Brendan Moore, 31

After eight years of lending at an investment bank and life insurance company debt fund, Brendan Moore decided to tackle a new challenge that involved an innovative financing structure. 

Moore joined Nuveen Green Capital (NGC), one of the pioneers in Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) lending, in August 2024 as the financing tool was expanding both in deal size and scope. The move to NGC, which originated the first rated C-PACE transaction in 2017, came after a more than five-year run at Wells Fargo followed by nearly three years at PIMCO. 

“I was at a point where I felt like I had pretty good experience from the bank side and the lifeco side,” said Moore of his CRE lending pivot. “C-PACE seemed like another avenue that I didn’t really know much about, so that compelled me to have conversations, and I was just blown away by the scale and how much it was growing and how much of an effective product it can be.”

After majoring in real estate finance at the University of Connecticut, Moore began his lending career in the commercial real estate group at Wells Fargo in Boston. He then moved to PIMCO Real Estate for a nearly three-year run before deciding to tackle C-PACE loans at NGC as director of originations for the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

At NGC, Moore has sourced nearly $600 million in originations, including a $290 million loan for Two Roads Development’s Pendry Hotel and Residences project in Tampa, Fla., in September 2025, a then-record for a C-PACE financing. He also originated a $124 million C-PACE construction loan in late 2025 for Rilea Group’s Mohawk at Wynwood multifamily development in Miami. 

Moore arrived at NGC during a period of large-scale growth for the lender and the C-PACE industry, which he expects to continue as more borrowers embrace the debt strategy.  

“I joined Nuveen Green Capital during a period where C-PACE was really becoming institutionalized,” Moore said. “I got to see it where it was truly taking off.”