Cleveland-based KeyBank names senior business development banker

Jon Burckin (Photo courtesy of KeyBank.)

Cleveland-based KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment appointed Jon Burckin to senior business development banker on the equity distribution team.

He is based in the firm’s New York City office and reports to Stacie Nekus, team leader for the Equity Growth Initiative within CDLI. In this role, Burckin is responsible for raising capital and bringing in new investors for CDLI’s affordable housing equity syndication platform across the United States. 

Burckin brings more than 25 years of experience in capital markets, focusing primarily on real estate, structured finance, and impact investing to KeyBank. With extensive experience in capital deployment across all sides of the capital structure, he has specialized in federal and state tax credit programs. Most recently, Jon served as a managing director of Real Estate Capital Markets at Regions Bank, where he led the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity distribution team toward consistent and profitable growth while establishing long-term client relationships.

Burckin began his career in commercial real estate lending and global risk management at Scotia Capital He earned his MBA from Cornell University and a BA degree in Economics from UC San Diego.