Arc70 Capital has been named the winner of the 2025 PREA Emerging Manager ESG Award, recognizing the firm’s innovative, resilient, and impactful approach
Arc70 Capital has successfully closed Arc70 Fund IV (“Fund IV” or “the Fund”) at its hard cap of $820 million, surpassing the initial target of $750 million
Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) recently closed its first Social Impact M-Deal backed by 27 mission-focused properties for low-income residents
Robert Lucas
Robert Lucas
VP, Transaction Management
Robert Lucas manages and optimizes the warehouse portfolio at Arc70. Prior to joining, he spent 17 years at Deutsche Bank primarily as a trader across multiple asset classes. He brings over a decade of experience in Capital Markets in both Securitized Products and Munis. He holds a B.A. in both Business Administration and History as well as an M.A. in International Business from the University of Florida.
Michael Patterson is a senior advisor to Arc70’s servicing, origination, and underwriting functions, where his expertise adds to the firm’s lending and asset management infrastructure. He brings 40+ years of experience in real estate finance, most recently serving with Freddie Mac Multifamily as vice president for underwriting, credit, and execution for affordable and senior housing, structured transactions, small balance loans, and tax credit equity investments. He also developed and launched the K-deal securitization platform. Prior to Freddie, Michael was a construction lender and special servicer on affordable mortgages at a forerunner of Bank of America. Michael holds a B.A. from The George Washington University in Washington DC and has passed CFA Levels I & II.
Joshua Cabrera serves as Chief Compliance Officer at Arc70 where he drives the institutionalization of the firm’s limited partner base through investor research and marketing execution. Previously, he was a senior researcher of real assets at Marquette Associates and Associate Portfolio Manager at the Exelon Investment Office. He holds a B.S in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and M.B.A from Northwestern University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and Level II Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Candidate.
Jennifer Wu leads financial management, reporting, and operational strategy at Arc70. With 20 years of experience in corporate finance and accounting, she brings institutional rigor across treasury, audit, controls, and financial systems. Her background includes senior leadership roles in investment and real estate finance, with a focus on scalable infrastructure and investor transparency. She is a CPA and holds a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from University of California at Los Angeles.
TJ Park serves as head of portfolio management at Arc70 where he manages the funds’ capital allocation, liquidity, and assets. He is also involved with the firm’s business development and capital raising efforts. He started as a deal lead where he evaluated equity and debt opportunities, and sits on the firm’s investment and risk management committees. Previously, he was a senior investment analyst and asset manager at Reliant Group Management, a real estate private equity firm, and a fund analyst at WNC & Associates, a national tax credit syndicator.
Matthew Cicchetti is a distinguished legal professional with a robust background in financial markets. He ensures that Arc70 operates within legal boundaries, mitigates risks, and upholds regulatory compliance. His significant experience in warehouse finance allows him to bring strategic insights into Arc70’s warehouse transactions and to optimize financial structures that enhance fund performance. Prior to joining Arc70, he spent over 9 years at Deutsche Bank, first in its legal department and then as vice president in its Municipal Capital Markets Group where he worked on billions of dollars of direct lending and derivative affordable housing transactions. Before Deutsche Bank, he was a Florida bar fellow with the ACLU of Florida and a member of a defense team practicing before the United Nations International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia. he holds a B.A. in History from Florida State University and a J.D. from Florida Coastal School of Law.
Matthew Engler brings 20+ years of experience in affordable housing finance across a variety of roles in investment banking, LIHTC equity investing, and debt and equity capital raising and structuring. Over the course of his career, he has worked on $20B+ of affordable housing financings, ranging from closing debt and equity at the property and fund level to structuring and executing a wide variety of hedges and swaps to large-scale pooled securitizations and risk-transfer transactions. At Arc70, he manages all aspects of the firm’s securitization programs and onboards and oversees relationships with origination and bank warehouse partners. He is a member of the risk management committee and uses his derivatives expertise to assist in hedging strategy and implementation. Prior to joining Arc70, he worked in public finance investment banking with a number of bulge bracket firms, including Wells Fargo and Barclays. In these roles he drove substantial growth of their respective affordable housing finance practices by leading municipal bond transactions for numerous state housing finance agencies and affordable housing developers and affordable housing securitizations for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Earlier in his career, he invested in LIHTC properties for the insurance company Unum and raised equity from institutional investors in syndicated LIHTC funds at Meridian Investments, where he served as COO. He holds a B.A. in Physics from Bowdoin College, a M.A. in Economics from Tufts University, and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Yale School of Management.
Clayton Davis brings more than 30 years of structured finance experience to his role as Senior Advisor, Securitization at Arc70. He previously served as Director of Structured Affordable Production in Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Division, where he led the negotiation and securitization of complex affordable housing transactions. He is the named inventor of a patented affordable housing structure (U.S. Patent #8,010,439) and is recognized for his innovations in tax-exempt finance.
Victor Pa serves as head of risk management at Arc70, overseeing functions such as risk measurement and analytics and provides business strategy recommendations for the evaluation of financial volatility risk, managing portfolio limits, and implementing our capital framework and risk appetite. Prior to joining, he worked with Freddie Mac for over 25 years and has served in numerous company divisions and roles including Multifamily, Single Family, Investments, Capital Markets, Modeling, and Risk Management. He led multifamily’s regulatory capital and internal capital management initiatives as well as market risk management and mitigation activities. He holds a B.S. in Engineering and M.B.A. from Virginia Tech.
Long Nguyen is a member of the investment committee at Arc70 and is responsible for the management and oversight of underwriting for multifamily affordable housing. He ensures that underwriting policies, procedures, and best practices are implemented for transactions in the portfolio. Prior to joining Arc70, he served at ARES Commercial Real Estate (ACRE Capital) as a Fannie Mae DUS underwriter. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley.
Steffan Dye has over 20 years of professional experience in private capital investor relations and fundraising. Steffan is responsible for managing and developing investor and consultant relationships, fundraising, and marketing at Arc70. Prior to joining, he served as managing director at Harbert Management Corp. He also previously worked in Stifel / Eaton Partners’ private placement group and helped lead the investor relations and fundraising team at Ridgewood. He holds a B.A. in Global Change and World Order from the University of California at Berkeley.
Prior to co-founding Arc70, Denny Hou was a principal in Sierra Point Group, where he founded a multifamily investment and development firm focused on affordable housing. Before Sierra Point, he was a partner at Cypress Management and also gained experience at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to co-founding Arc70, Adrian Garcia was a principal in Google’s Capital Investments group where he led a team that executed strategic investments in real estate, affordable housing and capital market transactions. He also previously gained experience at LCV Capital Management, North Point Advisors, and DLJ Private Equity. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley.
Mark started his career in portfolio management at Freddie Mac Multifamily. He was responsible for hedge analytics, capital and profitability reporting, and earnings forecasts. He helped automate several key processes and provided instrumental analysis that drove impactful business model changes. After four years in Multifamily, he spent several years in Freddie Mac's Single Family division. There, he worked in securitization and provided analytics that helped support the Single Family UMBS market. He also supported the pricing division to help the company achieve target market share while meeting mission critical affordable housing goals. He holds a B.S. in Quantitative Finance and Mathematics from James Madison University and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
