Who’s Who in Home Building in 2011

Phyllis Alzamora
Executive Director Urban Land Institute, Orange County / Inland Empire District Council
Alzamora is responsible for working with nearly 900 ULI members, implementing strategic initiatives that bring the Institute’s resources to the forum on land-use planning and real estate development. ULI is the most diverse, worldwide network of land use and real estate professionals.


Laura Archuleta
President Jamboree Housing Corporation
Archuleta is the president of Jamboree Housing Corporation. Since 1999, she has guided Jamboree Housing Corporation from a small, Irvine-based, nonprofit, affordable housing developer with 750 homes into a leading, statewide provider of more than 6,700 homes in more than 65 communities.


Katherine Austin,
AIA Architect
Austin has been a sole practitioner in Northern California since 1995. She is a board member of the national AIA Knowledge Community, is president of the Redwood Empire Chapter and specializes in the design of affordable housing and green building design.


Sharon Dworkin Bell
Senior Staff Vice President for Multifamily and 50+ Housing National Association of Home Builders
Bell connects developers of apartments, condos, workforce rentals and active-adult/retirement housing with NAHB’s impressive resources concerning land use, regulation, legislation and more. Bell has been named by prominent industry trade publications as one of the most influential members of the multifamily industry.


Douglas M. Bibby
President National Multi- Housing Council
The National Multi- Housing Council is a national association representing the interests of the larger and most prominent apartment firms in the U.S. The NMHC advocates on behalf of rental housing, conducts apartment-related research, produces best practices guidance and promotes the desirability of apartment living.


Eric Borsting
Chairman NAHB Green Building Subcommittee
As a Certified Green Professional, Borsting’s experience is in the development and interpretation of diverse, building code regulations. He has sat on the ICC International Residential Code Building and Energy Committee, chaired the California Building Industry Association’s Codes & Construction Committee and NAHB’s CC&S Committee.


Donald Bren
Chairman The Irvine Company
For more than 45 years, Bren has been involved in California real estate as a master planner, builder and a long-term investor. He has earned an international reputation as an expert in planning, design, architecture, construction, marketing and finance. In 2011, Bren was awarded the Vanguard Award from the Urban Land Institute.


Kenneth L. Campbell III
CEO Standard Pacific Homes
Campbell has served as chief executive officer of Standard Pacific Homes since December 2008. Previously, he was a partner at MatlinPatterson, which is Standard Pacific Homes’ largest shareholder.



Jim Capaldi
Licesnsed Real Estate Broker Capaldi & Associates
As a licensed real estate broker with over 20 years of experience, Capaldi is a sales and marketing strategist specializing in residential home building – with over $1.3 billion in sales. He is also a sales trainer and an author of, “The Ultimate New Home Sales Success Manual.”


Laura Capps
Director of Residential Green Building Services Southface Energy Institute
Capps has spent nearly a decade helping developers adopt high-performance building strategies. As she completes her master’s degree in building construction, she continues to play a key role in shaping the building industry through training, facilitation and green building program development.


Henry Cisneros
Executive Chairman CityView
Cisneros is the executive chairman of CityView. Prior to establishing CityView, he served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was the four-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He is the only former HUD secretary to remain working in housing.


Ryan L. Dearborn
CEO Wood Partners
Dearborn is responsible for strategic guidance and oversight of all company operations nationwide. He has been a principal in the financing and development of more than $2 billion in multifamily developments, totaling more than 15,000 multifamily units in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States.


Mary DeWalt
President Mary DeWalt Design Group
Mary Dewalt Design Group is an awardwinning, model home merchandising firm based in Austin, Texas. DeWalt is a frequent speaker at the International Builders Show as well as state and local conferences. She has served as chairperson of the National Sales and Marketing Council and president of the Institute of Residential Marketing.


Shaun Donovan
United States Secretary Housing and Urban Development
On January 26, 2009, Donovan was sworn in as the 15th United States Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. He has devoted his career to ensuring access to safe, decent and affordable housing nationwide and will carry on that effort in the Obama Administration.


Patrick S. Duffy
Founder and Managing Principal MetroIntelligence Real Estate and Economics Advisors
As a consultant, writer, blogger and speaker, Duffy has consulted for over 20 years on real estate development projects throughout North America worth in excess of $60 billion. He has worked with the country’s leading consulting firms, builders, land developers, investors, pension funds and lenders on a variety of marketrate and affordable projects.


Richard J. Dugas, Jr.
CEO, President and Chairman of the Board PulteGroup Inc.
Dugas, Jr., is chairman, president and chief executive officer of PulteGroup, Inc., the nation’s most product-diverse home builder with operations in 29 states. Following its merger with Centex Corporation in 2009, the company serves all major customer segments through its family of brands that includes Pulte Homes, Centex and Del Webb.


Rick Fedrizzi
President, CEO and Founding Chairman U.S. Green Building Council
Fedrizzi, founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council in 1993, was appointed president and CEO in April 2004. Under his leadership, USGBC has undertaken an agenda that has tripled its membership, broadened its influence and cemented its role as a leadership voice in the global sustainability movement.


Joe Ferrentino
Partner Newmeyer & Dillion LLP
Ferrentino represents developers in complex, construction defect cases throughout California. He has been named to the roster of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers” every year since 2004, and was recently voted and included in, “The Best Lawyers in America 2012.”


Robert Freed
President and CEO SummerHill Homes
Freed draws from a dynamic background in real estate, corporate finance and accounting to oversee SummerHill Homes’ critical areas of development. It includes land acquisition, architecture, purchasing, construction, sales, marketing and customer service.


Douglas Fulton
CEO Fulton Homes
Fulton leads as one of the top home builders and familyowned businesses in Arizona. He was the first home builder to highlight the downside of foreclosures in an informational advertising campaign, and still believes that buyers should think before entering into the foreclosure process.


John Ganahl
CFO Ganahl Lumber
Ganahl joined Ganahl Lumber in 1973 after doing assorted lumberyard jobs. By the late 1970s, he had become the CFO – the role in which he remains. He has overseen the company’s finances and helped develop the internal systems needed as the company grew from two to eight locations.


Peter Ganahl
President and CEO Ganahl Lumber
Ganahl has been the president and CEO of Ganahl Lumber since 1973. With a broom in his hand, he began in 1957 and will be celebrating over 40 years with the company. He started full-time after receiving his degree in forestry from Oregon State University.


Annie Gerard, CRE,
CAASH Principal Apt Market Research
Gerard provides market analysis and consulting services for all types of rental housing – both market rate and affordable – for builders, lenders and owners. Senior apartments have been a specialty of hers for 20 years. Her firm is based in Costa Mesa, Calif.


Manny Gonzalez,
AIA, LEED AP Principal KTGY Group
Gonzalez is recognized nationally for his leading design, land planning and production of innovative, sustainable, residential and mixed-use developments. He is the designer of the ABC Green Home and his design, Primera Terra, recently won the “2011 USGBC LEED for Homes Award.”


Charles G. Good-Man
President, CEO & Founder iPda - integrated Process design associates, Inc.
Good-Man is a leading expert in the innovation of the AEC industry, and is changing the way the world is built by the use of his new collaboration, integration tools and processes such as “bsBIM.” Good-Man’s most recent project involves the ABC Green Home project team.


Robert A. Grimm,
CLU, ChFC, CFP Wealth Management Advisor Northwestern Mutual
Grimm maintains a high-energy team of seven professionals, whose focus is providing financial security planning. Areas of expertise include business and personal planning, risk management, estate planning and investment management. He has been on the board of HomeAid Orange County since 2003.


John Gumas
President Gumas Advertising
Gumas Advertising is a full-service branding, advertising and interactive marketing agency that specializes in helping challenger brands take on their competitors. He is also the author of the popular book, “Marketing Smart,” a professor of advertising and marketing as well as a regular columnist for numerous publications.


Valerie Hardman
Vice President Outdoor Dimensions
Hardman has been with Outdoor Dimensions for 20 years. She serves on the board of directors of the Orange County BIA, the 55+ Housing Council and is a co-president for The Greater Sales and Marketing Council of Southern California. She has received the “B. J. Stewart Women’s Achievement Award.” among others.


Jackie Hare
President J.L. Hare Associates, Inc.
Prior to beginning J.L. Hare Associates, Hare worked at the Mission Viejo Company in their Development Department where she learned the sequence of construction, impacts of carrying costs and delayed construction starts. For 20 years, J.L. Hare Associates has been in the business of securing permits and entitlements for builders and developers.


Steven J. Hilton
Chairman and CEO Meritage Homes Corporation
Hilton co-founded Meritage Homes in 1985. The company grew to $3.4 billion in 2006, was the first 100 percent Energy Starqualified public home builder in 2010 and named “Energy Star Builder of the Year” in 2011. Hilton serves as a director of Leading Builders of America and chairs its energy-efficiency working group.


Gerald Howard
CEO National Association of Home Builders
With more than 25 years of lobbying and association experience in Washington, D.C., Howard is NAHB’s chief executive officer. Previously, he was the senior staff vice president of NAHB’s Government Affairs Division.


Donald Jacobs,
FAIA President JZMK Partners
For over two decades, Jacobs has served as the principal in charge of numerous award-winning projects. In 2008, he was inducted into the California Building Industry Hall of Fame, and in 2009, he was advanced to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects.


Robert R. Jones,
CGB, CGP Immediate Past Chairman of the Board National Association of Home Builders
Jones, a home builder in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is NAHB’s immediate past chairman of the board. He specializes in land development and the design and construction of single-family luxury homes.


Timothy Kane
President MBK Homes
Kane’s career spans more than 25 years in the residential home building industry. He served as the past president of the Sales and Marketing Council and served on the Board of Directors of the Building Industry Association of Southern California. Kane was named “2007 Builder of the Year” by Builder and Developer magazine.


Sandra Keedy
President and Creative Director Hayes Martin Associates Inc.
For almost 25 years, Keedy has been an established leader in the real estate advertising and public relations arena, accomplished in branding national home building firms and motivating recordbreaking sales. She has received numerous awards for excellence including: The Nationals, Best in Senior Housing, MIRM, MAME, SoCal Awards and Elan.


Patrick Keefe
President Principal Engineering Geologist Albus-Keefe & Associates, Inc.
Together with co-founder and principal engineer, David Albus, the duo have successfully built a full-service, geotechnical consulting firm that provides services to both private and public interests throughout California.


Steve Kellenberg
Principal AECOM
Kellenberg is a principal with AECOM. He has over 23 years of experience in large-scale, masterplanned communities and new town planning projects. He has worked with numerous national developers at the management level, assisting in master planning, detailed design and builder process through implementation.


Sako Khachikian
Co-Founder, Director of Architectural Media Ripple Creative Group
Khachikian is a managing partner and co-founder of Ripple and oversees the company’s worldwide development strategy and corporate alliances within the AEC industry. Khachikian has successfully managed the integration of traditional architectural practices with new digital technologies.


Joe King
Co-Founder, Director of Advanced Media Development Ripple Creative Group
King has developed some of the most sought-after multimedia presentations. His award-winning, design communication tools target a wide range of complex issues focusing on everything from entitlement, constructability, community outreach, marketing, advertising and more.


Nate Kredich
VP of Residential Market Development U.S. Green Building Council
With extensive experience in the technology and service sectors of the building industry, Kredich works closely with the home building, contracting and building professional industries to help incorporate sustainability into their practices.


Scott Larson
Executive Director HomeAid Orange County
Larson has been the executive director of HomeAid Orange County since 1998 and has more than 25 years of non-profit and buildling experience. In addition, Larson serves on the board of HomeAid America and Front Porch Communities and Services.


Matt Lynch
Vice-President and General Manager Sierra an Oldcastle Company
Lynch has been in the building materials industry for 14 years. In his last 9 years with Oldcastle, the US arm of the international building materials group CRH, he has been responsible for the oversight of companies in Texas, Arizona and currently commercial and residential hardscapes and retaining wall products at Sierra Building Products in California.


General William Lyon
CEO William Lyon Homes
For over 55 years, General William Lyon has been the head of William Lyon Homes, guiding the company to becoming one of the most reputable companies in the industry. A onetime U.S. Air Force reserve chief turned home builder, General Lyon has built over 100,000 homes in California, Nevada and Arizona.


Michael Maples
Co-Founder and Managing Member Trumark Homes
Maples has been a managing member of Trumark Companies since 1993. Strategically forming Trumark Homes in 2008, the company has amassed a pipeline of over 1,800 lots in California. Maples is known for clear vision, an ethical compass and a deep appreciation for his team members.


Alicia Marrs
New Home Partnerships and Outreach Coordinator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Marrs coordinates new homes partnerships and outreach for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense Program. WaterSense-labeled new homes are designed to reduce residential water use indoors and out. A WaterSense home can save a family of four up to 50,000 gallons of water as compared to a typical home.


Joyce Mason
Vice President, Marketing Pardee Homes
Mason plays a key role in Pardee Homes’ new-home community developments, green building leadership and civic outreach. She is a Certified Green Professional, president of HomeAid’s LA / Ventura board of directors and recipient of the “B.J. Stewart Award,” the “Earth Award” and named “Marketing Director of the Year.”


Michael V. McGee
President and CEO Pardee Homes
McGee serves on HomeAid America’s board of directors and is a member of California Home Building Foundation’s Hall of Fame, IRM and ULI. He is a graduate of University of Southern California, Southwestern University School of Law and Harvard’s Advanced Management Program.


Deborah Wahl Meyer
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer PulteGroup Inc.
Meyer oversees the company’s strategic marketing and branding initiatives and is responsible for leveraging the company’s position as the industry’s only multi-branded home building company. She joined PulteGroup in September 2009 following a long history in the automotive industry.


Jeff Mezger
President, CEO and Director KB Home
Under Mezger’s leadership, KB Home has established itself as one of the world’s most recognizable brands in home building, with quality and customer satisfaction ratings at historic highs.


Robert Mitchell
President Robert Mitchell & Associates
Robert Mitchell and Associates is a landscape architectural firm serving the building industry for 30 years. As lead principal and designer for the company, Mitchell is personally involved in the thousands of projects throughout California. He provides corporate and projectspecific direction an allocation of design team resources.


John Morton
Program Manager California Advanced Homes Program Southern California Edison
Morton is a member of several national committees, working with professionals from Oregon to New York promoting energyefficiency throughout the country. He also serves as president for the board of directors of the Home Builders Council and is on the board of trustees of the California Housing Foundation.


Don Neff,
LEED AP President and CEO LJP Construction Services (formerly La Jolla Pacific, Ltd.)
Neff founded the leading construction risk management company in 1993 and never looked back. With over 25 years of experience, Neff and his team of experts assist the nation’s top builders, insurance carriers and financial institutions with construction management, quality assurance, sustainable building programs and risk management.


Robert Nielsen
Chairman of the Board National Association of Home Builders
Nielsen, president of Shelter Properties, Inc., from Reno, Nev., is NAHB’s chairman of the board. He owns and operates a building and development company headquartered in Northern Nevada, and has built and developed properties in Washoe, Lyon, and Clark counties, as well as California communities.


Seamus O’Reilly
General Sales Manager — West LP Building Products
O’Reilly supervises a staff of 10 and promotes LP’s portfolio of product to the entire dealer, framer and builder channel. LP is recognized for its product innovation and is at the forefront in developing energy-related and fire-resistant products.


Michael Pattinson
Chairman Barratt Group
Pattinson previously served as president of Barratt American between 1991 and 2008; a successful home building company that delivered 18,000 homes throughout California beginning in 1980. Barratt Group is a Southern Californiabased, master developer and builder of single-family detached and multifamily homes.


Kenneth L. Phillips
Senior Vice President Director Home Builder/Developer Relations
Phillips represents the nation’s largest title insurance group. In 2011, Phillips and other key FNTG leaders launched the new FNTG National Home Builder Services Division. Phillips and his team’s commitment to the home building industry will continue to remain the core focus of their family of companies.


Judy Schriener
Journalist and Author “Building for Boomers”
Schriener coauthored the book “Building for Boomers,” published in 2010 by McGraw-Hill, a guide to building housing for aging baby boomers and succeeding generations. She has covered design and construction as a journalist for many years, most notably for Engineering News- Record.


Michael L. Schrock
Principal, ASLA, AIA Urban Arena
Schrock brings 19 years of experience to Urban Arena, Landscape Architects, with various types of mixed-used, public sector recreational, commercial, residential, senior housing and multifamily public sector experience. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).


Susan Sirota
President and CEO Market Think LLC
Market-THINK, LLC, is a multifamily consulting firm specializing in marketing, management and training. Immersed in the California apartment industry since 1979, Market-THINK’s founder, Sirota, leads a team that offers expertise in marketing, market research, property/ asset management, property repositioning and training.


Matt Slepin
Founder and Managing Partner Terra Search Partners
Slepin is the founder and managing partner of Terra Search Partners. Slepin previously held leadership, management and functional roles within the real estate industry for more than 20 years. He was founder and executive director of the Multifamily Housing Institute in Washington, D.C.


Bryan Starr
CEO BIA Orange County
Appointed by the BIA/OC Board of Directors in 2011, Starr serves as chief executive in charge of the largest BIA chapter in the Southern California region. Starr is the primary liaison to the BIA/OC Board of Directors and the lead spokesperson for the organization.


Kathy Steiert
Architectural Specification & Marketing Representative
Milgard Windows & Doors Steiert works with architects throughout Southern California, focusing on Universal Design, sustainable design, meeting energy-efficiency requirements and project design pressure needs. She is currently active in the Building Industry Association 55+ Council and teaches CEU courses at industry events.


Dave Stevens
President and CEO Mortgage Bankers Association
Stevens is president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. He previously served as assistant secretary for Housing at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Administration commissioner, appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in July of 2009.


Scott D. Stowell
President Standard Pacific Homes
Stowell has served as president of Standard Pacific Homes since March 2011 and will assume the role of chief executive officer in January 2012. He joined the company in 1986 and has held progressive roles throughout his tenure.


Josph S. Tavarez, Jr.
Senior Vice President, President of Homebuilder Services First American Title Insurance Co.
With more than 25 years’ experience working in the home building industry, Tavarez is responsible for developing and managing all First American home builder business nationwide, including administrating service levels, overseeing all sales and production of new business and products.


Edward Walters Jr.
President and Founder Walters Group
Walters, a member of the New Jersey Builders Association and Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey, Inc., upholds the promotion, protection and improvement of the building industry. He serves as a guide for the growth of his organization and remains involved in all aspects of the business.


Jim Warmington, Jr.
President and CEO The Warmington Group
Warmington, Jr., is president and chief executive officer of the Warmington group of companies, representing the fourth generation to lead the 85- year-old entity. He is responsible for operations management, land acquisition, new product development and strategic planning.


Bill Watt
Founder and President Baywood Development Group
Baywood Development Group is a private home builder specializing in distinctive market driven product in Southern California. Watt is the 2011 president of the Orange County Chapter of the Building Industry Association of Southern California. In 2010, he was honored with the Max Tipton Memorial Award for “Marketing Excellence.”


Lawrence H. Webb
CEO and Partner The New Home Company
In 2009, Webb and three other industry leaders launched The New Home Company. He served as CEO of John Laing Homes from 1995 to 2008. Larry’s 30 years of success are distinguished by a passionate approach toward customers, communities and employees and he has recently been awarded as Builder & Developer magazines, “2011 Developer of the Year.”


Dan Withee,
AIA, LEED AP, BD+C Founding Partner and Principal Withee Malcolm Architects LLP
Withee is one of the two founding partners of Withee Malcolm Architects, a Los Angelesbased planning and design firm. His expertise includes urban and suburban infill projects including high-density, multifamily, mixeduse, TOD, senior and affordable housing, for which the firm has won numerous awards.