Board of Directors

Jessica Baker currently serves as Chief Operations Officer for Palisade Builders (PBI), a General Contracting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in building large scale multi-family and mixed use developments, as well as commercial, retail, and historic building renovations.

With nearly twenty years of experience, she has overseen the completion of 1,400 multifamily construction units through design development, budgeting, bidding, contracting, scheduling and day to day management of construction activities and teams. 

Prior to joining the Palisade Builders team, she managed construction of multifamily developments for Prometheus Real Estate Group, Mill Creek Residential Trust and Trammell Crow Residential.

Jessica’s passion for construction technology has recently led her to develop and implement innovative platforms which look to increase productivity, improve collaboration, enhance efficiency and drive construction forward enabling teams to tackle more complex projects.

Jessica served eight years in the U.S. Navy as an active duty commissioned officer and Naval Flight Officer.  She is a licensed California Contractor, holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the US Naval Academy, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Construction Management from the University of Southern California.

With more than 16 years in philanthropic work, Taylor is passionate about her numerous fundraising efforts using her influential voice to focus on Veterans, Animal Rescue and Children’s Charities. In 2017 Taylor launched Campitelli3 LLC Consulting with a focus on helping charities grow through effective fundraising, which she calls FUNraising, as well as making sure they have all the tools needed for successful networking, targeted outreach, integration & expansion across multiple markets.

Lt Col (Retired) Hunter Jones serves as a Security Consultant with Insight Global currently working at Penn Medicine within their Information Security Division. He previously served as the Government Security Leader at the Boeing Company, Ridley Park, PA and Patuxent River, MD. Prior to Boeing, he served as an Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton for several years. During his time with Booz Allen, he worked on-site for three distinct clients: U.S. Coast Guard Counterintelligence (CI) Service, Headquarters Department of Homeland Security Counterintelligence Mission Center, and U.S. Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT).

As an active duty Air Force officer, Hunter served as a career federal agent for the Office of Special Investigations (OSI). During his career with OSI, he had extensive exposure to a wide array of missions within the scope of OSI duties to include: narcotics investigations, felony crime investigations, executive protection operations, counterintelligence collections & investigations/operations, counterespionage operations, and counterterrorism operations. Lt Col (Retired) Jones served twice as a deployed Special Agent in Charge/Commander during both Operations Iraqi Freedom & Enduring Freedom and was the Global Security Director/Personal Security Advisor to the Air Force Chief of Staff, General John Jumper.  He was also assigned as the Special Agent in Charge at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, where he was the Commander of a 24-man unit, interfacing frequently with the Base Commander and the Assistant United States Attorney’s Office in furtherance of his unit’s investigative mission. In his last assignment as an active duty officer, Lt Col (Retired) Jones served as a staff officer at U.S. Central Command in the Security Cooperation Division leading the Plans, Programs, & Policy Directorate.

Hunter cross-commissioned into the U.S. Air Force in 1997 upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) with Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science. He played Varsity Football while at the Naval Academy, in addition to playing at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, RI before attending the Naval Academy. In 2007, he earned a Masters of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College at the Defense Intelligence Agency.  He later attended the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, where he earned his Masters of Arts in Military Operational Art and Science with emphasis in International Security Studies in 2010.

Hunter was born in Bryn Mawr, PA and is married to his spouse (Tara) of twenty years and has two boys: Hunter Jr. (16 yrs. old) and Heath (14 yrs. old). They currently reside in Berwyn, PA in same exact neighborhood where he grew up as a young boy. He is a current member of the OSI Association of Special Agents, ASIS International (Board Member), Women in Defense Organization, and is posturing to serve as a Blue and Gold Officer for the U.S. Naval Academy, helping to identify and facilitate the application process for prospective Naval Academy midshipmen. He stays active in coaching various sports teams consisting of football and lacrosse and does so to teach life lessons and mold future leaders within our youth community.

Veronica is a strategic advisor to many top retail leaders and their organizations.  

Veronica joined Sezzle after a successful run leading PayPal’s Large Enterprise business in North America and launching their top Global Accounts division.

Her experiences as a retail executive include running e-commerce, digital, operations and marketing departments.  Veronica has served on the CRMC Committee, Global Retail Marketing Association, E-tail, and Aberdeen’s Retail Advisory Boards.

Teresa M. Lundy is the Principal and Founder of TML Communications, an award-winning strategic public relations, crisis communications, and community engagement firm that produces results. The firm has served clients including DoorDash, the Office of the Sheriff of Philadelphia, Zipcar, Lyft, and Temple University. Ms. Lundy has been recognized as a 2021 Philly Power Woman by Metro Philadelphia. Also, she was named to the 40 Under 40 for 2021 by Al Día Newspaper and City and State Pennsylvania.

Ms. Lundy also serves as a Director At Large for Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communications, Executive Committee Member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the NAACP and on the Board of Governors for the Philly Ad Club.

Experience

Edgar brings a unique perspective to the team as a thought leader with 30+ years in the industry, in both private and public sectors. This vast background along with his passion and strong grasp of the markets and trends provides borrowers with a deeper understanding of leveraging public-private resources needed for today’s complex multifamily transactions.

Morales began his 30+ year career while working in the private sector, drawing on this experience when hired with the federal government to quickly bridge between public and private sectors, aligning the lending community and demystifying the processes of using federally insured programs for developers. His established relationships with the real estate community, developers and with federal and state agencies enable him to effectively serve communities in providing sustainable housing.

Areas of Expertise

Edgar has served as an expert panelist and trainer for many major lending institutions, Housing Industry organizations and has served as a guest presenter for Fannie Mae, the FDIC, The United Way, The Council for Affordable and Rural Housing (CARH), The California Coalition for Affordable Housing (CCAH), The Cities of Fresno, Salinas, Greenfield, Santa Clara, Soledad, and Gonzales. His Market knowledge and technical experience has been sought by many State Agencies and Housing Advocates on a Nationwide level.

Community Involvement

As a Community Partner and Lender, Edgar continues to offer his technical knowledge and market experience to Developers, Housing Advocates and Partners throughout the Industry. He has both the passion and a strong grasp of the markets and trends. His established relationships with the Real Estate community, Developers and with Federal & State agencies enables him to serve communities in providing Sustainable housing.

Mr. Rosenberger is a Senior IT Executive with over twenty-five years of leadership and consulting experience.  He is an expert at driving the development and execution of innovative business strategies across multiple markets and verticals and most recently, he has been involved in large Digital Transformations for global organizations, namely the Veterans Affairs as he is the Director of B3 Group’s ServiceNow Practice.

Andrew has served on the Rutgers University Cybersecurity Curriculum Advisory Board and Art-Reach, a local-non-profit committed to art and cultural accessibility to those who are under-represented.

Dana is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist who gets her drive, passion and dedication to her community from her parents. Dana’s Spain Development Group, is committed to revitalizing Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.  Dana is the visionary behind the Fairmount @ Brewerytown.  The transformation of the historic Acme Warehouse Distribution Center, into 237,000 square feet of mixed-use space. Dana joined Volumetric Building Companies (VBC) to help expand the reach of modular construction and to work on modular solutions to address the Affordable and Supportive housing crisis in America. Dana has followed her passion for animals and Veterans, founding Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in 2006 and HAVEN Women in 2017.

Throughout his career, Harold has built a solid reputation in both private and public sectors. Privately, he has focused on positioning organizations for sustained growth, successfully managing change. Publicly, Harold oversaw and implemented policies to help both small businesses and major corporations in Philadelphia thrive.

As a Senior Advisor for Economic Development at Bellevue, Harold continues this work with businesses of all sizes. Harold’s personal commitment to workforce development and business opportunity diversity and inclusion efforts continue to drive his civic and board activities.

Maria heads HACE’s development team managing over $100M of commercial and housing development projects that have contributed to the stabilization and revitalization of the Fairhill and St. Hugh Neighborhoods. Since 1996, she has been responsible for raising development capital from a broad base of private and public foundations and governmental bodies.  Mrs. Gonzalez’ most notable achievement is the creation of a supportive community for elders through the development of affordable rental housing and the construction of a Life Center that provides frail elders with social and health services so that they can remain living at home for as long as possible.

Alison is a regular on-air political commentator for BBC One Breakfast (London, Global), Fox Television Station’s Chasing News (New York) and 6ABC’s Inside Story (Philadelphia).

Young is a former senior White House official, serving in the George W. Bush Administration as Special Assistant to the President. An expert on media and political communications, Young was recently appointed to the faculty of Women’s Campaign School at Yale. She is managing partner of Red, White and Blue Strategies (RWB), founding RWB’s executive coaching and leadership training practice group as a certified emotional intelligence coach.

She was recently appointed as a commissioner to the Pennsylvania Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial in 2026.