Earl De Maris, Senior Consultant for Perkins - De Maris, Inc. has decades of experience in real estate development and investment banking.
Earl served as Senior Advisor and member of the board of directors for Housing Opportunities and Concepts (HO&C), the consulting arm of the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, Maryland (HOC). He also held positions with HOC including Chief Financial Officer, Director of Mortgage Finance and Director of Real Estate. He retired from the Commission in 2009 after serving as Managing Director of HO&C since its inception. Prior to joining the Commission, he was the Director of the Maryland Housing Fund (MHF) at the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development and also was responsible for the management of the State’s $2.5 billion mortgage portfolio.
Earl founded Perkins – De Maris in 1983 as a regional investment banking firm and NASD broker-dealer and managed the firm until its sale in 1992. He has also served as a member of the Senior Executive Service for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded electronics manufacturing company, as Director of Corporate Development for an international chemical company, and as a senior securities analyst for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. on Wall Street.