With just a week left until our forum in San Francisco on??California?s Housing Market: Navigating the Post-Bottom Landscape,? we?ve lined up an impressive array of speakers. You can see more about them below. If you?d like to attend the event on October 12 in San Francisco, please RSVP here.
Welcome Speaker
Spencer Rascoff
Spencer Rascoff is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Zillow Inc. Spencer joined the company as one of its founding employees in 2005 and was promoted to CEO in September 2010. In 1999, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, which was sold to Expedia in 2003. Spencer then became Vice President of Lodging for Expedia, where he ran Expedia?s largest and most profitable business line. Before his consumer Web career, Spencer was a private equity investor at TPG Capital, and an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Allen & Company.
Spencer graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and he serves on Harvard University?s Digital Community & Social Networking Advisory Group. Spencer is a member of the Young Presidents? Organization (YPO), and the Policy Advisory Board at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Spencer is also on the Boards of Directors of ezRez, a privately-held travel technology company, and Room77, a privately-held online travel company.
Keynote Speaker
Carol J. Galante
Carol J. Galante currently serves as Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing-FHA Commissioner, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Prior to her nomination, Ms. Galante served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing programs, a post to which she was appointed by President Barack Obama in March 2009.
As Acting FHA Commissioner, Ms. Galante has direct responsibility for oversight and administration of the FHA?s trillion dollar insurance portfolio, which includes single family and multifamily housing as well as insured health care facilities. She is also responsible for several of HUD?s rental assistance programs, including 1.2 million units of Project Based Rental Assistance, and over 400,000 apartments for elderly and the disabled under the Section 202 and 811 programs.
Under her leadership, the Office of Housing has developed a comprehensive risk management infrastructure through the Office of Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs and organized the formation of a new Office of Housing Counseling. Ms. Galante has also played an important role in key Administration initiatives, including Choice Neighborhoods, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) and other interagency alignment efforts.
Ms. Galante is a licensed real estate broker (currently inactive) and holds a Master of City Planning from U.C. Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan.
Overview of the Nations Housing Market
Stan Humphries
Dr. Stan Humphries is the Chief Economist of Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace. ?Stan joined the company as one of its earliest employees in 2005 and created the Zestimate and its first algorithm. Since that time, Stan has built out the industry-leading economics and analytic team at Zillow. Prior to joining Zillow, Stan spent five years at Expedia where he ran the advanced analytics team. Before Expedia, Stan served as a researcher and faculty member at the University of Virginia, and was previously a Presidential Management Fellow where he served at NASA, the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, and the Technology Administration within the Department of Commerce.? Stan has also served in the United States Peace Corps, where he taught high school physics and chemistry in the West African country of Benin. Stan has a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College, a Master?s of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia.
Is it a Good Time to Buy in California?: The Housing Market?s New Normal
Moderator: Colleen Edwards
Colleen Edwards is one of the state?s leading branding and marketing strategists for cities, start-up residential, mixed-use, commercial and retail real estate development and adaptive reuse projects. Her firm, EMC Creative, is a full-service advertising agency specializing in marketing for the real estate industry.
Colleen is the author and host of The Real Story, an online real estate blog and podcast resource.? In this capacity, she has interviewed dozens of the state?s? thought leaders and policy makers. Since the mid-1990?s, Colleen has been engaged in speaking and moderating panels for such far-flung audiences as KCBS Radio and the Urban Land Institute. In 2006, Colleen was inducted into the California Homebuilding Industry Association?s Hall of Fame, one of just five women in the history of the organization to be so honored.
Last October, Forbes Magazine named her one of Northern California?s ?Most Powerful Women in Business?.
Bert Selva
Bert Selva is president and CEO of Shea Homes, one of the largest, privately-held homebuilders in America operating in California, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Nevada and Florida.?
Bert joined Shea Homes in 1996 and previously served as the president of the Colorado division, which he started in September 1996.? During his tenure, he was responsible for all homebuilding and commercial development activities in Colorado.
Prior to joining Shea Homes, Bert was a senior executive and involved in all aspects of the start-up and business operations of the Colorado division of KB Home.? He previously served as chief financial officer with Signature Homes in Orange County, California.? Additionally, Bert has served as a management consultant with Arthur Andersen & Company, and as an international banker working in Hong Kong, Seoul, Korea and Tokyo, Japan.
Bert holds a Business degree from the University of Southern California, and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from UCLA.? Bert is also fluent in Spanish.
Eric Gutshall
Eric Gutshall has over 12 years of general management and real estate experience.? As President and Chief Operating Officer of Haven Realty Capital, Eric is responsible for all aspects of the firm?s operations, including infrastructure development, process design and implementation and staff leadership and development.
Eric began his career at a Beverly Hills-based venture capital firm focused on the seeding of early stage start-up companies in the New Media and Internet spaces. ?In this role, Eric was instrumental in the formations of four start-ups in roles ranging from market strategy and positioning, business development, general management and staffing.
Eric holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at USC, a Masters in Real Estate Development (MRED) from the School of Policy, Planning and Development at USC and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.? After graduating from Yale, Eric was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and played in its minor league system prior to beginning his professional career.
John Burns
John and his 32-person team advise executives on major real estate industry decisions all over the country.? The company is on retainer with many of the largest companies in the real estate and investment industries, producing ongoing research and advice.? John and his very experienced team also customize market and consumer research studies to help with portfolio, strategic and community-specific decisions.
John started his career as a CPA and then spent 8 years in KPMG Peat Marwick?s Real Estate Consulting practice and four years at a national consulting firm before starting the firm in 2001.? John has a M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University. ??An avid baseball fan, John has attended home games for all 30 major league baseball teams.
Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson is a seasoned mortgage banking veteran that during his active banking career specialized in wholesale and correspondent sales, operations management, and bringing financial institutions into new lending markets. His primary focus was residential mortgages working closely with most mortgage and Wall Street investors.Since 2006, has worked as an independent real estate, finance, and related sectors analyst, consultant, strategist, and risk ?enlightener? to the financial services sector.
His years of real-life experience, extensive on-the-ground research, and absolutely unique forward-looking proprietary data has led him to make an extraordinarily large number of early and accurate predictions about the ?great mortgage and housing meltdown? and company-specific events.
Taxing a Recovering Housing Market: Prop 13, the Mortgage Interest Deduction and Other Issues
Moderator: Julie Schmit
Julie Schmit is a real estate? and economics Reporter for USA Today. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she reports on national housing issues and covered the foreclosure and housing crisis. She previously covered energy, general economics, food safety, and drug safety. Julie has also been the technology editor for the Money section, as well as a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong covering politics and economics in Southeast Asia. She?s a graduate of the University of Washington.
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Richard Green
Richard K. Green, Ph.D., is the Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. He holds the Lusk Chair in Real Estate and is Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Marshall School of Business.
His research addresses housing markets, housing policy, tax policy, transportation, mortgage finance and urban growth. He is a member of two academic journal editorial boards, and a reviewer for several others. His work is published in a number of journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Land Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Housing Economics, and Urban Studies. His book with Stephen Malpezzi, A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy, is used at universities throughout the country. He recently gave a presentation at the 31st annual Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium, where his work was cited by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The National Association of REALTORS, the Ford Foundation, and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy have funded grants to support some of Dr. Green?s research. He consults for the World Bank.
Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his A.B. in economics from Harvard University.
Jason Gold
Jason R. Gold is the Director for PPI?s Re-thinking US Housing Policy? and Senior Fellow for financial services. His areas of expertise include housing, banking, capital markets. He has been involved in banking and federal policy for over eighteen years. Jason started his career in the private sector working for leading institutions such as Saxon Capital and First Tennessee. In 2010 Jason advised the Congressional Oversight Panel in producing the November 2010 oversight report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Jason is a panelist on the Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey. He is also a thesis advisor for Georgetown University, where he extends industry expertise to guide Master?s program graduate candidates producing thesis work in the housing and financial services areas.
Jason has been a contributor to and quoted in a number of national publications as an expert on housing policy including Forbes, Bloomberg News, US News and World Report, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Las Vegas Sun, Huffington Post and MSNBC among others.
Christopher Thornberg
Christopher Thornberg is Founding Partner of Beacon Economics, LLC and widely considered to be one of California?s leading economists. An expert in economic forecasting, regional economics, real estate and industry analysis, employment and labor markets, and economic policy, he was one of the earliest and most accurate predictors of the subprime mortgage market crash that began in 2007, and of the global economic recession that followed.
Prior to launching Beacon, he was an economist with UCLA?s Anderson Forecast where he regularly authored economic outlooks for California, Los Angeles, and the East Bay. He also developed a number of specialized forecasts for various regions and industries. Previously he has taught in the MBA program at UC San Diego?s Rady School of Business, at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, and has held a faculty position in the economics department at Clemson University.
Dr. Thornberg holds a Ph.D in Business Economics from The Anderson School at UCLA, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dowell Myers
Dowell Myers is a professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He is an urban demographer and housing specialist who integrates demographic data (census, surveys, and projections) with housing, urban planning, and public opinion. He is the author of ?Aging Baby Boomers and the Generational Housing Bubble? and ?Demographic Forces and Turning Points in the American City.?? Myers holds graduate degrees from UC-Berkeley and M.I.T.
Source: http://www.zillow.com/blog/2012-10-04/forum-on-californias-housing-market-speakers/
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