John Gilmore IV is a senior managing director at Walker & Dunlop. In this role, he is responsible for the development and financing of affordable housing across the United States. Gilmore has more than 15 years of commercial real estate experience and has closed more than 100 multifamily transactions throughout his career, helping to create and renovate more than 22,000 units totaling more than $2 billion in debt originations. He is also highly experienced in complex deal structures, including structured credit facilities, tax-exempt and taxable bonds, and federal and state tax credits.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Gilmore served as a senior vice president in the community development and investment group at KeyBank Real Estate Capital. In 2015, KeyBank appointed him to the management team tasked with expanding the bank’s affordable housing lending activity to all 50 states. In that role, he was consistently the top debt originator and helped establish KeyBank as the No. 3 affordable housing lender in the country.

Gilmore earned a bachelor’s degree in finance with a minor in economics from Morehouse College, graduating cum laude. He is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Affordable Rental Housing Advisory Council, the Urban Land Institute’s Affordable and Workforce Housing Product Council, and the Real Estate Executive Council.