Brian Jackson

Biography: Brian Allan Jackson, also known as AJ, is the President of LEO Impact Capital, a subsidiary of JBG SMITH (NYSE:JBGS). LEO is an investment management platform that utilizes an Impact Framework to generate financial returns for investors and improve residents' financial well-being through investment in workforce housing. AJ has extensive experience in creating nationally recognized workforce housing programs and policies and has provided guidance to local governments, public institutions, and national trade associations on mixed-income housing policy. Prior to his role at LEO, AJ spent nearly 15 years as a developer and led over one billion dollars of double and triple bottom line public-private partnerships. Earlier in his career, AJ served as Chief of Staff to the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). AJ is a ULI Trustee and serves on the Advisory Board of ULI’s Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate and chaired the ULI working group that created the 10 Principles for Embedding Racial Equity in Real Estate Development. He also serves on the Management Committee for the ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development and is a past Chair of the Public Private Partnerships Council and a member of the Affordable/Workforce Housing Product Council. AJ serves on the Board of Up For Growth, a national, cross-sector member network committed to solving the housing shortage and affordability crisis through data-driven research and evidence-based policy. He also serves on the Affordable Housing Advisory Council for Fannie Mae, the Advisory Board for Center Creek Capital Group – an impact focused single family rental housing platform, and the Workforce Housing Committee for the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC). AJ received ULI Washington’s Groundbreaker leadership award in 2023 and was recognized as a Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal in 2020. AJ earned a B.A. with honors from the University of Alabama and an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.