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Real Estate Development and Reuse
There’s a special feeling about taking something old and making it new again. Case study, after case study has shown that when vacant and often challenging commercial properties are transitioned in to productive reuses, there is a positive ripple effect leading to community stability, increased sustainability and positive economic development.
Join us for MEDA’s 2021 Summer Conference and hear firsthand from those involved in successful redevelopment projects across Maryland; how they are benefitting the larger community in which they are located; and the challenges of brownfield redevelopment and how public-private partnerships can work to achieve an economically beneficial outcome for all.
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When
Wed, Jul 28, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Conference Speakers
The 2021 MEDA Summer Conference Speakers
Danny graduated from Crisfield High School, received an Associate Degree in Accounting from Wor-Wic Community College and Business Administration at Salisbury University.
Danny is the current Executive Director for the Somerset County Economic Development Commission for the past 12 years. His position entitles him to focus on the retention and expansion of existing employers and the recruitment of new businesses to assist in the economic growth of Somerset County. He was previously employed with the State of Maryland in the Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation Agency for 12 years and formerly worked at the Carvel Hall Plant in Crisfield as Human Resources Manager, Time & Motion Study Observer for 10 years until its closing. He also owned & operated the Circle Inn Restaurant in Crisfield for 10 years.
He was the Past-Chairman of the Crisfield Area Chamber of Commerce and Somerset County Economic Development Commission. Danny serves as a board member for the Maryland Economic Development Association, Lower Shore Workforce Alliance, and was formerly a councilperson for 8 years at the City of Crisfield. He is also active as a High School Sports official in soccer & basketball.
Danny was raised in Fruitland, Maryland until 1975 then later moved to Crisfield, Maryland. He moved to the Princess Anne area in 2008. He is married to his wife, Cheryl who is a private music teacher, has a son Keith who graduated from University of Maryland College Park majoring in Electrical Engineering, and has two grandchildren Daniel Ryon, and Kaiden Nickolas. He enjoys all types of sports, cooking, playing trumpet in church, & spending time with his family.
Ms. Beaver has served as the Carroll County Deputy Director of Economic Development since 2001. Prior to that Ms. Beaver held several Carroll County workforce development roles serving Carroll County businesses and citizens for a total of 27 years.
Selected as a Leadership Maryland Class of 2021 member and elected MEDA secretary in April 2021, Ms. Beaver also currently represents Carroll County at the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Advisory Board, the Baltimore Gas & Electric Carroll County Advisory Council, the Carroll Transit Advisory Council, and the Mid-Maryland Workforce Development Board. Previously, Ms. Beaver was a founding member, board member, and Secretary of the Carroll Technology Council (now Carroll Technology & Innovation Council) for 16 years.
Ms. Beaver holds degrees from Kutztown University and Towson University and resides in Westminster.
Renée M. Winsky is the president and founder of Bay One Group, LLC. Formed in 2012, the firm assists clients with a variety of subject matters, including leadership development, economic development, entrepreneurship, government relations and advocacy, technology transfer and commercialization, university collaborations and partnering, and small business start-ups.
From September 2013 to March 2022, Ms. Winsky served as President and Chief Executive Officer for Leadership Maryland, a professional development program dedicated to building a better Maryland by harnessing the strength of the leaders throughout the state.
Prior to joining Leadership Maryland, Ms. Winsky served as the Executive Director of the Chesapeake Innovation Center, CEO of the Tech Council of Maryland, and as the President and Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO). She has held positions with the Information Technology Association of America (now TechAmerica), National League of Cities, National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, Maryland Municipal League, and City of Greenbelt, Maryland.
Ms. Winsky is a member of the Maryland Venture Fund Authority, a Governor Larry Hogan appointment. She serves on the Maryland Innovation Initiative and Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Funding Authorities as Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. appointments. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Economic Development Association, where she is Treasurer, and The Maryland School for the Blind, where she is Secretary. She has served in volunteer, leadership and governance roles with the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Legislative Committee, Chesapeake Innovation Center, Maryland Association of CPAs, Maryland Business Incubation Association, Maryland Health Care Product Development Corporation, State Science and Technology Institute, UMBC Research Park Corporation, West County Chamber Government Contractor’s Guild, Technology Councils of North America (TECNA) and the Mid-Atlantic Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. Winsky is a graduate of the University of Maryland and a graduate of the Leadership Maryland Class of 2005, where she is also a Lifetime Member.
Ebony Stocks
Executive Vice President
Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation
Biography
Ebony Stocks is the Executive Vice President with the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation, an organization that provides business services that help attract, retain, and expand businesses in the County. She previously administered the County’s premier $50 million economic development tool, the Economic Development Incentive Fund which leveraged over $1 billion in capital investment and created over 13,000 jobs. Ms. Stocks is a Certified Economic Development Finance professional who has managed several financing and incentive programs. Ms. Stocks has worked in commercial lending providing non-traditional financing to rapidly growing small businesses. Ms. Stocks has a Master’s degree in Real Estate Development and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
Tereance Moore is the owner of Tereance. Moore Consulting, LLC, which provides start-up, sustainability, and growth consultations to aspiring and existing entrepreneurs, and Tereance Moore Properties which focuses on creating generational wealth through homeownership and financial empowerment. Tereance is also a co-founder and Center Director of the nonprofit Mediation First, Inc, which provides free conflict resolution services to Washington County communities. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur he spent 20 years in global finance working as a Sr. Project Manager in Operations and Technology.
Tereance obtained his BA in Organizational. Leadership from the University of Charleston. He has also obtained credentials as a Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification, REALTOR® (MD & PA), SHRM Certified Professional (SHRM-CP), Maryland Insurance Producer (Life, Health, Property and Casual), Benefit Builder and MD Notary.
Tereance uses his experience and talents to advocate for access to basic needs. He advocates for restorative practices, in neighborhoods, schools, and businesses, to reduce recidivism, and the need for law enforcement, and court intervention to resolve conflict. Tereance serves as a champion for the arts, education, economic development, and civil rights through his community volunteerism and board service. He serves on the Board of United Way of Washington County, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Leadership Washington County (Class 32 Alum), Community Mediation Maryland, Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area, the Greater Hagerstown Executive Committee. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and SCORE National Black Volunteer Committee; Maryland Commission on Civil Rights’ Western Maryland Advisory Council and the Maryland Black Chamber of Commerce.
Tereance has used his passion for business and community to initiate the change needed to revitalize Hagerstown, Maryland. He co-founded the Western Maryland Community Development Corporation in 2019, to advocate for the revitalization of the Historic Jonathan Street community through the preservation of its historic landmarks, and history, the restoration of its business community, increasing homeowners and ensuring its financial stability to create generational wealth. The WMCDC has since expanded its reach and now advocates for communities throughout Western MD and has served as consultants for advocates and communities nationwide.
Taylor Yewell serves as the Chief of Development with the Economic Development Department. His responsibilities include managing the County’s redevelopment efforts in the Waldorf urban corridor, working with local, state, and federal agencies to promote redevelopment and transit services for Charles County, and identifying and developing resources for a civic center in the County. He also assists with revitalization efforts underway in the Towns of Indian Head and La Plata.
Bringing to the Department years of experience in management and consulting, Mr. Yewell has worked on a broad range of public and private real estate and economic development projects throughout the U.S. His expertise spans transit-oriented development, neighborhood and community revitalization, market and financial feasibility analysis, highest and best use studies, effective public/private partnerships, implementation strategies, fiscal and economic impact analysis and economic development planning. Prior to his career in economic development consulting, Mr. Yewell was the manager of Economic Development at Washington Gas, a major public utility serving the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Mr. Yewell has a Master of Real Estate degree from Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Ernst Valery is Managing Member and President of SAA | EVI and shares overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations and execution of SAA | EVI projects and relationships. Mr. Valery has successfully invested in and developed real estate in Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania; Virginia; California; and New York. For the past 18 years, he has been involved with development projects ranging from mixed-use, multi-tenant rental properties, single-family renovations and condominium conversions.
Mr. Valery is the founder and president of SAA | EVI affiliate Ernst Valery Investments Corp. (EVI), a private, minority-owned real estate investment firm established in 2001. EVI invests in select underserved and undervalued key emerging domestic real estate markets, defined as urban transitional areas with high residential and retail demand. Mr. Valery has extensive experience in affordable and market rate housing development and investment, including providing due diligence capabilities and extensive skills in budget planning, design development, marketing, and the supervision and guidance of contractors, architects and engineers. He is responsible for the securing and structuring of financing, including expertise in securing Historic and New Markets tax credits.
Mr. Valery is also active in social entrepreneurship and volunteer work, including a collaboration with a team of professionals and graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Community Innovators Lab (MIT CoLab) and Oxfam UK to address housing finance needs in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, as well as efforts at incubating businesses around the world that help alleviate poverty and increase the earning potential of low income individuals, families, and communities.
Mr. Valery graduated from Columbia University’s Master of Science program in Real Estate Development. He also obtained a Master’s Degree in Policy Analysis and Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning with a concentration in International Relations, both from Cornell University. Ernst is also a Mel King Community Fellow at MITs CoLab.
Jane Shaab is a champion of the Baltimore region’s life sciences, technology, and research industries. Throughout her career, she has worked tirelessly to establish Baltimore as a destination for the biotechnology industry.
In 2003, Jane joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to help establish the University’s research park, the University of Maryland BioPark. As Executive Director, Jane leads the development and management of the BioPark, and has grown it into Baltimore’s largest cluster of life sciences companies. Today, the park boasts 14-acres, 470,000 sq. ft., six buildings, with a seventh designed and planned, and three dozen companies, employing more than 1,000 people.
Jane is the BioPark’s ambassador to the West Baltimore neighborhoods bordering the project, and works to ensure the BioPark develops in a responsible, respectful way. Under her guidance, the BioPark has stewarded more than $1 million in support for community requested funding for schools, safety measures, and job training needed in the immediate area. She also champions UMB’s community engagement efforts, most recently leading the University’s committee aimed at supporting the local community during the pandemic (and beyond).
Prior to joining UMB, Jane served as Executive Director of the Greater Baltimore Technology Council, which she helped spin out from the Greater Baltimore Committee and establish as its own independent nonprofit. She also served as Director of Economic Development for the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Director of National Marketing for Maryland Economic Growth Associates, Inc., and as a marketing consultant to the Greater Baltimore Committee.
Jane serves on the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Board of Visitors, the Board of Directors for the Southwest Partnership, the B & O Railroad Museum, and the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, and as a member of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Economic Development Committee. She is a founding member of the Poe Baltimore Board of Trustees. Jane previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of University Research Parks, the MdBio Program Committee, and the Technology Advisory Council for The Smith Group.
She is a graduate of Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, earned her Graduate Certificate in Business from Goucher College Business Management Institute, and is a proud alum of Notre Dame Preparatory School.
Jane has been honored as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 1997, 1999 and 2001 and as a permanent member of Maryland’s Top 100 Women Circle of Excellence. She was one of The Daily Record’s 2020 Icon Honor awardees.
Sylvia Mosser works with the Maryland Department of Planning within the Resource Conservation and Management Unit as a Resource Conservation Planner, with a special focus on the Department’s brownfield assistance program wherein she works with local governments and developers to promote brownfield redevelopment throughout the state. Sylvia previously worked as a Project Manager for a N.J. environmental consulting firm where she managed environmental assessment, investigation, and remediation projects for commercial and industrial facilities, especially environmental due diligence. Sylvia graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Arts in professional writing and a minor in minority studies, and she earned her Master of City and Regional Planning (M.C.R.P.) with a concentration in environmental planning from Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. During graduate school, she studied abroad in Australia where she researched human dimensions of sustainability and marveled at kangaroos and koalas.
Steve joined MEDCO in 2014 after retiring from a 32-year career in Maryland state government and higher-education administration. His active MEDCO projects include the DC to Baltimore Super Conducting MAGLEV train project and the redevelopment of the former Bainbridge Naval Training Center in Port Deposit.
Steve began his career as the assistant director of admissions at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, his alma mater. During this time, he also held an active broker’s license and engaged in property acquisition and management in the Baltimore metropolitan region.
After joining the State Government in 1988, Steve served under three administrations and held the positions of Chief Legislative Officer, Assistant Secretary for Real Estate, Deputy Secretary and then Secretary of the Department of General Services. He was responsible for overseeing more than $1.5 billion dollars in real estate acquisitions and private development projects. Steve completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at the Kennedy School of Government in 1998 and served as acting deputy chief of staff to the governor during the 2001 legislative session.
Steve joined the University of Baltimore as the Vice President of Facilities Management and Capital Planning in 2007, where he was responsible for managing the capital program, sustainability efforts and public-private development projects, collectively valued at more than $250 million.
Over his 7-year tenure, Steve oversaw the completion of the Fitzgerald at UB Midtown, the design and construction of the $120 million John and Frances Angelos Law Center, the implementation of a campus-wide streetscape program, and the private development of a $24-million student-oriented housing project. In addition, he actively served as the University’s representative to numerous community organizations, including the Charles Street Development Corp., the Central Baltimore Development Committee, and the Midtown Community Benefits District.
Steve and his wife reside in Ellicott City.
Scott Noteboom believes that the only place for a rebel is a revolution…
As Chief Technology Officer @ Quantum Loophole, Scott currently serves on the front
lines of the Decarbonization Revolution. His mission is to help enable next generation
data centers that autonomously orchestrate supply and demand between clean energy
and cloud computing resources. His intention: Better, faster, cleaner and cheaper– pick
four.
As a former mercenary in the Cloud Revolution, Scott served as VP of Operations @
Yahoo! and Head of Global Infrastructure @ Apple. His team led deployment and
operation of two of the world’s largest clouds, as well as innovations in the data center
and distributed compute space. Through joining forces with the Clean Energy
Revolution, many data center farms were freed from being dirty energy hogs.
Scott more recently served the AI Revolution as CEO and Founder @ Litbit, and began
his career early in the Internet Revolution where he started a pretty small underground
bulletin board (bbs) that grew into a pretty big Internet Service Provider (ISP.) He also
likes to brag about creating one of the world’s first Voice over IP (VOIP) companies,
where he learned that being first isn’t always worth bragging about.
A wise person once said that “rebels die.” Scott’s been working to prove that wrong ever
since…
Dan Ellis began serving as Executive Director of Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore, Inc. (NHS) in September 2011. Since arriving at NHS, Mr. Ellis has refocused the organization through an extensive strategic planning process. During his tenure, NHS has experienced significant growth. Earned income, an insignificant portion of the budget at the beginning of his tenure, has increased to over $1,000,000 annually representing over 40% of the annual budget. This has also fueled a 300% increase in the organization’s annual operating budget and generated more than $40,000,000 of capital to support Baltimore City residents. NHS currently maintains a rating of “Exemplary,” the highest possible rating from NeighborWorks America.
Mr. Ellis currently serves as the Second Vice President of the National NeighborWorks Association and Co-Chair of the Lending Committee. This national association, comprised of members of the NeighborWorks network, includes strong community development organizations from across the country.
Prior to joining NHS, Mr. Ellis served as Executive Director of Arundel Habitat for Humanity from 2006-2009 overseeing a 175% increase in housing production during his tenure. From 2000-2006, he was the first Executive Director of Pen Lucy Action Network, a nonprofit serving the Pen Lucy neighborhood in North Baltimore.
Mr. Ellis is a graduate of NeighborWorks America’s 18 month Achieving Excellence leadership development program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Alliance Theology Seminary and a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University. An industry leader, Mr. Ellis has been a speaker and subject matter expert on urban housing issues and lending across the country and has received numerous awards for his work.
Mr. Ellis and his wife Sarah are the father of twins, Sandra and Jonathan and live in North Baltimore.
Broderick Green currently serves as Senior Manager on Amazon’s Economic Development team. Broderick joined Amazon in November 2017 and focuses on the expansion of fulfillment operations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC. In his prior role, he was the Senior Director of business development for JAXUSA Partnership, providing assistance to companies considering expanding, relocating, or investing in the 7-county Northeast Florida region. Broderick received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from The University of New Orleans and has been named to the national “40 Under 40” Rising Stars in Economic Development list and Consultant Connect’s Top 50 Economic Developers.
Conference Sponsors
The 2021 MEDA Summer Conference Sponsors
