Our Team

Katie is the Chief Executive Officer of British Columbia's $500- million Rental Protection Fund and the architect of Canada's first scalable acquisition model for affordable housing preservation.

Her exceptional ability to articulate strategic imperatives and complex concepts for diverse stakeholders across public, private, and community housing sectors—from government staff and elected officials to institutional investors, real estate professionals, and housing advocates – has built unprecedented cross-sector alignment around shared objectives, while shaping policy, attracting significant private capital, and establishing her as a recognized thought leader.  

Katie excels at building and leading high-performing, cross-functional teams, committed to maintaining operational excellence under tight timelines and driving innovation. Her collaborative leadership style has enabled rapid program scaling while ensuring strong stewardship of public funds and maintaining the trust of government, private sector, and community housing partners amidst a complex and fast-moving real estate environment.  

With over a decade of senior leadership experience in real estate development and public-private partnerships, Katie previously served as Director of Development at Beedie and currently chairs the Urban Land Institute's Public-Private Partnership Product Council.

Cassandra leads the Fund’s communications strategy, government engagement, and strengthens sector partnerships—positioning the program as a nationally recognized model for preserving affordability and preventing displacement. Cassandra has shaped messaging and public-facing narratives that have built cross-sector alignment and strong public trust in the BC RPF’s mission.

Cassandra has built and led high-performing teams to deliver strategic initiatives under tight timelines— ensuring communications, engagement, and operations stay aligned and responsive in a fast-moving real-estate environment. With a background in real estate development and public policy, Cassandra previously served as Director of Policy & Research at the Urban Development Institute, where she worked across government and industry to develop practical, solutions-oriented responses to the housing crisis. Her work reflects years of experience translating complex policy into impact—bridging strategy, partnerships, and communication to advance housing security and systems change.

Eli is a Geographic Information Systems Analyst with the B.C. Rental Protection Fund, where he leverages spatial data to unlock insights that guide Fund strategies, policies, and communications. He has experience developing spatial data solutions that translate directly to informed decision-making, an approach which has helped the Fund measure success against well-defined benchmarks and develop a consistent approach to the evaluation of potential acquisitions.

He is a graduate of BCIT’s GIS diploma program, where he competed in ESRI Canada’s app challenge by developing a tool for investigating urban growth as it relates to transit and active transport accessibility in BC’s largest cities. He also brings a background in local government, where he supported elections administration through GIS and data management roles.

Cameron is a Planning Analyst with the Rental Protection Fund. With a passion for affordable housing and an academic background in mathematics, data science, and geographic information systems, Cameron provides experience in data-forward evaluations and underwriting for affordable housing transactions.

In his time at the BC RPF, Cameron has evaluated hundreds of potential acquisitions, participated in the successful acquisition of over 30 properties, created ETL tools allowing for cross-organizational synchronicity between platforms, and has developed web apps designed to streamline acquisition evaluation processes and visualize the Fund's extensive housing data.