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Jessica Bailey
About Jessica Bailey
Jessica Bailey is President and CEO of Nuveen Green Capital (NGC), a leading provider of sustainable commercial real estate finance.
As a pioneer of the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) industry, Jessica co-founded Greenworks Lending in 2015 and led it to a successful acquisition by Nuveen in 2021 where the firm was rebranded to Nuveen Green Capital. Under her leadership, the firm became one of the largest C-PACE capital providers in the country. Utilizing a state-enabled policy that Jessica helped to develop, C-PACE has become a mainstream financing tool for clean energy upgrades in commercial real estate and sustainable new construction. As President and CEO of NGC, Jessica has grown the company into a national lending platform operating in over 40 states, with over $3 billion in assets under management, and a team of nearly 100 professionals. Through its nationwide distribution and originations platform, NGC has experienced double-digit annual growth since founding. Prior to starting Greenworks Lending, Jessica was with the Connecticut Green Bank from 2012 to 2014, 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 foundation based in New York where she worked to advance clean energy initiatives.
Jessica’s leadership and entrepreneurship have been widely recognized. In 2025, Jessica was named a GlobeSt. “Rainmaker in CRE Debt & Equity Finance.” In 2024, Jessica was recognized as a “Notable Leader in Sustainability” by Crain’s New York, and was also included on Worth Magazine’s Worthy 100 List, and Commercial Observer’s Power 50 Finance List. She was honored as a GlobeSt. “Woman of Influence” in 2023, and she and NGC co-founder, Ali Cooley, were jointly recognized as “CRE’s Best Bosses” by GlobeSt. in 2023, as well as “50 Most Important Figures of Commercial Real Estate Finance” by Commercial Observer in 2022. Jessica was named an Ernst and Young (EY) Entrepreneurial Winning Woman in 2019, and Connecticut Magazine included her on their “40 under 40” list in 2019. She was also named 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.
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