Katie Maslechko
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Katie Maslechko is the Chief Executive Officer of the Rental Protection Fund, the $500-million Fund established by the Province of British Columbia, which provides equity investments to non-profit housing providers to support the preservation of existing, unsubsidized affordable housing (NOAH) through acquisition and renewal, while expanding the capacity of the community housing sector across the Province of B.C.
Katie is an award-winning real estate professional with a decade of senior leadership experience. She brings an impressive track record in building strategic partnerships across the private development, non-profit and government sectors to deliver innovative, community-building projects. In her prior role as Director of Development for a local developer, Katie was at the helm of groundbreaking projects in a variety of sectors and asset classes including: several public-private affordable housing partnerships, a unique public-private-philanthropic partnership to deliver affordable housing and childcare in the City of Burnaby; Vancouver’s first purpose-built Life Sciences laboratory and manufacturing facilities, and the award-winning MEC Flagship, the largest retail application of mass-timber construction. She has also worked with a New York City non-profit developer delivering facilities for charter schools in underserved neighborhoods through unique development and financing strategies.
She chairs the Urban Land Institute’s Public-Private Partnership Product Council, comprised of leaders in city-building from across North America in public, private and quasi-public roles, who gather regularly to discuss innovative partnerships and best practices to spur equitable development and social impact in cities and communities. She also serves on the ULI Americas YLG/NEXT Advisory Board and ULI BC’s Management Committee as Chair of DEI+R. She previously served as the Americas Co-Chair of ULI Americas Young Leaders Group, on the Urban Development Institute’s Women of UDI Committee, and as Board Director for a non-profit housing society in Vancouver.