Developer Magazine BIOS

Thomas S. Bozzuto, CEO
The Bozzuto Group

Since the formation of The Bozzuto Group in 1988, Tom Bozzuto has led the company’s development, construction, and management of almost a billion dollars of income-producing and for-sale housing. During his 30-year career, he has overseen and been responsible for the creation of more than 40,000 residential units with a value in excess of $6 billion.
Prior to the formation of The Bozzuto Group, Tom spent 13 years as Mid-Atlantic Regional Partner for Oxford Development Co. He also worked for James Rouse Mortgage Company and, prior to that, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal.

A graduate of Hobart College, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees, Tom has a master’s degree in metropolitan studies from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He served as a Congressional Appointee to the Millennial Housing Commission and is serving his second term as a Gubernatorial Appointee to the Maryland Housing Commission. A member of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Policy Advisory Board, he currently serves as Secretary of the National Multi Housing Council. Active in a number of community organizations, he also serves on the Board of Provident Bank.

Thomas P. Cox, AIA, LEED AP, Founder and CEO
Thomas P. Cox: Architects

Thom Cox is the founder and CEO of TCA (Thomas P. Cox: Architects). As managing principal, he is recognized as an industry leader in mixed-use, high-density urban infill and multifamily architecture. As a member of the Urban Land Institute, Mr. Cox serves on the Multifamily Blue Council. Mr. Cox is also a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, the U.S. Green Building Council, and supports affordable housing projects for Habitat for Humanity.

TCA’s vision is “Excellent Housing for Excellent Clients.” The firm’s goal is to produce first-class housing solutions that create value for its developer clients, owners, residents, and for the communities in which they are built. Today, TCA is one of the most recognized architecture and planning firms forging the urban lifestyle in the Western United States, with offices located in Orange County and downtown Los Angeles.

William P. Hankowsky, Chairman, President, and CEO
Liberty Property Trust

William P. Hankowsky joined Liberty Property Trust in January of 2001 as chief investment officer, responsible for refining the company’s corporate strategy and investment process. In 2002, he was named president, and in 2003, was appointed CEO and elected chairman of Liberty’s board of trustees.

Under his leadership, Liberty has become the leading commercial developer in the United States of high-performance green buildings, earning an unparalleled series of national awards, including the 2006 U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in LEED award, the 2007 National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Green Development Award, the 2008 CoreNet Global Sustainability Leadership award, and the 2008 NAIOP Developer of the Year award.

Prior to joining Liberty, he created and directed the Camden, N.J., community and economic development agency for eight years. He then joined the private sector serving in real estate management positions for the Amtrak and Reading rail corporations. He was then recruited back to the public sector by the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., one of the premier agencies of its kind in the nation, where he served for 11 years as president overseeing the city’s economic development agency, managing 11 industrial parks, operating 20 loan programs, and coordinating major projects including a new convention center, new hotels, professional sports stadiums, and attracting the Norwegian shipbuilding giant, Kvaerner, to Philadelphia in a $1 billion deal that created more than 6,000 jobs at the former Philadelphia Navy Ship Yard. During a two-year hiatus from PIDC, Mr. Hankowsky also served as the city of Philadelphia’s commerce director. With his extensive experience in both the public and private real estate sectors, he is a frequent speaker at real estate conferences and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Real Estate Portfolio, Commercial Property News, and Developer magazine, among other media outlets.

Mr. Hankowsky currently serves on the boards of Aqua America, Citizens Financial Group, Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, Innovation Philadelphia, Philadelphia Shipyard Development Corp., Philadelphia Board of Trade, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and as chair of the board of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Mr. Hankowsky received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University.

F. Barton Harvey III, Former Chairman
Enterprise Community Partners

Bart Harvey joined Enterprise in June 1984 and became Chairman and CEO in October 1993. In January 2007, Doris Koo, the first Executive Director of Asian-Americans for Equality, became CEO of Enterprise Community Partners. Today, Mr. Harvey is the former Chairman of Enterprise Community Partners and Enterprise Community Investment.

Enterprise is a leading provider of capital and expertise for affordable housing and community development. Enterprise works with partners—developers, investors, government, community-based nonprofits, and others—to reach our common goal and has raised and invested more than $8 billion that has produced more than 230,000 homes for low-income households.

Enterprise continues to shape ways to ensure better outcomes for low-income families, such as by bringing together leaders from the environmental and community development fields to create the Green Communities SM initiative in 2004. This $555 million initiative is well ahead of its five-year goal of building more than 8,500 affordable homes that promote health, conserve energy and natural resources, and promote easy access to jobs, schools, and services.

Mr. Harvey was appointed by Congress to the Millennium Housing Commission from 2000 to 2002 and has been a Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta as well as on the Advisory Boards for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He has served on numerous Boards, including the Baltimore Education Scholarship Trust, Center Stage, the National Housing Conference, the National Housing Trust, and Shepherd’s Clinic.

For 10 years before joining Enterprise, Mr. Harvey worked in domestic and international positions for the investment bank Dean Witter Reynolds (now Morgan Stanley), leaving as Managing Director of Corporate Finance. He has an M.B.A. and B.A. from Harvard University and lives in Baltimore with his wife and three children.

David LaRue, President and Chief Operating Officer
Forest City Commercial Group

David J. LaRue is president and chief operating officer of Forest City Commercial Group, Forest City’s largest strategic business unit.

LaRue is responsible for the execution of operating and development plans within the Commercial Group, which owns, develops, acquires, and manages retail, office, hotel, and mixed-use projects throughout the United States.

LaRue has been with Forest City since 1986. He has served as executive vice president of Forest City Rental Properties and financial manager of Tower City Center in Cleveland. He has been in his current position since 2003. Before joining Forest City, he was a financial analyst for Sherwin-Williams Co.

He currently serves as a board member and chairman of the audit committee for U-Store-It Trust, a publicly traded REIT. In addition, he is a board and executive committee member for the Cleveland School of the Arts. He serves as a board member for the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission and the Greater Cleveland Partnership initiative focused on talent retention in the region. LaRue is a graduate of Wittenberg University with a bachelor’s degree in business/accounting.

John O. Norquist, President and CEO
Congress for the New Urbanism

John Norquist’s work promoting New Urbanism as an alternative to sprawl and an antidote to sprawl’s social and environmental problems draws on his experience as a big-city mayor and prominent participant in national discussions on urban design and school reform.

John was the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988 to 2004. Under his leadership, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown housing, and became a leading center of education and welfare reform. He oversaw a revision of the city’s zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city’s 3.1-mile Riverwalk. He has drawn widespread recognition for championing the removal of a 0.8-mile stretch of elevated freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million in infill development in the heart of Milwaukee.

A leader in national discussions of urban design and educational issues, Norquist is the author of The Wealth of Cities and has taught courses in urban policy and urban planning at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and at Marquette University.

Norquist served in the Army Reserves from 1971 to 1977 and earned his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He represented Milwaukee’s south and west sides in the Wisconsin Legislature. He chaired the National League of Cities Task Force on Federal Policy and Family Poverty and served on the Amtrak Reform Council. He is married to CNU Board Member Susan Mudd. They have two children, Benjamin and Katherine.

Richard Schaupp, Senior Vice President
ING Clarion

Richard Schaupp is a senior vice president of ING Clarion and served as a development manager on Clarion Development Venture I and II, the firm’s opportunistic, commingled fund. He currently serves as the assistant portfolio manager for Clarion’s third development venture fund. At ING Clarion, Mr. Schaupp has participated in the acquisition and asset and development management of more than $1 billion of real estate and the restructuring of more than $150 million of securitized loans. He has worked with ING Clarion for five years and has 10 years of real estate experience.

Prior to ING Clarion, Mr. Schaupp was a vice president at Hidalgo and Co. and a senior urban designer at Cooper, Robertson & Partners. Mr. Schaupp holds an M.B.A. from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame.

K. Robert Turner, Managing Partner
Canyon Capital Realty Advisors

Bobby Turner is a Managing Partner of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors and Canyon Capital Advisors (collectively, “Canyon”), money management firms and registered investment advisors headquartered in Los Angeles with approximately $20 billion in assets currently under management.

Bobby also serves as the Managing Partner of the Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund, a closed-end real estate fund and joint venture with Earvin “Magic” Johnson focusing on inner-city and urban real estate development. The fund’s investment strategy is to identify, enhance, and capture value through the acquisition, development, and redevelopment of urban real estate. In addition to meeting its investment objectives, the Fund seeks to provide and foster economic opportunities for the underserved residents of the urban neighborhoods in which it invests.

Mr. Turner has more than 20 years of experience in the acquisition and development of industrial, retail, and office properties; the structuring and restructuring of mortgages and mortgage securities; and the special servicing and asset management of commercial real estate assets. At Canyon, Mr. Turner has been involved in more than 225 real estate and mortgage transactions with an aggregate purchase price in excess of $10 billion, including the development, construction, rehabilitation, and repositioning of more than 42 million square feet of commercial property and 24,000 residential units located throughout the United States.

Mr. Turner serves on the Board of Advisors for the Virginia Avenue Project, a Los Angeles-based not-for-profit organization providing after school services for inner-city and at-risk youths and serves on the Board of the Pacific Charter School Development Corporation, a Los Angeles-based not-for-profit organization focused on providing underserved California students with high-quality charter school facilities.

Mr. Turner also serves on the Board of the Pacific Charter School Development Corporation, a Los Angeles-based not-for-profit organization focused on providing underserved California students with high-quality charter school facilities; the Board of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1994 to promote a market-based approach and cutting-edge solutions for inner-city revitalization; and on the Leadership Forum at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, an organization established to encourage private investment in real estate development in underserved communities. Mr. Turner is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in finance.