Diego A. Benites is a managing director of Affordable Housing | Equity at Walker & Dunlop and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. In this role, Benites is responsible for originating, structuring, and negotiating low-income housing tax credit transactions, primarily throughout the Northeast region. Throughout his career, he has closed more than $2.5 billion in housing investments, including low-income housing tax credit syndications, multifamily developments, and corporate finance transactions.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Benites served as senior vice president of equity production at Boston Financial, where he focused on affordable housing equity originations and investment placement. Before that, he served as vice president of acquisitions at Boston Capital, where his responsibilities included originations, underwriting, negotiation, due diligence coordination, and investment approvals. Earlier in his career, he held development and corporate finance roles at Archstone-Smith, a publicly traded multifamily real estate investment trust.

Benites earned an architect diploma from the National University of Argentina, a master’s degree in architecture from Syracuse University, and a Master of Business Administration from Dartmouth College.