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Hill Tide Partners is a real estate investment company that provides growth capital and investment services to its strategic operating partners. The founders leverage their combined experience of more than 35 years in the Real Estate and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) industry to develop synergies across their partner operating companies. The founders believe that everyone deserves affordable housing, and strive to have a positive impact on communities through housing development.

Hill Tide Partners focuses on forming strategic partnerships with experienced affordable housing developers. Our partners have partial ownership in the businesses they run and the projects they develop. Our relationship with every partner is unique, but the typical Hill Tide role includes: providing capital in the form of financial backing for guarantees, salaries, overhead and pursuit costs; administrative support (IT, HR, Accounting, Marketing, etc); assisting partners with the placement of debt and equity for their transactions; and serving as a development partner and guarantor for deals sourced by the firm and its partners. We seek out partners who share common values, and we maintain a strong focus on building and preserving long-term relationships.

Hill Tide currently has partners operating in SC, FL, GA, NC, VA, TX and OK and is looking to expand into other growth markets across the country.

Meet Our Team

Dan WintersManaging Partner

Dan Winters is a Managing Partner at Hill Tide Partners, LLC. Dan acts as Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for overseeing partnerships in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Dan has over 14 years of LIHTC acquisitions experience. Previously, Dan was responsible for originations and acquisitions for two nationally recognized tax credit syndicators, one for eight years in the Midwest and one for six years in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Texas. Dan received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Sharonda BurtonController

As Controller at Hill Tide Partners, Sharonda is responsible for all accounting functions and financial reporting requirements of the company as well as its partners. Sharonda received a Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting) from Jackson State University and a Master of Business Administration from Liberty University. She is a licensed certified public accountant in Virginia and Georgia. Before joining Hill Tide Partners, Sharonda worked for three top 20 public accounting firms as an auditor.

Jess DevinAnalyst

Jess is an Analyst at Hill Tide Partners. She is responsible for the financial analysis of projects and assisting with all aspects of transactions. Jess received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Cornell University and a Master of Science degree in Data Science and Analytics from College of Charleston. She has earned a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Prior to joining Hill Tide Partners, she worked as a mortgage-backed securities trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, NY and as an equity research analyst at Boston Partners Global Investors in Boston, MA.

Bob LongManaging Partner

Bob Long is a Managing Partner at Hill Tide Partners, LLC. Bob acts as Hill Tide’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for overseeing strategic partnerships in the Southeast and Texas. Bob has more than 18 years of real estate acquisitions and management experience, including more than 14 years of LIHTC acquisitions and closing responsibilities. Prior to founding Hill Tide Partners, Bob worked for two nationally recognized tax credit syndicators, a leading global consulting firm, and a national multifamily REIT. Bob received both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Florida.

Jason AndrejchakAnalyst

As an Analyst at Hill Tide Partners, Jason is responsible for the preliminary financial analysis of projects, maintaining the company pipeline and budget, and assisting the partners in day-to-day tasks that help accomplish the company’s long-term goals. Jason graduated from Emory University with a degree in finance and was part of the Emory University Men’s Soccer Team. Before joining Hill Tide Partners, Jason worked as a banking analyst for Brown Brothers Harriman in their New York and Charlotte offices.

Our Core Values

Hill Tide Partners is an entrepreneurial firm, with a strong focus on quality of life and relationships for long-term success. Our core values reflect the culture of our organization, and serve as a compass for our actions.

Integrity

At Hill Tide Partners, we strive to conduct business with the highest standards of professional behavior and ethics. We are transparent, honest and ethical in our professional interactions. We honor our commitments and stick to our word. We hold ourselves accountable for our actions in both successes and failures.

Positivity

We endeavor to work in a fun, supportive team environment where we build long-term, lasting relationships with our coworkers, clients and partners. As obstacles arise throughout the development process, we strive to keep a positive mindset that nothing is impossible. Maintaining this optimistic attitude allows us to take challenges head-on and with a smile.

Service Minded

At Hill Tide, we genuinely enjoy helping our partners, the residents who live in our partners’ developments, our vendors and our clients in any way we can. If we say we’re going to do something, we do it. We commit to listen, understand and deliver on our promises.

Relationship Driven

Right relationships drive everything. We operate with a ‘do things right and treat others how you would want to be treated’ mentality. We value a hand shake and one’s word as the sign of an agreement. We are long-term thinkers, and life is too short to operate in in the grey. We approach decision making using our personal values as a guide and making sure to evaluate how each decision will impact others.

What is a hill tide anyway? We get that question about as often as people misstate our company’s name. We’ve heard it all – Hill Side, Roll Tide, Hill Top… and the list goes on.

By definition, a hill tide is a significant high tide that sharply falls and flushes marine life out of the bigger Southwest Florida estuaries (namely Charlotte Harbor and Tampa Bay). In the summer months, tarpon gather at the passes or funnel points between the inland waters and the Gulf of Mexico awaiting their next meal.

The principals of Hill Tide Partners are avid tarpon fishermen and much of the relationship and concept that led to the formation of the company was cultivated during fishing the hill tides.

While the name has nothing to do with the mission of enabling the best people to create clean, safe, affordable housing, it has everything to do with the company culture. Fishing the passes is laid back, takes planning and if the bite is on can be surprisingly hard work.

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