Thomas M. Farasy serves as President of the MNCBIA and is President of Terra Verde Communities, LLC, a regional multifamily developeruilder in the metropolitan DC area. Mr. Farasy is currently seeking the development plan approvals on an eight-acre parcel located in College Park, MD as well as development consulting for a number of major multifamily developers. He is responsible for the overall operations of the company and development of new business. Mr. Farasy has served on the MNCBIA Board of Directors since 1999. He has served as the Chairman of the Prince George's County Liaison Committee and has served on the Executive Committee of MNCBIA since 2007. He has held the role of Chairman of the Multifamily Council and Co-Chairman of the Multifamily Trends Conference. He serves on the board of Victory Housing and Mother Dear's Community Center and was a member of the WMATA Joint Development Task Force in 2007.  Mr. Farasy graduated from St. Louis University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Read Tom's Presidential acceptance speech by clicking here.

Doug Meeker serves as Vice President/Charles County.   He is a Vice President with Elm Street Development where his responsibilities include management of Elm Street's land development ventures in Charles County and identifying new development opportunities in the Southern Maryland region. He has been active in the MNCBIA for more than 15 years and currently serves on the Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Charles County Liaison Committee. Doug also serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Charles County and is an active member of the Charles County Chamber of Commerce. He is a registered professional engineer and holds a Bachelors Degree in Structural and Construction Engineering from Penn State University.  

Frank Bossong IV PE serves as Vice President/Montgomery County. He is Senior Vice President and Director of Operations for Rodgers Consulting Inc., a land development consulting firm headquartered in Germantown, MD.  He is a registered professional Engineer and Land Surveyor with over 29 years of industry experience.   He has served on a number of county and association committees in Montgomery and Frederick Counties dealing with land use issues and prior to joining the BIA Executive Committee he served as Chair of the Development Review Colmmittee and the MNCPPC Ad Hoc Committee. 

Marty Mitchell serves as Vice President/Prince George's County.  He is the Vice Chief Executive Officer of Mitchell and Best Homebuilders LLC (M&B) and has been directly involved in the design and development of communities at M&B for more than 17 years. In addition to land development and land acquisition for Mitchell & Best, he handles initial Investor/Bank Relations. Mr. Mitchell is currently on the NAHB Board and serves on the NAHB Environmental Issues and Housing Finance Committees. In 2003, he was the NAHB Environmental Issues Committee Chairman, and represented NAHB on an EPA rulemaking committee to establish EPA's guidelines for Phase I ESA's. Mr. Mitchell has also served on several workgroups at NAHB such as Smart Growth and EPA Stormwater Management and has served on former Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan’s Forest Preservation Taskforce and the Governor’s Task Force for GreenBuilding. He is currently on the MNCBIA Board and in 2000 served his third year as Chair of the Greater Washington Builder Expo. Mr. Mitchell is a graduate of the University of Maryland where he also received his MBA.

Bob Larkin serves as Treasurer.    He has been involved in the local real estate industry for more than 20 years and participated in the acquisition of land and building of over 15,000 homes during his career with large national and local builders.  He has been active in the MNCBIA for over 10 years and is active on several County Liaison Committees as well as past service as Chair of the Washington DC Liaison Committee, co-Chair of Membership and of the PROS Awards Committee.  Mr. Larkin also serves on the Board of National Association of Home Builders.

Rick Sullivan serves as Immediate Past President.   He owns and operates Alliance Homes, Inc., a Bethesda-based residential building and development company serving the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. He is a native Washingtonian and a fourth generation real estate entrepreneur who has been involved in the homebuilding and development business for more than 20 years. Mr. Sullivan is a Life Director on the MNCBIA Board of Directors and has been an active member since 1994. He currently serves as Chair of the Nominating and Leadership Development Committee. He served as Vice President for Montgomery County in 2006-07, chaired or co-chaired the Montgomery County Liaison, Membership, PROS Awards, Celebrity Chefs and Winter Ball Committees and has served on the Nominating, Strategic Planning and Home Tour Committees. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Homebuilders Care Foundation and Frederick County's Land Use Council. Mr. Sullivan has won Builder Spike of the Year, Retention Spike of the Year and the NAHB Membership Retention Leader for the State of Maryland and in 2008 he reached the 400 Spike level. Mr. Sullivan has served on Montgomery County's Affordable Housing Task Force and the MNCPPC's Forest Conservation Task Force. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a Bachelors of Finance degree.

William M. Shipp (Bill) serves as Life Director to the Executive Committee.  He is a principal with the law firm of O'Malley, Miles, Nylen & Gilmore, P.A. with a primary practice concentration in matters concerning land use, zoning, permits and transactional law. Bill is a lifelong resident of the Washington metropolitan area. He received both a Bachelor of Arts degree, with distinction, in Urban Affairs and a Juris Doctorate from The George Washington University. Mr. Shipp is a past Chairman of the Prince George's County Liaison Committee and has been active in that Committee for many years. He also has served on the MNCBIA Legal Action Committee. Bill is a past Chairman of the Prince George's Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Greater Washington Board of Trade's Transportation and Land Use Committee. At the County level he served on the County Zoning Task Force reviewing growth policy in Prince George's County. He is also was a member of the County Executive's Building Permit Task Force and was also a member of the Prince George's County Public Schools Management Oversight Committee.

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Diane K. Swenson, CAE comes to MNCBIA with over 15 years of association leadership experience. Most recently, Ms. Swenson worked with the association management company, SmithBucklin, Inc., as the President of the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association. Prior to working with the association management company, she was the Executive Vice President/COO of a stand-alone association, the National Association of Federal Credit Unions (NAFCU) where she was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the association, supervising the directors in charge of building and resource management, information technology, human resources, strategic planning, and finance. In addition, she had the supervisory responsibility for NAFCU's membership, marketing and education divisions. Before joining NAFCU, Ms. Swenson worked for 13 years for the American Tort Reform Association. Beginning as Legislative Director of the start up organization, she was promoted to Vice President and later to Executive Vice President/CFO. Ms. Swenson who is a member of the Minnesota Bar has a J.D. degree from Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, MN, and a B.A. degree from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD

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