Eric Olson

Eric joined the San Francisco office of CSG Advisors in 2002 and offers over 30 years of experience in affordable housing and public finance. He specializes in finance tools including single family and multifamily housing bonds, low-income housing tax credits, and various HUD resources. In his work, Eric has helped clients create new financing initiatives as well as optimize the efficiency and long-term financial sustainability of existing programs. He develops individual financings (including bond structuring and tax credit proformas), creates and maintains complex financial models of single family and multifamily bond indentures, and assists with ongoing program needs such as line of credit management, bond redemptions, and ongoing disclosure. Eric works closely with public finance investment bankers, bank lenders, tax credit investors, rating agencies, legal counsel, swap and liquidity providers, bond trustees, and HUD to help his public agency clients achieve the best possible financing results.

Prior to joining CSG Advisors, Eric served as Deputy Director and Chief Financial Officer of Mid-Peninsula Housing, a non-profit affordable housing developer, property manager, and social service provider. At Mid-Peninsula, he oversaw over 200 employees and more than 4,000 units of affordable rental housing in Northern California. He developed extensive asset management procedures for Mid-Peninsula Housing and its 30+ tax credit partnerships, and helped create an affiliated social services corporation with an annual budget over $1 million.

Eric also previously worked for seven years in public finance investment banking at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc. (now RBC Capital Markets). In his work he provided both financial advisory and investment banking services to public sector clients throughout the Western United States. He also has experience in the public sector, where he previously worked for the City of New York, New York.

Eric holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.