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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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