Pete Byford is a principal on the firm’s Partner Services team. In his role, he helps lead the growth of the overall line of business and focuses on origination of New Markets Tax Credit financing transactions.

Byford is a veteran attorney and former equity finance consultant. Over the past eight years, he has been involved in NMTC transactions delivering more than $1.1 billion in total investment to underserved areas.

Before joining Advantage Capital, Byford was a director at one of the largest regional accounting firms in the U.S. In a previous role as Executive Vice President and General Counsel, S.B. Phillips Co., Inc., he served as legal counsel, oversaw financial departments, and worked closely with top executives to define business strategies while providing legal advice on specific issues. For more than thirteen years, he led his own law firm, Byford Law LLC.

Byford holds a B.A. from The Citadel along with a J.D. from University of South Carolina and a L.L.M, Taxation from University of Denver.

Liz Carter is Senior Director of Legislative Affairs at Advantage Capital, coordinating the firm’s advocacy efforts and acting as a liaison with other Advantage departments and industry partners.  

Previously, Liz was Director of Outreach for the Partnership for Job Creation, an industry coalition of New Market Tax Credit practitioners advocating for Congress to strengthen the NMTC as well as make it a permanent part of the federal tax code. In December 2020, Congress granted the NMTC the largest-ever extension in program history, $25 billion over five years. Before that, she worked for the Historic Tax Credit Coalition, which played an integral role in preserving the HTC in the federal tax code during Congress’ tax reform effort in 2017.

Liz received her master’s in History of American Decorative Arts from Parsons School of Design and her bachelor’s in English and Art History from Smith College.

Paul Castedo is an Associate at Advantage Capital. As a member of the investment team, Paul focuses on evaluating new investment opportunities, performing due diligence and monitoring portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Paul was an Associate at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. where he was involved in raising capital from qualified investors and analyzing public and private investment portfolios. He began his career in transaction advisory and valuation services with Carr, Riggs & Ingram specializing in providing buyside and sellside accounting, financial, and tax diligence services to financial sponsors and corporates in the lower middle market.

Mr. Castedo holds his Masters Degree in Accounting and a BSM in Finance from Tulane University.

A native of New Orleans, Paul volunteers at the Community Sailing Center and competes in sailing events with the Corinthians Sailing Association. Paul is a dual-citizen of both the US and Germany, and bilingual in Spanish.

Linda Clark is an executive assistant at Advantage Capital.

Linda plays a key role in the overall operations of the firm’s St. Louis office. She also provides project management support for the impact team and works directly with the firm’s chief impact officer to manage projects, timelines and deliverables. Prior to joining the firm, Linda worked in the non-profit industry. For the past 10 years she was at Urban Strategies, Inc., a community revitalization company, where she was the executive assistant to the president and the office manager for the corporate office. Her expansive administrative background also includes Saint Louis University and Coro Leadership Center.  

Linda holds a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She is a past board president for the Nursery Foundation of St. Louis and the Urban League Block Unit Initiative.

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Oryah Cohen-Hodos is a data analyst on the Partner Services team at Advantage Capital. In his role, he builds and operates quantitative analysis tools to organize and evaluate investment and impact data within our Partner Services portfolio.

Prior to joining the firm full time, Oryah was a data analyst intern, where he worked to organize and consolidate investment and compliance data across Advantage Capital’s business lines.

Oryah previously served as a Combat Medic in the Israeli Defense Forces, during which time he led first aid and life support training for other soldiers and was awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Hebrew language.

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Cynthia Coleman Rios is executive assistant to the president at Advantage Capital. In this role, she maintains overall office operations and procedures and manages many day-to-day functions of the company.

Cynthia has 15 years of experience in executive assistant and management roles. Before joining the firm, she served as the wine club manager at a local Napa winery for several years and the store manager at the GH Bass Outlets in Napa and Folsom, California and the Village of Oak Creek in Arizona.

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Sarah Collier is a tax manager at Advantage Capital. In this role, Sarah services the firm’s leverage lending portfolio and manages income tax compliance for the firm’s entities and their associated federal and state tax filings.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Sarah was a Manager at the Insourced Solutions for Tax Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where she reviewed tax returns, tax provisions, and tax account reconciliations for Bayer Corporation.

Sarah received her master’s in accounting from the University of Missouri–St. Louis and her bachelor’s in accounting from Truman State University. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Missouri.

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Cindy Colvin is a Managing Director leading the firm’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit team.

Cindy has nearly 20 years of banking and real estate finance experience in both sales and underwriting capacities.  Prior to assuming her role at Advantage Capital, Cindy was the Head of Credit Delivery for Truist’s Commercial Real Estate Line of business. There she was responsible for leading a team of underwriters and portfolio managers within commercial real estate including private developers, REITs, affordable housing as well as low-income housing tax credits and new market tax organizations.  

Cindy graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and earned her MBA from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business.

Kyra Conciatori is an impact research analyst on the Partner Services team at Advantage Capital, where she conducts research on economic and community development topics to support various business lines, including applications for governmental resources, raising capital, and guiding investment decisions. Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Kyra served in several impact-oriented roles including as an intern on the Impact Management, Monitoring and Learning team at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Program Strategy & Impact team at CARE USA. She began her career at Massachusetts General Hospital on the corporate philanthropy team.

Kyra received her master’s degree in international affairs with a concentration in business for social impact from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Colgate University, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Adam Constantinides is a senior vice president at Advantage Capital. As a member of the solar investment team, Adam focuses on sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions and portfolio management.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Adam worked for Altus Power America, a renewable energy investment firm, where he was responsible for the development, underwriting and execution of solar investments. He also previously held a position at Regional Plan Association where he evaluated financial impacts of climate change in the New York metropolitan area.

Adam received his bachelor’s degree in environmental studies with a minor in social innovation/entrepreneurship from Tulane University where he graduated cum laude.

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Tori Cook is vice president of business development at Advantage Capital and primarily focuses on the origination of state and federal LIHTC investments located in Georgia and Texas. Tori brings extensive affordable housing experience to the firm and most recently held several roles at a major regional bank where she focused on facilitating debt and equity investments in affordable housing developments across the southeast. Tori graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor of science in finance.

Kathy Cornell is a vice president of tax at Advantage Capital. She services the firm’s leverage lending portfolio and manages income tax compliance for the firm’s entities and their associated federal and state tax filings. She has a broad base of experience working in both public accounting and private industry with companies operating in multiple business sectors. Most recently, Kathy worked at Anheuser-Busch in the tax operations group where she helped to improve tax compliance processes and procedures. Kathy holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from McKendree College.

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Andy Crain is a senior vice president and member of Advantage Capital Capital Markets team. In this role he works to expand the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) and renewable energy lines of business while also bolstering fund management and investor relations activities.

Andy joined Advantage Capital from Aegon Asset Management, where over the past 18 years he held various leadership roles within the tax credit division, most recently with direct responsibility for portfolio management and investor relations activities. At Aegon, he also played a leading role in the closing of more than $4.5 billion of tax credit equity in 43 funds.

Andy holds an MBA from the University of Iowa Tippe College of Business and a bachelor's in finance and real estate from the University of Northern Iowa.

Susan Crockett is an assistant controller at Advantage Capital. First servicing the debt portfolio, she moved into an accounting role in 2011, preparing many of the firm’s financial statements and assisting with quarterly transactions and reporting.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Susan worked in the banking and mortgage industries, processing and underwriting mortgage loans.

Susan is a certified public accountant and completed the CPA preparation program at the University of New Orleans. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Colorado State University.

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Anaelle Croteau is a vice president at Advantage Capital. As a member of the solar investment team, Ms. Croteau is responsible for performing due diligence efforts, screening potential investment opportunities and monitoring portfolio companies. Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Anaëlle held positions with the ArcelorMittal Treasury in Paris, France, Meridiam in Dakar, Senegal and the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg.

Ms. Croteau received her MSc in Financial Markets and Management from the EDHEC Business School in France.

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Clare Davies is an associate at Advantage Capital. As a member of the syndication team, she is responsible for assisting with due diligence and transaction work for the firm’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit investments.

Prior to joining the firm, Clare served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, where she led community economic development initiatives. Prior to Peace Corps, Clare worked in administrative and accounting roles at King Street Capital Management in New York City. 

Clare received her MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and her bachelor’s degree from New York University.

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I am a NMTC Compliance and Asset Management Associate on the Partner Services team based out of Kansas City, Mo. He works on origination, servicing, asset management, and compliance for Partner Services’ clients within federal and state new markets tax credit programs.

Prior to Advantage Capital, he was a portfolio financial analyst at U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance for almost 5 years where he monitored a portfolio of projects utilizing New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) and Historic Tax Credit programs.

He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Saint Louis University.

Nick Deering is an associate onthe investment team at Advantage Capital. He is responsible for sourcing investments, performing due diligence, structuring transactions, and managing portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Nick held various investment internships at High Street Capital, NextGen Growth Partners, and Advantage Capital.

Nick received his MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, his bachelor's degree in business administration and finance from University of Florida Warrington College of Business, has earned FINRA Series 63 and Series 7 designation, and has earned the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Clay Degenhardt is a vice president of tax compliance and planning at Advantage Capital.  He brings over 20 years of varied public and private industry tax experience to the firm.  

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Clay worked in the tax group at Nestle USA, with an emphasis on Federal and State income tax compliance for Nestle Purina PetCare Company in St. Louis.  Before Nestle, he was a tax manager at Solutia, Inc. and served in public accounting at Forvis, LLP (formerly BKD, LLP).  

Clay is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Missouri and received his bachelor’s degree in business management from Truman State University.  He is a member of the AICPA, Tax Executives Institute, and the Missouri Society of CPA’s.

Matthew Derouchie is an analyst on the investment team where he is responsible for sourcing investments and providing due diligence support.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Matthew was an software development intern for Lavalle Transportation, where he focused on process improvement and software implementation.

Matthew received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from St. Lawrence University.

Kristy Doucet-Touchet is vice president of talent at Advantage Capital. In this role, she oversees the firm’s talent acquisition, development and retention strategy, building out world-class teams, systems and processes to capitalize on the firm’s growth prospects.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital she spent more than 18 years in Executive Human Resource roles in law enforcement, oil and gas, financial and technology industries. Her primary focus as an HR Executive is to serve as an organizational leader, developing and cultivating ethical principles with a modern technological approach in order to make a considerable difference in an organization.

Kristy received her Bachelor’s degree and her MBA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and a Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University.

Maurice Doyle has extensive experience in the capital markets and investment banking industry. In his role as managing director, he has chief responsibility for the firm’s fundraising and investor relations activities and serves as the principal contact for many of the firm’s insurance industry investors.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Maurice was a senior vice president at UBS Securities, a vice president of Credit Suisse First Boston and a vice president with Winthrop Securities, where he was involved in financing large multiphase real estate development projects.

Maurice received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law and his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame.

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Dayna Drennan is an analyst at Advantage. As a member of the Syndication team, she is responsible for underwriting, asset management and performing due diligence.

Prior to joining the firm, Dayna spent the last four and a half years working in asset management and compliance at Sugar Creek Capital.

Dayna received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and holds a Housing Credit Certified Professional (HCCP) Certification.

Ryan Dressler is a principal at Advantage Capital where he is a member of the expansion and fundraising teams.

Prior to joining the firm, Ryan was director of new site development for a national nonprofit leadership organization based in Richmond, Virginia. He has a varied background in sales, strategic growth and early-stage business formation.

Ryan holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.

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Michael Dubansky is vice president of business development at Advantage Capital, where he primarily focuses on the origination of state and federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit investments located in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Indiana.

Michael brings over two decades of tax equity investment experience to Advantage Capital. Most recently, he served as business director of MCM Company, Inc., where he developed multifamily assets throughout the midwest that utilized federal and state historic tax credits. Prior to that, he spent nine years at National Trust Community Investment Corporation where he facilitated and sourced tax equity investments largely concentrated in federal and state Historic and New Markets Tax Credits.

Michael graduated from Towson University with a bachelor of science in business administration.

Louis Dubuque, a managing director, board member and chief credit officer, works on formulating investment policy, identifying and closing new investments and managing the firm's debt portfolio. He also serves on the board of the government-guaranteed lending division of Advantage Capital. During his tenure with the firm, he has been instrumental in helping raise more than $800 million in capital and has been involved with more than 50 investments totaling in excess of $300 million.

Louis joined Advantage Capital after nine years at U.S. Bank, where he served as senior vice president. At U.S. Bank, he created and managed a $400 million subordinated debt fund and directed the capital markets division’s middle market group. Louis also spent six years as a commercial loan officer for JP Morgan Chase (formerly First Chicago/NBD Bank).

Louis holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business administration from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is a certified public accountant. In recognition of his professional achievements and community involvement, he was named to the St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list in 2003. Mr. Dubuque also serves on board of the CRUDEM Foundation.

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David Eberts is a due diligence coordinator at Advantage Capital, where he focuses on diligence gathering and organization, as well as post-closing compliance reporting for New Market Tax Credit transactions on the firm's partner services team.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, David worked at Fist Bank & Trust as a mortgage compliance specialist, where he supported residential mortgage loan disclosure origination and closing operations.

David received his B.S. in Business Administration from Louisiana State University.

William Fiederlein is Vice President of Business Development at Advantage Capital where he primarily focuses on the origination of state and federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Investments located in South Carolina, Virginia, Nebraska and Arizona.

William brings nearly a decade of tax equity investment experience to Advantage. Most recently, he held several roles at National Trust Community Investment Corporation where he facilitated over $180MM of tax equity investments largely concentrated in federal and state Historic and New Markets Tax Credits.  Prior to this, he worked for a boutique tax credit syndication and consulting firm where he assisted project sponsors in securing equity through various federal and state tax credit programs.

William graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science in Finance.

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Keith Freeman is a principal at Advantage Capital where he identifies and screens potential new investment opportunities, performs due diligence, negotiates and closes transactions and manages existing investments. He is primarily focused on investments made by Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Keith served as a managing director for AGR Partners Inc, a California-based investment firm that focuses on providing capital to leading agribusinesses and food companies. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing the company’s deal originations, investment analysis procedures and transaction negotiations.

Keith received his MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and his bachelor’s degree in finance from Miami University.

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Katherine “Katie” Fury is a servicing manager at Advantage Capital. As a member of the government-guaranteed lending division, she is responsible for assisting with the execution of loan applications and the coordination of closing and post-closing procedures.

Prior to joining Advantage Capital, Katie was a loan processor with the Bank of New Orleans where she was involved with processing loans and ensuring contract deadlines were met.

Katie graduated from the University of New Orleans with a degree in business administration.

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