HILL TIDE PARTNERS, LLC
MT PLEASANT, SC

Hill Tide Partners was founded as a real estate investment company that provides growth capital and investment services to its partners. The firm leverages the partners’ combined experience of more than 35 years in the Real Estate and Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) industry to develop synergies across its partner operating companies. The founders believe that everyone deserves affordable housing, and strive to have a positive impact on communities through housing development. Hill Tide focuses on forming strategic partnerships with experienced affordable housing developers. Our relationship with every partner is unique, but typical roles include providing capital in the form of financial backing and administrative support, serving as a development partner and guarantor for deals sourced by the firm and its partners, and assisting partners with the placement of debt and equity for their transactions. Dan Winters is a Managing Partner at Hill Tide Partners, LLC. Dan acts as Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for overseeing partnerships in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Dan has over 14 years of LIHTC acquisitions experience. Previously, Dan was responsible for originations and acquisitions for two nationally recognized tax credit syndicators, one for eight years in the Midwest and one for six years in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Texas. Dan received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Bob Long is a Managing Partner at Hill Tide Partners, LLC. Bob acts as Hill Tide’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for overseeing strategic partnerships in the Southeast and Texas. Bob has more than 18 years of real estate acquisitions and management experience, including more than 14 years of LIHTC acquisitions and closing responsibilities. Prior to founding Hill Tide Partners, Bob worked for two nationally recognized tax credit syndicators, a leading global consulting firm, and a national multifamily REIT. Bob received both a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Florida. Randy Clack currently serves as the Analyst for Hill Tide Partners. His role includes preliminary financial analysis, maintaining the company pipeline and budget, and assisting the partners in day-to-day tasks to help accomplish the company’s long-term goals. Randy previously held two prior internships where he gained experience with FHLB, HOME, and LIHTC funds and the overall LIHTC development process. Randy recently graduated from Clemson University with a Masters of Real Estate Development, and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina. Hill Tide Partners is an entrepreneurial firm, with a strong focus on quality of life and relationships for long-term success. Our core values reflect the culture of our organization, and serve as a compass for our actions. At Hill Tide Partners, we strive to conduct business with the highest standards of professional behavior and ethics. We are transparent, honest and ethical in our professional interactions. We honor our commitments and stick to our word. We hold ourselves accountable for our actions in both successes and failures. At Hill Tide, we genuinely enjoy helping our partners, the residents who live in our partners’ developments, our vendors and our clients in any way we can. If we say we’re going to do something, we do it. We commit to listen, understand and deliver on our promises. Right relationships drive everything. We operate with a ‘do things right and treat others how you would want to be treated’ mentality. We value a hand shake and one’s word as the sign of an agreement. We are long-term thinkers, and life is too short to operate in in the grey. We approach decision making using our personal values as a guide and making sure to evaluate how each decision will impact others. We get that question about as often as people misstate our company’s name. We’ve heard it all – Hill Side, Roll Tide, Hill Top… and the list goes on. The principals of Hill Tide Partners are avid tarpon fishermen and much of the relationship and concept that led to the formation of the company was cultivated during fishing the hill tides. While the name has nothing to do with the mission of enabling the best people to create clean, safe, affordable housing, it has everything to do with the company culture. Fishing the passes is laid back, takes planning and if the bite is on can be surprisingly hard work. Hill Tide Partners is an entrepreneurial firm, with a strong focus on quality of life and relationships for long-term success. Our core values reflect the culture of our organization, and serve as a compass for our actions. We conduct our business in accordance with the highest standards of professional behavior and ethics. We are transparent, honest and ethical in all our interactions with employees, clients, consumers, vendors and the public. At Hill Tide, we genuinely enjoy helping our partners, the residents who live in our partners’ developments, vendors and clients in any way we can. We commit to listen, understand and deliver the outcomes desired by those we serve. Right relationships drive everything. We operate with a ‘do things right and treat others how you would want to be treated’ mentality. We value a hand shake and one’s word as the sign of an agreement. At Hill Tide, we are long-term thinkers. Life is too short and the LIHTC industry is too small to operate in in the grey. We approach decision making using our personal values as a guide and making sure to evaluate how each decision will impact others. We strive to build win-win relationships and avoid a zero sum game mentality whenever possible.