Partners
Leigh Austin - Principal
Leigh Austin is a co-founder and Principal of Arroyo Capital with primary responsibility for business development, origination and management of debt facilities, oversight of all legal documentation and coordination of all project acquisitions. She has over 30 years of experience in the for-sale residential sector as a business owner, investor, equity provider, banker, and broker. Previously, Ms. Austin owned and managed the land banking firm Saybrook Community Capital, and held senior positions at KB Home, Community Bank, a Canadian based private equity firm, and Citicorp Real Estate. In her various capacities, Ms. Austin has acquired, owned, managed, financed, restructured, repositioned, and sold residential land and for-sale housing projects in many of the major US homebuilding markets. Ms. Austin is a graduate of Florida State University (B.A. Criminology) and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA (MBA Finance).