Deborah La Franchi

Chief Executive Officer
SDS Capital

Deborah La Franchi is the chief executive officer at SDS Capital. Leveraging this record of success, she pioneered a specialized private equity funding model to manage high-yield impact investments and accelerate permanent supportive housing developments across the United States. This expertise extends to institutional investment syndication, where she coordinates multi-million-dollar asset portfolios designed to alleviate localized urban poverty while achieving precise commercial goals. This leadership trajectory supports La Franchi’s diverse corporate fiduciary footprint, which includes serving as the active chair of the Sustainable Communities Fund and director for the National New Market Tax Credit Coalition. She sustains this momentum by mandating structured corporate meritocracy guidelines and intentionally recruiting qualified minority or female students to maintain a 50% minimum diverse baseline for her firm’s internship program. Her structured real estate development strategy has successfully driven the tactical deployable management of a $1-billion impact investment portfolio.