Cornell Real Estate Industry Seminar

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

Ronald A. Ratner, Executive Vice President and Director, Forest City Enterprises, Inc., and President and CEO, Forest City Residential Group, Inc.

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010

Time: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Venue: Beck 198

Ronald A. Ratner is an executive vice president and director of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., and president and CEO of the Forest City Residential Group. The Forest City Residential Group comprises all of the multifamily residential ownership, development, management and financial activities of Forest City Enterprises.

Ratner’s experience with Forest City began in 1975, and through the years, has included direct development, construction, financing and management responsibilities, beginning with individual projects and executive supervision of multiple large scale developments on a national level. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and completed the masters program in architecture at UCLA.

Ratner is active in community and civic organizations and has served or is currently serving on the boards of Ohio State University, Brandeis University, Park Synagogue, the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Akron Art Museum, among others. He is a director of the National Multi Housing Council, and has served as a member of Federal National Mortgage Association’s National Housing Impact Advisory Council.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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