Kevin Boes

As President and CEO, Kevin is responsible for the oversight and management of LISC Small Business. He previously served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the National Equity Fund (NEF), a nonprofit affiliate of LISC and a leading syndicator of Low Income Housing Tax Credits. Prior to his work at NEF, Kevin founded Boes Consulting and serviced real estate clients and worked at KPMG in its real estate assurance and financial services consulting practices.

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Steve Petsos

Steve is responsible for growing LISC Small Business' small business lending products and services and exploring other potential strategic opportunities. Before joining the team in 2012, he was the head of Fund Management at the National Equity Fund (NEF). At NEF, his group structured and monitored funds that invested more than $8 billion in multifamily affordable housing. Prior to NEF, Steve worked at Salomon Smith Barney. He is a CFA charterholder and graduated from the University of Richmond with a B.S. in Business Administration.

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Matthew Huber

Matt oversees accounting operations, asset management, and fund management for LISC Small Business. He previously worked at the National Equity Fund (NEF) as the controller in charge of fund accounting for more than 1,600 of NEF's investments. Matt began his career at KPMG in 1995 where he was a manager in the Chicago Real Estate Audit Practice. He is a CPA.

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Steve Hall

Steve Hall is Vice President of LISC Small Business, a nonprofit lender that helps communities grow by investing in people who build businesses and generate jobs in their communities. He is responsible for providing lending solutions and personalized business coaching to entrepreneurs, enabling them to start or grow their businesses. He has overseen the development of LISC Small Business' Impact Lending and SBA Community Advantage programs and the expansion of LISC's other small business offerings. 

Prior to joining the team in March 2017, Steve was Vice President of Small Business at Accion Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and Vice President and Regional Manager at Charter One Bank from 2004 to 2014, receiving top lending awards while at both organizations. Before starting his career in banking, he was Major Accounts Manager at Konica Minolta Copiers (via CDS Office Technologies), small business owner at Tavo Enterprises, and Business Manager in the Office of Student Affairs at Florida A&M University, his alma mater. Steve is the president of the local chapter of FAMU alumni. As an entrepreneur himself, Steve has met many of the same challenges that other small business owners confront.

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Eric Uva

Eric joined the LISC Small Business team in 2016. He is responsible for implementing a Boston-based small business lending and capacity building program. In this capacity, he originates small business loans and provides technical assistance to existing small businesses with a focus on job creation in underserved communities. Eric draws from 13 years of capital markets and capacity building experience with small and medium sized businesses. His background includes middle market investment banking at Jefferies, equity and mezzanine funding at American Capital, small business impact investing at Root Capital, and small business lending at Indivisible. He holds a B.A. and B.S. from Boston College and an MPP from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Charles Edison Fellow. 

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Mark Leitson

Mark serves as legal counsel for LISC Small Business and provides guidance in the closing and compliance stages of our small business loans. He previously served as Deputy General Counsel at the National Equity Fund (NEF), where he provided investor-related legal and compliance services for NEF's Low Income Housing Tax Credit program. Prior to NEF, he maintained his own legal practice and was counsel for Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, now SNR Denton.

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Claudia Gomez

Claudia joined the LISC Small Business team in April 2017 as a loan processor. She has worked in small business lending for 11 years, with experience processing loans, filing collateral, setting up funds, and helping business owners access capital. Claudia previously worked at Accion Chicago as an intake specialist and later as an operations associate. She graduated from Fox College in Oak Lawn, Illinois in 2004, where she studied Business Administration.

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Kelsey Hamory

Kelsey manages LISC Small Business' SBA 504 loan fund with CDC Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley. She also underwrites New Markets Tax Credit projects for LISC. She was previously an intern with the CDFI Fund's New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program and reviewed NMTC applications. Kelsey also served in the Peace Corps as a Rural Community Development Volunteer and worked in non-profit accounting for two years. She has a Master of Business Administration from Michigan's Ross School of Business.

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Rogelio Lopez

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Emily Nordquist

Emily works directly with borrowers throughout the lending process to help them secure capital through the SBA Community Advantage program. Emily graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2016 with her B.B.A. in Economics.  

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Maggie Salisbury

Maggie works with borrowers to help them access capital through LISC's SBA Community Advantage program. She graduated from Princeton in June 2015 with a degree in history and concentrated in U.S. studies.

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Maddy Woodle

Maddy oversees LISC Small Business' partnership with Kiva U.S., working to grow Kiva's presence in local LISC cities. She also helps maintain and develop LISC Small Business' social media channels, website, and marketing materials. She graduated from Princeton in 2013.

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