After ten years of leading Housing Trust Silicon Valley our CEO, Kevin Zwick, is taking a well-deserved three-month sabbatical.
It is easy to forget the scale of the changes the organization – and the greater Bay Area – has undergone in ten years. Kevin took the helm of Housing Trust in the fall of 2008 – while the U.S. financial system was collapsing. That year Housing Trust had a staff of three, the largest homeownership loan was $6,500 and the biggest loan to an affordable housing developer was $500,000. This year Housing Trust has a staff of 21, made a homeowner loan of $75,000 and recently made a $15 million loan – the largest loan in our history.
The Housing Trust board enthusiastically endorsed the sabbatical and Housing Trust’s interim CEO will be Chief Financial Officer Julie Mahowald. Her leadership skills have been a fixture of the greater Bay Area for more than thirty years and she will address any and all issues or respond to any inquiries intended for Kevin.
Kevin will begin his sabbatical after the 14th Annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day in downtown San Jose and he will be back by the first week of March. We all stand in appreciation of his inspiring leadership at Housing Trust and wish him nothing but happiness for this time off!