Patrick Kelley

Patrick Kelley is Vice President of Capital Solutions at the Housing Partnership Network. Patrick focuses on developing innovative capital solutions to scale HPN members’ growth as well as for HPN social enterprises and HP Ventures. Previously, Patrick led the creation of the Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter, Habitat for Humanity International’s private sector innovation and investment arm. While at the Terwilliger Center, Patrick led the creation of the MicroBuild Fund with investment partners Omidyar Network, MetLife, and the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) as well as the creation of the Shelter Venture Fund to make investments in early-stage companies driving innovation in residential real estate, affordable housing, and sustainable construction. Terwilliger Center initiatives catalyzed over $15 Billion of investment in housing access and affordability.  Prior to the Terwilliger Center Patrick was Executive Director of Urwego Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in Rwanda for housing and small business lending, and led greenfield community finance institutions in Burundi and Eastern Congo.

Patrick is a CPA with audit and banking experience and is a graduate of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Gies School of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He teaches a course on social enterprise and development finance at Emory University in Atlanta.