Advisory Board

Dennis Williams
Northmarq

Dennis Williams has been a mortgage banker with the San Francisco office of Northmarq since 1988. His company arranges permanent, construction, bridge, mezzanine and equity financing for income property. Currently a Managing Director at Northmarq, Dennis has arranged over $8 billion of income property financing with institutional capital sources and has been one of the company’s top originators. Property types financed include office, research & development, retail, multi-family, hospitality and industrial real estate.

Dennis received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 1988 and his AB with a double major in Political Science and Economics from

U.C. Berkeley in 1984. He currently lectures at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley, where he has taught a semester long MBA course entitled Real Estate Development since 2004.

Dennis served as Board Chair of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

(2019-2021) and President of both the Bay Area Mortgage Association (1998) and the SF Chapter of NAIOP (1995 & 2002). He has chaired the NAIOP sponsored Cal-Stanford Golden Shovel RE Competition since 2000. Dennis has been a guest speaker at multiple presentations to BAMA, NAIOP, the MBA, Belden Club, ULI, Fisher Center, Stanford University and Northmarq.