Mr. Gooding has 34 years of commercial real estate experience, 27 of them with SKB

where he is credited with developing the firm’s “value-add/opportunistic” acquisition

platform. He was named a principal in 2002 and president and chief investment officer

in 2006. During his tenure at SKB, Mr. Gooding initiated some $5.6 billion of

acquisitions, and concomitant debt placements and restructuring, and he serves as a

member of the SKB Investment Committee. He was also responsible for initially

sourcing and maintaining SKB’s institutional capital partner relationships.

He started his real estate career as a licensed real estate appraiser with then CB

Commercial, Inc. Prior to joining SKB in 1996, he served as vice president of

acquisitions for G.E. Capital Investment Advisors and senior real estate analyst with CB

Commercial, Inc. in San Francisco. In these capacities, he underwrote over $500 million

of commercial real estate investments for clients such as General Motors retirement

funds, CalPers and the AT&T Master Pension Trust. Mr. Gooding is a member of ULI,

ICSC, and an Advisory Board member for The Center of Securities Analysis at the

University of Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the

University of Oregon.

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.

Michael Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Assemblage Works, Inc. (AWI), a multi-disciplinary, vertically integrated architecture, construction management and development company that operates throughout the nation. We specialize in the creation, management and execution of sustainable urban infill multi-family, hospitality and commercial projects across the western United States.

Mathews’ expertise as a senior development, design and construction executive spans all facets of complex and large-scale ($500MM+) real estate projects for a variety of prominent design, development and construction organizations nationwide, including executive roles with KB Urban, Forest City and Davis Reed Construction, among others.

In these roles, he has delivered over 6,000 units to the markets in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Southern California, Texas, Seattle and Denver metropolitan areas.

Mathews, a licensed Architect, is also an expert in off-site construction methodologies, including prefab, volumetric, panelized and mass timber construction. He has national experience in project due diligence, entitlement, design, finance, construction and construction management.

Through the formation of AWI, Mathews has created a collective of experienced and dedicated design, construction and development professionals that believe in the use of modern methods of construction and progressive delivery techniques to provide clear and predictable outcomes to their clients and investors.

AWI was created to understand the needs of development, investigate emerging technologies and collaborate with our construction partners, pushing the practice of architecture and development into the future. We eliminate unnecessary time designing systems that can be repeated, leaving more time to solve the unique design challenges of our clients, the environment and the places we design for.

Travis Drilling is a Executive Vice President with Lincoln Property Company, serving as the Market Leader in Portland, Oregon. Travis is responsible for leading and growing the company’s full platform of real estate services across Oregon and Southwest Washington, including acquisitions, development, capital markets, and project management, as well as third-party leasing and property management.

Prior to joining Lincoln, Travis was the Director of Leasing & Business Development for the Urban Renaissance Group, a Seattle-based commercial real estate company, where he spent more than 12 years in roles of increasing responsibility. He played a key part in the firm’s significant portfolio expansion with noteworthy work including the renovation, lease up, and sale of 1320 Broadway, which was the highest per square foot price in the market at the time of sale; development of Press Blocks, a two-phase mixed-use development adjacent to Providence Park; and the recent acquisition of Lloyd Center Mall.

Travis has extensive local knowledge and a strong track record in leasing, business development, acquisitions, and development, providing him with the tools necessary to accelerate the firm’s business expansion in the Oregon market.

As Executive Vice President of Development for Related Northwest, Ms. Kondor is responsible for establishing Related’s presence in Portland and in the northwest while leading and managing all aspects of development and financing for Related’s affordable developments throughout Oregon.

As a native Oregonian, Ms. Kondor was previously Director of Real Estate Development for Central City Concern where she managed the land acquisition, entitlements, and due diligence process for the development of new clinical and affordable housing in Portland, Oregon with development costs in excess of $100 million. While at Central City Concern, she was a recipient of the Housing Oregon’s Star Player Award in 2017. For SK Asset Advisory, LLC, Ms. Kondor provided consulting to private developers and construction management firms developing affordable housing. As Senior Asset Manager for Bayside Communities, Ms. Kondor managed a portfolio of more than 60 multifamily properties throughout the West Coast. She brings many years of experience working on complex transactions with multi-layered funding along with new market tax credits to Related.

Ms. Kondor holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and sits on the Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Portland.

Dana Krawczuk focuses her practice on representing residential,

commercial, and industrial clients in all phases of land use

entitlement processes, including annexation, zoning,

comprehensive plan amendments, master plans, , tentative and

final plat approvals for land divisions, systems development

charge credit applications, design review, floor area ratio

conveyances, site plan review, nonconforming use expansions,

enforcement proceedings, and appeals to the Land Use Board of

Appeals, Oregon Court of Appeals, and Oregon Supreme Court.

She has deep experience in infrastructure planning and

financing, and development agreements with local governments.

Dana has represented clients in a number of high-profile land

use and annexation cases that have helped shape the law of the

region. In addition to her comprehensive land use law

experience, she provides her clients with high-quality work and

solution-oriented results. Dana is known for excellent client

service and is well-liked by her clients, who include some of the

most active residential, office, retail, and industrial developers in

the Portland Metro area.