He has held senior executive positions with Durango Mountain Resort in Colorado, Kirkwood Mountain Resort in California, Grossman Company Properties in Boise, Idaho and The Shaw Company in Chicago. Most recently, he was a principal and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for McStain Neighborhoods, a Colorado-based master planned community developer and home builder known nationally as a pioneer in sustainable building and development practices. Jeff’s responsibilities included strategic direction in land acquisition, product and master planned community design as well as corporate branding, marketing communications and sales operations. He led the Company from $67 million to $111 million in gross revenues from 2001 to 2003, increasing sales nearly 100 percent and shareholder value 29 percent, while improving all customer satisfaction metrics and referral rates to among the highest in the industry.

Jeff is recognized nationally as an expert in sustainable building and development best practices. His home building and project development experience includes a portfolio of the leading sustainable development projects in the nation: the 4,700-acre redevelopment of Denver’s Stapleton International Airport, the nation’s largest urban redevelopment project (ULI Award for Excellence); Centerra, a 3,000-acre master planned community in Northern Colorado; Belmar, a 103-acre regional mall redevelopment in Lakewood, Colorado (ULI Award for Excellence); Lowry, an 1,866-acre redevelopment of the Lowry Air Force Base in Denver; Hidden Springs, a 1,844-acre rural new town outside Boise, Idaho; Prairie Crossing, a 667-acre master planned community in Grayslake, Illinois; and Homan Square, a 55-acre redevelopment of the former Sears, Roebuck and Co. world headquarters in Chicago (ULI Award for Excellence).

Jeff holds degrees in environmental design and urban planning and development from the College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University. Active in education and community affairs, he has served on the governing boards of Ball State University; the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities; and the Golden Apple Foundation in Chicago. He is an author, teacher and frequent speaker on sustainable development issues for such organizations as the U.S. EPA, the Energy Efficient Building Association, PCBC, the National Town Builders Association, the National Association of Home Builders and the Urban Land Institute. Jeff is on the advisory board for The Conservation Fund’s Center for Conservation and Development in Washington, D.C. and the Task Force on Development Review and Approval Processes for the City and County of Denver. He holds memberships with the NAHB, the NAR and is Chairman of the Sustainable Development Council of the Urban Land Institute.

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