Kenji Tamaoki

Kenji Tamaoki is an executive director at PGIM Real Estate. Based in San Francisco, Kenji is responsible for direct loan originations and specialized product support in the Western United States. He specializes in the company’s affordable-housing loan programs, which include Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, and bridge loans.  Kenji also provides financing for conventional multifamily and healthcare properties. 

Kenji has extensive market intelligence and considerable experience in affordable- and senior-housing lending programs, with expertise in the financing of properties with low-income housing tax credit, regulatory agreements, Section 8, and tax-exempt bonds. Since joining the company in 1999, Kenji has closed $3 billion in loans, including Fannie Mae DUS, Freddie Mac Targeted Affordable Housing and FHA. 

Kenji previously served as a vice president at the Bank of America Community Development Bank, where he created and managed a construction-rolling-to-permanent private-placement tax-exempt bond program from 1996 to 1999. Before that, he developed affordable and market-rate multifamily apartment properties in Los Angeles and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Kenji was also an architect engaged in multifamily apartment, retail and single-family-home developments. 

Kenji has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration in real estate from the University of British Columbia.