ULI North Florida, the local council of the Urban Land Institute, the oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world, is pleased to announce the Class of 2019 for its inaugural Center for Leadership program.

The ULI Center for Leadership, which runs from September 2018 through May 2019, is comprised of eight full-day seminars that provide participants with exclusive industry education, collaboration and networking opportunities, property tours, hands-on leadership opportunities, and access to industry leaders, experts and elected officials. Sessions are focused on land use issues in North Florida, and will cover topics including trends in infrastructure and regionalism, community development, public policy, building healthy places, entrepreneurship, urban design, and capital markets.

The inaugural class includes professionals and emerging leaders in land use, real estate and related fields with a minimum of five years of real estate experience, a commitment to community service and civic engagement, and a vision for the future of North Florida.

The members of the ULI Center for Leadership Class of 2019 are:

• Shannon Acevedo, Senior Supervising Planner, St. Johns County
• Alonza Anderson, Project Manager, Duval County Public Schools
• Amanda Askew, Deputy City Manager, City of Neptune Beach
• Michael Biagini, Vice President, Scherer Construction
• Gerry Dedenbach, Vice President, CHW
• Blake Fletcher, Chief Operating Officer, Fletcher Family Companies
• Laura Gonzales, Senior Relationship Manager/Vice President, TD Bank
• Charles Griffith, Partner, Papalas | Griffith, PLLC
• Holly Grimes, Associate & Senior Project Manager, Wakefield Beasely & Associates, A NELSON Company
• Lindsay Haga, Senior Planner, ETM
• Katherine Hardwick, Vice President of Marketing, Downtown Vision, Inc.
• Marc Hudson, Land Protection Director, North Florida Land Trust
• Douglas Hutchinson, Director Commercial Real Estate, Pepine Realty
• Maurice Martinez, Business Compliance Officer, City of Jacksonville
• Michael McGowan, Vice President, Chase Properties
• Kathryn McKie, Senior Manager, Financial Services, Regency Centers
• Elizabeth Pepine, Broker-Owner, Pepine Realty
• Patrick Pierce, Senior Manager, Environmental Services, Inc.
• Anthony Pooley, Sustainability & Resiliency Development Lead, Environmental Services, Inc.
• Chris Rusnak, Controller, GreenPointe Holdings
• Riley Skinner, Vice President, Skinner Bros. Realty
• Jessie Spradley, Government Affairs Director, Northeast Florida Builders Association
• Mary Sullivan, Manager, Real Estate Accounting, Rayonier
• Ryan Taylor, Vice President/Project Executive, CPPI
• Clint Thomas, Vice President, Carlton Construction, Inc.
• Cynthia Trimmer, Attorney, Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, PLLC
• Brad Weeber, Vice President/Shareholder, ETM
• Russell Yaffee, Vice President, Peters and Yaffee, Inc.

The founding sponsor for the inaugural Center for Leadership is GreenPointe, and individual day session sponsors include Twin Branch, ETM, Fidelity National Title, CPPI, Chance Partners, GrayRobinson, Hopping Green & Sams and Carlton Construction. Reception sponsors include Florida Valuation, Chase Properties, GSE Engineering & Consulting, RummelMunz, GrayRobinson, Regency Centers and GreenPointe.