Stephanie is a Partner and Landscape Architect who directs complex large-scale mixed use and urban design projects for some of the nation’s leading developers. Known for thinking of every detail like an editor or producer, she motivates her studios to uncover the less obvious solutions that result in an elevated experience. Stephanie thrives during the implementation phase of a project when she can swap her plans for a hard hat and watch her ideas transform into reality. As an advocate for social equity in the built environment, Stephanie understands the intersection of design and social equity, and strives to engage diverse stakeholders and community members to build consensus and understanding with every project on which she works.

Mark is a Managing Member of Open Realty Advisors and founded the firm in 1987. Mark leads Open Realty’s principal investment endeavors, hotel development and new business generation. He was a founding venture investor of Restoration Hardware and a founding partner of Retail and Restaurant Growth Capital, an SBIC lending fund focused on growing retail and restaurant ventures. Mark has served on many corporate and philanthropic boards including The Dallas Stars Ownership Advisory Group, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Temple Emanu-El, Time For Dallas, Retail and Restaurant Growth Capital, Beauty First, The Walking Company and Le Gourmet Chef.

Mark received a Bachelor of Political Science degree from Southern Methodist University

Buddy Rizer serves as the Executive Director for economic development in Loudoun County, Virginia,

which was named the 2021 Economic Development Organization of the Year by the International

Economic Development Council. He leads the agency responsible for encouraging growth and

developing relationships with Loudoun’s business community in both the commercial and agricultural-

based business sectors. During his tenure, Rizer and his team have attracted more than $65 billion in

new commercial investment and more than 60 thousand new jobs. During this time, the growth in the

commercial based has helped lower the tax rate in Loudoun by more than 48 cents on the dollar, saving

residents thousands of dollars annually on their tax bill.

Mr. Rizer has been named a Tech Titan eight times by Washingtonian Magazine (2017 – 2024), one of

the 50 most influential Virginians six times by Virginia Business Magazine (2018 – 2023), a five-time

member of Virginia’s Power 500 (2020 – 2024), and three times named to the Washington Business

Journal’s Power 100 as one of the most influential businesspeople in Washington, DC (2020, 2022,

2023). In 2024, he was named as one of the 50 most influential people in Northern Virginia by Northern

Virginia Magazine.

Mr. Rizer is a Certified Economic Developer (CEcD), a certified Entrepreneurship Development

Professional (EDP), has a master’s in business administration/economics from Longwood University and

is a graduate of Virginia Tech's Local Government Management Graduate Program.

Mr. Dan Coughlan joined TRITEC Real Estate Company as a

Principal in 1997.

Dan directs the company’s Washington, D.C. metro office

where the firm recognized considerable opportunities

for growth on both sides of the Potomac, developing

apartments, office and retail centers that serve a growing

and vibrant region.

Prior to joining TRITEC, Dan was an asset manager in real

estate for GE Investments, an advisory group for General

Electric Pension Funds. His respected insight and unique

appreciation of the marketplace saw him concentrating on

acquisitions and asset management for properties east of

the Mississippi River as part of GE Investment’s $4 billion real

estate portfolio. Prior to GE, Dan worked as a commercial

real estate lender and work-out specialist in real estate

assets with Riggs National Bank as well as a credit specialist

and underwriter for Connecticut Bank & Trust.

Dan holds a Masters Degree in Real Estate from Johns

Hopkins University and an undergraduate degree from the

University of Maryland.

Nick Over joined PDG in January of 2023 as a new principal with a focus on development and acquisitions opportunities.

Nick’s expertise includes identifying, evaluating and initiating new real estate development opportunities within existing assets or raw land with a focus on mixed-use, retail, residential, and office products. Creatively finding value-add opportunities and executing on complex entitlements and construction is what drives him. Nick is an industry leader who can multi-task and has extensive firsthand lead experience from project conception through to completion and on-going operations of mixed-use assets.

Prior to joining the PDG team, Nick was the Vice President of Development for Retail Properties of America (now Kite Realty), where he led the development teams in the east region. Prior to RPAI/Kite Realty he spent 10+ years at The Peterson Companies and Federal Realty Investment Trust supporting some of the largest development projects in the D.C. / Baltimore corridor, Nick has the ability to leverage his local relationships with property owners, developers and municipality officials to identify value enhancement.

Nick has a B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and a J.D from Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana.

ICSC and ULI member.

A native of Reston, Michael joined Walsh Colucci in 2004 and primarily focuses on managing the legislative approval process for clients seeking rezonings, special exceptions, zoning modifications, and other land use approvals. Michael has gained extensive experience through his work in Loudoun County and the Town of Leesburg and has been involved in several projects in other Northern Virginia municipalities. In addition to providing project management experience, Michael has a thorough understanding of local zoning ordinance, comprehensive plan, subdivision and site plan standards as well as significant experience in drafting proffer statements, zoning determination request letters, statements of justification, and various other land use documents.