Kymberly Horner is the Executive Director for Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives, Inc. (PCRI). Hired in July 2019, she is only the second person to serve in this position since PCRI’s formation over 28 years ago.

PCRI’s ongoing mission is to promote housing justice through advocacy, services, affordable housing and wealth creation for systemically disenfranchised people, particularly those of color. PCRI owns and operates over 700 units in the North/Northeast section of Portland, and Kymberly sees having a strong organizational foundation to work from as a key strength to allow her to help manage during these current economically challenging times.

In the midst of COVID-19, she oversaw and helped staff to navigate the challenges of the financing and construction of King + Parks, a 70-unit affordable housing rental project. Additionally, between 2019-2020 Kymberly and her staff completed the development of two separate for-sale townhome projects resulting in approximately 10 income qualified families becoming homeowners!

Originally from Westlake Village, California, Kymberly discovered her love for civic engagement at an early age. Growing up, her father served as Mayor of Thousand Oaks and was a Thousand Oaks City Councilmember for 18 years.

Kymberly got her start in public service working for California Congressman Brad Sherman. Working in constituent services allowed her to acquire the skills needed to untangle bureaucratic snarls and make the government work for its citizens.

She worked for the City of Oxnard for over 17 years serving most recently as Oxnard’s Economic Development Director. In that position she oversaw downtown revitalization, business attraction and retention, and retail attraction and retention.

In addition to setting and achieving housing and economic development goals, on New Year’s 2015, Kymberly set a personal challenge for herself to eat a piece of chocolate every day! With the support of family and friends who surprised her every so often with sweet treats, she achieved this goal and has stuck with it to this day.

Mr. Aledort joined Resmark in 2023 and possesses over 14 years of experience managing residential investments. At Resmark, he manages multifamily and single-family build-to-rent residential investments nationwide.

Before joining Resmark, Mr. Aledort served as Vice President, Asset Management at American Realty Advisors, where he was responsible for managing multifamily and build-to-rent assets located in the Western United States.

Prior thereto, he was Director of Asset Management for Gemdale USA, where he oversaw a portfolio of multifamily properties located throughout the west coast. Previously, Mr. Aledort was a Regional Manager at Alliance Residential, where he was responsible for a portfolio of apartments for various institutional investors in Los Angeles, and prior to that he was an Area Property Supervisor for Carlo Inc.

Mr. Aledort earned a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Northridge with a double major in Business Finance and Real Estate and holds a California Real Estate License.

Quang Truong is the Co-Founder and CEO of UrbanForm. UrbanForm provides clarity and confidence with zoning as quickly as possible for architects and developers using proprietary AI technology. Quang worked in architecture offices throughout the nation for almost two decades before founding UrbanForm, is a registered architect in NY and OR, and has degrees from Yale University and Dartmouth College.

Recognized as one of the most influential commercial real estate executives in the country by both the Portland and National Business Journals, Evan brings the juice, passion and heart to the projects and people he works with every day. He is a Partner at Pacific NW Properties, a Beaverton-based commercial real estate development, investment and property management firm, where he oversees all acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development site selection, and marketing, amongst other focus areas.

Beyond his day-to-day responsibilities, Evan volunteers his time with numerous charitable organizations and sits on several boards, including NAIOP, Westside Economic Alliance and Revitalize Portland Coalition. He is currently the immediate Past President of NAIOP Oregon, the largest and most influential commercial real estate development organization in the USA. Under Evan’s leadership as President in 2022, NAIOP Oregon was honored with the two biggest awards in North America: “Chapter of the Year,” as well as “National President of the Year.”

Prior to his transition to the ownership side of the business, Evan was an accomplished industrial broker who earned the SIOR “Industrial Deal of the Year” award in both 2008 and 2010, as well as the prestigious Commercial Association of Brokers (CAB) “Bill Naito Award” in 2012, presented to the broker in Portland/SW Washington who closed the most complex transaction of the year.

In 2017, Evan was honored with Portland Business Journal’s coveted “Forty Under 40” top business executives honor, which is based on career, influence, leadership, and community involvement. In 2023, Evan was named “Executive of the Year” by the Portland Business Journal.

A former radio show host who once tried to make Beyonce his fiancé with an on air proposal (she said no by the way), Evan doesn’t mind taking big risks … which has helped with PNWP’s speculative development and portfolio growth through strategic acquisitions. He lives in Portland with his beautiful wife and kids.

“My People used to say, when a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he's come from, where he's headed. That way, he'll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then you'll be such good friends, you don't care.”

Bashar Wali is a founder, a father, and a hotel fanatic. He’s a pragmatist—hungry to experience life not as it is packaged and sold, but as it is. His vested interest in hospitality, culture, and design, is cut with curiosity of what’s possible, beyond the status quo.

Bashar is always looking for that spark—that perfect symmetry of an idea and its physical manifestation—to make human experiences as we know them, better. He’s the consummate Host of the Soirée—ever in pursuit of a shared humanity among friends, colleagues, and total strangers. This is perhaps his greatest gift: bringing together a group that’s more inspiring than the sum of its parts.

As founder and CEO of This Assembly and Practice Hospitality, Bashar draws upon expertise honed over a 30-year career in hospitality. An expert in the lifestyle space, Bashar is known for pushing limits in his philosopher-meets-hotelier kind of way. Whether helming the TEDx stage, hosting a Global YPO event, or collaborating on Clubhouse, Bashar’s message is unwavering: service is what you deliver, hospitality is how you make people feel.

Bashar has done every job in a hotel—from frying an egg to negotiating a deal—working for Starwood Hotels before leading acquisitions and development globally at Grand Heritage Hotels. Prior to launching This Assembly and Practice Hospitality, Bashar served as President/CEO of Provenance Hotels, where he remains a partner, for 15 years, growing the company from five to 15 hotels, 1,500 team members, and expanding the collection from the Pacific Northwest to an award-winning national brand, with annual revenue in excess of $150 million.

When Bashar isn’t traveling to 50+ countries and 45+ states, he’s home in Portland, Oregon with his wife and kids, dreaming up the hotels of tomorrow.

Danya joined SolTerra in 2015, where he has played a key role in the development of a dozen projects in both Portland and Seattle. Danya is closely involved in all aspects of the development process and specializes in asset management. He is a 4th generation developer, and is an Alumni of U of O and UH Manoa

Jonathan McGuire, CPA, serves as a Partner- Real Estate at Aldrich, a western-US financial services firm. He has over ten years of experience providing strategic tax planning and compliance expertise to private middle-market clients. He has a deep focus as a real estate accountant, working with investors, developers, realtors, property managers, and other professional service providers in real estate. He works with a wide range of property types ranging from single and multi-family residential to commercial properties. Jonathan specializes in repair regulations and the effects they have on those who own real estate. He also helps clients defer capital gains taxes using qualified opportunity zones and qualified opportunity funds.

Prior to joining Aldrich, he spent time in public accounting in Seattle, Washington. Jonathan graduated with a master’s in taxation from the University of Denver. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business management from Corban University in Salem, Oregon. Jonathan is also an adjunct professor at Corban University’s business school.

Jonathan was recently named Opportunity Zone's Top 25 Tax Specialists and has been previously featured in Forbes.

Scott brings over 25 years of experience to every project. He built his career as a licensed real estate broker and developer before founding Edge in 2000. Since then, the company has become one of the region’s fastest-growing enterprises, establishing successful relationships with a long list of investors, lenders and clients in commercial real estate. Scott’s educational credentials include a degree in real estate finance and marketing from the University of Oregon.

Patrick Gilligan serves as the Senior Executive Vice President for Lincoln Property Company’s Pacific Northwest and Mountain West regions, and is responsible for all business operations throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah. This includes the implementation of all service lines and oversight for all acquisition, development, and redevelopment activities. He has over 20 years of experience in real estate investment and development, and has been a part of Lincoln since 2006, completing over $5.5 billion in transactions.

Since entering the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West markets in 2014, he has grown Lincoln’s portfolio to over 10 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, retail, and multi-family assets under management, including such notable projects as Pacwest, Wells Fargo Center, The Sutton multi-family development in Portland, OR; Terminal 1 in Vancouver, WA; and Eastport Logistics in Boise, ID. He also played an integral role in securing development rights to The Point in Draper, UT; a 100-acre master-planned mixed-use community that will result in over 3.3M sf of office, retail, entertainment, and residential projects. Prior to running the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West regions, Patrick served as a Vice President in Lincoln’s San Francisco office for nearly a decade.

I have spent 15 years advancing public policy that drives inclusive economic growth, serving as a policy director for Walmart, Inc., a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives, and an advisor for several U.S. Agency for International Development-funded economic development programs, in Afghanistan and Indonesia. I hold a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. in Government from Colby College in Maine.

Amalia Mohr is a Principal at LRS Architects with 15+ years of experience spearheading the design of award-winning interiors for leading commercial and institutional clients across the Pacific Northwest. Her work has earned multiple awards from the IIDA, AIA Oregon, and Restore Oregon, among others, and she was named among the DJC’s Phenoms & Icons for 2022 in recognition of her outstanding leadership in the industry and at LRS. Amalia’s passion lies in creating happy and healthy interior spaces that make her clients proud. She is both an interior designer and a “culture builder” whose natural ability to create connections and promote collaboration is valued by her colleagues and clients. Amalia is highly engaged in her community, both in the industry and beyond: she is a former president of the IIDA Oregon Chapter and recently joined the board of Downtown Portland Clean & Safe.

“As a second-generation appraiser, Jason Roos, MAI, AI-GRS has been around real estate valuation since childhood. In 2007, Jason joined the appraisal firm he would grow within and eventually lead 13 years later. As Senior Managing Director, Jason’s expanded business vision led to the merging of six offices under one management team. He now leads his firm’s 50+ employees. Passionate about travel and excellent client service, Jason currently holds appraisal licenses in 12 states. He is an industrial specialist and focuses on the preparation of real property appraisals of industrial properties for uses including financing, ad valorem tax disputes, condemnation, collateral assessment, right of way acquisition and investment analysis. In this dynamic market Jason is focused on leading his organization in providing clients with up-to-date, relevant and accurate market information.”