Gloria lee
Gloria is the co-founder of Rise Community Capital and is responsible for managing all of Rise’s activities including business development, transactional work, client management, talent recruitment, and financial management activities of the company. Gloria brings two decades of community development finance and investment experience. As a founding principal at Rise Community Capital, Ms. Lee has completed $2.2 Billion of transactions involving a wide variety of capital structures and sources. In addition to launching and investing successful equity and loan funds, she has raised and deployed debt and equity for small / medium sized businesses, nonprofit facilities, and transformative mixed use real estate projects. She works with for profit, non-profit, financially-motivated, socially-motivated investors and government entities in executing economic development-driven financing initiatives. Prior to founding Rise Community Capital, Ms. Lee has held leadership positions at Next Street Financial, and at two of the nation’s largest community capital divisions, Citigroup (Citi Community Capital) and JPMorgan Chase. Ms. Lee received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Chicago, and received a Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University.
Gloria lives in California, grew up in Queens, New York, and enjoys wine and food, is an avid sports fan and occasionally plays golf.