Meet the Team
Robin Salomon, Principal
Robin Salomon has been creating high quality multi-family rental housing for low-income populations since the mid-1990s. The majority of these projects utilized the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, but Robin also has extensive experience with Section 8, HOPE VI, HOME, CDBG, 202 re-structuring, FHA-insured products, and serving a principal in the syndication of State of Missouri and Kansas tax credits. In addition, Robin was the developer of the first-ever Section 236 IRP decoupling preservation transactions, which resulted in a new program at HUD.
Robin previously provided consulting services to governmental entities and nonprofits in all aspects of the affordable housing development process. Before transitioning to a developer and state credit syndicator, Robin represented a variety of public and private entities on a range of transactions as a consultant. He started his career as a corporate lending officer at Irving Trust Company in New York, and later served as executive assistant to Senator Al D’Amato, the former Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and a principal sponsor of the permanent extension of the LIHTC program.
Robin currently serves as a Commissioner of the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, Maryland. He was previously the Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and was named in the Washington Business Journal’s 2015 list of “People on the Move”. An active community volunteer, Robin has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, as well as establishing and funding an initiative to provide academic testing, advocacy, and tutoring to students from low-income families at an elementary school in Silver Spring, Maryland. Robin and his wife have three grown children and live in Darnestown, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College.
Eric McMahon, Principal
Eric McMahon has over 18 years of experience in real estate development, 14 of those in affordable housing. Over this time, he has developed and consulted on over 3,000 affordable housing units and $300M+ of development. Eric is actively involved in the sourcing, financial structuring, and overall management of affordable housing projects. He has worked on projects utilizing a myriad of incentives including Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, Historic Preservation Tax Credits, Tax Exempt Bonds, HUD financing, Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Brownfield Remediation Tax Credits. He was also involved in the first RAD conversion in the state of Missouri, working with the Housing Authority of the City of Columbia.
Eric serves as the Board Secretary of the Missouri Growth Association and President of the Board of Directors of Horizon Housing Foundation. He graduated summa cum laude from Saint Louis University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration and majored in Entrepreneurship. Eric lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife and two sons.
Tory Sprehe, Vice President
Tory Sprehe is involved in every stage of the development life cycle including predevelopment, acquisition, financial structuring through private sector partnerships and public sector funding awards, construction, stabilization, and ongoing asset management. Tory began her career in real estate at Red Stone Partners (now Ready Capital) an affordable housing finance company in New York; Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s (LISC) national office in Washington, DC; a real estate and economic development advisory firm in Maryland. Tory also spent 13 years in the institutional investment industry, working at Saba Capital, a credit and equity hedge fund in New York, and Spider Management Company, an institutional investment firm in Richmond, Virginia focused on alternative assets, including private real estate.
Tory serves on the Rental Housing Advisory Council of Virginia Housing and the Real Estate Development and Finance Committees of the Better Housing Coalition. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she majored in Urban Studies and minored in Architecture. She completed certificate programs at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the University of Richmond Robins School of Business. Tory lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and two children.
Tracy Perotti, Vice President
Tracy Perotti brings deep experience in real estate development, construction management, and architecture to the Vista team. She worked as an architect for 22 years and has spent the last nine years focused on project management and construction administration for affordable housing development. Tracy provides focused technical oversight of the construction process from early planning through project completion, overseeing design development, product selections, building progress, and funding disbursements.
Tracy previously worked for a boutique architectural firm for 13 years, specializing in historic renovations and affordable housing preservation. She also has experience facilitating and overseeing commercial, residential, and mixed-use renovation projects financed with LIHTC, Historic Tax Credits, and various HUD multi-family and community development incentive programs.
Tracy graduated from Montana State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Design and a Master of Architecture. Tracy lives in southern Illinois with her husband and two dogs.