Damien Wilson, President
Damien is an experienced commercial real estate and structured finance professional with more than 20 years of experience in community development financing, public-private partnership financing, and commercial real estate development advisory with a proven track record of executing complicated structured finance transactions.
Prior to starting WD Advisors, Damien was co-founder and Partner with Monge Capital Advisors (“MCA”). While with MCA, Damien was responsible for originating, underwriting, and providing advisory services for commercial real estate projects, including a niche focus on New Markets Tax Credit (“NMTC”) financing. While with MCA, Damien and the MCA team executed over $1 billion of complex tax credit transactions with public-private partnership financing.
Prior to MCA, Damien operated his own commercial real estate financial advisory firm, Dominion Realty Capital, Inc. ("Dominion"). Dominion specializes in arranging debt financing, mezzanine financing, preferred equity, joint venture equity and sponsor equity for real estate acquisitions, development and recapitalizations. While at Dominion, he arranged and advised on over $100 million of commercial real estate transactions.
Damien graduated from the Wharton School with a Master of Business Administration in Real Estate and Entrepreneurial Management. He also received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Morehouse College.