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| Marilyn Melkonian
is the President and founder of Telesis Corporation. She also founded
the National Housing Trust and serves as its chair. She serves on the
Boards of the Eisenhower Foundation, the Enterprise Social Investment
Corporation, and the Brookings Institute's Center on Urban and
Metropolitan Policy. Former positions include Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban
Development under President Carter; General Counsel for Lucasfilm Ltd;
and counsel to the architecture firm of John Carl Warnecke &
Associates. She practiced law for fifteen years in New York and
Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of Stanford University Law School. |
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William Whitman,
Executive Vice-President, is head of development and chief underwriter. Mr. Whitman is also President
of Telesis CDE Corporation which has a $60 million allocation of New Market Tax Credits. A lawyer,
Whitman worked for the innovative Boston Redevelopment Authority, overseeing the development of several
thousand units of housing and key commercial sites. He later worked with Related Companies Northeast
as development manager for major residential developments, was a consultant with Meredith & Grew, and
practiced law in the Boston area. Whitman is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Housing
& Rehabilitation Association, the CRA Committee of BB&T Bank, and an active member of the Urban Land
Institute. Whitman is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and Western New England School of
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Bert Mason is the senior development advisor and legal counsel to Telesis Corporation. He has over 20 years experience in the practice of law, dealing principally with matters that relate to commercial, residential real estate and affordable housing. He also has extensive experience in the development, management and sale of commercial and residential property. His legal work has included both private practice, as a partner in the law firm of Powell, Goldstein & Murphy, and public service, as executive assistant to the Federal Housing Commissioner and general counsel of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Mr. Mason is a graduate of the Antioch School of Law.
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David Godschalk
is General Counsel for Telesis. He came to Telesis from Vinson & Elkins LLP, where his practice included project finance, public finance, corporate governance, and domestic and international securities law matters. Prior to that, he served in the general counsel’s office at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he worked on fair housing policy and enforcement. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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| Georgia
Abraham is the director of external affairs. She has national and
international public affairs experience, which includes implementing
legislative and managerial programs, conducting media relations, and
coordinating conference and travel projects. She has worked in the
legislative and executive branches of government.
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| Bill Sawicki is the Acting Director of Real Estate Development. Bill has over 20 years of broad real estate experience, having worked with developers, owner/investors, contractors and end users, with a career focus on urban, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly developments of large scale and complex nature. His tenure includes stops at some of the region's most notable and visionary real estate organizations, including Reston Town Center Associates, Western Development and Clark Enterprises (parent organization to the Clark Construction Group). Bill is a graduate of the College of Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder and pursued post-graduate studies at George Washington University.
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| Reshma Holla is an Assistant Project Manager. She received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Economics and in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate, she also studied abroad at the London School of Economics. While at the University of Pennsylvania, she was actively involved in tutoring and mentoring youth at various public schools in West Philadelphia. Reshma came to Telesis from the real estate advisory services firm RCLCO where she worked as an Assoicate. At RCLCO, she consulted on a variety of engagements encompassing a wide range of product types and markets, including urban infill and redevelopment projects with mixed-income housing and commercial components.
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