Allied Proffesionals

 Dan O’Brien brings forty years of managerial experience with an expertise in start-up situations an over thirty years in the homebuilding industries, working with brands like Sundance Homes, Pinnacle Homes, Del Webb, Toll Brothers, Richmond American Homes and Shea Homes' Trilogy Brand. 

 Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Vicente del Rio is a professor emeritus at the City and Regional Planning Department, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is an architect-urbanist with a graduate degree in urban and regional planning, a master's in urban design and a PhD in architecture-urbanism. 

 As a Managing Director for The Lamar Johnson Collaborative, Chip Crawford is a practice builder, creative thinker and problem solver.   

An award-winning Landscape Architect, Chip has more than 30 years of experience leading some of the world’s most complex planning, landscape architecture and urban design projects.   

As founder and CEO of New Tourism & the Harmony Project, Bradford leads the team’s international global expertise in transformational repositioning of hospitality destinations and new-build projects. Setting each apart in the market place are proprietary models that align experiential design and empowered staff to channel authentic experiences specific to each location and their culture.

  As principal of EDSA , Rich maintains a steadfast, forward-thinking philosophy in designing functional, realistic, and engaging places for people. 

Imagination and inventiveness play key roles in his designs where project outcomes embody vision, accountability, and realization.  

Born and raised in the United States, Michael Neuman has lived and worked around the globe. He is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Westminster, UK and principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy. Dr. Neuman is an international expert in sustainable development,  planning, design and infrastructure.  

 As principal of EDSA  and veteran of landscape architecture, Gregg considers project familiarity and Principal collaboration within the design studio crucial elements in achieving creative solutions and intriguing designs for clients. Crediting his worldwide artistic pursuits as a stimulus for the creation of unique projects,  

As president and principal of SB Architects, Scott leads the firm’s international design practice with expertise in hospitality, mixed-use, residential and master planning developments. Scott is an internationally recognized thought leader with more than three decades of experience in the buildings market, large-firm operations.