Pamela H. Patenaude

Ms. Patenaude is a real estate, housing policy and disaster recovery expert with three-decades of experience as an executive in government, the nonprofit sector and private industry. From 2017 until 2019, Ms. Patenaude served as the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Earlier in her career, Ms. Patenaude served as assistant secretary for community planning and development at HUD. She currently serves on the board of directors of loanDepot, Inc. (NYSE: LDI) a publicly-traded financial services company, where she serves on the Audit Committee. She also serves on the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity International and the Bipartisan Policy Center. Ms. Patenaude is a trustee and vice chairman of the Home Builders Institute, and a member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion. Ms. Patenaude is the principal of Granite Housing Strategies, LLC, where she serves as a strategic advisor for clients engaged in real estate development, affordable housing and disaster recovery management. Ms. Patenaude recently served as an independent director of CoreLogic, Inc., where she was a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. Ms. Patenaude previously served as the President of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America’s Families, a national nonprofit, education, and research organization dedicated to illuminating America’s affordable housing crisis. Ms. Patenaude earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Saint Anselm College and a Master of Science degree in community economic development from Southern New Hampshire University.