Yarojin Robinson
Senior Vice President, Affordable & Mixed-Income Housing
Yarojin “Roj” Robinson is a Senior Vice President, Development at Gilbane Development Company, responsible for leading the company’s Affordable & Mixed-Income Housing team; he also is a member of the company’s executive committee. Roj has extensive financial and leadership expertise, with his most recent role as Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he served as a senior leader in the Urban Investment Group, sitting on the Investment Committee as well as the business’ leadership and strategy team. Roj also brings experience with leading deal negotiations and underwriting to close financings for several mixed-use real estate transactions in urban areas throughout the US. He has successfully led the closing of over $2.5bn of equity and debt financings that range from traditional and opportunity zone equity investments to construction and bridge debt products to a wide variety of tax credit equity investments, including low-income housing tax credits.
Roj holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Yale School of Management, where he was a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and served as a Director of the Real Estate Club. Additionally, he has received a Juris Doctor (JD) of Law and a Master of Science (MS) in Real Estate Development from Columbia University after receiving his BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.