New Officers Elected to Lead CBIA in 2007
October 16, 2006
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John Frith
CBIA Vice President/Public Affairs
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Editors: Photos of our officers are available on our website, or can be emailed upon request.
SACRAMENTO — The California Building Industry Association’s Board of Directors has elected new officers to lead the Association in 2007. Elected during the Board’s annual meeting on Friday, held this year in Napa, were Wes Keusder of San Juan Capistrano as Chair, Ray Becker of San Juan Bautista as Vice Chair, and Horace Hogan II of Carlsbad as Treasurer/CFO.
Wes Keusder — Chair
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 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 — Vice Chair
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 four 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.
Horace Hogan II - Treasurer/Secretary
Horace Hogan has been active in the homebuilding industry in Southern California for more than 22 years. Hogan began his career at the Mission Viejo Company, a master-planned community development and homebuilding company in Orange County, where he served as vice president of sales, marketing, product development, production control, and project regulatory compliance.
In 1989, Hogan left the Mission Viejo Company to co-found Pacific Gateway Homes, L.P., a privately held homebuilding company, where he served first as executive vice president & chief operating officer, before being named president & chief executive officer. During his tenure, Hogan guided the company through the worst real estate recession since the Great Depression, and grew the business to 300 closings annually. In 1993, Pacific Gateway Homes was named Builder of the Year by Hearthstone Advisors.
Prior to joining The Brehm Communities as president & chief operating officer in 1999, Hogan served as president of Brock Homes, a Ryland company.
Hogan’s vision and leadership resulted in over 30 design, marketing, and merchandising awards honoring Mission Viejo Company’s achievements, including two Gold Nugget Awards for attached and detached housing, and an NAHB Best in American Living Award.
Hogan received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and his master’s degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University. He resides in Carlsbad with his wife, Kim, and their children, Jacob and Savanna.
