Executive Leadership Team, leading more than 50 employees driving projects in eight different states

Marc Daigle

Principal/CEO

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Marc Daigle

Principal/CEO

Marc’s primary role as CEO is to reinforce to the growing, expanding Dakota Partners team the vision of Creating Housing That Matters, enabling them to live this message daily and articulate it to the outside world. He also relishes his role as trainer and mentor to the bright, enthusiastic young people in and joining the firm. An architect by discipline, he co-founded Dakota Partners to build a company that helps to address the affordable housing crisis in our society. With this as a guiding principle, and Marc as a leader, Dakota is creating communities that help individuals and families thrive, while also developing responsible, sustainable projects that conserve precious resources and reflect the nature of the surrounding neighborhoods. An avid outdoors person and novice pickleball player, Marc’s wife and two daughters are the loves of his life.



Roberto Arista

Principal/President

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Roberto Arista

Principal/President

Roberto sees great things ahead for the firm he co-founded and helps to lead as president. Dakota’s transformation from a relatively small developer of affordable housing to a mid-sized, multidiscipline company working throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic has resulted in an impressive in-house increase in overall expertise and ability to navigate complex world of regulations and rules that come with the territory. Roberto points to the Capital Lofts project in Hartford, which houses 112 families in a renovated, historic Pratt & Whitney factory, as a defining project in his career with Dakota. He lives by the advice to think long and hard before building anything because it will be there for a long time and will serve as his and his firm’s legacy. Roberto loves to travel and play soccer.