Greg has spent over 20 years working in housing, community development, and real estate finance. He is a Partner at Guidehouse, a global management consulting firm, where he leads the Housing & Community Solutions practice. In that role he works with state, county, and local governments across the country to address their most pressing challenges relating to housing, vitality, and economic growth.

Prior to joining Guidehouse, he spent five and a half years in local government as Executive Director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. There he played a key role developing new approaches to complex community finance challenges, investing in affordable housing, and redeveloping publicly owned land. Under Greg’s leadership his agency received national attention for its successful emergency rental assistance program.

Greg’s agency oversaw the City’s investment of over $100M since to produce and preserve over 2,200 affordable housing units. Under Greg’s leadership, the agency designed and launched several groundbreaking housing financing programs including a $40M home repair loan program to increase access to capital for low/moderate-income borrowers.

Greg’s work has also focused on empowering people and communities, such as in Eastwick, with a two-year planning and feasibility study for nearly 200 acres of environmentally-sensitive land; and in West Philadelphia, with the redevelopment of the 36 vacant homes that were the site of the infamous 1985 MOVE bombing, helping that community to heal. His agency also pursued years of legal action to reclaim hundreds of blighted housing units so they could be returned to active use.

Greg was also instrumental in creating the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund, a new independent lending vehicle for financing affordable and workforce housing.

Under Greg’s leadership, in 2019 the Redevelopment Authority won the Urban Land Institute’s national Robert C. Larson Award for its workforce housing program. That same year Philadelphia was selected as one of four cities to participate in the inaugural Local Housing Solutions Institute. In 2017 AIA Pennsylvania presented Greg with its Government Award, and also in 2017 Greg was named to the Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. In 2016 Greg was named a member of the Urban Land 40 Under 40, which recognizes the “best young land-use professionals from around the globe.” Greg’s involvement with the Urban Land Institute includes his service on ULI’s national Public/Private Partnership Council.

Prior to his work at PRA, Greg was CEO of American Communities Trust (ACT), a national organization based in Baltimore, that advises private real estate developers, government entities, and financial institutions relating to social-impact real estate. Greg also served as a Senior Advisor with Econsult Solutions Inc., and worked at The Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, and Parkside Historic Preservation Corporation.

In June 2015 Greg was a speaker at TEDx Philadelphia, where he proposed rethinking how we invest in real estate, in order to support physical projects with social impact.

Early in his career Greg had the privilege to work with Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia’s renowned former city planning director. Later Greg wrote Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2013. Greg’s other writings on community development and investment have appeared in a variety of national and local publications, including Next City, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Greg spent 15 years on the board of Families Forward Philadelphia, Philadelphia’s largest family homeless services organization. Greg has a B.A. from Wesleyan University, where he graduated with dual degrees in American Studies and German Studies. Greg lives with his wife and two sons in Philadelphia.