INA SPOKAS
Senior Development Consultant
Ina is a Senior Development Consultant at BETCO Housing Lab. Her second career started in 2008 working for a private affordable housing development firm after her first career in the semiconductor industry with IBM and Motorola. With team BETCO, she is responsible for client support with site analysis and selection, LIHTC application and post-award activities, as well as financial analysis and review.
Her start in the affordable housing sector began at Denison Development and Construction, where she first learned what a QAP was and how the program worked. She fine-tuned her knowledge there for 7 years and supported five new construction affordable developments in central Texas. The next step in her journey was as Vice President of Development for KCG Companies, where she was responsible for origination, financial feasibility and proforma modeling, application, zoning, permitting, debt and equity closings, compliance, and construction and lease-up oversight. She originated $200MM in TDC during her tenure at KCG. Ina also worked at Dimension Builders and D.R. Horton, both single-family home developers.
Ina has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and an MBA from the University of Texas Austin. She is originally from Illinois and has lived in Texas for over 25 years. She loves sports, travel and is a consummate DIY'er. She lives in north Austin with her two dogs, Ranger and Savannah.