Andy serves as Co-President of Minkoff Development Corporation, a family-owned real estate firm based in Germantown, Maryland that provides development, construction, management and brokerage services. He is focused on day-to-day top line revenue generation, managing strategic tenant and platform partnerships as well as identifying value enhancement opportunities through conversions or new development. He is a 2011 graduate of Leadership Montgomery, as well as having served on the boards of the Bender JCC, Pinkney Innovation Center for Science and Technology at Montgomery College, and C&O Canal Trust.

Rachael Stephens Parker was appointed to serve as the Executive Director of the Maryland Governor’s Workforce Development Board (GWDB) under the Moore-Miller administration in August 2023. The GWDB serves as the Governor's chief strategy and policy-making body on workforce development. It is responsible for creating, leading and accelerating the implementation of workforce development strategies, policies, and partnerships that support Governor Moore’s vision for a thriving economy that lifts up every Maryland family and leaves no one behind.

Before joining the Moore-Miller administration, Rachael served as the director of the workforce development and economic policy program at the bipartisan National Governors Association. She oversaw research, policy guidance and technical assistance provision to governors and state leaders on removing barriers to economic participation; fostering economic dynamism; supporting quality job growth; and developing accessible learning opportunities that support employers’ talent needs and lead to family-sustaining careers. Her career is founded on the belief that talent is widely distributed but opportunity is not, and that we all have a role to play in redistributing opportunity.

Rachael was born and raised in Maryland. She holds a master’s in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor of arts in economics from Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated magna cum laude as the sole recipient of the Jeanne Quistgaard Memorial Prize for Excellence in Economics.

Bill Tompkins is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Montgomery

County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC), based in Rockville,

Maryland. He leads a team of 25 diverse professionals who work to fulfill the

mission of making Montgomery County one of the most diverse, equitable and best

places to be in business in the country. Bill was previously Executive Vice President

and Chief Operating Officer and has been with MCEDC since January of 2019.

Bill received his MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a General

Motors Fellow and received his BA in Economics, magna cum laude from Tufts

University.

Bill has a deep background in marketing, business operations, strategic planning and

nonprofit management, with most of his career serving as a senior executive in the

media and entertainment industries with Fortune 500 companies.

John L. Ziegenhein is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Chevy Chase Land Company, overseeing the company’s new development and two-million square feet of commercial and residential properties. John has over 20 years of experience in real estate development and management, most recently as Chief Operating Officer at McCaffery, Inc. He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, Inc., Urban Land Institute, and National Multifamily Housing Council. John currently serves on the Land Company’s Executive Committee, and is active locally serving on the Board of the Arlington Food Assistance Center and Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing.

Evan Goldman recently joined EYA as Vice President of Land Acquisitions and Development. Evan brings a decade of mixed use and multi-family experience to the EYA development team and will work on sourcing new deals as well as shepherding projects through the development process. Prior to joining EYA, Evan was a Vice President of Development at Federal Realty Investment Trust in Rockville, MD. In that role for seven years he was primarily responsible for managing the development of Pike & Rose a 24 acre 3.4 million square foot award winning mixed use neighborhood in North Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to Federal Realty, Evan was a Partner at the Holladay Corporation; an urban infill mixed use development company in Washington, DC, and he was an Associate for Tishman Speyer Properties in New York City. Evan holds an MBA in Real Estate and Finance from the Wharton Business School and a B.S. in Design and Environmental Analysis from Cornell University. Evan enjoys teaching and regularly guest lectures at Cornell University, Georgetown University, the Catholic University and the University of Maryland College Park. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Urban Land Institute Washington and he was a founding Board Member of Friends of White Flint. Evan recently received the 2012 Livable Communities Leadership Award from the Washington, DC based Coalition for Smarter Growth. Evan lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three young children.

As General Counsel of The Tower Companies, Sandy Paik leads the company’s legal strategy, overseeing corporate governance, risk management, ethics, compliance, and strategic planning. With more than 20 years of legal and leadership experience, she brings deep expertise in community development, infrastructure, and real estate, with a strong track record in public-private partnerships, capital markets securitizations, and structured finance transactions.

Sandy’s career spans housing and commercial real estate, economic development, financial services, and green finance. In addition to her role at Tower, she has contributed her expertise to numerous boards and committees. She was appointed in 2025 to the Gaithersburg Economic and Business Development Committee and previously served on the District of Columbia Bar Association’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Task Force from 2022 to 2025. She currently serves on the boards of Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture, Community Opportunity Fund, Association of Corporate Counsel National Capital Region, and the Carbon League. Her past roles include Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of Public Affairs, Treasurer and Finance Chair as well as Facilities Chair for the Montessori School of Northern Virginia, and Co-Chair of the ACC NCR Leadership Academy.

Sandy is admitted to the bars of Maryland and the District of Columbia. She is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Washington Chapter, the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington (AOBA), the Association of Corporate Counsel, and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Greater Washington DC.

She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an A.M. in Policy Analysis and Evaluation from Stanford University School of Education, and a B.A. in History from Tufts University.

Stephen Morel is the Chief Executive Officer and was formerly the Chief Investment Officer of the Montgomery County Green Bank (MCGB). He comes to MCGB with a professional background in corporate and project finance, with a particular interest in the use of public and private funds to fill market gaps and catalyze investment into high impact sectors. Stephen brings his strong skills in financial management and project-related investment to MCGB in order to accelerate the deployment of programs and products towards achieving the Bank’s clean energy and energy efficiency objectives.

Prior to the MCGB, Stephen led a financial consulting company dedicated to connecting infrastructure developers with debt and equity financing sources. This role followed almost a decade of experience as an investment officer and project finance specialist for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Stephen began his financial career in investment banking at Taylor-DeJongh and Friedman, Billings, Ramsey.

Eric Morales is the Maryland Market President of United Bank, a premier community bank headquartered in Greater Washington, D.C. As Market President, he is responsible for the

management and operation of all nine United Bank offices in the Maryland Market, including maintaining client relationships and new business development. Morales has an extensive background in commercial real estate lending, having financed the acquisition and construction of multiple commercial and residential real estate projects in and around the D.C. metro area.

He is also active in the local community, notably with United’s financial literacy programs, educating local youth through the Bank’s Teach Children to Save initiative, and volunteering with

Junior Achievement Finance Park. He has also served on the board of numerous organizations, most recently with the Catholic Business Network of Montgomery County and the Arlington

Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Eric was a proud recipient of the Washington Business Journal’s 40 under 40 awards in 2024.

Prior to his time at United Bank, Morales worked as a Financial Manager at TIER REIT, Inc. and a senior associate at EY. Morales holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Accounting degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Steve Knight is a Principal with David M. Schwarz Architects in Washington, DC. He

settled in Washington after receiving his Master of Architecture from North Carolina

State University in 1997. Steve has over 30 years of experience in architectural practice

and is well versed in a variety of project types, including higher education, performing

arts, entertainment, and mixed use. Steve led the office’s teams on designs for the

multi-phase Residential College project at Vanderbilt University, the 8,000-seat Orion

Amphitheater in Huntsville, and the neighborhood center for Chevy Chase Lake. Steve

is active in preservation advocacy, serving as President of the Art Deco Society of

Washington and on the board of the International Coalition of Art Deco Societies. Steve

also advocates for his colleagues, serving on the boards of both the National and Mid-

Atlantic Councils of the Society of American Registered Architects. He is a longtime

community advocate for his neighborhood in East Silver Spring.

Marc Elrich was elected as Montgomery County Executive on Nov. 6, 2018. He had previously served three terms (12 years) on the Montgomery County Council as an at-large member, being first elected in 2006. He served as a Councilmember on the Takoma Park City Council from 1987-2006. For 17 years, he was a teacher at Rolling Terrace Elementary School in Takoma Park.

As a County Councilmember, he was the chief sponsor of several landmark pieces of legislation and programs. He led the successful effort to increase the Montgomery County minimum wage in coordination with surrounding jurisdictions to $11.50 an hour and subsequent legislation that will eventually increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He was the first elected official to propose building a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system throughout the County to address Montgomery's transportation and environmental problems. Ground was broken in Fall 2018 for the first BRT line, which will run along Route 29.

Throughout his political career, he has been a champion of improving tenants' rights and for making developers pay for a greater share of the infrastructure cost to build schools and transportation solutions. He was a leader in the fight to preserve Ten Mile Creek in the Clarksburg area by limiting the proposed development that would have threatened the health of Montgomery County's last best stream which flows into the County's backup water reservoir.