NextGen

FEATURED PROGRAMS:

Office Hours Morning Buzz Site Tours Mentorship Program Philanthropy Events Government Affair Workshops

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NextGen is where BIAOC's leaders of tomorrow connect and grow. Nominate an up-andcoming professional in your company today!

Contact us for membership info: Zac Torres Chad Davies

zac.torres@fnf.com chad@daviesimaging.com

Tim Huynh

2021 NextGen Chair Land Acquistion Manager Meritage Homes Lindsay Hezmalhalch

2021 NextGen Co-Chair Senior Associate, Director, Client Relations and Development

The BIA OC NextGen Committee has not lost momentum in 2021 thanks to our virtual events! We want to thank our sponsors and the wonderful NextGen Executive Committee board for their support. So far this year, we hosted two “Morning Buzz” events with respected presidents in our housing industry – Richard Douglass with Trumark Homes in January and Nicole Burdette with Brookfield in April. Both events were well attended, and it was great to sit down and listen to two industry leaders share their knowledge with the younger NextGen audience. Nicole was one of the founding members of NextGen and having her speak as a division president was inspiring.

In addition to our Morning Buzz event, we hosted a virtual site tour of Tri Pointe’s Canvas community in Anaheim. This event included another president of our industry, Tom Grable, director of marketing Natalie Barrios, project manager Mike Miller, and architect Jeff Chelwick. The panel lead our group through the process of buying an entitled site and enhancing the products to save cost and increase value. In addition to exposing the NextGen group to a new Southern Californian community, it offered an educational experience on the builder’s mentality when adapting a site to fit their business model.

We have more events planned for the rest of the year to go along with the site tours and Morning Buzzes – including Government Affairs events, philanthropy with HomeAid, and hopefully an in-person social event if we continue to make progress in this pandemic environment.

In the meantime, these virtual events have been a great way to “tour” communities with commentary from the builders who developed the projects as well as network with established leaders in our industry. Be on the lookout for upcoming events as we continue to make the most of this virtual world!