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Mike Kennerly is a Senior Vice President and senior Relationship Manager with PNC Bank. In this role, Mr. Kennerly is responsible for delivering the full array of PNC’s banking products, services and solutions to commercial real estate developers and investors principally located in North and South Carolina.
Mr. Kennerly started his career in commercial real estate finance with First Union National Bank, the predecessor bank to Wachovia Bank and Wells Fargo Bank. During his 17 year tenure at Wells Fargo and its predecessors, Mr. Kennerly was responsible for the origination, pricing and structuring of various principal products including commercial mortgage backed securities, credit tenant lease financing, bridge debt, mezzanine debt and joint venture equity capital. Prior to joining PNC Bank, Mr. Kennerly spent 5 years at SunTrust Bank as a Senior Vice President in the National Real Estate group.
Mr. Kennerly is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in addition to participating on a Regional Council for the ULI Carolinas Chapter. He is also a graduate of Leadership Charlotte Class 39.
Mr. Kennerly and his wife, both native Charlotteans, have two teenage boys. In his spare time, Mr. Kennerly enjoys fishing, water sports and exercise.
Contact: mkennerly@inlivian.com
Contact: mrobinson@inlivian.com
Commissioner Fatina J. Allen is an in-house counsel for Wells Fargo Bank, where she manages litigated consumer lending matters on behalf of the bank. Prior to her current role, Commissioner Allen was managing partner and part-owner of McAdoo and Lorick, Attorneys at Law. Her practice area of expertise was family law. Ironically, she did not always know that she wanted to be an attorney. She began her career as a social worker because she knew that she wanted to make a positive change in the world. She knew that as an attorney she could continue to be an advocate for others through legal representation. Commissioner Allen earned numerous awards and recognitions throughout her legal career, including but not limited to, The National Black Lawyers Top 40 under 40, Super Lawyers Rising Star, and Best Divorce Lawyers in Charlotte designation by Expertise.com.
Commissioner Allen is passionate about bettering her community and has extensive experience volunteering with various organizations and boards. Prior to her appointment with Inlivian, she served on the boards for North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers and the John S. Leary Bar Association. She is a charter member of the Omega Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Commissioner Allen enjoys being a board member for Inlivian and looks forward to assisting with the progression of the agency.
Commissioner Esezele Payne is the Enterprise Vice President of Operations for the Facilities Management Group. She is responsible for Environmental Services, Food Services, Sustainability, Financial Planning, Communications, Talent Development, and Program Management. She manages a $400M operating budget and her team provides support services for 3,000 teammates and 25M square feet. She has had a number of roles at Atrium where she has driven $10M of cost savings throughout organization, facilitated the division Talent Management and Teammate Engagement activities, advanced communication platforms, practiced change management philosophy’s, and assisted in the sourcing, negotiation, and implementation of major service contracts within the division.
As Atrium’s leader for Environmental Services (EVS), Esezele’s team does more than clean hospital rooms. With a strong commitment to Atrium Health’s mission to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all, she's fixated with leading her team to act as if the hospital patients are their patients too. "While we are not doctors or nurses, given how we can impact a patients experience in our facilities, we too are saving lives by keeping the environment clean providing an infection free environment.
Esezele has more than 15 years of professional experience in cost reduction, contracting, strategic communications, project management, process improvement and vendor management. Prior to joining Atrium Health, she worked at CB Richard Ellis, Inc. where she managed $50 million of vendor spend on the Global Corporate Services team. In that role, she drafted and negotiated hundreds of contracts which yielded cost savings, developed national sourcing strategies, established performance management tools, created sourcing strategies for key clients.
The INLIVIAN Board of Commissioners is a seven-member board appointed by the Charlotte City Council. This board consists of two members appointed directly by the Mayor and five appointed by other members of Council. At least one member must be a resident of assisted housing.
Commissioners serve staggered three-year terms and, as the governing body, set policies that govern the operations of INLIVIAN and chart the direction of current and future programs. This board ensures that we operate within the law and according to HUD regulations. New policies or acts of business requested by the CEO must first be approved or authorized through the Board of Commissioners before they are put into practice.
Download INLIVIAN’s 2021 Fiscal Year Budget.
Download the Preservation Fund Activity Proposal.
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