New Officers Elected to Lead CBIA in 2006
October 12, 2005
Contact: John Frith, Public Affairs Director
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(Note to Editors: High-resolution photos of Layne Marceau, Wes Keusder, and Ray Becker are available in high resolution downloads)
SACRAMENTO - The CBIA Board of Directors has elected three officers to lead the Association in 2006. Because of changes in CBIA's governance structure, beginning this year the two senior officers will no longer be referred to as President and Vice President, but instead will be titled Chair and Vice Chair.
Layne Marceau - Chair
Layne Marceau is president of the Northern California Division of Shea Homes, one of seven Shea Homes divisions nationwide. Marceau joined the company in 1995 as vice president of finance for its Southern California Division. In 1998, he became corporate vice president of operations and in February 2000, he was named president of the Northern California Division.
In conjunction with Shea's corporate chief financial officer, Marceau took a lead role in mergers and acquisitions, successfully leading the acquisition of both the Mission Viejo Company and UDC Homes.
Prior to joining Shea Homes, Layne spent seven years in the real estate consulting and audit practice at Deloitte and Touche. Before that, he taught high school economics and mathematics for four years.
Marceau earned his bachelor's degree in management science from the University of California, San Diego, and his master's degree in finance and accounting from the University of California, Irvine.
A licensed California certified public accountant and real estate broker, Marceau chairs the Home Ownership Advancement Foundation and is a board member of the Northern California chapter of HomeAid, the homebuilding industry's premier charity.
Wes Keusder - Vice Chair
A third generation homebuilder, Wes Keusder is owner and president of Costa Mesa-based EHI and Keusder Enterprises, 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 the Building Industry Association of Southern California'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 also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Building Industry Foundation, is the 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.
Ray Becker - Treasurer/Secretary
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 (then) little-known Inland Empire. Prior to joining DMB, Becker was a senior vice president with Lennar Communities' Southern California Division.
Becker's involvement with BIA began in 1982. In 1987, he served as president of the Riverside Chapter of BIA/SC and was BIA/SC president in 2003. He has served on numerous committees and task forces at CBIA and for the past three years has been Vice Chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee. 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 NAHB.
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The California Building Industry Association is a statewide trade association representing more than 6,400 businesses - homebuilders, remodelers, subcontractors, architects, engineers, designers, and other industry professionals. A recent study determined that homebuilding generates approximately $60 billion a year to the California economy and creates an estimated 526,000 jobs statewide.
