Shepherd Heery

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Shepherd Heery sheery@brookwoodgroup.com Mobile (415) 606-3355

Shepherd Heery, CEO
sheery@brookwoodgroup.com
Mobile (415) 606-3355

Shepherd Heery is Brookwood Group's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He is one of the three co-founders of the firm and has served as a member of Brookwood’s Board of Directors since the firm was established in 1989. He currently divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Ross, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area); and his home/office in Whitefish, Montana.

Shep’s experience as a developer, architect and construction program manager for private and public sector owners spans five decades. He has extensive management, leadership and marketing experience, especially in the realms of high-rise office and residential developments, encompassing all aspects of the development process.

Shep has been in his current role at Brookwood since mid-2013. He also previously served as Chairman/CEO of the firm from 1989-1997 (when it was known as Satulah Group). In 2009, when he returned to the firm as an employee, he became Brookwood’s President, again becoming CEO in 2010, and Chairman/CEO in 2013.

At Brookwood, Shep has served as the Senior Principal for client relationships including Salesforce, Aflac, Wells Fargo Bank, Cal Poly, and the City of South San Francisco. He also has led the firm into opportunities as a principal developer/investor.

From 2002 through early 2009, Shep served as Senior Vice President of San Francisco based Myers Development Company where he had overall responsibility for implementing the firm's development and construction activities.

From 2000-2001, Shep was employed with Tishman Speyer Properties as the Director of Development in San Francisco where he and his colleagues secured planning and zoning approvals to develop the 33-story, 650,000 square foot office tower at 555 Mission. He and others initiated the environmental review process for four residential towers in San Francisco. Two of the towers completed by Tishman Speyer are known as The Infinity. The other two towers on an adjacent block are known as Lumina.

At Satulah Group, Shep guided the growth of the firm from 1989-1997. In 1997, he negotiated the sale of Satulah's corporate real estate project management, facilities management and software units to LaSalle Partners, predecessor to Jones Lang LaSalle. In conjunction with the sale, Shep joined Jones Lang LaSalle where he worked for two years in a multi-disciplinary marketing capacity. At the time of the sale to LaSalle, the company's name was changed from Satulah Group to Brookwood Group. Shep remained on Brookwood's Board of Directors.

From 1982-1989, Shep was a Project Manager with Gerald D. Hines Interests, responsible for the development of several high-rise projects in Oakland and San Francisco. While at Hines, he coordinated and closed a number of transactions, the largest of which involved an ownership interest in 101 California Street. Prior to Shep’s experience at Hines, he was a practicing architect and construction program manager in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Aspen, Colorado.

Shep holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also attended summer sessions at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and at University College, Oxford.

EDUCATION

MBA, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Architecture Cornell University

Mark Troen

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Mark Troen, Senior Vice President of Brookwood Group, brings a broad investment perspective to its development projects and real estate advisory services practice throughout the United States. He also serves as managing principal of Brookwood’s affiliate, The Winnmark Group.

Mark has experience in all aspects of real estate investment, development and management, including: acquisitions and dispositions; financings and re-financings; asset repositioning, workouts and restructurings; management, leasing, marketing and sales; and construction, redevelopment and new development. He currently focuses on specific asset and portfolio strategies for Brookwood Equities including: identifying opportunistic situations; sourcing urban infill investments; and developing transit-oriented mixed-use projects.

Prior to joining Brookwood, Mark served as Chief Operating Officer of Sheldon Good & Company. He began his career at Security Pacific Realty Advisory Services and subsequently worked for HSBC USA (Marine Midland Bank), The Weitzman Group, Monday Properties, Racebrook Capital Advisors.

Mark has a multi-disciplinary educational and professional background, with an MBA from the Wharton School and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College, majoring in economics.

Mark is active with the Urban Land Institute (ULI); a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS); a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); a Registered Architect (NCARB & Florida); and holds Real Estate Broker’s Licenses in New York, Florida, North Carolina, Missouri, Maryland, and Connecticut.

Mark teaches graduate level real estate development, economics, and market analysis at the Masters in Real Estate Development + Urbanism Program of the University of Miami School of Architecture.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Master of Architecture: University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude: Harvard College

REGISTRATIONS

Licensed Real Estate Broker: Connecticut, New York, Florida, Maryland, Missouri & North Carolina

Registered Architect: NCARB Certified, Florida, AIA

Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS)

Linda Simon

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Linda Simon lsimon@brookwoodgroup.com Office: (404) 350-6865

Linda Simon, SVP
lsimon@brookwoodgroup.com
Office: (404) 350-6865

Linda Simon is Brookwood's Senior Vice President and Financial Controller. She is a member of the firm's four person Executive Committee and is a shareholder. She has extensive financial management experience in the development, design and construction industries.

Linda has been with Brookwood since 1994, and in 2001 was promoted to the position of Controller reporting to the company's CEO.

Before joining Brookwood, Linda spent 10 years as Assistant Controller for the Land Development division of Cousins Properties. She also has experience as the Controller for the real estate development firm Brookside Properties, Inc., and Cumberland Builders, Inc., a volume homebuilder.

Don Eichelberger

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Don Eichelberger is a Brookwood shareholder and Senior Program Manager. He has more than 40 years of experience building major projects for both public and private clients, including several milestone projects such as Texas Commerce Tower in Houston, Library Tower in Los Angeles, San Francisco City Hall, and the Ohlone College Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology in Newark, California.

Don started his career as a structural design engineer with Bechtel Power Corporation in San Francisco and after graduate school, spent 23 years working for general contractors, including nearly 20 years with Turner Construction Company. Don managed two business units for Turner over a period of 10 years and was personally involved in dozens of Turner’s most important projects in the western United States.

From 1998 through 2015, Don was a Principal of Stegeman and Kastner, Inc. in an Owner's Representative role, managing the complete project implementation process for various Northern California clients.

From 2015 to present, Don has operated as an independent consultant and from 2015-2016 also assisted the Lawrence Livermore National Lab during an intense rebuilding effort of their internal Project Management group.

Over the years, Don has also engaged in various personal real estate activities and from the perspective of the person who takes the risk, fully understands the opportunities as well as the trials and tribulations of real estate ownership.

Don has four university degrees. He received two undergraduate degrees (B.S. Civil Engineering and B.S. Business) from the University of Colorado in Boulder, an MBA from Harvard University in Boston, and a JD from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Don is both a Registered Civil Engineer and a Licensed General Contractor in California, and is past Certified by the Construction Management Association of America as a Construction Manager (CCM). Don belongs to many professional organizations include the Urban Land Institute, the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California, and American Society of Civil Engineers.

EDUCATION

B.S.C.E. (Emphasis on Structures), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

B.S. Business (Emphasis on Accounting), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

MBA (Emphasis on General Management and Real Estate), Harvard University, Boston, MA

JD (Emphasis on Real Estate and Constr.), Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA

REGISTRATIONS

Licensed Civil Engineer, State of California, License No. C26183

Licensed General Contractor, State of California, Class B License No. 940429 (Currently Inactive)

Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), Certified Construction Manager No. A1617 (Past Certified)

AFFILIATIONS

Urban Land Institute (ULI)

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Danny Gutlay

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Danny Gutlay dgutlay@brookwoodgroup.com Mobile: (770) 689-6665

Danny Gutlay
dgutlay@brookwoodgroup.com
Mobile: (770) 689-6665

Danny Gutlay is a Managing Principal of Brookwood Program Management LLC and a shareholder of its parent company, Brookwood Group, Inc. He has more than 35 years experience in the construction industry. His experience includes such diverse projects as school facilities, hospitals, military installations, airports, capital improvement programs and public works programs.

From the Fall of 2007 to Spring of 2009, Danny was the on-site project manager and Owner’s Representative for the renovation of three residential halls at Clark Atlanta University. Since then, Danny has represented the interests of the Atlanta Public School system in its Special Purpose Local Options Sales Tax (SPLOST I,II,III) in negotiations with facilities departments, school boards and government agencies. Danny has participated in the process to redesign prototype schools and develop design standards for the local school system, reviewed presentations for unique school concept to districts and has developed and managed annual capital outlay.

Danny's experience spans several disciplines and his experience reflects the flexibility and resourcefulness necessary to address client concerns throughout the construction process.

Prior to joining Brookwood, Danny was tasked with the management of three hospitals in Florida, where his responsibilities included identifying hospital facilities’ $800M capital improvement projects and developing a scope of work for various department users. He evaluated necessary recommendations from internal committees in upgrading facilities needs to ensure compliance with governing agencies such as the Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) and the Healthcare Joint Commission.

Before working in Florida, Danny represented the interests of the DeKalb County Schools and Atlanta Public Schools in their Special Purpose Local Options Sales Tax (SPLOST I and II), specifically in their negotiations with district superintendents, facilities departments, school boards and government agencies.

Artis Johnson

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ARTIS JOHNSON

Artis L. Johnson is a co-founder and Principal of Brookwood|Johnson and he is a strategic joint venture partner with Brookwood Group, delivering services to the Atlanta Public Schools and other clients.

Artis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Construction Services, a minority owned construction and program management firm located in downtown Atlanta. He is responsible for the successful and profitable operation of the firm which serves commercial, institutional and industrial clients throughout Georgia.

The 12-person office is comprised of project managers, engineers, estimators and administrative personnel.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, Management, Georgia State University

AFFILIATIONS

National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC)

Ennis Parker

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Ennis Parker is Professor of Practice at Georgia Tech, holding a joint appointment with the Schools of Architecture and Building Construction. He brings more than 40 years of experience managing large complex projects and has directed the design and construction efforts for more than $2 billion in capital projects for a diverse range of programs and building types. His in-depth knowledge in the construction management revolves around project delivery, and construction management risk.

Mr. Parker’s most recent consulting assignments include advising Clark Atlanta University on their overall capital improvement program, advising the City of Fayetteville, Georgia on a new city plan and new building programs, and serving as senior advisor to the City Council and City Manager for a new, $300 million complex called City Springs. City Springs is a city center for this newly formed city. It includes 300 units of housing in a public private partnership, a new City Hall, a 70,000 sf performing arts center, extensive retail, and a new city park.

Other projects that Ennis has managed include the $130 million Network Operations Complex for Turner Broadcasting, the $120 million USA Headquarters for the Coca-Cola USA, the 38-gate expansion of Greater Cincinnati Airport, the new $115 million food processing plan for Beechnut in upstate New York, as well as government agency projects for the Georgia Board of Regents, the Technical University System of Georgia, Department of Human Resources, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Prior to his work with Brookwood, Ennis was president of Heery International, a five hundred person A/E and program management firm and was also CEO of Facility Group, Inc., a design/build firm of similar size.

Ennis has served as national President of the Professional Services Management Association and as President of both the Georgia Association and the Atlanta Chapters of the American Institute of Architects. He has focused on program and project management in his career, and was nominated for “Man of the Year in Construction” by ENR Magazine for management accomplishments. He has been involved in architecture and program management for government and private institutions for his entire career.

EDUCATION

Georgia Tech, Bachelor of Architecture

Georgia State University MBA

REGISTRATIONS

Licensed architect, Georgia

National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) certification

Dormant licenses, UK, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana

American Institute of Architects (former President, Atlanta Chapter and Georgia Assoc.)

Former Member, Royal Institute of British Architects

Professional Services Management Association (former National President)

Lev Weisbach

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Lev Weisbach, AIA, is an integral member of the Brookwood organization and a Senior Consultant to several different business units of The Brookwood Group of Companies.  He also is the founder and president of Weisbach architecture | design. He has more than 30 years of experience as a project manager and architect covering a diversified range of project types and scales.  He has been responsible for the management of projects ranging from $500,000 to $75 million, and he has extensive experience leading projects from inception through completion.

Since joining Brookwood in 2010, Lev has had leadership roles in project management, due diligence, planning and preliminary design services for: Salesforce; Jamestown; Dominican University of California in San Rafael; the Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City, California; the Cabrillo Unified School District in Half Moon Bay, California and the Culver City Unified School District in Southern California.

From 2003 to 2010, Lev was a principal at CCS Architecture, a nationally recognized architectural design firm.  At CCS, he was responsible for the management of the firm’s San Francisco office.  Representative projects include work for Hyatt Hotels, numerous retail and restaurant projects, the flagship store for Tesla Motors in Santa Monica, and the Holy Family Day Home Pre-School in San Francisco.

From 1996 to 2003 Lev worked for Gensler Architecture in San Francisco.  As a project manager for commercial and cultural projects, he managed the development of all phases of documentation and regulatory agency approvals.  Representative projects include the Shaklee Corporate Headquarters, the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, and the Bay Meadows Mixed-Use Projects in San Mateo, California.

Lev’s projects have been exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and New Delhi, and have appeared in Architectural Record, Architecture, Praxis, and Dwell.

A native of San Francisco, Lev is a licensed architect in California.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.  He is a Registered Architect in the State of California.

Andrew Duncan

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Andrew Duncan is a Brookwood shareholder and the firm's Creative Director responsible for design, production and maintenance of the firm's marketing materials, publications and websites. He also is actively engaged in the delivery of the firm's professional services.

With more than 31 years experience in electronic design, a background in traditional illustration, and a minor in computer science, he provides a blend of web development and graphic design services for Brookwood and its clients.

Andrew was a member of Brookwood’s original BCID team and an instrumental player in the final design guidelines used by the district to accomplish the first decade of improvements to Buckhead.

He previously served as designer and editor of guidelines for The Mall of Georgia at Mill Creek, The City of Roswell’s Commerce District, campus guidelines for Turner Broadcasting’s Turner-Techwood Campus, a concept design for the Atlanta Soccer Village, and gateway bridge cladding designs for the City of Woodstock’s proposed technology corridor.

Prior to joining Brookwood, Andrew worked in the motion picture industry for more than a decade, primarily on-set as the Assistant Propmaster, then later as a Graphic Designer, Set Designer and Art Director. His most recent projects include graphics support for "Last Vegas", special hero props for "Prisoners" and special assignments for "Drop Dead Diva". He occasionally dayplays for the prop department on a popular vampire-themed television series.

Andrew has more than a dozen projects on his resume including well-known projects like "Remember the Titans", "Sweet Home Alabama", "The War" and various television projects.

Andrew is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.

Bruce Fukuji

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Bruce Fukuji is an architect and city planner with twenty-five years of award-winning experience in shaping sustainable communities. Highly effective at listening to stakeholders, framing issues and bridging technical, economic and community concerns, Bruce is recognized by clients and stakeholders for his inclusivity, depth, and creative design solutions for complex and often controversial urban infill development.

Bruce’s work with Brookwood clients includes the Mariani family, the Jefferson Union High School District, the Culver City Unified School District, and others.

As the Urban Design Practice Leader with PB Placemaking, Parson Brinkerhoff ’s top ranked transit-oriented development practice, Bruce designed the transformation of Tyson’s Corner from an auto-oriented edge city to a walkable, transit-oriented central business district as featured in Time Magazine and The Washington Post, receiving the American Planning Association’s 2011 national planning award.

As Director of Planning at Ken Kay Associates, Bruce led the planning and design of several large scale New Urbanist master plans including the Coyote Valley Specific Plan in San Jose, a mixed-use community for 50,000 industry leading jobs and 25,000 residences. Working with Alan Jacobs, Bruce designed six traditional neighborhoods for the 1,110-acre Rock Creek site in Sacramento.

Prior to Ken Kay Associates, Bruce was with Calthorpe Associates, the internationally recognized leader of transit-oriented urbanism. Bruce authored the highly regarded Bay Meadows Specific Plan, as well the nationally award-winning handbook “Creating Livable Streets” for Portland’s METRO, recognized by the American Planning Association as a planning classic.

For eight years, Bruce has served on Palo Alto’s urban design committee, working with Stanford University, developers, retailers, residents, and downtown businesses to develop the plan for downtown.

Bruce holds a Master of City Planning and a Bachelor of Arts from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Registered Architect in the State of California, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a member of the US Green Building Council.

EDUCATION

Master of City Planning, University of California at Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

REGISTRATIONS

American Institute of Architects

AFFILIATIONS

American Planning Association

U.S. Green Building Council

John Grannis

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JOHN GRANNIS

John Grannis is a Senior Consultant and Advisor, bringing 40 years of comprehensive construction management experience to Brookwood Group.

As an accomplished senior construction professional, John has managed many large-scale public and private sector projects in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and West Coast regions of the United States.

His expertise as a general contractor, from contract to build-out, has been applied across a diverse range of private and public sector project types, including: retail, hospitality, health care, educational, correctional, wastewater treatment and light industrial.

Since 2010 his firm JDG Group LLC has provided inspection and construction management services to asset management groups and general contractors.

In previous roles he provided management and administration services for the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, Charlestown Races and Slots, Marriott’s Courtyard brand, and the Internal Revenue Service.

EDUCATION

Bachelors degree from Tri-State University, Indiana

Alan Katz

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Alan Katz akatz@brookwoodgroup.com MOBILE: (510) 499-5674

Alan Katz
akatz@brookwoodgroup.com
MOBILE: (510) 499-5674

Alan Katz is a Co-Managing Principal of Brookwood Partners (also known as Brookwood Equities LLC) and, with Chris White, Alan co-leads most of Brookwood’s development activities in California.

Alan’s broad experience as an urban designer, architect, corporate real estate leader, and private sector developer guides his project understanding and overall strategic approach to real estate in both the private and public sectors.

Prior to becoming Co-Managing Principal of Brookwood Partners, Alan was President and Vice Chair of Brookwood Group, Inc. where he led the company’s real estate strategic advisory and development management practice in California.

Prior to joining Brookwood, Alan was Senior Vice President of Development at Stockbridge Capital, advising on property acquisition and disposition, due diligence, and oversight of development activities with several of Stockbridge’s operating partners. Stockbridge is a real estate investment management firm pursuing opportunistic, value add, and core investment strategies across multiple product types.

Alan’s previous experience also includes serving as Director of Development for two real estate investment trusts - Spieker Properties and Equity Office Properties. Alan led the approvals, development and construction of the award-winning Park Place at Bay Meadows Project in San Mateo, a mixed-use 10-acre infill development.

Earlier in his career, Alan served as Director of Corporate Real Estate, Facilities and Operations for a publicly traded international specialty retailer where he reported to both the CFO and the COO.

Alan is a Licensed Architect in California and has practiced architecture and urban design with SOM (Chicago), Cooper-Eckstut (NYC) and RMW (San Francisco) with an emphasis on adaptive reuse of existing buildings, master planning strategies and urban infill projects.

Alan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree from UC Berkeley, a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and a Masters in Urban Design from Harvard University.

He resides in Oakland, California.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts with Honors, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

Master of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Master of Urban Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

REGISTRATIONS

Registered Architect, State of California

Allison Knapp Wollam

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Allison Knapp Wollam

Allison Knapp Wollam

Allison Knapp Wollam has served as a Brookwood Consulting Planner since 2009. She is an expert in environmental review and planning process matters, particularly in California. She also is the principal of Allison Knapp Wollam Consulting, a firm she founded in 1996 after three years in the private sector and ten years in the public sector. She provides land use and environmental planning services, often managing complex and sometimes controversial projects. While rigorously protecting the interests of her clients, she works to identify common ground and to attain consensus among diverse groups with divergent interests to produce winning and implementable projects.

Allison regularly prepares and manages environmental documents and project entitlements for her clients that include Northern California municipalities such as Belmont, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Pacifica, San Bruno, Saratoga, South San Francisco and Union City.

As the consulting planner for the City of South San Francisco for the Terrabay, Mandalay and Centennial Towers projects, Allison has worked with Shepherd Heery and Alan Katz. Her responsibilities have included project planning and community outreach, as well as identification, management and enforcement of mitigation measures for environmental issues, especially in the realms of archaeology, biology, geology, hydrology and traffic.

Allison’s interests and talents are diverse. She has taken an active role in the successful construction, financing and operation of special needs housing. In the 1990’s she provided management services for the construction of a hospice. Allison identified and assembled the project team from construction through the program operations of the hospice. She processed the project entitlements, conducted public outreach, identified and secured the funding, facilitated state licensing and coordinated public donations. Belmont House Hospice is the first state licensed facility in California and was awarded six state and national awards of excellence.

Her awards include the National League of Cities James Howland Award of Merit, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Award of Merit, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Award of Excellence, Northern California Chapter American Planning Association Award of Excellence for Advocacy Planning, Helen Putnam California League of Cities Award of Excellence, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials Award of Merit, California Chapter American Planning Association Award of Merit for Advocacy Planning. Allison received two congressional proclamations for her work one from Congressman Tom Lantos and from Congresswoman Eshoo.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco University

Brinton Smith

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Brint Smith

Brint Smith

Brinton E. Smith, Jr. is a shareholder and senior advisor to Brookwood Group. He has more than 40 years of professional experience as an architect and program manager.

Brint's experience covers a wide range of complex building types. He has been responsible for the development of project budgets and schedules, the hiring of specialty consultants, and managing design and construction projects from pre-design to move-in.

Brint’s primary focus over the past 6 years has been in the Healthcare market. Brint has provided construction program management service for three of the major Healthcare systems in the southeast including the design and construction of a large 235-bed hospital tower, 500-car parking garage and multiple pedestrian concourses that connected the hospitals and clinics.

Previously, Brint served as Brookwood's Principal in Charge for Pre-Construction services to Union County, North Carolina for a $42 Million Human Services Building. He also served as Senior Program Manager for a $13.3 Million Health & Human Sciences Complex at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia.

Prior to his work in the Healthcare sector, Brint was primarily involved with the Higher Education market. Brint served as Senior Program Manager and Project Director for the California Polytechnic State University’s Student Housing Project in San Luis Obispo, California and established Brookwood’s San Luis Obispo office where he hired six new staff members to manage a this large design and construction program. He was responsible for the overall management of the design and construction of this $300 Million, multi-use project. The project consisted of 35 acres of campus infrastructure, 2676 beds of student housing, a student retail/recreation village and two large structured parking facilities to accommodate 1,900 vehicles. The project also required the relocation and new construction for several existing Agricultural Facilities on campus.

Brint also served as Brookwood's Senior Program Manager for a $22 Million Ray Charles Fine Arts Center at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, and a $32 Million renovation project in downtown Atlanta for the General Services Administration.

He was Brookwood’s Project Director responsible for the construction of a $13.6 Million, 375 bed student housing complex for Morehouse College in Atlanta and was the Design Phase Project Manager for three classroom and lab buildings on a new Savannah Campus for Georgia Tech. Brint carried out the program management of Georgia State University’s $34 Million Student Recreation Center.

He served as Brookwood’s Project Architect on The Wakefield, a $30 Million luxury residential mid-rise project in Atlanta and was also a key member of Brookwood’s master planning and design team for a 2.5 million square foot expansion project of The Coca-Cola Company’s corporate headquarters.

Brint is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Construction Management program at a local Technical College.

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science in Architecture, Southern Polytechnic State University

REGISTRATIONS

Architect, State of Georgia

ASSOCIATIONS

Construction Management Association of America

Charles Surber

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Charles Surber is a Brookwood shareholder and Advisor. He is recognized for his ability to lead teams and develop strategies for start-up, fast-growth, stable, and under-performing businesses and institutions; and work with diverse clients including high-profile entrepreneurs, investors, and institutions.

He most recently served as the Director of Sales & Marketing for Sheldon Good & Company; was Chief Marketing Officer for the Racebrook Portfolio of Companies; and is a co-founder and principal of The Winnmark Group, whose specialized real estate, financial, strategic, marketing, and operations services have merged with Brookwood.

Charles has held leadership positions as a fundraiser and non-profit manager for several national organizations including The Children’s Village in Dobb’s Ferry, NY; New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; the Palm Beach County Council of the Arts; and Business Volunteers for the Arts / John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Charles has a multi-disciplinary educational and professional background, with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Distinction from the University of Virginia; a Master of Science Degree in Learning Disabilities and Psychology from Radford University; post-graduate certificates from The Grantsmanship Center and IBM Leadership Commitment Program; Advanced Studies in Religion and Theology; and Specialized Training in Keyboard and Voice.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts degree, with Distinction, University of Virginia Master of Science Degree in Learning Disabilities and Psychology from Radford University

Post graduate coursework: Bard College and Certificates: The Gransmanship Center & IBM Leadership Commitment Program

Chris White

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Chris White is Co-Managing Principal of Brookwood Partners (also known as Brookwood Equities LLC) and, together with Alan Katz, Chris co-leads most of Brookwood’s development activities in California.

Chris joined the Brookwood organization in 2017 and has been leading Brookwood’s major Bay Area development and advisory projects, including 380 units of high-rise housing in downtown Oakland and the entitlement of more than 1,000 residential units on the San Francisco Peninsula. He has led several of Brookwood’s other high-density housing and mixed-use projects including a commercial, hospitality and residential project in Santa Clara. In addition to the development management of these projects, Chris also provides financial analysis and proforma underwriting for project capitalization.

Throughout his career, Chris has played an integral role in billions of dollars of real estate development projects and investments. Prior to joining Brookwood, Chris acquired multifamily properties with a large owner of apartments in San Francisco. His responsibilities included developing the investment strategy for each new acquisition, raising debt and equity capital, and leading the financial analysis, due diligence, and closing process. Chris then oversaw the design and construction team to execute on the rehabilitation or redevelopment strategy for the real property assets acquired.

As with Alan, Chris worked with Stockbridge Capital, where he played a key role in the development and capitalization of some of the largest projects in California including Bay Meadows Phase II, located in San Mateo. The mixed-use project included more than 1,100 units of housing, 700,000 square feet of office, and the public infrastructure to support the community including parks, utilities, and preparation of land pads for sale.

In Southern California, Chris worked closely with the Executive Managing Director of Stockbridge providing the complex financial analysis required for the capitalization and strategic disposition of Hollywood Park, a $3 billion mixed-use 238-acre village that includes housing, office, retail, and the new SoFi stadium to host the LA Rams and Chargers.

Prior to moving to San Francisco, Chris worked with The London Group Realty Advisors in San Diego where he specialized in market analysis and financial feasibility studies for investment and development projects including student housing, office, and retail. Chris has also worked in architecture and construction management, and holds a BA in Economics from UCLA.

He resides in Oakland, California.

EDUCATION

BA in Economics, UCLA