Ray Becker - Chairman
Ray Becker is a 25-year veteran of the real estate development industry. He has managed the development of large-scale master-planned communities involving more than 40,000 homes, as well as thousands of acres of retail and industrial projects, in Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and San Diego counties.
In January 2004, Becker joined DMB Associates, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based community builder, to develop a new town on 4,500 acres in San Benito County, at the south end of the Silicon Valley.
Becker attended California State University, Northridge, and spent a 10-year stint in the U.S. Army's Intelligence Branch. He began his development career under the tutelage of John D. Lusk, famed for his endowment of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California. In the early 1980s Becker was division manager for Lusk’s fledgling division in the Inland Empire. Prior to joining DMB, Becker was a senior vice president with Lennar Communities’ Southern California Division.
Becker’s involvement with the BIA began in 1982. In 1987, he served as president of the Riverside Chapter of the Building Industry Association of Southern California and was BIA/SC president in 2003. He currently is a member of the Home Builders Association of Northern California.
He has served on numerous committees and task forces at CBIA, including Association Vice Chair and Public Affairs Chair in 2007. He is a past president of the Inland Empire Chapter of HomeAid and serves on the boards of the Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation and the National Association of Home Builders.