OAACC Board Chair — National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Investment Division
Chair
An Oakland native, Ray Carlisle attended Oakland City College and UC Berkeley, 
majoring in electrical engineering. He entered the family real estate business in 1966.
In 1972 Ray founded Carlisle Companies, which has grown into a consortium of entities providing real estate services to public and private sector clients through 15 local offices in 11 states. Carlisle Companies is also a developer/investor in residential and commercial urban infill development projects, primarily in California.
Ray is the chair and cofounder of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, Investment Division (NID), a HUD-approved public benefit organization with 74 urban community based local branch offices in 22 states. NID has provided housing counseling, financial literacy, and community development services to urban and minority families, community groups, and government agencies since 1985. Ray is only the second honorary president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, founded in 1947. and has served in several leadership positions for the organization.
He has provided testimony before several Congressional committees on redevelopment, housing, banking, small business and taxation issues. He has also served as a representative to the Appraisal Foundation Advisory Council and as an advisor to four HUD transition teams on urban and minority social and economic development issues. From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of the California Department of Real Estate Advisory Commission, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown.
Ray is the chair of the Bridge Housing Corporation Projects Committee, and a former chair and present executive committee member of the Oakland Workforce Investment Board. He has been an advisor to former Oakland mayors Ronald Dellums, Elihu Harris, and Lionel Wilson on urban and regional economic development policies, and he has been a contributor to several minority scholarship, education, job training and transitional housing programs.
Ray has been married to his wife Frankie since 1965. They have four children and six grandchildren.
