Sam Valverde is a Managing Director at Falcon Capital Advisors with twenty years of capital markets and housing finance experience.

Before joining Falcon, he served as vice president for industry engagement at Freddie Mac, where he led the Single-Family Division’s Affordable Lending Group. Previously, Valverde served in leadership roles within the federal government.

Most recently, Valverde led Ginnie Mae as acting president, serving as the enterprise’s first Latino executive. He advanced new securities disclosures and established a Social Impact and Sustainability Framework, which helped drive additional liquidity for government-backed mortgages made to rural and low-income borrowers.

Before joining Ginnie Mae, Mr. Valverde served as a supervisory attorney adviser at the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the Division of Conservatorship Oversight and Readiness. He led agency-wide projects to support greater access to mortgage credit and affordable rental opportunities for working families. Mr. Valverde also led FHFA’s development of a living wills rule for the GSEs.

Mr. Valverde began his career in public service at the US Department of the Treasury, focusing on housing and consumer finance issues. He worked on issues related to the ongoing conservatorships of the GSEs and implementation of the housing programs under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

In addition to his work at Falcon, he also serves as a Nonresident Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center, where he focuses on issues at the intersection of affordable mortgage policy and the housing capital markets.

Valverde began his career as a securities lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He received his AB from Dartmouth College and his JD from Yale Law School.