Tammy K. Jones

Tammy Jones is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of Mack-Cali and formerly served as Lead Independent Director since June 2020. Ms. Jones is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Basis Investment Group, a multi-strategy commercial real estate investment manager that deploys capital on behalf of some of the largest public pension plans, sovereigns and family offices in the country. She has over 25 years of commercial real estate experience investing and lending across the capital stack and all property types with a focus on multifamily and office.

Prior to joining Basis, Ms. Jones invested in and loaned on CRE assets on behalf of large pension funds and institutional investors including CWCapital (the U.S. debt investment platform owned by Caisse de dépôt, one of the largest pension fund managers in Quebec ) from 2004 to 2009, serving as head of CW’s fixed and floating rate Capital Markets Lending Division and closing approximately $6B in transactions and GMACCM (one of the largest CRE lenders, owned by GM) between 1997 and 2004, where Ms. Jones was a Senior Vice President of GMACCM subsidiary (now Berkadia) (GMAC) and part of the leadership team responsible for creating GMAC’s Capital Markets lending division. Prior to her seven years with GMAC, she held various positions on the equity and asset management side of the business at Equitable Real Estate (largest pension fund advisor and investment management firm at the time).

Ms. Jones is currently an Independent Director of Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI). In addition, Ms. Jones formerly served as an Independent Director for Monogram Residential Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MORE), which was acquired by an affiliate of Greystar Growth, an income fund, yielding a premium of 22% over the share price. Ms. Jones Chairs the Real Estate Executive Council, a trade organization dedicated to creating a pipeline of diversity in commercial real estate and is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council.

Ms. Jones was selected as one of Crain’s New York Business’ Notable Black Leaders and Executives of 2021, received the 2020 Cornell Baker Industry Leader Award, received the Council of Urban Professionals (CUP) 2019 Finance Catalyst Award and was recognized as one of The Network Journal’s 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business in 2017. Ms. Jones received a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA with a concentration in Real Estate Finance from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.