As a real estate development leader, Ekta Naik brings over 20 years of experience in investing and developing multifamily residential and mixed-use projects across the nation. At SoLa Impact, she heads the development department forging a new path for high quality affordable housing and workforce housing in California’s historically overlooked Black and brown communities. She is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee responsible for providing oversight for the real estate investments of the firm.

Prior to SoLa Impact, Naik spent the majority of her career in Southern California with Alliance Residential, leading ground-up new construction and value-add investments with Prudential and AIG as capital partners. Naik has executed over $2.5 billion RE transactions with over 7,000 units in Southern California. Prior to that, she worked in the New York and Chicago regions on multi-phase, mixed-use, mixed income public-private partnerships.

Naik was honored as a leading woman in Commercial Real Estate by Bisnow, Globe Street, Los Angeles Business Journal. She is a US Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional, Housing Committee member of HomeAid Orange County, serves on Cornell Alumni Admissions Committee, was appointed to the City of Santa Ana General Plan Advisory Group, and is a member of Bisnow DEI board. She is a graduate of Cornell University and holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Real Estate, Investing, Diversity & Inclusion, DEI Construction, Urban Design, Social Policy,