Jessica Bailey

Jessica is Global Head of Infrastructure at Nuveen. In this role, she leads the firm’s global infrastructure platform which has more than $40 billion of assets under management across credit and equity.

Previously, Jessica served as President and CEO of Nuveen Green Capital, a leading provider of sustainable commercial real estate finance. As a pioneer in the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) industry, she co-founded Greenworks Lending in 2015 and led it through a successful acquisition by Nuveen in 2021. Under her leadership, the firm became one of the largest C-PACE capital providers in the country and transformed into a national lending platform operating in nearly 40 states, with over $4 billion in assets under management.

Prior to starting Greenworks Lending, Jessica worked at the Connecticut Green Bank, where she played a key role in designing and leading the award-winning C-PACE program for the state --the first successful C-PACE program in the country. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a New York-based foundation, where she worked to advance clean energy initiatives.

Jessica's leadership and entrepreneurship have been widely recognized. In 2025, she was named a GlobeSt. "Rainmaker in CRE Debt & Equity Finance" and honored as an "Innovator in Energy" at the Reuters Global Energy Transition Awards. Her other honors include recognition as a "Notable Leader in Sustainability" by Crain's New York, placement on Commercial Observer's Power 50 Finance List, and designation as a "Champion of Change" by the White House in 2014.

Jessica holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree from Yale University.