Jessica Bailey is the President and CEO of Nuveen Green Capital (NGC). Under her leadership, it’s become a force that loudly promotes the use of sustainable building materials in the commercial real estate industry. However, Jessica began working towards sustainability well before that when she helped bring C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing out of its infancy. That started when she worked for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and expanded to her founding Greenworks Lending, which quickly became a primary C-PACE lender. On the way, it raised more than a billion dollars until it was acquired by Nuveen in 2021. She’s put more than $2.5 billion of private capital into various C-PACE-funded projects and is constantly working to enlarge that figure.
