Dudley Benoit is a senior managing director of Affordable Housing | Equity at Walker & Dunlop and is based in Calabasas, California. In this role, Benoit leads the low-income housing tax credit investor relations group and is responsible for investment placement strategies that support the growth of the firm’s affordable equity platform. He has more than 25 years of experience in community development and real estate finance.

Prior to his current role, Benoit served at Alliant Capital, which was acquired by Walker & Dunlop in 2021, where he focused on affordable housing investor relations and capital placement strategies. Before that, he served as a senior vice president and director of community development finance at Santander Bank. Earlier in his career, he spent 16 years at JPMorgan Chase in senior leadership roles across commercial real estate multifamily lending, community development banking, and the New Markets Tax Credit platform.

Benoit earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. He serves on the boards of Reinvestment Fund, Primary Care Development Corporation, and the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition.