CBIA Elects New Officers for 2008
October 22, 2007
During its meeting in Napa on October 19, the CBIA Board of Directors elected new officers to guide the Association for 2008. Selected were:
Ray Becker - 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 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.
Horace Hogan II, Vice Chair
Horace Hogan II, president and chief operating officer for Brehm Communities in San Diego, has more than 27 years of executive leadership experience in the homebuilding industry.
Prior to joining Brehm in 1999, Hogan served as president of Brock Homes, where he was responsible for homebuilding operations throughout Southern California. He previously co-founded Pacific Gateway Homes in Aliso Viejo and was responsible for growing the company to an annual closing rate of more than 300 homes and was vice president of the Mission Viejo Company.
Hogan was CBIA’s 2007 Chief Financial Officer/Secretary and is a member of the board of directors for NAHB, CBIA, and the San Diego Capital Collaborative, which facilitates private and public investment in emerging but underserved neighborhoods. He also served as the 2006 President of the Building Industry Association of San Diego and on numerous BIASD committees and task forces, is a member of the Residential Real Estate Committee at the University of San Diego, and was appointed by the mayor of San Diego to the city’s Affordable Housing Task Force.
A graduate of Harvard University, Hogan holds a Master of City and Regional Planning degree. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.
John Young – CFO/Secretary
As a founding partner in Rancho Cucamonga-based Young Homes, John R. Young has been an active participant in this highly successful Southern California homebuilding company for nearly 20 years. The company has been responsible for the development of nearly 3,500 homes in communities throughout the Inland Empire and is one of the region’s largest homebuilders.
At the beginning, the Young Homes vision was to provide entry-level homes that would make the dream of homeownership attainable for young families and other first-time buyers. Although the vision has expanded over the years to include higher-end properties, the company's heart remains with the dreams of first-time buyers.
Young's experience in real estate extends nearly 30 years. His early years were spent as a successful sales representative and real estate broker focusing on single-family homes. He later purchased and operated a residential mortgage company, specializing in FHA and VA loans, as well as conventional loans. The expertise he built in sales and finance has proven to be a major asset to the steady growth of family-owned Young Homes.
He has served CBIA as Chair of the Member Services and Public Affairs committees and was the 2007 president of the Building Industry Association of Southern California and also served as BIA/SC’s interim president for most of 2006. He previously was president of BIA/SC’s Baldy View Chapter and president of HomeAid Inland Empire. Young is also active in NAHB.
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The California Building Industry Association is a statewide trade association representing more than 7,000 businesses – homebuilders, remodelers, subcontractors, architects, engineers, designers, and other industry professionals. A recent study determined that homebuilding generates approximately $68 billion a year to the California economy and creates an estimated 487,000 jobs statewide. More information is available on the Association's Web site, www.cbia.org.
