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

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Benites was senior vice president of equity production at Boston Financial. Before that, he was vice president of acquisitions at Boston Capital. His past responsibilities included originations, investment placement, underwriting, negotiation, coordination of due diligence and obtaining investment approvals. Before working in affordable housing, Mr. Benites held development and corporate finance roles at Archstone-Smith, a publicly traded multifamily real estate investment trust.

Mr. Benites earned his architect diploma from the National University of Argentina, his master’s degree in architecture from Syracuse University and his master’s degree in business administration from Dartmouth College.