Executive Team

Katie Balderrama

Executive Vice President, Head of Affordable Equity
Kathleen Balderrama is an Executive Vice President, Affordable Equity at Walker & Dunlop. Prior to this role, Ms. Balderrama was Alliant Capital’s General Counsel for nearly nine years.

Before joining Alliant Capital, Ms. Balderrama practiced complex business litigation, including affordable housing, real estate, and securities litigation at international law firms, Mayer Brown LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP. Ms. Balderrama obtained her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, where she graduated as valedictorian, and her Bachelor of Arts from Loyola Marymount University.

Stefani Thomas

General Counsel
Stefani Thomas is the General Counsel for Alliant Capital and Alliant Strategic Investments. She has over 16 years of experience in a wide variety of corporate, equity financing, and other transactional matters.

Prior to joining Alliant, Stefani practiced in the Los Angeles office of the international law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP for over 11 years, where she focused on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital and private placement transactions, commercial contracts, financings, and licensing transactions. Her practice spanned a wide range of industries and clients, including companies in the technology, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods industries.

Stefani obtained her Juris Doctorate from University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and her Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Los Angeles.

Brian Goldberg

Executive Vice President, Credit
Brian Goldberg is the Executive Vice President of Credit, Affordable Equity at Alliant Capital, a Walker & Dunlop Company. Mr. Goldberg began his employment with Alliant Capital in 1998, where he was initially responsible for overseeing the financial affairs of the Company and its affiliates. In January 2010, he was promoted to President of the Company.

Prior to Alliant Capital, Mr. Goldberg worked as the Chief Financial Officer of a large real estate investment company that developed and managed residential and commercial real estate throughout the United States. Before that, he worked for Arthur Andersen in the Enterprise Group.

Mr. Goldberg received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Denver. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Dudley Benoit

Senior Vice President & Chief Production Officer
Dudley Benoit is the Executive Vice President of Alliant Capital, a Walker & Dunlop Company. In his role, Mr. Benoit is responsible for the LIHTC production teams of Originations and Investor Relations and for setting and implementing company strategy. Mr. Benoit has over 25 years of experience in community development and real estate finance.

Prior to joining Alliant Capital, Mr. Benoit worked at Santander Bank as a Senior Vice President and Director of Community Development Finance. He also held senior management positions at JPMorgan Chase in the commercial real estate multifamily lending, community development banking, and the New Markets Tax Credit units during his sixteen-year career at the firm.

Mr. Benoit earned his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University as well as a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. In addition, he currently serves on the boards of the Reinvestment Fund, Primary Care Development Corporation, and the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition.

Jen Erixon

Managing Director, Originations
Jen Erixon is the Managing Director of Originations at Alliant Capital, a Walker & Dunlop Company. Bringing over 25 years of affordable housing finance and development to Alliant, Ms. Erixon has structured, negotiated, and closed more than $3 billion of lower-tier LIHTC investments.

Prior to joining Alliant, Ms. Erixon served as Senior Vice President, Market Manager in the community lending division of a national bank, where she was responsible for originations, closings, and portfolio management in a multi-state territory. Previously, she worked for the national non-profit, Mercy Housing, as President of their 6-state Mountain Plains region. At Mercy Housing, she established a national Asset Management platform for its $2 billion portfolios. Ms. Erixon has held previous leadership roles in underwriting, investor sales, and originations for two national LIHTC syndicators.

Ms. Erixon earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado Denver.

D. Mark Livingston

SVP, Acquisitions

D. Mark Livingston is the SVP, Acquisitions. He assumed this role in November 2019 and is responsible for the oversight of Alliant’s acquisitions and underwriting team and syndication processes.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Livingston served as Alliant’s SVP, Asset Management. He has extensive experience in multiple areas of the LIHTC industry, including investor relations, development, and syndication, in addition to acquisitions and asset management. Mr. Livingston earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The Ohio State University, a Master of Science in Taxation from the Golden Gate University Bruce F. Braden School of Taxation, and a Juris Doctor from the Michigan State University College of Law. Mr. Livingston is admitted to practice law in the State of Colorado.

Chris Stigall

SVP, Asset Management
Chris Stigall is Senior Vice President of Asset Management at Alliant. Mr. Stigall has been with Alliant for over four years and has nearly two decades of low income housing tax credit industry experience.

Matthew Breiner

SVP, Construction

Matthew Breiner has been with Alliant for nearly a decade, and has worked in multiple senior roles at some of the nation’s largest land development and home-building firms throughout his career.

During his tenure as a Construction Project Manager at Alliant, he has been responsible for overseeing the construction and rehabilitation of over 16,000 apartment units with a total construction value of approximately $1.7 billion, and has collaborated with our Joint Venture Development Partners to deliver over 3,000 apartment units with a construction value of over $450 million.

Jessica Schmidt

Chief Financial Officer
Jessica Schmidt is the Chief Financial Officer at Alliant. Ms. Schmidt is responsible for the financial affairs of Alliant and its affiliates. Prior to joining Alliant, Ms. Schmidt spent time with New Jersey owner/developers, Prism Capital Partners and Woodmont Properties, where she oversaw the financial and operational management of the real estate portfolios and residential developments throughout New Jersey.

More recently, Ms. Schmidt was the Chief Financial Officer of two Manhattan based firms, Hidrock Properties and SHVO, both owner/developers, where she managed finance, accounting, human resources, and IT. Ms. Schmidt brings over 20 years of experience that span finance and accounting, operations, and human resources in the construction, development, hospitality, and property management industries.