As a Principal of Meyers LLC, Ms. Wolkoys' manages consulting assignments throughout the Real Estate Consulting Practice and oversees the day-to-day operations of the Orange County office. Ms. Wolkoys has over 18 years of experience in the homebuilding industry and has consulted on all types of residential development throughout the Western United States including mixed-use master planned communities, consumer surveys, rental housing and condominium conversions, custom lots, large scale resorts, golf course communities, in-fill developments, mid-/high-rise condominiums, and adaptive re-use. Various non-residential consulting assignments include Recreation Vehicle (RV) resorts, portfolio analysis, and industrial, office and retail properties. Ms. Wolkoys specializes in on-going advisory services and manages all consulting assignments for several top ten public home builders through her direct involvement with land acquisition strategies, product development, segmentation and positioning.

More recent representative assignments include: lot-by-lot pricing and premium recommendations for The Strand at Headlands, an exclusive, beachfront custom lot community comprised of 118 single family lots along the coast in the city of Dana Point; product segmentation and pricing recommendations for Brightwater (a.k.a. Bolsa Chica wetlands) a 356 unit master planned community with 4 single family product lines in the city of Huntington Beach; and recurrent residential homebuilder portfolio analysis in support of acquisition due diligence for builder consolidation in Southern California.

Ms. Wolkoys is also regularly involved with strategic planning, market and financial feasibility, demographic and economic forecasting, absorption analysis, product planning, and market opportunity analysis for municipalities, investors, builders and developers throughout the Southern California region. These studies include various projections and multi-project development scenarios which require extensive experience in analyzing residential building trends of all types, and understanding the dynamics of any given regional market place and the positioning and potential of these projects within that market.

Ms. Wolkoys began her consulting career in 1994 as a Research Analyst with Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (formerly The Meyers Group). She was promoted several times to land in her position as Managing Director between 1998 and 2006. In October 2006, Ms. Wolkoys reunited with Jeff Meyers, the founder and previous CEO of Meyers Group, to form Meyers LLC – a new consulting firm that brings together the most talented and accomplished professionals with extensive experience in the homebuilding industry. Together, they will develop long-term strategies to grow Meyers LLC into the industry's leading consulting practice.

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As Principal at Meyers LLC, Stephen Smiley is part of a leadership team managing one of the nation’s largest and most experienced real estate consulting and advisory firms. Additionally, Stephen will be leveraging his extensive experience in providing builders, developers, and financial institutions throughout Northern California the advice they need to be successful in today’s competitive housing market.

Previously as Senior Managing Director at Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (formerly Meyers Group), Stephen Smiley led consulting operations and management for the entire Western United States. Additionally, Mr. Smiley played a key role in integrating data into consulting operations to provide seamless offering for many of the nation’s most successful builders.

In his 20 years of experience, Mr. Smiley has worked throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, the Pacific Northwest, and Colorado. As a Principal of the Meyers Group in Los Angeles, Mr. Smiley was instrumental in the company’s expansion into Northern California and the Western United States. In addition, Mr. Smiley has also been involved with numerous development projects throughout the United Stated including Washington D.C, Virginia and Florida regions.

He actively participates in the residential, commercial, industrial real estate consulting operations and guides many large scale, multi-discipline development projects. Mr. Smiley has consulted on all types of development projects and has expertise with many residential and commercial/retail projects nationwide.

Stephen manages a large of clients including residential and commercial land developers, homebuilders, financial institutions, public funds, etc. A trusted resource for the press, Stephen has been quoted in many local and national publications. In addition, Mr. Smiley is a prominent speaker at various real estate industry events throughout the year. His office is in Danville, California.

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As head of Meyers East Coast operations and based out of Raleigh, NC, Mr. Jackson brings over 25 years experience in various aspects of land development and homebuilding, including executive-level marketing management with some of the nation’s top builders, which included feasibility studies tied to land acquisitions, as well as overall market analysis and segmentation mapping associated with each division’s annual plan. His marketing work with national builders such as Centex Homes, Pulte Homes, Beazer Homes and more recently a real estate private equity fund, the Anka Funds included alternative plans analysis relative to the financing, repositioning and re-launch of failed or faltering real estate developments. Prior to his stint as Managing Director of the Anka Funds, Mr. Jackson was Senior Vice President of the National Builder Division of Countrywide Home Loans where for five years he headed up all things ‘builder’ in the Southeast (MD, DC, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL), growing builder fundings to $5 billion per annum.

As a well-respected and recognized industry figure, Mr. Jackson provides Meyers an extensive network of long-term, builder/developer relationships throughout the country, as well as strategic relationships with a number of finance and investment sources, including large institutional firms and private equity funds, providing debt and equity funding.

Industry involvement includes Mr. Jackson’s current term as ‘Life Director’ on NAHB’s Board of Directors and a number of terms served on the Board of Directors of the National Sales and Marketing Council, the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Residential Marketing and the Board of Governors of the Builder Marketing Society. He has served as long-time judge of the MAME Awards, regional and national, and is the past recipient of Marketing Director of the Year and Builder of the Year in the Raleigh area MAME Awards. He is a frequent national speaker at the largest real estate venues and he has published numerous articles, including having served as guest editor of Sales and Marketing Ideas magazine.

Mr. Jackson is a graduate with a BA degree from East Carolina University and attended Lee Evans School of Builder Management, an affiliate of the University of Denver.

Mr. Hudson has extensive experience in city, regional and environmental planning, along with a diverse background in General Plans; urban design programs; public participation programs; community and neighborhood workshops; Specific Plan development and implementation; subdivision design, cost analysis and entitlement programs; construction management services for large-scale housing, multifamily, commercial and mixed-use developments. His experience as a public agency planner and land development project manager enables him to successfully balance public agency requirements with socioeconomic realities. Having been employed in both the public and private planning sectors for the last 25 years, Mr. Hudson has attained a broad perspective on both the philosophical concepts and practical realities of planning issues and methods by which to resolve potential conflicts between them. This experience has given him the opportunity to develop effective governmental liaison skills.

During his career, Mr. Hudson has had the opportunity to work in a number of different cities both as a City Planner and professional consultant on large-scale public policy plans and environmental programs. During this time, Mr. Hudson was directly responsible for the development of comprehensive General Plans and associated environmental documentation for the cities of Hemet, Highland, Moreno Valley, Pico Rivera, Laguna Hills, and the City of Ojai, as well as environmental and policy studies in Murrieta, Shafter, Rohnert Park, and Riverside County. Two of these General Plans (Hemet and Pico Rivera) were recognized by the American Planning Association, and received Oustanding Planning Awards in the Comprehensive Planning and Planning Implementation categories.

As Director of the Asset Management Group, Mr. Hudson brings with him more than twenty years of experience in the planning, entitlement and development of residential, commercial and mixed-use projects throughout California, Arizona and Colorado. His past projects have included a variety of development types ranging from 10-acre urban infill sites to 3,000-acre master planned development projects. Mr. Hudson’s unique resume includes roles in all sides of the development process. Having written numerous public policy and city planning documents during his career, he has developed the ability to quickly turn a detailed assessment of city policies and procedures into a specific entitlement strategy that efficiently pairs each project with the corresponding municipality. In addition, his past experience as an appointed planning official gives him the unique insight that comes from years of participating in the public review and decision-making process while representing the public’s interest.

Mr. Shiota brings with him six years of experience in underwriting and asset management in the real estate industry. In his experience Chris worked with active equity providers as well as with large lending institutions. He is experienced with complex financial structures related to all product types including single family, multifamily, and commercial properties. Chris will work with the Meyers team to provide capital market recommendations, cashflow modeling, and asset management services to builders, developers, and financial clients.

Prior to joining Meyers LLC, Mr. Shiota worked at TriMont Real Estate Advisors as a Senior Analyst on the Lehman Brothers Real Estate Portfolio. As a Senior Analyst he directed real estate loan underwriting and advisory projects for clients. He also worked for Artisan Communities doing land acquisition analysis. Mr. Shiota received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the University of Southern California with an emphasis in real estate and investment finance.

Ludmilla Schappert has over nine years of market research experience in the real estate industry, consulting for numerous builders and developers across the country. As an engagement manager with Meyers LLC, her consulting expertise includes a full spectrum of consumer research and strategic planning projects, market and financial feasibility studies, land acquisition due diligence and absorption analyses, demographic and economic studies, product planning analyses, and market opportunity assessments.

Prior to that position, Ludmilla held various analytical positions in the consulting and online published research departments for Meyers Group and subsequently Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. Ms. Schappert was an analyst with FMV Opinion, Inc and was the Research Director at the Orange County Business Journal.

Ms. Schappert is a longstanding member of the Urban Land Institute and has served on the YLG Executive Committee of the ULI Orange County/Inland Empire District Council since 2004. In April 2010, she was appointed to Co-Chair of Community Outreach for the YLG. As Co-Chair, she helped spearhead the YLG Pro Bono TAP program for 2010. She has served as the University Outreach co-chair for the YLG.

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Blayne Brinket has ten years experience in market research and consulting for the real estate industry. She has conducted market analysis and feasibility studies throughout California and other states for numerous builders, developers, and lending institutions. Her experience includes pricing and absorption analyses, feasibility reports, economic and demographic analyses, rental market analyses, and product segmentation studies.

Prior to joining Meyers LLC, Ms. Brinket held various positions for the consulting division of Meyers Group and subsequently Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. In her most recent position as Senior Manager, she managed client engagements and guided project teams. She also has worked for Ernst and Young and has new home sales experience.

Ms. Brinket received her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences and a Business Management Minor from the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Brinket is also a licensed California real estate salesperson.

As a Research Consultant at Meyers LLC, Mr. Chouceir performs research and analysis related to various projects and assignments Meyers performs for its clients. He works alongside the consulting group and asset management group to assist in providing Meyers’ clients with a tool for making informed investment decisions. Since starting with Meyers, he has worked on a variety of different items including market and financial feasibility studies, supply and demand analyses, land acquisition due diligence and absorption analyses, demographic and economic studies, consumer research and case study evaluations. In addition, he has worked on a number of special projects including a quarterly analysis of over fifteen markets across the United States and most recently, a capital markets survey that was the result of collaboration with PCBC and cooperation from commercial banks and equity funds that control over $1.5 billion.

Prior to joining the Meyers team, he was an integral part of a commercial real estate brokerage that focused on sourcing and negotiating the acquisition of multifamily properties across the United States. In just a few years, he was responsible for the successful acquisition of approximately $75 million worth of multifamily properties.

In 2005, Mr. Chouceir received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Finance from California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). He is currently in the process of earning his Master in Business Administration from CSUF where he is also an active member of the Center for the Study of Emerging Markets (CSEM). In his role with the CSEM, Mr. Chouceir performs research into viable investment opportunities with a focus on emerging markets throughout the world.

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Robert Bookhout graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked for over seven years in the real estate industry, starting as a Research Associate in 2003 with The Meyers Group. In this role Robert collected new home data in Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties while building strong working relationships with industry professionals throughout Southern California. After significantly improving market capture and data quality in his territories, Robert was promoted to Senior Research Associate where he earned the responsibility of managing the preview process to ensure capture of new home projects. In this role he traveled throughout eight counties in and around Southern California to help collect data in highly active or understaffed markets. In 2004 Robert was promoted to National Data Quality Associate, where he was responsible for maintaining high quality data collection throughout all offices in the Western United States. Mr. Bookhout trained new and existing employees and was responsible for editing associates work before submitting to data entry. In this role he also researched the feasibility of expanding into new markets and he led the expansion of data products into these markets.

In 2005 Mr. Bookhout transitioned to the Consulting team with Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (formerly The Meyers Group). In this role Robert worked on custom consulting engagements including Pricing and Absorption Strategies, Executive Summaries and Full Market Feasibility Reports. With over $240,000 in annual production revenue before the economic downturn, he was the top producing Research Consultant companywide. Robert also assisted in authoring the Published Research Department’s quarterly reports on housing and economic conditions in the top metro areas around the nation. In March of 2007 Robert left Hanley Wood Market Intelligence to join the team at Meyers LLC. He has been analyzing market trends and helping produce reports on a wide range of development types ever since, this includes stand-alone subdivisions, master planned communities, urban infill, mixed use, condo conversions and rental properties throughout the United States.

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As a market analyst Mr. McCauley prepares real estate transaction data to assist the consulting and asset management groups at Meyers LLC in providing clients with accurate information about current market conditions. He also collects and maintains land transaction data for Northern and Southern California.

Mr. McCauley received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tulane University in 2008. His studies focused on predictive modeling and data analysis by utilizing linear and non-linear regression techniques. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, Mr. McCauley volunteered in the Rebuild New Orleans project where he helped to repair local schools that had been damaged by the storm.

Before joining the Meyers team Mr. McCauley was a computer and networking consultant in San Diego.