Two9Three has been serving clients in the Northeast since 2007. We expanded in 2012 to better serve the diverse needs of our clients while remaining highly engaged with each project.
We specialize in structuring real estate financing transactions, analyzing business strategies and developing
strategic initiatives.
Diane is the founder and CEO of Two9Three Consulting, a consultancy dedicated to supporting non-profit clients with their business and financial strategies. During her career, Diane has used her formal training as a tax lawyer to help non-profits navigate complex business and financial issues, including mergers, reorganizations, and structuring nearly $2 billion of funding for real estate projects. In her early career as a practicing attorney, she advised a range of clients including tax-exempt organizations to optimize their legal structures, small businesses on mergers and acquisitions, individual clients to create tax efficient estate plans, and for-profit entities on tax-advantaged financing transactions.
Following her time in law, each phase of Diane's career has been dedicated to strengthening non-profits.
In 2005 Diane transitioned her career to serving the non-profit sector full-time, with periods of full-time consulting and in-house positions. Since early 2020, while managing Two9Three, Diane has also been serving as Chief Real Estate Officer of KIPP NYC in 2020 and serving as Interim CFO during FY23. Under Diane's leadership, KIPP NYC is developing more than 400K sq ft of Class A charter school facilities ($500 million in financing) - with five facilities opening on-time and on-budget (allowing for 3K additional NYC charter seats). Diane held senior positions at Robin Hood (Manager) and then Uncommon Schools (Chief Financial Officer), where she led the finance, accounting, grant compliance, and real estate teams.
Diane earned her B.A. from Villanova University, J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, and L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University. Diane serves on the board of the Northeast Charter Schools Network.
As a trained architect with 20+ years of experience working in real estate, Ahkilah uses her expertise to deliver high quality, on-time and on-budget facilities for charter schools. In the beginning of her career, Ahkilah gained experience in a wide range of real estate functions – including site diligence/acquisition, land-use changes, new construction, renovation projects, lease negotiation, and more – in her roles at Clark Construction Group and Cherokee Investment Partners, a private equity firm.
In 2009, Ahkilah transitioned to the charter school sector when she joined Uncommon Schools as Senior Director of Real Estate & Facilities. In addition to supporting Two9Three Clients, Ahkilah also currently serves as the Senior Managing Director of Real Estate Development for KIPP NYC where she is responsible for the development of approximately 400k square feet of Class A school facilities in the Bronx totaling over $500M in development. In that role, Ahkilah led her team to the on-time on-budget completion of five school facilities launched during the COVID pandemic and led the creation of a unique bespoke insurance product to attract and retain MWBE sub-contractors as vendors. Ahkilah previously led the real estate division of Uncommon Schools where she managed a portfolio of 2.4 million square feet of school facilities, delivered on-time and on-budget more than 300K square feet of new construction and 480K square feet of major renovations. While at Uncommon, Ahkilah successfully implemented an in-house facility management system that resulted in approximately $750K of annual savings for one region in the Uncommon network of schools. She was previously Chief of Staff at Cherokee Partners (private equity), and held various roles at Clark Construction Group.
Ahkilah serves Two9Three clients as a real estate lead in a variety of capacities, including project management, space planning, building audits and capital investment strategies, budgeting, and vendor selection and management, among others.
She holds a B. Arch from Howard University, MSc, Real Estate Development from Columbia University and her Executive Nonprofit Leadership Certificate from Columbia Business School.
Over the past 12 years, Lindsay has used her background in finance to lead non-profit finance teams and support real estate financing transactions. In the beginning of her career, Lindsay worked as a research analyst in the financial services industry. Lindsay transitioned to the charter school space in 2011 when she joined Uncommon Schools' real estate team. Lindsay subsequently led Uncommon's finance team, leading financial analyses through the expansion to 52 schools. Lindsay led the Strategic Finance team at the College Board where she was responsible for financial strategy and analyses for the $1B+ organization. Lindsay then went on to become the Managing Director of Real Estate Finance for KIPP NYC where she has supported securing the financing for more than $500M of development projects, and oversaw the finance and accounting teams. Additionally, she taught Economics in Singapore through the Princeton in Asia program.
She holds a B.A. in Economics from Princeton. Lindsay has served on the board of Explore Charters Schools in Brooklyn since 2018.
David has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry - particularly focused on community development.
David served as the inaugural Director of Finance of the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority before he became the president of New Jersey Community Capital, a socially responsible financial intermediary facilitating the flow of money and knowledge to create wealth and well being in underserved communities. Under David’s leadership New Jersey Community Capital increased its capital under management for direct lending and investing from $18 million to over $160 million, improved the company’s self-sufficiency ratio from 27% to 140%, secured first and sixth round allocations of New Markets Tax Credits, expanded the organization’s asset management and on- and off-balance sheet financing capabilities, acquired a small business investment company, and developed a framework to broaden the composition of the organization’s sources of capital. After his time with New Jersey Community Capital, David served as the Chief Investment Officer of E+Co, a triple bottom line public purpose investment fund that invests in and provides development services to small and medium enterprises that supply clean, modern and affordable energy to households, businesses and communities in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
David also taught at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. David received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Delaware and a Master of Business Administration degree from Fordham University.
Morgan is a design and real estate professional with experience in educational and non-profit real estate development.
Morgan started her career as an Architectural Designer for Perez APC. before she entered the educational real estate development field. As an Architectural Designer Morgan managed the design and construction process for $2.2 the billion Hurricane Sandy recovery program in accordance with Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery, including the design of home elevations. After Morgan's experience as an Architectural Designer she received her Masters in City Planning from MIT before joining Uncommon Schools as a Senior Associate Director of Operations. In this role she managed design and implementation of systems to allow her team to build and manage K-12 public charter school buildings in New Jersey, New York, and Boston. Morgan then went on to become the Senior Director of Real Estate Development for KIPP NYC Public Charter Schools where she managed development (from land acquisition to building operations) of over 150,000 sq/ft of educational space for public charter schools.
Morgan received a B.A. in Architecture from Smith College in 2014 and a Master in City Planning from MIT in 2019
Christina serves as a business consultant for Two9Three Consulting focusing in project management, logistical and paralegal-type support for real estate and financial transactions. Christina assists in analysis and preparation of structured financing documents for qualified school construction bonds, qualified zone academy bonds, new markets tax credits, tax exempt bonds, and conventional debt transactions. Christina reviews and negotiates the transaction of documents, including, but not limited to loan agreements, formation, and organizational documents. Christina also holds the role as the Associate Director of Real Estate Finance for KIPP NYC where she has supported securing the financing for more than $500M of development projects.
Christina received her B.A. from Monmouth University, where she graduated cum laude, and received her J.D. from New York Law School.
