Wes Keusder - Immediate Past Chairman

A third-generation homebuilder, Wes Keusder is owner and president of Costa Mesa-based Keusder Enterprises and EHI, which build homes in Riverside County, Sacramento, and the San Fernando Valley and the South Bay regions of Los Angeles.

EHI has evolved from the original homebuilding company — Davies, Keusder & Brown — founded by Keusder's grandfather, Walter W. Keusder, who served as CBIA President in 1958 and before that as president of BIA/SC’s preceding organization in 1955. Keusder's father, Walter, Jr., also served as CBIA President, in 1984, and as president of BIA/SC, in 1977. Wes Keusder served as BIA/SC’s president in 2004.

Keusder chaired CBIA in 2007 and also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Homebuilding Foundation. He is a past president of BIA/SC's Riverside Chapter and has contractor’s licenses in California and Nevada. He previously was involved in another family-owned business, G.J. Payne Company, which resurfaced and repaired streets and runways in the western United States.

He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in business and earned a master's degree in business from Pepperdine University in 1982.