Icons of DC Area Real Estate

John Coe & Julie Smith Bio Julie A. Smith, Chief Administrative Officer, The Bozzuto Group Show Notes Current Role Currently Chief Administrative Officer for 5 yrs. now. Spent first 25 yrs. of career running Property Management. Toby Bozzuto assumed CEO role when she made the transition to CAO role (5:00) Suggested her role change would offer opportunities to others to run Property Management...

Lacy Rice and John Coe Bio Lacy Rice, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of FCP , manages the company’s for-sale and for-rent residential acquisitions. Mr. Rice has 34 years of experience in real estate investment and corporate finance and serves on FCP’s Investment Committee. Prior to founding FCP, Mr. Rice was a Principal at The Carlyle Group . He served on the company’s real estate fund’s Investme...

Stef Tucker and John Coe Bio Stefan (Stef) Tucker is a Senior Partner at Venable LLP in Washington, D.C. His practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, entity planning, structuring and formation, asset protection and preservation, business transactions, and family business planning and wealth preservation. In addition, Mr. Tucker has extensive experience in federal and state income, estate, an...

John Coe and Monty Hoffman Bio Monty Hoffman formed Hoffman & Associates in 1993 with a single townhouse conversion and has since then transformed the company into a market leader of real estate development in the Washington, DC, metro area and beyond. With more than 30 years of experience, Monty actively leads the company’s business development and market strategy, as well as the design initi...

Linda Rabbitt and John Coe Bio Linda Rabbitt founded rand* construction in 1989 and was one of very few female leaders in the industry at the time. She is still an active leader as Owner and Chair of the Board of Directors, and serves as a resource to the new CEO, leadership, and management teams as they work to advance the vision and strategies for rand’s future.  Under her leadership, rand grew...

Bob Kettler and John Coe Bio Bob Kettler always had a vision for creating value in Real Estate. He began his career in the early 1970s by renovating apartments, retail stores, and building homes. Although his story began in renovations and home building, he later found passion in developing communities and began laying the foundation of KETTLER, a Real Estate Development Company. While KETTLER was...

Jon Peterson Bios Jon M. Peterson is the Chief Executive Officer of Peterson Companies , one of the largest, most-admired privately-held real estate companies in the Washington, DC area. Founded more than 52 years ago, the company is responsible for some of the most prominent and successful mixed-use retail, residential and office developments in Northern Virginia and Maryland including Fairfax Co...

Bio David Kessler is Chief Executive Officer of CohnReznick with responsibility for overseeing the strategic priorities, operations, people, and client service initiatives for the firm. In this capacity, he works with the Executive Board and other firm leaders to realize CohnReznick’s sense of purpose: creating opportunities for our people, making a difference for our clients, and strengthening ou...

Bio Tony Marquez is Senior Executive Vice President and President of Commercial Banking at Eagle Bank since February 2020. He was formerly Chief Lending Officer – Commercial Real Estate of the Bank, and Executive Vice President of the Company, since he joined the Company in August 2011. Mr. Marquez has over 35 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining the Company, he establishe...

Vernon Knarr, Executive Managing Director, Savills, USA Bio Vernon is a trusted expert in the Washington metropolitan area, especially within the regional sales and development markets. Since joining Savills in 1994, Vernon has excelled in advising clients on a wide range of investment sales, development land sales, joint ventures and ground leases. He has also represented both owners and users of...

Bio Bryant Foulger serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Foulger-Pratt and is a member of the Investment Committee. In his current role, Bryant draws on more than 30 years of real estate and management experience to provide approval and oversight of the CEO’s vision and strategy. He was appointed to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s transition team and is also involved with the Montgomery...

Bios Jay Epstien Jay Epstien represents local and national owners, developers and users in all aspects of real estate transactions involving urban office buildings, shopping centers and mixed use projects. He has been the lead lawyer on many of the largest office leases in Washington, DC, representing both landlords and tenants, including numerous law firms that have sought his counsel. He has rep...

Bio Cedric Bobo is a co-founder of Project Destined. Prior to founding Project Destined, Cedric spent over 20 years as an investor and investment banker including over 10 years at the The Carlyle Group where he committed over $2 Billion of equity capital. In 2015, Cedric was named to the “10 Top Powerful Black People on Wall Street You Should Know.” Prior to Carlyle, he worked at D.L.J. Merchant B...

Bio As President and CEO of Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners , Mr. Lynch assumes primary responsibility for firm management and project coordination, with a commitment to developing a quality product and superior service. That commitment has produced distinctive urban mixed-use projects for investors and a distinguished list of public, private and non-profit clients. Mr. Lynch has over twenty years...

Bio As the Government Services Administration’s Public Building Services Commissioner , he manages the nationwide asset management, design, construction, leasing, building management and disposal of approximately 371 million square feet of government-owned and leased space across the United States and six territories. Prior to joining GSA, Mathews served as the Republican Staff Director of the Hou...

Bio In addition to his writing and speaking, Len Forkas is the founder and President of Milestone Communications, a Reston, Virginia-based owner and developer of wireless towers in the Mid-Atlantic. Milestone has invested over $50 million in the development of wireless infrastructure in six states, creating thousands of jobs in construction, engineering and manufacturing in the USA. In 2014 Len pu...

Bio Wendy White is the Chair of the Real Estate Transactions group in Goulston & Storrs’ Washington D.C. office. She counsels clients on joint ventures, development, acquisitions, dispositions and financings of commercial properties. Her practice includes transactions related to single and multiple sites involving office, hotel, retail, multifamily and mixed use properties. Wendy’s clients inc...

Bio Kirk Mettam is an Executive Vice President and Senior Principal with Silman Associates. He has been active in the design profession and a leader in the structural engineering industry for nearly four decades. In 1998, Kirk established our Washington, DC, office and has served as its managing partner since. Kirk’s project experience has included government facilities, corporate headquarters, hi...

Bio Michael J. Darby is Founder & CEO of Monument Realty , a leading privately held mixed use real estate development & operating company headquartered in Washington DC. An active member of the Washington, DC region’s development industry for more than two decades, Michael previously worked with some of the most prominent developers in the Washington DC area including Carr America in the 8...

Mike Bush Bio Mike Bush currently is an Adjunct Professor Urban Development for the Masters in Real Estate Program at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies and founder of Project REAP. During his 20-year tenure as Vice President Real Estate for Giant Food , they opened or replaced 60 stores and expanded dozens more in one of the country’s most competitive trade areas. He directed mark...

Vikki Kayne Tracy Allen Tasha Stancill This episode is a panel discussion with three real estate marketing superstars, Vikki Kayne, Tracy Allen and Tasha Stancill, who have been delivering quality marketing and communications throughout their careers for over 20 years. They are well respected professionals who bring varied perspectives to their roles. While they each perform both internal and exte...

Bio Matt Kelly is the CEO of JBG SMITH and a member of the Board of Trustees. Prior to the formation of JBG SMITH, Matt served as a Managing Partner of the JBG Companies and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Investment Committee and was co-head of JBG’s Investments Group. Prior to joining the JBG Companies in 2004, he was a co-founder of ODAC Inc., a media software company, and worked...

Bio Jodie McLean is Chief Executive Officer of EDENS , one of the nation’s leading private owners, operators and developers of retail real estate. With a more than 25-year tenure at EDENS, she has established herself as a key player in the company’s growth and expansion to its current marketplace leadership, capitalized by blue chip investors and assets valued at $6.5 billion. Jodie McLean is resp...

John Green Joe Carrol Following up on Part 1 with John Green and Joe Carrol , I probed into the ongoing social issues in America today with race relations and a particular focus on the real estate industry. John Green and Joe Carrol were forthcoming about the disparities that exist between Black and White people regarding the wealth gap and the percentage of participation in Senior leadership in o...

John Green Joe Carrol Bios John Green A co-founding principal of Blackstar Real Estate Partners , John Green directs firm-wide strategic planning, and leads the investment management efforts. John has over 18 years of real estate and finance experience, and has managed approximately $5 billion in commercial, multifamily residential and mixed-use properties in greater Washington, D.C.; New York Cit...