Anna Maria Kowalik is responsible for business development and deal originations for Inland Green Capital LLC, a capital provider for commercial C-PACE projects and part of The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. In this role, she has been instrumental in the closing of the first three C-PACE deals in the State of Illinois and numerous others since Illinois' C-PACE Program inception in 2019, as well as numerous closings nationwide throughout the last five years . She also shares duties under the Illinois C-PACE Program with The Illinois Energy Conservation Authority NFP (“IECA”), an Illinois tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Ms. Kowalik oversees the areas of marketing, education, and implementation of this innovative sustainability financing option through presentations, panel participation, Lunch ‘n' Learns, and networking opportunities in order to grow the Program in Counties across the State of Illinois. Ms. Kowalik possesses extensive experience in the commercial real estate and property and asset management industries, including with a publicly traded shopping center REIT, where she oversaw portfolios of over 30 retail properties consisting of 3.4 million square feet with more than 500 tenants and budgets of close to a quarter billion dollars. She has been, and continues to be, an active member of industry organizations and chambers of commerce, and acts as liaison with municipal, county and state governments.