Marianne Camille Spraggins

• Lead team that combines over 30 years in property acquisition, leasing, sales, development, disposition and financing of privately and publicly-owned properties for clients across the office, retail and multifamily sectors as well as consulting for minority owned businesses on growth and acquisition strategies. Responsible for new business development, marketing, strategic relationships and staffing

Sabbatical to write a book on my career as an African American woman in finance

• Provided real estate services including the acquisition, disposition and leasing of investment, commercial and development properties in New York City
• Facilitated financing for acquisitions and development
• Provided advice on strategic alliances for large commercial projects

• Spearheaded successful business development initiatives for start up company founded by former Goldman Sachs investment bankers
• Introduced Company's new, patented municipal bond insurance methodology to city, county and state bond issuers across the country
• Identified and met with potential strategic partners and raised capital from institutional investors and HNW individuals
• Assisted Company in its preparation of applications for ratings with major credit rating agencies

• Provided counsel to the Congressional Oversight Panel, established to provide public accountability for U.S. Treasury's use of its authority over the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) following the 2008 financial crisis
• Collaborated on market research and analysis of the condition of the financial services and automobile industries, met with experts and attended Congressional hearings culminating in monthly reporting on the status of federal initiatives to restore liquidity and stability to the financial markets
• Contributed to Congressionally mandated final report that included key findings, recommendations and lessons learned in order to guide policymakers should they find it necessary to respond to future financial crises. See https://www.congress.gov/committee-print/112th-congress/joint-committee-print/64832?s=1&r=1

• Led a consulting company devoted exclusively to introducing AIC, Ltd., one of Canada's largest privately held mutual fund companies, into the U.S. institutional money management market
• In collaboration with C suite executives, developed and implemented new strategies to attract cross border institutional investors to a company whose target market had been retail investors
• New product marketing and fundraising for the Company's and the Caribbean's first private equity fund, established by AIC's founder, Jamaican-Canadian billionaire, Michael Lee-Chin
• Raised capital from institutional investors including corporate pension funds and governmental agencies for investments in later stage companies in the media, ICT, tourism, healthcare, telecom and energy sectors in Jamaica, Barbados an the Dominican Republic

• Started registered investment advisory firm, a new asset management division for Atlanta Life, a 114 year old insurance company founded by a former slave
• Managed relationship with parent company, built investment and operations team, oversaw marketing and new business development
• Acquired and maintained relationships with institutional investors across the country and sought strategic investors to support financial strength and expansion

• Sales, marketing and new business development for an alternative investment management firm providing mezzanine and private equity funding for acquisitions, expansions, buyouts, ownership transitions, liquidity events, and recapitalizations
• Marketed and raised funds from institutional investors for the firm's mezzanine fund and for its innovative fund targeting New Markets
• Provided input to and traveled across the U.S. with President Bill Clinton in support of his New Markets initiative that led to the New Markets Tax Credit program for investment in low-income communities

• Led minority-owned investment banking firm following sudden death of its founder
• Crisis managed this national bond underwriting, fixed income investment advisory and equity sales and trading operations that rose to be ranked 5th as underwriter of general obligations and managed over $1 billion in assets
• Oversaw staff, successfully retained relationships with institutional clients, including Colgate Palmolive and Mars, and with other Wall Street firms and syndicates
• Sought strategic investor and partner relationships

• Led the New York Public Finance Group, a team of 10 bankers covering the Northeast
• Oversaw new business strategy and helped improve the firm's ranking as a municipal bond underwriter
• Directly responsible for selection of the Company as the lead underwriter for the then largest water financing ever done, a $2.5 billion financing for the NYC Municipal Water Authority
• While at Smith Barney, became first African American female Managing Director on Wall Street

• Helped to build company's presence in the municipal bond market
• Developed and maintained relationships with local, city, county and state bond issuers meeting with elected officials, agency heads and finance directors and presenting at industry conferences
• Instrumental in the selection of the firm as manager or co-manager for multi-million dollar tax exempt bond issues

• Began Wall Street career at the then leading fixed income securities underwriting and trading company on Wall Street
• Under legendary maverick, Lew Ranieri, was part of the Mortgage Finance team that engineered the creation of the conventional mortgage securities market
• Responsible for attracting both issuers and institutional investors to this new market
• Conceived the first conventional in-state mortgage pass-through securities program in which state pension funds, including New York State Common Fund and the State of Connecticut Pension Fund purchased securities that financed mortgages for local homeowners