Sheryl Palmer
HAA Board Chair 2019-2020 & President and CEO
Taylor Morrison Home Corporation
Adrian Foley
President & COO, Brookfield Residential
Brookfield Residential
Adrian Foley is President and COO of Brookfield Residential. Prior to that he ran the company's Western operations as the Western Region President of Brookfield Homes Los Angeles. Adrian Foley is responsible for strategic planning oversight and management direction for the compnay, one of the most creative and dynamic homebuilding teams in North America.
Prior to joining Brookfield Homes Los Angeles in 1996 Foley held the position of Senior Development Manager for Taylor Woodrow Homes, where he played a major role in the development of numerous award-winning neighborhoods in Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles Counties. Born and raised in England, Adrian holds a BS degree in Building. He has been married to his wife, Lisa, since 1990 and they have one son, Austin.
Bert Selva
President & CEO
Shea Homes
Bert Selva is president and CEO of Shea Homes, one of the largest homebuilders in America operating in nine states. Shea Homes was awarded Builder of the Year Award by Professional Builder Magazine and named one of America’s Best Builders by Builder Magazine.
Bert holds a Business degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from UCLA. He is also fluent in Spanish.
Bert was inducted into the California Homebuilding Foundation Hall of Fame in 2010 and received CEO of the Year by Builder and Big Builder magazines. Bert also received the Hearthstone Humanitarian Lifetime Achievement Award, which included a $100,000 donation to the charity of his choice.
Bert is currently an Executive Committee member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, member of St. Ignatius College Prep Board of Regents in San Francisco and National Vice President, MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association)/Augie’s Quest. He previously served as Chairman of the Board for HomeAid America.
Beth Kang
Executive Director
HomeAid Sacramento
Brad Blank
President
WIinchester Homes, A Member of the TRI Pointe Group
Chad Crow
President and CEO
Builders First Source
Cheryl O’Connor
Executive Director
HomeAid Northern California
After serving on the Board of Directors of HomeAid Northern California for over 4 years, Cheryl stepped into the leadership role as Executive Director of HomeAid Northern California in 2011. Most recently, O’Connor served as Chief Executive Officer of the Building Industry Association (BIA) of the Bay Area and Regional Chairman of the BIA in 2008. Cheryl has thirty-five years of experience in marketing and selling new home communities in Northern California. In her career, she has held senior level management positions with Summerhill Homes, Warmington Homes, Taylor Woodrow, Ponderosa Homes and The O’Brien Group. Cheryl is a green building and affordable housing advocate and is a LEED Accredited Professional and holds a California Real Estate Broker’s license. She also serves on several Boards including Build it Green, HomeAid America and STAND! For Families Free of Violence.
Chuck Stein
President & CEO
Environmental Stoneworks
Dan Hanson
Chief Retail Production Officer
loanDepot
Dan Hanson’s mortgage career encompasses more than 30 years of experience on a national scale. As the National Builder and Retail Executive for Directors, Norwest, Wells Fargo and Countrywide Home Loans, he is widely recognized as a national retail leader. Currently, Dan is the Executive Vice President, National Production for imortgage that will fund over $7 billion in purchase loans in 2015. In addition to Dan’s professional resume he is an active Board Member of several national charities: HomeAid America, Free Wheelchair Mission and HOPE International.
Dave Kosco
AIA, Senior Principal, director of Design
Bassenian/Lagoni Architects
David Ellis
Director of Business Development
CORE Construction
David Ellis, CAE, has served as Executive Director for a number of successful Home Builders Associations over the years. Most recently as Executive Vice President at the Charleston HBA. He previously served as the Executive Vice President of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and has served over 25 years as an executive with other local building industry organizations. David has been recognized by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) as the best new Executive Officer in the nation and was honored in 2003 as NAHB’s Executive Officer of the Year. He is a past President of the Home Builders Association of Georgia Executive Officers Council and the NAHB Executive Officers Council. In 2014, he was recognized by the NAHB Professional Women in Building as the Executive Officer of the Year. David graduated cum laude from Furman University with a B.A. degree in History.
David Mariner
President and CEO
Boral Industries, Inc.
Elena Bennett
Senior Vice President
Wells Fargo Bank
H. Lawrence Webb
Chief Executive Officer
The New Home Company
Larry serves as Chief Executive Officer for The New Home Company. As founder and CEO, Larry leads the company’s overall vision, strategic planning and policy making. Larry’s 30 years of success in the homebuilding industry are distinguished by a conscientious approach to helping his clients and employees, and by giving back to the communities in which he builds. This includes his many charitable commitments such as serving on the boards of HomeAid America and Interval House.
Throughout his career, Larry has been honored and recognized by the industry for his philanthropy, marketing excellence and visionary leadership. He holds a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University. Larry has been invited to teach classes in the real estate field at the University of Southern California; University of California, Irvine; Harvard University and Cornell University. He regularly delivers keynote addresses at national conferences for organizations such as the Urban Land Institute and the National Association of Homebuilders.
James Hecht
Executive Vice President, Strategic Development
Stearns Lending
James brings more than 20 years of mortgage banking sales, operations and strategic partnership expertise to his current position with Stearns. As a member of the Executive Management Team, James is responsible for leading and growing strategic production channels such as Consumer Direct, Builder, Credit Union Partners, and our Marketing and Recruitment teams.
James received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree for Marketing from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, School of Business Administration.
Jay Moss
Chief Marketing Officer
Woodside Homes
Jeff Meyers
Chief Executive Officer
Hanley Wood | Meyers Research
Mr. Meyers has been an industry leader in market research for 30 years. With the recent merger of Meyers Research and Hanley Wood/Metrostudy, he now oversees the dominant research, media, and consulting company in the industry.
Jeff specializes in on-going advisory services and manages all consulting assignments for several top ten public home builders through his direct involvement with land acquisition strategies, product development, segmentation, and positioning. Highly regarded as an industry expert for real estate trends and issues, Mr. Meyers is quoted frequently in several national publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. His recent speaking engagements include the National Association of Home Builders Council, the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, the Southern California Building Industry Association, and the Urban Land Institute. Mr. Meyers is highly accomplished and regarded as the leading expert on residential trends in the real estate market.
Jeff Roos
Regional President, West Region
Lennar Homes of California, Inc.
Jeff is responsible for overseeing the homebuilding operations in the West Region. Jeff joined Lennar in January 1996. He started and managed Lennar's Orange County Division, which was the foundation for Lennar's expansion in California.
Jeff has been involved in the homebuilding and construction industry for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Lennar, Jeff headed Bramalea California, Inc. and was responsible for the homebuilding activities, financial restructuring and subsequent sale of the company's Southern California Division to Lennar in 1996.
Jeff helped found the Lennar Charitable Housing Foundation in 2001 which serves as a financial vehicle to assist homebuilders with the opportunity to help meet our country's significant homeless problem and allows homeowners to provide funds to support organizations that assist the transitionally homeless.
Joe Tavarez
Senior Vice President
First American Title Insurance Company
Joe Tavarez is Senior Vice President of First American Title Insurance Company’s Homebuilder Services Division where he develops and manages all First American homebuilder business nationwide, including administrating service levels, overseeing all sales, and production of new business and products.
Tavarez began his career in the financial services industry with positions at C.I.T. Corporation, Commercial Credit Business Loans, and GlenFed Mortgage. Beginning in 1990, he served as President of Spring Mountain Escrow and later, its sister company, Pioneer Savings and Loan. Tavarez worked at WMC Mortgage Company and Fidelity National Title Company in similar capacities prior to joining First American in 2000.
Tavarez received his B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and attended the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is active in the Building Industry Association, Rancheros Visitadores and El Viaje de Portola and serves on the boards of HomeAid America and the Lott Award.
John Monacci
Homebuilding Executive
Mr. Monacci is an housing industry veteran who spent the past 22 years with Winchester Homes, Inc as Executive Vice President for Winchester Homes, Inc, a Bethesda, MD based subsidiary of The TRI Pointe Group, Inc. He is currently an active board member of HomeAid Northern Virginia, HomeAid America's local chapter that builds and renovates homeless shelters and transitional housing for Northern Virginia care providers who serve homeless families and individuals. Monacci has served on this board for over a decade, serving as Board President in 2011. He received the organization’s President’s Award in 2014. He is also an active Board member of the Evan Foundation, an organization which funds research for Pediatric cancer.
He received a B.A. from Providence College, a Graduate Legal Certificate from Georgetown University, and an M.S. in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University.
Jon Dartt
Vice President of Sales
Delta Faucet Company
With more than 29 years of experience in the kitchen and bath industry, including 22 years at Delta Faucet Company, Jon brings extensive knowledge to his role as vice president of sales. Previously held positions within Delta include, vice president of trade sales, vice president of sales strategy as well as sales manager. Jon has served on several industry advisory committees to assist wholesalers, plumbers, builders and K&B dealers drive their strategies forward. Jon is a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He enjoys golfing, bicycling and spending time with his wife and three sons.
Jon Jaffe
President & Chief Operating Officer
Lennar Corporation
Jon is responsible for overseeing Lennar’s homebuilding and land operations nationally. He is also responsible for new business and strategic growth initiatives for the company. Jon has been with Lennar for over 35 years starting in 1983.
Jon has served as Vice President and Chief Operating Office since 2004. From 1997 to 2004, he was on the Board of Directors of Lennar. Jon was responsible for various aspects of Lennar’s Florida operations until 1995. At that time he relocated to California to lead Lennar’s entry into the western United States. He was responsible for successfully acquiring and integrating over 20 homebuilding and development companies, in the western United States.
Jon graduated from the University of Florida in 1981 with a degree in architecture and continued with graduate studies in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs
Executive Senior Principal, President & CFO
Lifescapes International, Inc.
Executive Senior Principal, President and CFO of Lifescapes International, Inc., Julie Brinkerhoff-Jacobs has been active in the construction industry since 1975. Her 40 years’ experience is focused on guiding, managing and seeing the growth of the results-oriented landscape architectural firm. She is a frequent guest speaker, lecturer and author on design and marketing-related issues for the industry. A graduate of Cal State University, Sonoma, Julie is actively involved in organizations such as Urban Land Institute, International Council of Shopping Centers and is cofounder of HomeAid Orange County and HomeAid America (the national board) and is active on the Executive Committee. She is also a board member of the Southern Nevada HomeAid chapter.
Karen Mendelsohn
Senior Vice President of Marketing
Mohawk Industries
Karen Robertson
EVP, Regional Manager
Fidelity National Title Group
Katherine (Katy) Gnapp
Head of Commercial Real Estate Banking, Managing Director
Bank of America / Merrill Lynch
Katy Gnapp leads the client management team responsible for delivering a broad set of financial solutions to professional commercial real estate investors serviced by the Commercial Real Estate Banking (CREB) division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Based in Chicago, Katy has been with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, related subsidiaries, and predecessor institutions since 1982 serving the commercial real estate industry.
She is past President of the Real Estate Lenders Association and a member of the Real Estate Networking Trust, the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Katy also serves on the Board of HomeAid America.
Katy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
Ken Balogh
President and CEO
Ashton Woods
Kristyn Burr
Executive Director & CEO
HomeAid Northern Virginia
Mandy Crater
Executive Director
HomeAid Atlanta
Mike Forsum
Landsea Holdings Corporation
Chief Operating Officer
Mike Robidoux
Vice President, National Accounts
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Mitchell Goodman
Senior Vice President, Finance & Treasurer
The Resmark Companies
Randy Florence
Builder Division Manager
US Bank Home Mortgage
Scott D. Stowell
Director
Lennar Corporation
Scott D. Stowell is the Retired Executive Chairman of the Board for CalAtlantic Group, Inc. one of the nation's leading publicly traded homebuilders. Stowell was instrumental in the creation of CalAtlantic Group Inc. which was formed through the merging of industry icons Standard Pacific Corp. and Ryland Group, Inc. and also for the recent merger with Lennar Homes.
For almost three decades, he has contributed to the achievements that distinguished Standard Pacific Homes as an industry leader. Stowell was named Director, Chief Executive Officer and President in January 2012. He was named President in March 2011. Prior to that he served as Chief Operating Officer from May 2007 to March 2011, President of the Southern California Region from September 2002 to May 2007 and President of our Orange County division from April 1996 to September 2002.
Stowell's distinguished academic career includes graduating Magna Cum Laude from Brigham Young University with a degree in Organizational Communications. He obtained his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Irvine.
Steven M. Friedman
Director
CohnReznick, LLP
Tom Farrell
SVP/Division Manager of Homebuilder Finance
Umpqua Bank
Tracy Berger
Senior Vice President of Real Estate Sales
First American Home Warranty
Peter Simons
Chief Executive Officer
HomeAid America
Peter Simons joined HomeAid America as CEO in March of 2013. Prior to joining HAA, Mr. Simons spent 20 years as a homebuilder, the bulk of it with Beazer Homes, one the nation’s ten largest homebuilders. Mr. Simons’ roles at Beazer included Colorado Division President (at which time he served on HomeAid Colorado’s Board of Directors for over ten years), Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Beazer’s Corporate office in Atlanta, and initially as Director of Operations for Lokelani Homes, the Hawaii Division of Beazer.
Mr. Simons graduated from the Yale School of Management in 1989 with an MBA. Before earning his MBA, Mr. Simons worked on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. for five years, serving as Sr. Legislative Aide to Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. Mr. Simons earned a BA from Yale University in 1982, majoring in Economics and Political Science.
Robin Arnett
Chapter Development Director
HomeAid America
Robin Arnett began her career in the building industry 20 years ago at the Building Industry Association (BIA) of Orange County, home to HomeAid’s first chapter. She left the BIA and became the Executive Officer of the Home Builders Association of Midwest Georgia, an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). She took that experience to NAHB as a Regional Field Representative before starting at HomeAid America 12 years ago.
Robin’s role at HomeAid is to work with the chapters to improve operations and to implement the HomeAid Shelter Development Program. Robin has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Legal Studies from Chapman University.
Amanda Genakos
Director of Marketing & Communications
HomeAid America
Laura McKenna
Development Director
HomeAid America
Lynn Tadlock
Finance Manager
HomeAid America
HomeAid Inland Empire and the Riverside County Chapter of the Building Industry Association presented a check of almost $26,000, which represented their donations of cash and materials to The Grove Village project that will provide 4 transitional housing units for individuals and families working their way out of homelessness.
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Westwood Insurance Agency joins HomeAid in the fight against homelessness as a Bronze Level National Partner. Westwood, a leading national personal lines insurance provider dedicated to assisting individuals and families in time of need, pledges $10,000 to support HomeAid's homeless housing development and community outreach programs.
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HomeAid Northern Virginia was named Non-profit Leader of the Year by Leadership Fairfax and honored at the Northern Virginia Affordable Housing Alliance’s Regional Housing Leaders Awards. The chapter completed 15 housing projects for 10 nonprofit organizations this year, thanks to the generosity of 10 builders and 100+ trade partners.
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