Gonzo is an Arizona native and has been in the Commercial Real Estate his entire career spanning 22 years. He has worked for national General Contractors and Developers and is currently the Regional Director of the Building and Industrial Divisions at Keeley Construction. Gonzo is actively involved with NAIOP DEI program having guest taught and judged for the JA partnership the last few years and ULI Next member. Has served on various Non-Profit boards and philanthropic organizations throughout his career. One of his many passions is mentoring and giving back to young leaders within the industry. Keeley construction is a national Developer/Design Builder based out of STL with offices in Phoenix, New Braunfels, Ft Worth, Fargo, Charlotte, St Louis, and Canton.

John Carlson, President of Mark-Taylor Companies, has dedicated the last 20 years of his career to the organization. Through his strategic direction and expertise in macroeconomics, John has scaled Mark-Taylor to its largest size in the company’s history while increasing employee engagement. He credits the exceptional people and the authentic and ambitious culture at Mark-Taylor as the keys to the company’s continued success.

Steve La Terra helped launch TerraLane Communities (“TLC”) in 2019 and was the first CEO of the company. He is responsible for all aspects of company’s operations and is a member of the Investment Committee. He focuses his efforts on the evaluation of new opportunities, portfolio management and investor/partner relations. Prior to joining the company, Mr. La Terra was the Managing Director of Meyers Research, where he was the lead analyst on horizontal apartments opportunities throughout the US for builders, developers and capital providers. Mr. La Terra’s background includes senior executive and principal-level positions within real estate private equity, land banking and lot development companies including Acacia Capital, Apex Capital, Land Advisors Capital and Paradigm Private Equity Holdings. Mr. La Terra earned his finance degree from San Diego State University and his development certificate from the Master of Real Estate Development program at Arizona State University. He is a former Chair of the Arizona District Council of the Urban Land Institute as well as ULI’s Residential Neighborhood Council at the National Level. He is currently the co-chair of the Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference Land and Capital Conference.

Jami Schulman is an industry leader in the single family rental space building vertically

integrated acquisition and operating platforms for the past 12 years and has completed

two private to public platform sales. She is the co-founder of Sparrow, a boutique high

touch tech forward asset and property management platform that operated in 10

markets across the sunbelt and southwest.

Prior to founding Sparrow, Jami was COO of HavenBrook Homes and Executive Vice

President of Corporate Operations at Progress Residential. Prior to Progress, Jami was

the COO and an executive member of the startup team for Beazer Pre-Owned Rental

Homes, which was sold to American Homes 4 Rent.

Jami’s real estate experience also includes management positions in land development

and homebuilding companies. Jami was the COO of Communities Southwest, a privately

held residential and commercial development company with operations in Arizona and

California. Jami led the company’s acquisition, underwriting, entitlement and

negotiation of complex multi-party development agreements, asset management, and

sales and marketing of over $300M of residential land assets including 5,500 acres of

planned communities and over 2,200 finished lots.

Jami also was corporate counsel for Del Webb and Pulte Homes where she was involved

in the acquisition, entitlement, and development of six master-planned communities

throughout the Southwest. Jami began her career as a water, environmental and real

estate lawyer in private practice.

Jami received a BS in economics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and a

JD from the University of Kansas School of Law.

Scott Maddux serves as the President of Sunstone Two Tree. He was previously a senior vice president at Oaktree Capital in Los Angeles focused on real estate debt and equity investment opportunities. Before joining Oaktree, he worked on the real estate acquisitions team at the Blackstone Group in New York City. Before that, he worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs where he advised real estate companies on M&A and capital raising transactions. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in accounting from Brigham Young University.

Diego is a Tax Principal in the CLA Phoenix office. He has been with the firm since 2014. His primary focus areas are partnership taxation and working with Real Estate Developers and Private Equity clients to build and retain capital by implementing tax saving strategies. Areas of experience, Tiered partnership, closedly held business entities, S-corporations and high-net worth individuals.

Areas involvement include Partnership Leaders Academy at CLA, Real estate Emerging leaders group within CLA.

Jared Geisler is managing director for the Phoenix and Denver regions at NexMetro Communities, the nation’s leading single-family rental home community builder. Jared’s solid engineering and development background, combined with more than 15 years of experience in the field, allow him to simultaneously manage numerous projects from land acquisition through forward planning, construction and turn-over. NexMetro has more than 55 projects in multiple markets across the nation either built, under construction or in development, with a robust pipeline of projects in new and existing markets.

Jared gained invaluable development experience managing some of the largest master plans as land project manager for Pulte Homes. Prior to that, he served as a land development project manager for CVL Consultants, where his work with some of the country’s largest homebuilders provided him with key knowledge on planning, the entitlement process and site design. Jared holds a BS degree in civil engineering from Arizona State University, and is a registered professional engineer and AMA member.

With a successful career spanning the last three plus decades, from condominiums to custom homes, from industrial tilt-ups to major commercial centers, Rudy Herrera has been involved in the acquisition, financing and building of an incredible assortment of real estate products. This broad range of experience has helped Rudy hone his skills to focus on the core of Family Development's business - homebuilding. Believing that the best transactions are those where every party benefits, the "art of the deal" is where Rudy's passion lies.

For Family Development, Rudy uses this passion and expertise to find, acquire and finance the "blank canvases" for the company. A go-to entitlement expert, Rudy assembles the planning team and works closely with each member to ensure the company's projects are approved in as timely a fashion as possible.

Daniel Gehman attended Cornell University in upstate New York before relocating to California. Daniel has been involved in the industry since 1986 and brings specialized expertise in architectural design to the Ware Malcomb team. As Director, Multifamily, he is responsible for the growth of the multifamily practice, focusing on business development, client service, and project execution. Daniel's background includes a variety of multifamily project types, with 25 years of specialization in Southern California and current projects in the Central Valley and Arizona. He currently teaches a class in the Master of Real Estate Development (MRED) program at the University of Southern California as an adjunct professor and is active in many industry associations.

Alan Scales is a principal at KTGY and brings over 20 years of experience in urban infill, residential design and construction. With a focus and passion for design, Mr. Scales is responsible for overall project direction from initial planning and design to project team coordination, and client and City communications. With special attention to each client’s goals, budget and schedule, Mr. Scales’ collaborative approach to design places emphasis on context and innovation.

Mr. Scales’ experience has concentrated in California, Arizona and Texas as Principal in charge of multifamily, single family and mixed-use projects. From project planning through to completion, Mr. Scales brings tremendous knowledge in site planning, entitlements, project coordination, design development, building department approvals, and construction administration. Mr. Scales has been responsible for over hundreds of Small Lot Subdivision Homes in the City of Los Angeles offering unique solutions to challenging sites.

Greg Garrison is VP of Construction for HercuTech, the manufacturer of HercuWall®. Greg joined the HercuTech Team in early 2015, which was a critical time for bringing the HercuWall product to market. Greg assisted with the final steps of product development, product testing, obtaining HercuWall Code Reports and the integration of the product in thousands of residential dwelling units.

Greg is an Arizona native and fifth generation Construction Manager. Prior to HercuTech, Greg spent 12+ years with a CM focus in the Commercial Construction space. He has a wide range of project experience from high level custom homes, facilities services projects, ground up warehousing, aircraft hangars and a variety of Department of Defense work.

Greg has integrated an array of building materials in these projects but was always looking for a scalable solution for a high performing Thermal Envelope System. Shortly after meeting the founder of HercuTech, Greg had the opportunity to join the leadership team. This opportunity allowed him to bring his passion of building better with concrete, steel, and a high performing envelope to all construction market segments through the HercuWall System.

George Maravilla is a Partner at Tower Capital, LLC who spearheads its Equity and Development platform. Maravilla joined the firm in 2018, quickly establishing himself as a key member of the company and he has been instrumental in the rapid growth of Tower Capital’s industry-leading Build-to-Rent (BTR) team.

Maravilla has emerged as a national leader within the BTR sector. The capital advisor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience financing this complex product type to the table for both developers and lenders. He has firmly established himself as a leader of the BTR finance team and is repeatedly counted on to help developers bring their BTR projects to life.

Tower Capital has closed more than $1.5 billion in BTR construction financing and joint venture equity encompassing more than 7,000 units across nearly 40 Build-to-Rent communities. The firm’s pipeline of projects spans multiple states including in Arizona, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Colorado, and Indiana.

Prior to joining Tower Capital, Maravilla spent 14 years at DMB Associates, Inc., a respected real estate development firm, where he most recently served as Director of Finance. The company specializes in large scale master planned communities, golf courses, multifamily, office, retail and mixed-use projects throughout Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Utah. He held responsibility for managing project level financial risk and created sophisticated financial models that were utilized to establish the appropriate development strategy at DMB. Maravilla also created long-term capital plans, project life cycle capitalization, deal structuring, and oversaw investor/partner reporting. He also evaluated new opportunities in a wide range of residential and commercial asset classes having underwritten more than $700 million in potential acquisitions and vertical developments during his time at DMB.

He is actively involved with the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Maravilla earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Arizona State University with an emphasis in computer information systems and philosophy.

Tony Chen joined Crescent Communities in 2021 to lead the start-up and launch of the Single-Family Build-to-Rent business unit. Tony is responsible for strategic planning, business development, investment strategy, property manager oversight, land acquisition, site planning, entitlements, product design and construction oversight.

Prior to Crescent Communities, Tony was a senior executive at FirstKey Homes, Cerberus Capital Management’s investment platform to acquire and manage scattered-site single-family rental properties. During his tenure at FirstKey, Tony helped stabilize, scale and optimize the business, growing the portfolio to over 28,000 homes and executing over $4.5 billion of acquisition, disposition and securitization transactions through his involvement with FirstKey’s investment committee, asset management and strategy functions.

Prior to FirstKey Homes, Tony was an investment banker in the real estate, gaming and lodging group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he executed over $16 billion of M&A, equity and debt transactions. Tony started his career at Deloitte where he advised companies across various sectors on finance transformation, capital markets accounting and M&A integration.

Tony earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech.

As a Principal and designer of award-winning communities throughout the United States, Doug has contributed greatly to KEPHART’s reputation as a leader in design. He utilizes his 35+ years of experience to balance design trends with marketplace longevity and construction costs. His experience includes the design of master planned communities, high density in-fill concepts, and a wide range of single and multi-family for sale and rental projects.

Doug is a nationally recognized industry expert on residential design trends and has been a guest speaker at numerous venues including the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders’ Show and local Home Builder Association functions. His work and forward-thinking ideas have been highlighted in a variety of industry publications including Builder, Professional Builder, Builder and Developer and 50+ Builder.

Jared Ford brings over two decades of construction industry experience to his role as President of Build to Rent and Multifamily at Catamount Constructors. With a portfolio totaling $7.25 billion in projects, spanning 28,000 multifamily, BTR, condo, and senior living units and 6,500 student housing beds, Ford’s leadership has consistently delivered exceptional results for clients and developers alike. His proven track record of national expansion and strategic acumen not only underscores his dedication to innovation but also amplifies Catamount’s standing as a dominant force in the BTR market.

Lance Keller is an Arizona native that grew up in Tolleson and attended NAU where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management and was a member of the Lumberjacks basketball team. After graduating college, he took a job in homebuilding. In 1994 he went to work for KB Home where he moved up the corporate ladder and was promoted to Division Senior Vice President. Lance is an entrepreneur at heart and in 2003 he became a shareholder and president of Elite Communities. Under his direction the Phoenix-based homebuilding company was named one of the fastest growing in the U.S. by Builder Magazine. Lance is an entrepreneur at heart and has invested in a variety of business entities, but his primary focus is providing great service to Lifestyle Homes clients and doing so profitably. Lance is a member of the National Association of Home Builders and the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona. Away from the office, Lance enjoys spending time with his family and two dogs, relaxing in San Diego, or you will find building something mechanical or out on the water sports fishing.