As Chief Business Officer and Head of CPC Capital, Nicole Ferreira oversees CPC’s suite of multifamily lending and investing platforms. This includes the company’s Construction Lending, Equity Investing, CPC Mortgage Company’s permanent mortgage lending, and ACCESS businesses. Her deep industry expertise guides the alignment and coordination across business lines and capital solutions, providing greater flexibility, clearer connectivity between products, and enhancing CPC’s ability to support the unique financing needs of our borrowers and partners.
Nicole joined CPC in 2023 as president of CPC Mortgage Company. As Chief Business Officer, she continues to lead CPC’s agency lending subsidiary that offers a full suite of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) multifamily finance products.
Prior to joining CPC, Nicole established an impressive track record of success in leadership positions across the housing and community development industry. She served as Executive Vice President of Development at Beacon Communities where she oversaw the development and preservation of affordable housing throughout New York and Connecticut. As Senior Vice President of Multifamily Finance and Development at New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), she oversaw all HFA multifamily lending and debt issuance, investing $2 Billion a year into communities across New York. Before joining HCR, she was Executive Vice President for Real Estate Development at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), where she closed one of the largest public housing revitalization transactions in the country, and launched NYCHA’s multi-year PACT revitalization program transforming tens of thousands of units and investing billions of dollars into public housing. Ultimately, she led the team responsible for creating the 10-year strategic plan to repair NYCHA’s aging building stock and stabilize the agency’s finances.
Nicole serves on the board of directors of the New York Housing Conference, New York State Association for Affordable Housing (NYSAFAH), Milford Street Association and is a member of the Association of Latino Professionals for America. For 10 years she was an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Real Estate in Brooklyn, NY, and taught graduate classes at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Nicole received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and government from NYU, as well as a Master of Science in real estate development from the NYU SPS Schack Institute.