Katie Kennedy

Katie Kennedy
Senior Vice President
National Real Estate
Truist Bank

Katie joined Truist in March 2022 where she is responsible for growing Truist’s presence in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Her focus is on new loan originations across all asset types and with a national reach. Her team provides comprehensive financing solutions ranging from project and entity level debt to off balance sheet products such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac & HUD executions.

Prior to joining Truist she spent 13 years at Capital One where she was an SVP of Commercial Real Estate. While there, she was responsible for the New Jersey & Pennsylvania markets and managed a loan portfolio of $2.7B.

Community and industry involvement include serving on the Advisory Council for the Daniel M. DiLella Center for Real Estate at Villanova University, Board Member of nourish.NJ, Board Member of the Medical Needs Foundation, and President of RELA New Jersey.

Past honors include Commercial Observer’s “25 Under 35 – Top Debt & Equity Professionals” and NJ Biz Magazine’s “Forty Under 40”.

Katie graduated Villanova University in 2006 and resides in New Jersey with her husband and three children.