Jeffrey Woda

Woda Cooper Companies

AHTCC Leadership Circle

Jeffrey J. Woda is the Founder of Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. (“WCCI”), which wholly owns Woda Construction, Inc., Woda Cooper Development, Inc., and Woda Management & Real Estate, LLC. Mr. Woda continues to serve as an officer of PCI Design Group, Inc., The Woda Group, Inc., and Woda Cooper Communities, LLC. Mr. Woda founded WCCI’s predecessor, Woda Development & Construction, Inc., in 1990. In 2018, WCCI became the first vertically integrated, employee-owned affordable housing development company in the United States.

Mr. Woda has been involved in the residential construction and housing industry for most of his career and was fortunate to grow up involved in his family’s construction business based in eastern Ohio. Mr. Woda graduated from Bethany College with a degree in Accounting, then worked for Ernst & Whinney (later Ernst & Young) in Charleston, WV, where he achieved his CPA designation. Mr. Woda received his Master of Science degree from Syracuse University in Professional Accounting.

Mr. Woda currently serves as a board member of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, Bethany College, Main Street Bank, Ohio Housing Council, Housing Services Alliance, Inc., the Building Industry Association of Central Ohio, the Multifamily Housing Chair for the Ohio Home Builders Association, the Appalachian Partnership, Inc., the Appalachian Growth Capital (a U.S. Treasury federally-designated Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)) and as a steering committee member of the Housing Credit Group of the National Association of Home Builders.

Mr. Woda is past President of the Council for Rural Housing and Development of Ohio, the Ohio Housing Council, and is a past board member of Benchmark Bancorp, VisionTrust International, Partners in Housing, Habitat for Humanity of Delaware and Union Counties, and the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition. Mr. Woda was previously appointed by the Ohio Governor as an Advisory Committee member to Ohio Housing Trust Fund, previously served as an Advisory Council member for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, and previously served as a member of the St. Clairsville Historic District Architectural Board of Review.

Mr. Woda and his wife, Lynette, have three daughters.