional $30 million from other grant sources and financing vehicles, including traditional debt and New Markets Tax Credits.

Robin is dedicated to community work in her hometown of Washington DC. She has served on boards of DC-based organizations such as N Street Village and the Cleveland Park Community Association. She is currently the Board Chair of Anne’s Place, a housing organization that provides permanent housing to people who would otherwise be homeless. Robin has a BA in French Literature from Brown University and an MBA from Yale School of Management.