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Jonathan F. P. Rose (Chair), Katonah, NY, Jonathan F.P. Rose's business, not-for-profit and public policy work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, much of it in close collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities.

The company's mission is to repair the fabric of communities. The firm draws on its human capital, financial depth and real estate expertise to create highly integrated solutions to real estate challenges.

A thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building, and affordable housing movements, Mr. Rose is a frequent speaker and writer. His work has received widespread media attention from CNN to The New York Times and was recently profiled in e², a PBS series on sustainable development.

The firm's innovative development, planning, investment, new construction, conversion and historic preservation work has won awards from a wide range of notable organizations including: the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Green USA, Urban Land Institute, American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects.

Mr. Rose is a Trustee of several organizations including: the Urban Land Institute and co-chair of its Climate and Energy Committee; the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Enterprise Community Partners and is deeply engaged in its Green Communities program. He chairs the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission. He also serves on the leadership councils of both Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land's National Real Estate Council.

Mr. Rose also serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the American Museum of Natural History. He is also co-founder of the Garrison Institute with his wife, Diana Rose. Mr. Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.

Thomas G. Bacon, Houston, TX, is a founding partner of The Lionstone Group. He serves as an Investment Committee member and as the lead partner responsible for Lionstone's national Urban Core investment program and is the firm's Chief Executive Officer. Tom's community activities include serving as current President of the Houston Parks Board, serving on the Board of Texas Children's Hospital, and is an active member of the American Institute of Architects. Tom is a graduate of the University Of Texas School Of Architecture and received his MBA from Rice University.

Joseph E. Brown, San Francisco, CA, is President and CEO of EDAW, Inc., one of the world's leading land and community consultancy firms. EDAW's services - a unique blend of landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental and economic planning - are provided by over 1100 professionals working from offices across the globe. The firm's diverse U.S. and international projects have garnered consistent acclaim from clients and peers in the land-based professions.

Mr. Brown holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University and is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. In addition to his executive duties in the U.S., Mr. Brown chairs EDAW's offices in the U.K., Australia, and Asia. He has 30 years of experience as a planner and landscape architect, with particular emphasis on new community planning, urban planning and redevelopment, community revitalization, historic and cultural design, and issues confronting rapid-growth areas. Examples of his work include Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta, GA; the Suzhou Historic District Revitalization Plan, Suzhou, China; the redevelopment of Denver's Stapleton Airport site as urban community and parks; and several large-scale mixed-use and residential projects for The St. Joe Company. His urban design and landscape architectural expertise is frequently solicited by a multi-disciplinary team assisting the National Capital Planning Commission in preparing a long-range plan for Washington, D.C.'s Monumental Core. Currently, he is working on a new mixed-use community in Tokyo's Roppongi Neighborhood; a campus and new town master plan for Ave Maria University in Naples, FL; and design of a mega-casino/resort and entertainment district in Macau, China.

Mr. Brown has been both author and subject of several articles published in Topos, Metropolis, and Landscape Architecture magazines. His commitment to sustainable and distinguished design and planning is evidenced by a wide variety of professional and teaching activities, including participating in panels, study groups, and studios around the world. He has lectured at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has led a number of design charrettes and seminars. Additionally, Mr. Brown is involved with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in a variety of capacities. He is a member of ULI's executive committee and Vice Chairman of its Board of Trustees; Chair of the Gerald Hines Urban Design Competition; and a juror for the prestigious J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionary Leadership in Urban Development.

William D. Browning, Washington, DC, became a partner in the new firm, Terrapin Bright Green LLC with offices in New York and Washington DC in August 2006. Terrapin BG provides consulting services on sustainability strategies for corporations and governments. In 2006, Browning was appointed to the Department of Defense's Defense Science Board. In 2005 Browning and Jeffrey Bannon co-founded Browning + Bannon LLC, an independent real estate and consulting firm focused on the development of environmentally responsive real estate.

In 1991, Browning founded Rocky Mountain Institute's Green Development Services; a program that researches and provides consulting on environmentally responsive real estate development. Green Development Services was awarded the 1999 President's Council for Sustainable Development/Renew America Prize.

He is a co-author of Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate, published by John Wiley & Sons, and a companion CD ROM, Green Developments. Browning has also co-authored A Primer on Sustainable Building, a textbook; and Greening the Building and the Bottom Line, a study of increased worker productivity in energy-efficient buildings. He has published articles in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Building Operating Management, Urban Land, and AIA's Environmental Resource Guide. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, PBS's Future Quest, and AIA's Building Connections teleconference series. In 1998 he was featured in the cover story for the October issue of Interiors & Sources, and was named one of five people "Making a Difference" by Buildings magazine. In 2001 he was selected as an Honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2002 he served on the national steering group for the AIA Committee on the Environment.

Browning has served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, RealEnergy, and the Roaring Fork Conservancy, as science advisor on the environment for the American Institute of Architects, as the vice-chair of ASTM's Green Building Rating Committee. He is an editorial advisor for Environmental Building News, Environmental Design & Construction Magazine, and Green @ work. He has been a National Real Estate Advisor to The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land. Browning served as a founding member on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council, and Greening America. In 2004 he was chosen for the U. S. Green Building Council's Leadership Award. He was the public liaison to the Greening of the White House, a comprehensive energy and environmental retrofit of the White House. He was a pro-bono design advisor for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. Browning is a member of the Interface Eco-Dream Team.

He received a bachelor's in environmental design from the University of Colorado, specializing in energy-conscious architecture and resource management. He has a masters of science in real estate development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the MIT Center for Real Estate's 1991 Public-Sector Fellowship, and, in 1995, the Charles H. Spaulding Award. Browning is a NAUI certified diver, and has experience diving around the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, Gulf of Thailand, and northern California. He is a telemark skier, snowboarder and mountain biker.

Richard F. Burns, Boston, MA, is President of Zisler Capital Partners, a real estate investment banking firm with offices in Los Angeles and Boston. He was formerly Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, Benchmark Assisted Living, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, President of the Arch Street Funds, a series of enhanced return multifamily investment funds and separate accounts. Previously, at Lend Lease and predecessor company Boston Financial, Head of Multifamily Platform, Director of Institutional Marketing, Member of the Management Committee, Investment Committee and Global Properties Securities Board. Before joining Boston Financial, served as CIO and Managing Director of Aldrich, Eastman &Waltch, LP. Prior to that served as COO, March McLennan Real Estate Advisors and Vice President, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. During his career, Mr. Burns has been responsible for several billion dollars of real estate financing and investment. He is a regular guest lecturer at university graduate programs and a frequent speaker on real estate investment topics. Currently serves on National Real Estate Council of Trust for Public Lands, past president Real Estate Finance Association, member of the Urban Land Institute, Pension Real Estate Association, executive board member of National Multi Housing Council and member of executive leadership board for multifamily, National Association of Homebuilders. He has a BS from Boston College and an MBA from Boston University. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Project Hope.

James J. Chaffin, Jr., Spring Island, SC, Spring Island, SC, is co-founder with James W. Light of Chaffin/Light Associates. Prior to that he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Sea Pines Company at Hilton Head Island, SC with responsibility for the marketing and sale of recreational community products in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. Mr. Chaffin has 38 years pf experience in resort/recreation community development. Since 1978, Chaffin and Light have developed communities in Snowmass, Colorado, the Resort Semiahmoo near Blaine, Washington, Lake Arrowhead, California, and Callawassie Island and Spring Island near Hilton Head Island, SC. They are also currently involved in the development of the Roaring Fork Club, Aspen, Colorado, and the Balsam Mountain Preserve near Asheville, North Carolina. He is the past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research and education institute that is dedicated to responsible land use, which is supported and directed by its 32,000+ members. Mr. Chaffin, in both South Carolina and Colorado, has been an active contributor to community organizations, serving on school, hospital, symphony, and community foundation boards. He has served as the President of the Alumni Council of the College of Arts & sciences at the University of Virginia and on the Board of Managers for the University.

Robert F. Corroon, Jr., New York City, NY, is Chief Operating Officer of Richard Zirinsky Associates, which is one of the largest industrial property owners in New York City. Mr. Corroon has 20 years of real estate experience including acquisitions, development, property management, retail site selection and finance. Prior to Richard Zirinsky Associates he has held positions as a Managing Director of Aetna Realty Investors and was an associate with Trammell Crow Residential where he was involved in the development of approximately 3,000 multifamily units in the Northeast. Mr. Corroon received a graduate degree in real estate finance from New York University. He is currently a member of the National Real Estate Council to The Trust for Public Land, a former member of the Executive Committee and a trustee of the National Real Estate Advisory Board to the Nature Conservancy and is a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Benjamin B. Cummings, Jr., Richmond, VA, is a principal of Millennium Retail Partners, LLC, a real estate consulting and advisory services firm for retailers and developers that has offices in Atlanta, Boca Raton, and Richmond. From 1988 until his retirement in 2001, he was Vice President of Real Estate at Circuit City Stores, Inc. He also served in the same capacity for Carmax Auto Superstores, Inc. from that company's founding in 1993 until 2001. During Circuit City's period of rapid growth in the 80's and 90's, Mr. Cummings led the national department responsible for all of Circuit City's real estate acquisitions for retail stores, distribution facilities, offices and service centers, lease administration, surplus property disposition and facilities management, as well as for the Carmax automotive dealerships. Carmax is the nation's leading used-car retailer with sales of $7 billion. Mr. Cummings is a member of, and has served as Virginia State Director for the International Council of Shopping Centers (1993-95), and is also a member of the Virginia State Bar and the Urban Land Institute. Ben recently completed an assignment as Owner's Representative and project manager for the development of a LEED-Silver certified corporate headquarters campus in Virginia for Carmax, Inc.

Robert Davis, San Francisco, CA, is the founder of Seaside, Florida, described by Time magazine as "...the most astonishing design achievement of its era and one might hope, the most influential." As the birthplace of a growing movement in land planning known as The New Urbanism, Seaside's influence has spread widely and is helping to revolutionize town planning in America. Seaside has won numerous awards for its architecture and town planning and has been the subject of three books and countless articles.

Mr. Davis is a recipient of the Rome Prize, Florida's Governor's Award and Coastal Living's Conservation Award for Leadership. He is a principal in The Arcadia Land Company, a firm specializing in town building and land stewardship. Mr. Davis serves on the Board of Directors for The Congress For The New Urbanism; The Seaside Institute, and 1000 Friends of Florida. He has served on Florida's Environmental Land Management Study Committee to write and update Florida's growth management legislation and on The Governor's Council for Sustainable Florida.

A graduate of Antioch College and the Harvard Business School, Mr. Davis is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the Institute of Urban Design. He lives with his wife Daryl, founder of Seaside's downtown retail development and co-founder of Seaside, and their son Micah, in Seaside and in San Francisco.

Ronald J. Gafford, Dallas, TX, Chief Executive Officer of Austin Industries, the parent company of Austin Commercial, Austin Bridge & Road and Austin Industrial. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University, and AMP from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business. Mr. Gafford holds several board positions, including the Dallas Symphony Association, the Dallas Citizens Council, Trinity Industries, Interfaith Housing Coalition, and Lakehill Preparatory School. He is a Past President of the Dallas Chapter, Associated General Contractors of America, Past Chairman of the Lone Star Chapter, Young Presidents' Organization, and past member of the Executive Committee, Dallas Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he has held board memberships on the Real Estate Council, Visiting Nurses Association, North Texas Public Broadcasting (KERA/KDTN), and Texas Building Branch, Associated General Contractors of America.

Henry D. "Greg" Gregory, Jr., Atlanta, GA, founded IDI in 1989. Under Gregory's leadership, the company has developed 115 million square feet of industrial space and has been consistently ranked as one of the nation's top developers of industrial real estate. Gregory's family - wife Amanda, daughter Alice and son Drew - is Greg's top personal priority, followed by his participation and dedication to conservation and community service. In 2006, Gregory was named to the board of The Beltline Partnership, a public-private organization established to help re-develop 22 miles of railroad right of way in the city of Atlanta. He is a trustee of the Woodruff Arts Center, as well as the former real estate chairman of the center's Campaign Cabinet. He is a former chairman of the National Real Estate Council for The Trust for Public Land (TPL) and a life member of The Trust for Public Land Georgia Advisory Council. He has helped raise millions of dollars for TPL programs from various private and public donors, and through Congressional appropriations. He also is chairman of the Investment Committee for the Chattahoochee River Land Protection Campaign and a founding member of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation Board of Visitors. In the past, Mr. Gregory has served as a board member of The Atlanta Opera, a board member of Public Broadcasting Atlanta, a board member of the Crossroads Community Ministries, and a practitioner/lecturer at the University of Georgia Terry Business School. Gregory has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Georgia - Athens, Ga. He is a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI); Southern Center for International Studies; Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR); Japan-America Society.

Kenneth W. Hubbard, New York, NY, is the Executive Vice President, CEO - East Region, for Hines, Inc. and is in charge of development and operations in that region. He has been a Member of the Hines Executive Committee since its formation in 1985 and the Executive Vice President of the Hines East Region since its creation in 1985. Mr. Hubbard is responsible for the acquisition, development or management of more than 22 million square feet of commercial real estate, including properties in Massachusetts; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Washington, DC; Virginia; Maryland; and Ohio. He co-led the firm's East-West division from 1979 - 1984, developing properties in the San Francisco Bay Area; New York City; Hartford; and Washington, DC. He also co-led the Hines Banking Group from 1975-1979. The Banking Group was a national initiative responsible for the development of bank headquarters projects comprising more than six million square feet across the country. Projects were completed in Austin and Midland, Texas; Charleston, West Virginia; Cincinnati, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Seattle, Washington. Since joining Hines in 1974, Mr. Hubbard has been involved in all phases of the development process with transactions aggregating approximately 29 million square feet of commercial real estate valued at more than $9.8 billion. He is an Honorary Member, Urban Land Institute; Trustee, Urban Land Institute; Member, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Real Estate Development Committee; Member, Real Estate Roundtable; Member, Advisory Board, Real Estate Institute, New York University; Member, Board of Visitors, Trinity College, Duke University; Member, Executive Committee, The Campaign for Duke, Duke University; Trustee, Greenwich Country Day School; Trustee, The Loomis Chaffee School. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, History from Duke University, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Georgetown Law School.

James D. Klingbeil, San Francisco, CA, serves as the Chairman and CEO of Klingbeil Capital Management, Ltd. Klingbeil Capital Management is the umbrella operating and management company for all real estate investments. The Klingbeil Company has engaged in nearly every aspect of real estate investment, development, construction and management since its formation. While attending Ohio State University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree, Mr. Klingbeil developed his first real estate project, 19 garden apartments for graduate students. From that start, he and his affiliates have developed or renovated over 26,000 apartments and condominiums throughout the United States. While continuing his apartment investment and management activities, Mr. Klingbeil has also participated in the development of sales housing throughout the United States, including as a co-founder of the Anden Group in 1975, which built approximately $1 billion of sales housing not only in the Unites States, but also in Paris, France and London, England. Mr. Klingbeil has been active throughout his career in real estate and business organizations, as well as national community activities. The bulk of his industry involvement has revolved around ULI-The Urban Land Institute, for which he has served on various committees and as a Trustee for over 20 years. He served as President of the ULI from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Klingbeil also serves on the Urban Land Foundation Advisory Board of Governors. Mr. Klingbeil currently serves on the United Dominion Realty Trust Board of Directors, is a member of the Ohio Sate University Foundation Board and the Board of Trustees of the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation.

John L. Knott, Jr., Charleston, SC, President/CEO and co-founder of the Noisette Company, LLC, leads the Noisette Project development team, which is collaborating with the City of North Charleston, South Carolina, in the sustainable restoration of 3,000 acres of the city's historic urban core and areas of the former Charleston Naval Base. A third generation developer, Knott has 38 years of experience in urban redevelopment, historic preservation and community rehabilitation fields. He specializes in ecologically sound development, emphasizing energy efficient design in the holistic development of sustainable communities. In addition, Knott serves as the CEO/Managing Director of Island Preservation Partnership, which developed the 1,206-acre Dewees Island oceanfront retreat dedicated to environmental preservation.

At both Dewees and Noisette, Knott plays a major role in molding the nation's sustainable development movement. In 2001, Dewees Island was honored with the Award for Excellence by the non-profit Urban Land Institute (ULI) of Washington, DC. In July 2005, the American Society of Landscape Architects selected the Noisette Community Master Plan for its 2005 Professional Award. Noisette was the only recipient in the ASLA's Analysis and Planning Category, with the Award of Excellence, the organization's highest honor.

Personal honors have been forthcoming as well, including the 2006 USGBC SC Chapter Leadership Award. In the February 2002 edition of Professional Builder magazine, Knott was featured as one of the nation's "Thought Leaders" in the building industry. Knott was also named as one of the nation's "Environmental Champions for 2004" in Interiors & Sources magazine, joining such high-profile figures as scientist E.O. Wilson of Harvard University, and Ray Anderson, Chairman of Interface, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia. In February 2005, Knott was given the South Carolina Environmental Awareness Award by the State of South Carolina, the first private sector businessman to be honored with the state's highest environmental honor. In January 2006, Metropolis magazine named Knott as one of the world's leading design visionaries along with Jonathan Ive, the head of design for Apple, Jaime Lerner, Architect / Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, and David Burney, Director of Design and Construction in New York City.

His board appointments include Chairman of the ULI District Council for South Carolina as well as Chairman of the Noisette Foundation. Since 2002, Knott has served as chairman of the US Working Group for Urban-Suburban Indicators in compiling the landmark Heinz Center report, The State of the Nation's Ecosystems. Knott is also co-founder of the Harmony Project and the Sustainability Institute in the Charleston region. Other local appointments include the Advisory Boards for the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium and the Lowcountry Graduate Center. His most recent appointment is to the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation as a Trustee.

In addition, Knott serves as Chairman of the Transportation Advisory Board for Charleston County, which is charged with developing a 25-year multi-modal transportation strategy and prioritizing the investment of $1.1 billion of sales tax proceeds. The Heinz Center Coastal Vision Steering Committee is another of Knott's involvements. The committee's goal is to create a more viable and sustaining approach to the use of coastal areas, in order to strike a healthy balance among economic, social and environmental needs, while reducing the vulnerability of populations to natural disasters.

In the business sector, Mr. Knott serves on the Melaver, Incorporated Board of Directors, a sustainable property management and development company headquartered in Savannah, Georgia. He also serves as President/CEO of the Aden Company, Inc., a Knott family company.

Maureen McAvey, Washington, D.C. is Senior Resident Fellow at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Washington, DC. ULI is a premier research and education organization within the real estate and land use industry. Ms. McAvey was a member of the board of trustees of ULI from 1995 to 2001. Prior to joining ULI, Ms. McAvey was Director, Business Development, for Federal Realty Investment Trust, an owner and manager of retail developments and mixed-use developments and a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Ms. McAvey also has served as the Director of Development for the City of St. Louis, a cabinet level position in the Mayor's office and she was Executive Director of the St. Louis Development Corporation. Prior to working for the city of St. Louis, Ms. McAvey led the real estate consulting practices in Boston for Deloitte & Touche and Coopers & Lybrand. Ms. McAvey directed the west coast operations of Carley Capital Group, a national development firm and also has experience as a private developer. Ms. McAvey holds two master's degrees, one from the University of Minnesota and one from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Douglas E. Norberg, Seattle, WA, is an original partner in Wright Runstad & Company (1975). Mr. Norberg served as Vice Chairman and President of the company before retiring in 2007. Wright Runstad is a leading developer in the Pacific Northwest and has developed 16 million square feet of commercial office space for its clients and its own account. Mr. Norberg is also the lead director of Pope Resources, a timber company, which owns 115,000 acres of tree farm and 3000 acres of development property It also owns the historic Port Gamble Mill Town. Prior to WR&C in 1975, Norberg was COO of KCET and worked at Ernst & Young (then Ernst & Ernst). Norberg is active in the business and community life in Seattle as founder and director of Northwestern Trust and Commerce Bank, and former director of Red Hook Brewery, and Regency Blue Shield. He is a trustee for the Seattle Art Museum Development Authority former Chairman and President of ACT Theater. Recently he has been active in the conservation of lands on the Olympic Peninsula and is a supporter of several Conservation organizations for lands and habitat. Norberg is an instructor at the University of Washington, a member of the U of W Medical School Visitor Committee and a Trustee of the Colorado College.

Will Rogers, Kensington, CA, is President and CEO of the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, playgrounds, community gardens, farms, historic places, and wilderness. Whether recycling brownfields for new urban parks or playgrounds or conserving remote and inspirational wildlands, TPL brings a market-based approach to its mission of protecting the places that inspire us and where people can connect with the natural world and with each other.

Based in San Francisco, TPL has 400 staff in 40 offices nationwide and since 1972, TPL has helped protect over two million acres of land. Under Will's leadership, TPL has successfully tackled conservation challenges as diverse as new playgrounds in New York and Newark, the headwaters of the Connecticut River in northern New Hampshire, a new public park in downtown Santa Fe, the 25,000 acre Wao Kele O Puna of coastal Honolulu, Hawaii, and the scenic Waddle Ranch near Truckee, California. During this time, TPL's Conservation Finance Program has also helped states and communities design and pass 333 ballot measures that have created more than $30 billion in land conservation funding through bonds and sales taxes to protect air and water quality, preserve land, and create parks; and TPL's Conservation Vision program has begun or completed more than 50 GIS mapping projects nationwide to help communities and regions set their conservation priorities.

Will Rogers is a nationally recognized advocate for land conservation and has given major addresses or interviews to the Urban Land Institute, the National Smart Growth Conference, the National Brownfields Conference, and Talk of the Nation, among others.

Before joining TPL, Will Rogers managed infill urban redevelopment projects for a Chicago-based real estate development company, managing both new construction and the rehabilitation of vacant industrial buildings for commercial, office, and residential use. Before becoming a developer and then an "undeveloper" Will was a commercial beekeeper, founding and managing a commercial honey production company in Bogotá, Columbia. He is a graduate of Stanford University and received his MBA from Harvard University. He lives with his family in Kensington, California, and continues to keep honeybees in his back yard.

Christopher Glenn Sawyer - Partner, Alston & Bird - Atlanta, GA, 
Chris is a partner with Alston & Bird, specializing in corporate governance, real estate and conservation law. Chris served on the national Board of Directors of the Trust for Public Land from 1993 to 2006, and as its Chairman from 1995 through 2003. From 1996-2004, Chris served as Chairman of the Chattahoochee River Coordinating Committee,an effort by TPL and its partners to create a park and greenway along 180 miles of the river in Georgia. He continues to serve as President of the West Hill Foundation for Nature in Jackson, Wyoming. He is a current member of the Board of Directors of IDI, one of the largest private development companies in America, and EDAW, one of the largest land consulting firms in the world. He was founding chairman of TPL's Georgia Advisory Board and The Nature Conservancy's National Real Estate Advisory Board. He also currently serves on TPL's National Real Estate Council, the Board of Directors of The Murie Center in Jackson, Wyoming, the Yale University Divinity School's Board of Advisors, and has been nominated for the national board of the Urban Land Institute. He has been affiliated with numerous professional organizations, including Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Duke University Urban Property Development Council, and the Atlanta Bar Association, which he served as its president from 1989 - 1990. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received his M. Div. from Yale University in 1975, and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1978.

Lynn M. Sedway, San Francisco, CA,is executive managing director of CB Richard Ellis Consulting (formerly Sedway Group), a real estate and urban economics consulting firm that she founded in 1978. Recognized as one of the premier experts in the field of urban and real estate economics, Ms. Sedway's major areas of specialization include public-private partnerships, REITs, negotiation, redevelopment, market studies, complex valuation analyses, and corporate real estate. She has extensive experience in market trends for the major land uses, including residential, retail, office, industrial and mixed-use developments. Among her professional affiliations, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Land Institute; a past president of the Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha, an international honorary land-economics society; a board member of the Counselors of Real Estate; and a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate at the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Sedway also has been active on corporate and community boards, having served as an outside director for AMB Property Corporation, Alexander & Baldwin, BRIDGE Housing Corporation, the Coro Foundation, and The Swig Company. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Ms. Sedway holds a Master of Business Administration degree in real estate and urban economics and marketing from the University of California, Berkeley (now the Haas School); and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Michigan.

Stockton Williams, Washington, DC, came to Enterprise in February 2000 as director of Public Policy. In 2004, he was promoted to vice president for External Affairs and to senior vice president in 2006. He is responsible for Enterprise's government affairs activities and directs fundraising and communications. He develops and implements strategies to advance Enterprise's objectives with federal and state policymakers; corporate, philanthropic and financial institutions; the media; and the general public. Williams was key in the development of Enterprise's Green Communities" initiative. Green Communities is a five-year, $555 million initiative to build more than 8,500 environmentally healthy homes for low-income families. In addition to his other responsibilities, he also oversees all external affairs for Green Communities, including fundraising, communications and public policy. Before joining Enterprise, Williams was a senior legislative and policy associate at the National Council of State Housing Agencies. He also worked for nonprofit community development organizations in New York City, Baltimore and Charleston, S.C. He has a bachelor's degree in religion from Princeton University and a master's degree in real estate development from Columbia University. Williams is a trustee of the National Housing Conference. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, the steering committee of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition, and The Trust for Public Land's Real Estate Council. Williams is a guest lecturer in American University's Washington Semester program.

Frank K. (Karl) Zavitkovsky, Dallas, TX, is Director of the Office of Economic Development for the City of Dallas, Texas. Zavitkovsky worked for Bank of America's Real Estate Group for 16 years, prior to his retirement in June, 2005. He was Managing Director and Commercial Real Estate Division Executive for the Central United States. He also supervised the Commercial Real Estate Advisory Group, where he facilitated investment banking transactions with Public Finance and the Real Estate Investment Bank. Zavitkovsky began his banking career with the International Charter Mortgage Corporation and subsequently Citicorp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, focusing primarily on workouts. In 1978, he moved to Caracas, Venezuela where he led Citicorp's real estate lending activities in Northern South America (Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador) and the Caribbean. In 1984 Zavitkovsky moved to Dallas to head the Citicorp Real Estate's Southwest Region with offices in Dallas, Houston, and Denver. Zavitkovsky graduated from William and Mary where he majored in economics. He also earned a masters degree from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, after which he served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and a Peace Corps Director in Bolivia. Actively involved in the real estate industry, Zavitkovsky serves as an Urban Land Institute Governor and Trustee and is a former member of the Executive Committee. He also participates on The Trust for Public Land Real Estate Council. He previously served on the boards of North Texas Affordable Housing Coalition, the South Dallas Development Corporation, and the National Multi Housing Council. He is past chairman of the Dallas Real Estate Council, the North Texas Affordable Housing Coalition, and the Dallas Ballet.

Updated 8/2009