As Head of Innovation at CPC, Sadie McKeown is responsible for the company’s efforts to identify, evaluate, and invest in new building and operating technologies that can reduce costs and increase efficiency, at scale, across the multifamily and affordable housing sectors. This work includes the integration of CPC’s industry-leading sustainability platform and programs that support multifamily developers, owners, and tenants by delivering low-cost mortgage capital to finance high performance new construction and retrofits of existing housing.

Sadie most recently served as President of CPC where she oversaw the operations and strategic growth of the company’s full suite of lending and investing platforms, business infrastructure, and played a pivotal role in the founding of the company’s Agency mortgage lending subsidiary, CPC Mortgage Company. Sadie started her career at CPC as a Mortgage Originator in 1992, serving later as Senior Vice President, Director of Lending in CPC’s Hudson Valley Regional Office; Senior Vice President, Director of Originations; Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Vice President, Head of Construction Lending and Initiatives.

Sadie brings an eye toward collective solutions to her focus on addressing the capital challenges facing disinvested communities. Having harnessed dozens of municipal tools and public subsidy programs to drive affordable, sustainable multifamily development and economic revitalization, she has developed a passion and skill for aligning private resources and government priorities for impact and change.

A recognized leader in the multifamily real estate industry, Sadie has been a fierce proponent and architect of innovative financing solutions that drive both affordability and long-term resilience in multifamily housing. In 2009, CPC launched a Sustainability platform under Sadie’s direction, and she continues to oversee the company’s high-performance financing efforts focused on driving more efficient performance, resilient, healthier housing and creating economic opportunity in disadvantaged communities. Under her leadership CPC has invested more than 2.5 billion to finance more than 16,000 high-performance and energy efficient units since the company began tracking in 2015.

As a board member of the New York State Housing Finance Agency, Sadie uses her decades of multifamily housing finance experience to align resilience, efficiency and affordability in the multifamily space. She previously served on the New York State Climate Action Council’s Energy Efficiency and Housing Advisory Panel, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority board, the Bright Power, Inc board and the New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation board.

Sadie received her Bachelor’s Degree in communications from Fordham University, and earned her Master’s Degree in human services administration with a concentration in housing from Cornell University.