Following are the biographies of the individuals that served on the ULI Eagle-Vail Advisory Services Panel from June 22 - 27, 2008.

Chair

John McIlwain
Senior Resident Fellow and ULI/J. Ronald Terwilliger Chair for Housing
ULI—the Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC

As the Senior Resident Fellow for Housing, McIlwain’s responsibilities include leading ULI’s research efforts to seek and promote affordable housing solutions in the U.S. and other nations, including development and housing patterns designed to create sustainable future environments for urban areas.

Prior to joining the ULI staff, McIlwain founded and served as Senior Managing Director of the American Communities Fund for Fannie Mae in Washington. The American Communities Fund is a venture fund founded by Fannie Mae dedicated to investing in hard-to-finance affordable housing. In this capacity, he was responsible for structuring, underwriting and closing equity investments in more than $700 million of residential and neighborhood retail developments in lower-income communities around the country. He also structured, negotiated and closed more than $100 million in historic tax credit and inner-city equity investments funds with Lend Lease, AEW Capital Management, and the Community Development Trust. Before taking that position, he was president and chief executive officer of the Fannie Mae Foundation.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae, McIlwain was the managing partner of the Washington law offices of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy, where he represented a broad range of clients in the single-family and multifamily housing areas.

McIlwain also served as executive assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He began his career in housing as Assistant Director for Finance and Administration, and Deputy Director of the Maine State Housing Authority.

McIlwain is a past president of the National Housing Conference, an umbrella organization in Washington for low-income and affordable housing issues. He is also a past president of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association. He currently is Secretary of the Center for Housing Policy and serves on the Board of Directors of the Community Preservation and Development Corporation, the Advisory Board of the Paramount Community Development Fund, and is a member of Mayor’s Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force for the District of Columbia.

McIlwain received a law degree from New York University where he worked for the NYU Law Review and was a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar. He received a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, from Princeton University.

Panelists

Lorne Bassel
Chief Executive Officer
LB & Associates
Intrawest
Montreal, PQ

With close to three decades of real estate development experience in both urban and resort locations throughout the world, Lorne Bassel takes his knowledge and passion for creating village centered master planned communities to create his most recent venture – Crave Real Estate.  Crave Real Estate is a testimony to Lorne’s devotion and experience (from his tenure at Intrawest) in creating places that are designed to connect people in social settings and provide them with what they want based on the careful understanding of their behavior.  It is this balanced mix of reason and magic that has led to the success of his worldwide projects by giving people access to what they desire.

Crave Real Estate is a real estate development and consulting group focused on the creation of mixed use properties.  The company is committed to working on projects with reputable partners and working through the projects with strategic alliances in the industry.  Crave is part of the Lubert Adler family which is a Philadelphia based private equity firm that specializes in real estate ventures.  Crave has the mission to create places that make people happy through creative real estate ventures.   

Prior to founding Crave, Lorne was the Executive Vice President of Intrawest Corporation, and one of the world leading experts in Village resort creation.  Lorne joined Intrawest Corporation in 1993, and led the then bankrupt Tremblant Ski resort to becoming North Americas Top rated resort in the Northeast for 10 years running. He is also one of the founders of the Intrawest Placemaking Division, the development arm of the billion dollar public company.

During his tenure, Lorne was responsible for the creation of more than 20 Intrawest resorts throughout North America and Europe, led Intrawest’s Village People Commercial teams, Hotel branding division, Human resources and more recently Innovation and Growth. He is a man with a rich history in the resort field, and a vested interest in understanding and predicting its future.  Lorne also served as a board member of the Intrawest Resort Executive Committee, Spa and Wellness committee, and leadership and training division.

Prior to Intrawest, Lorne held the position of Development Director for First Quebec Corporation where he developed numerous commercial, office and industrial projects in urban centers.  He was the driving force behind the re-invention of McGill College Avenue in Montreal during his eight years with First Quebec. 

Graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Lorne has both an undergraduate degree in Business Administration (HBA) and an MBA from what is now The Richard Ivey School of Business.

 Lorne serves as a Board member on numerous charitable organizations, and dedicates his free time to improving healthcare and education in Montreal. Lorne is also a dedicated member of the Urban Land Institute and Young Presidents organization. Lorne can be frequently found walking the streets of Montreal, spending time outside in nature, enjoying a glass of wine or playing his guitar.  Lorne thankfully loves to travel and explore.

Although frequently found in airports, Lorne resides in Montreal, Quebec, with his wife Danielle and their two sons (and future hockey legends) Henry and Oliver.  His family’s support and love is the driving force behind his desire to provide people with venues for remarkable experiences and memories.

Greg Cory
Senior Vice President
Economics Research Associates
San Francisco, CA

Greg has accumulated over 30 years experience in analyzing the demand for and impact of hotels, resorts, and recreation-oriented facilities within the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia, and has made this field the primary focus of his professional experience.  An avid skier, Mr. Cory has conducted over 70 separate ski development analyses, during the course of which he has visited and studied over 130 separate international and US ski areas.  He has examined the development history of, and been involved with the planning and development for, over 350 resort and tourism oriented projects around the world.  He previously served as the head of ERA’s Resort Real Estate Practice, is the current Chairman of the Recreation Development Council (Blue) of the Urban Land Institute, and is the corporate representative to the National Ski Areas Association.  He is a frequent speaker on the subject of land use economics, and is co-author of the book entitled Golf Course Development in Residential Communities published by ULI in 2001.

Over the years he has been involved in numerous issues facing mountain resort communities as they develop and mature.  He has assessed basic market demand for expansion of facilities at Vail, Aspen, Keystone, Squaw Valley, and Sun Peaks.  He has performed operational audits and valuations for the Yellowstone Club, Stowe, Stratton, Telluride, and Northstar. He has examined issues related to commercial space requirements and zoning issues for Breckenridge, Telluride, and Mammoth. Finally, he has wrestled with the classic issues of real estate development opportunities and the need to maintain a balance of transient accommodations throughout the life of the development at Sun Peaks, Mountain Creek, Valle Nevado (Chile), Kicking Horse, and others.

Greg received a Bachelor of Economics from the University of California, and a Masters in City and Regional Planning through a combined program with the University of Oregon and University of California, Berkeley.  Starting his career with the preparation of the State of Oregon’s Coastal Zone Management Plan, he migrated to the private sector where he joined ERA in 1978.  A privately held company until 2007, ERA is now the Global Economics brand for AECOM internationally.

Peter Forsch
President
P F Enterprises
Scottsdale, AZ

Peter Forsch has over 30 years experience in the real estate development business specializing in resort and resort residential development.

Mr. Forsch started his career in Aspen Colorado where he worked in and learned the ski area operations business. While with the Aspen Skiing Company (ASC), the owner/operator of Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass, he began his foray into real estate by managing the acquisition, development and management of the company’s employee housing program.

He also gained his real estate sales and brokers licenses and worked with a small company in the development and sales of small ranch parcels in the Aspen area. Eventually he headed up the real estate division for the Aspen Skiing Company where he managed and oversaw the development of all Company property in Aspen as well as in Breckenridge which ASC then owned. He also managed the entire mountain planning department for ASC, managed the ASC sales and marketing departments as well as chaired the Organizing Committee for the World Cup Ski Races.  In the mid 80’s he conceptualized, acquired, planned and headed up the development of The Little Nell Hotel.

After Aspen Mr. Forsch went to the Coeur d’Alene Idaho area where he managed the development of a new ski area – Silver Mountain Ski and Summer Resort. He oversaw the resorts strategic and development plan, organizational structure and staffing, finance, construction, sales and marketing as well as the ongoing operations which opened a couple years after he arrived.

From Silver Mountain Forsch stayed in the Coeur d’Alene Idaho area where he oversaw and managed a diversified real estate development and management company, McCormack Properties, which had a number of residential, resort and commercial developments and properties in the north western United States.

In 1998 Mr. Forsch went to Jackson Hole Wyoming where he was responsible for all the real estate planning and development for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) in Teton Village. There he managed the conceptualization, programming, product selection and mix, development, construction, sales and marketing and property management of condominiums, town homes, fractional ownership projects as well as numerous commercial and restaurant developments. He also initiated and put together the development plan and program, entitlements, design, financial projections as well as the debt and equity structure and partners for the Four Seasons Hotel – 125 rooms, 40 fractional units, 17 whole ownership units and a golf course.

In 2002 Mr. Forsch became president of The Club at Spanish Peaks - a 3,500 acre, 850 unit private ski and golf community in Big Sky Montana. He was responsible for all the planning, design, entitlements, development, construction, sales and marketing and operations. The project gained numerous critical awards and set records for sales in its first couple years.  In addition to The Club at Spanish Peaks Forsch was the COO for another 500 acre resort residential development (Lone Moose Meadows) in the Big Sky area.

Recently Mr. Forsch served a short stint as the head of a partnership that was developing a 2,500 acre property with 13 mile of shoreline in St. Kitts West Indies (Christophe Harbour).

Currently Mr. Forsch heads up his own consulting and management firm specializing in resort and resort residential developments in Arizona, Utah, Mexico and Belize. He also is an owner/ partner in a brokerage business specializing in commercial brokerage in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.

Steve Ormiston
Vice President
Shea Homes
Highlands Ranch, CO

Steve Ormiston is Vice President Planning for Shea Homes.  For the past 30 years, he has been engaged in the planning and development of Highlands Ranch, and more recently participates in Reunion being developed by Shea Homes in Commerce City.

A graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Mr. Ormiston has an undergraduate degree in Urban Planning and a Master of Urban Planning, and has over 33 years of professional community planning experience.

Prior to joining Shea Homes, Mr. Ormiston worked with Mission Viejo Company on Highlands Ranch and in the mid-1970’s, worked briefly at the Environmental Management Agency of Orange County, California.

Mr. Ormiston serves on several boards and committees including Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District, Centennial Water and Sanitation District, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Southeast Business Partnership, South I-25 Urban Corridor Transportation Management Association Board, FasTracks Citizens Advisory Committee, Denver Water Board Citizens Advisory Committee, Colorado Association of Homebuilders Board of Directors, Colorado Association of Homebuilders Government Affairs Committee, Denver Metro Homebuilders  Association Government Affairs Committee, National Association of Industrial and Office Parks Legislative Affairs Committee, Douglas County Open Space Advisory Committee, President of School District 27J Capital Facilities Fee Foundation, Douglas County School District Long Range Planning Committee, Treasurer of Chatfield Basin Conservation Network, District Captain and Delegate for Douglas County Precinct No. 14. 

He has also served on the Reunion Metropolitan District, North Range Metropolitan Districts 1-5,TrailMark Homeowners Association, TrailMark Metropolitan District, School District 27J Long Range Facilities Planning Committee, Douglas County School Facilities Trust Fund Foundation, Denver Regional Council of Governments Regional Open Space Committee, Highlands Ranch Community Association Open Space Conservation Area Committee, and C-470 Task Force.

In 2001, Mr. Ormiston received the Denver Regional Council of Governments Local Government Innovations Award for Public Private Partnerships for the School District 27J Capital Facilities Fee Foundation.

R. Terry Schnadelbach
Professor and Chairman
Universitiy of Florida Department of Landscape Architecture
Gainesville, FL

For over thirty years, R. Terry Schnadelbach has been an internationally known landscape architect, educator, ecologist, historian and author. He began his career in architecture, continued in landscape architecture, and has gained reputation as an urban designer, landscape architect, ecologist, historian and preservationist of the natural as well as the built landscape.

As a practitioner, Schnadelbach has executed major landscape architectural commissions throughout the United States, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East. He has consulted to governments, institutions and private industry. His professional work has received numerous awards including those from the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Design and the American Institute of Architects; and in New York City, the Phillip Winslow Award for Landscape Design of Public Spaces, the Parks Council Award and the City Club of New York’s Bard Award for Civic Design. He has won international competitions and received the honored French Ruban d’Or in 1995 for his Pont d’Elon in Brest, France. In the United States, his work includes projects in the hospitality sector in Tucson, Ariz., and Brainard, Minn., residential development at Killington Ski Resort, Vermont, and the environmental planning for the Ken Carlyle Ranch in Colorado.   

As a landscape architectural historian, Prof. Schnadelbach has worked on the restoration of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Buffalo park system and Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey. He has restored Phipps Garden Apartments, Sunnyside, New York - a twentieth century landscape of Clarence Stein, Henry Wright and Marjorie S. Cautley.  Prof. Schnadelbach has written on Frederick Law Olmsted, Ian McHarg and Edward G. Lawson. He is the author of the book: Ferruccio Vitale, Landscape Architect of the Country Place Era, 2001.  Internationally, Professor Schnadelbach is the landscape historian of the Angkor civilization at Siem Reap, Cambodia for the work being done by the World Monuments Fund.

Prof. Schnadelbach is a graduate in architecture from Louisiana State University and in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1964 and 1965, he won the American Academy in Rome's coveted Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. He has twice returned to the American Academy in Rome as an Artist/Scholar-in-Residence. He has taught landscape architecture, urban design, ecology and real estate development at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia University. At Rhode Island School of Design, he held the Lowthrup Chair of Landscape Architectural History. Currently, He is Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, and program coordinator for landscape architecture at the University’s Paris Research Center, Paris, France.

Schnadelbach has been a member of the Urban Land Institute since 1984 and was a member of the International Council from 1986 to 1996. He has served as a ULI-Advisory Service Panelist on nine missions. These have included panels in Atlanta (2), Fort Wayne, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Trenton and Tuston, Ca., as well as ULI=s first international ASP in Cracow, Poland.  

Belinda Sward
President of Division
Cecilian Worldwide
La Jolla, CA

Ms. Sward has recently joined Cecilian Worldwide to introduce and a dynamic boutique division of the company to offer the next generation of genuine and deep (verbal and visual) conversations with consumers for real estate.  These methods bring insights and ideas to provide investors and development and marketing teams an original approach to problem solving. 

Ms. Sward’s specific expertise includes forward-thinking consumer and market interpretation and practical application of insights.  These insights have been successful to guide direction for growth and project-level acquisitions, planning, community vision and experience creation, product design, marketing and execution, resulting in higher company and project IRRs.   

For four years, Ms. Sward was responsible for leading the strategy and consumer and market interpretation functions for Newland Communities as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer.  She led the transformation of Newland Communities, the largest master-planned community developer in North America with over $2 Billion in assets (including 67 communities), from a product-focused company to a consumer-focused company, resulting in the highest profits to ownership in the history of the company.

Prior to Newland, she served as Managing Director and co-led the Southeast operations for the national real estate consulting firm Robert Charles Lesser & Co. (RCLCO), having worked as a consultant with the firm for more than 15 years. At RCLCO she guided numerous developers and homebuilders throughout North America in creating expansion strategies into new markets and products, including mergers and acquisitions, market selection, competitive strategies, product development and practical application in community planning. 

Ms. Sward has been a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) since 1989 and a full member since 1997. On a national level, she serves as incoming Assistant Chair of the Silver Flight of the Community Development Council (CDC).  She serves as the Social Chair of the San Diego District Council of ULI and is on the Executive Committee.  Prior to this, she served on the Executive Committee of the Atlanta District Council for ULI for more than six years.  For more than 15 years, she has participated in ULI advisory panels for numerous projects throughout the United States. 

She has participated in multiple panels, community workshops and other volunteer activities.  She has given speeches on such topics as Smart Growth, sustainable development, community development trends, and consumer insights and trends. 

Ms. Sward holds an MBA degree from Emory University.
Deanna Weber
Senior Director: Sustainability
EDAW, Inc.
Irvine, CA

Deanna Weber has served over the last 15 years as a leading planner, urban designer and landscape architect on a wide variety of complex projects involving sustainable mixed use/revitalization sites, resort and recreation planning/design projects, planning and implementation of large master planned communities and community participation programs. Ms. Weber graduated with a Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1993 and has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Pennsylvania State University.

Ms. Weber is a leader in implementation of sustainable design principles on a number of high profile projects. She is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional/consultant and member of the Urban Land Institute’s Sustainable Development Council. Significant sustainable projects completed include: Canyon Forest Village within the Grand Canyon’s watershed (LEED Pilot project/National ASLA Planning Award); the Aspen Skiing Company’s Sundeck (one of the first 12 LEED certified buildings in the county); High Desert (the most successful green oriented master planned community in Albuquerque, NM); Northstar at Tahoe’s LEED Village; the Flathead County, Montana Master Plan (National ASLA Planning Award) and El Rancho San Benito involving (whole systems integrated modeling to determine what a net zero carbon community involves and costs). 

Ms. Weber has lectured and taught sustainable design practices at the Urban Land Institute, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Pennsylvania State University, Design Workshop’s Corporate University, Hospitality Design Conference, EcoBuild America, among others. Publications of Ms. Weber’s sustainable oriented project work include: the Wall Street Journal, Landscape Architecture, Urban Land, Planning Magazine, and the Harvard Architecture Review.

Ruth Wuorenma
President
Neighborhood Capital Institute
Chicago, IL

Ruth Wuorenma has focused her career to helping public, private, for-profit and nonprofit groups work together to achieve mutual goals. Her experience as both a land use lawyer and developer spans national and international commercial real estate, market-rate and affordable housing, and various civic roles.

In 2003, Wuorenma created the Neighborhood Capital Institute, an Illinois not-for-profit research and policy corporation, which offers planning and real estate development strategies to foster capital investment, economic vitality, and an enhanced quality of life in communities of all sizes, from neighborhoods to counties. Although the Institute provides a broad range of development advisory services, one of its highest principles is to foster connections between stakeholders, the development community, and planning professionals of excellence so as to create community driven and economically viable comprehensive redevelopment plans. 

Before founding NCInstitute, Wuorenma was development advisor/project manager to the City of Waukegan, Illinois as it launched a redevelopment master plan and financial strategy for its 1,400-acre lakefront and 400-acre downtown. One of the Midwest's largest planning projects, the redevelopment plan encompasses more than 4,000 new residences, an intermodal regional commuter rail and bus station, a restored eco-park and moorlands system, and improvements to the expansive marina. The plan won unanimous City Council and Citizens' Council support and went on to win several awards of national significance, including the Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Burnham Award of the Metropolitan Planning Council. Also significant, the plan is one that can be financed, even with its large scale and significant environmental contamination, because investment values have been market-based and developer-tested. NCI’s recent and current projects include those in various Chicago neighborhoods, in the broader metro area, in other Midwestern states and in California.

Prior to her work in Waukegan, Wuorenma was a managing director for Mesirow Financial Real Estate, where she oversaw the firm's work on a variety of mixed-use, high-density, often transit-oriented urban developments, including market-rate and public housing transformation projects. Earlier, with Joseph Freed Homes, she developed an array of market-rate residential products, both new construction and loft conversions. Under NCInstitute’s predecessor, Neighborhood Capital Company, she partnered with Freed in a non-subsidized affordable condominium conversion, which won Bank of America's first Enterprise Award to a for-profit entity. Wuorenma began her career as a land use and zoning attorney at one of the country's largest real estate law firms (Rudnick & Wolfe, now DLA Piper), orchestrating entitlement processes. From Rudnick & Wolfe, she went to work for Marriott Corporation, becoming one of Marriott's top producing developers (at a time when Marriott was one of the four largest developers in the US), serving in both the Midwest, West (excluding California), and Europe. During a yearlong sabbatical from commercial real estate, she served in the reform cabinet of a community college, which team removed the college from governance probation within six months.

Wuorenma's professional affiliations are with organizations addressing urban issues, infrastructure and finance. She is a frequent participant in ULI Advisory Services Panels, both nationally and in Chicago, and often speaks on those topics as well on high impact, informed community engagement.  Her civic and personal commitments often relate to education, the arts and social service. She is also a proud partner in “Happy Turtle Farms,” two farm sites in Michigan focusing on small farm and wildlife habitat preservation.

Wuorenma graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned her JD from its College of Law, after having started her legal education at New York University as a Root-Tilden Scholar (a full tuition scholarship awarded to those who would use their legal education to serve the public interest).

ULI Project Staff

Matthew P. Rader
Senior Associate, Advisory Services
ULI – the Urban Land Institute
Washington DC

Matthew Rader is an experienced historic preservation and urban revitalization professional.  In his role as Senior Associate in the Advisory Services Program, he collaborates with sponsors and panelists to produce 3 and 5-day advisory panels.  Before joining ULI, Rader led efforts to revitalize South Philadelphia’s traditionally Italian neighborhoods as Executive Director of the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District.  Rader developed East Passyunk Avenue’s Main Street Program, assisted entrepreneurs to open businesses, and enlivened the Avenue with special events. 

Previously, Rader led efforts to preserve and re-energize Philadelphia’s 9,800 acre Fairmount Park System.  As Executive Director of the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, Rader developed public-private partnerships to rehabilitate and reuse the park’s collection of over 200 18th, 19th, and 20th century historic buildings and led efforts to conserve the park’s collection of over 300 pieces of public art.  Rader’s efforts have been profiled in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia CityPaper, Philadelphia Daily News, and the Philadelphia Architect. 

When not working, he enjoys exploring towns and cities by bike, reading, gardening, and learning Philadelphia history.  He holds a B.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia and a Certificate in Non-Profit Executive Leadership from Bryn Mawr College. 

David Stocker
Research Director, ULI Center for the West
Phoenix, Arizona

David Stocker is a Research Director with the ULI’s Center for Balanced Development in the West. Mr. Stocker’s principal area of interest is in identifying market driven solutions to advance sustainable land use in the western United States. Prior to joining the ULI, he worked as a real estate consultant providing planning, finance, and market research services. Mr. Stocker holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University, and a Bachelors of Arts from Michigan State University.

Jennifer Green
Special Events Manager
ULI-the Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC