Leadership Biographies - 2008 Executive Committee

TED SMART - MARYLAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC / RIDAN BUILDERS INC. (President)
Ted Smart is Owner and President of Maryland Development Company and Ridan Builders. Ted has been involved in residential and commercial land development and building for over 25 years. The Smart family has been active in the local business community for three generations. Ted joined his father John N. Smart, now retired, in the family business in 1991 and continues to build the Company's core business of Real Estate Development. In addition, he oversees the growth of Ridan Builders. In its 25-year history, Maryland Development Company has developed over 7000 residential lots and created master planned communities. Ted has been and active member of MNCBIA for several years serving on the environmental committee and most recently as a board member of HBCF. Ted is taking on the position of HBCF board president for 2008 and will join the MNCBIA board as well. Ted is also on the Board of his family’s charitable foundation, Shelters Plus, which provides much needed housing in 3rd world countries. Ted holds a Bachelor of Science degree in building science and construction management from Clemson University. He obtained a a private pilot certificate out of school in 1989. Ted, his wife Roxanne and 3 boys live in Gaithersburg, Maryland, but are excited to move back to the neighborhood Ted grew up in Rockville, where they are building a new home. Ted and his family enjoy any outdoor activity, especially visiting the beach.

CHARLES F. STUART JR. - MILLER and SMITH HOMES (Vice-President)
Chas arrived at Miller and Smith in 1987, as its first in-house attorney. He now oversees the legal, human resources, benefits and risk management functions of the company and is a member of its board of directors. Chas, a graduate of Duke University, obtained his law degree at George Washington University. For more than ten years, Chas has been an adjunct law professor at GW teaching a course in real estate finance. Before joining Miller and Smith, he worked at the law firm of Linowes and Blocher and The Rouse Company, a national publicly held real estate and development firm. Chas serves on the Board and Executive Committee of MNCBIA as its Treasurer and is a member of Montgomery County Park and Planning’s Legacy Open Space Advisory Committee. He has been active in the community, including having served as president and a director of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Citizens Advisory Board, officer and director of the Montgomery County Mental Health Association, member of the Montgomery County Inter Agency Mental Health Advisory Board, a PALS volunteer, and a Scouting leader and fundraiser.

JACK ORRICK - LINOWES and BLOCHER, LLP (Secretary)
Jack is a Partner in the Business Transactions Group of the law firm Linowes and Blocher. He represents clients in corporate and real estate financing transactions and other business matters. Jack is also a member of the Legislative Committee of the MNCBIA and serves as general counsel to the Home Builders Association of Maryland. In addition, Jack is a past president and director of Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit which is a community partnership bringing together homeless people and others in need in the Greater Washington area, and a member of the Advisory Board for Housing Unlimited, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit which provides affordable housing to persons living with mental illness in Montgomery County.

MIKE GOLDSTEIN - WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE (Treasurer)
 Mike began his career in the building industry 15 years ago at Ryan Homes Baltimore South Division. Shortly afterwards he moved to Orlando, where he spent six years marketing sporting goods products for Magic Johnson. Mike returned to Maryland and Ryan Homes, where he worked in the Montgomery Division as a community sales manager. He also worked with homebuilder.com, which offers the largest Internet listing of newly constructed homes across the country. He joined Wells Fargo as a home mortage consultant in 2003 specializing in builder end loans. Mike is an active member of MNCBIA, serving on various committees, including the Celebrity Chefs Committee, which he has chaired for the past few years.

 MIKE CONLEY - WINCHESTER HOMES (Immediate Past President)
 Mike Conley is Vice President of Land Development for Winchester Homes, Inc., a Bethesda based residential builder/developer. Mike supervises of a team of professionals charged with the coordination of the legal, engineering and environmental requirements necessary to gain approval for the subdivision engineering process in Montgomery, Anne Arundel, Howard, and Prince George’s Counties. Mike’s team is currently managing more that 25 Maryland projects. Prior to joining Winchester Homes in 1998, Mike was a Development Project manager for Washington Homes Inc. (now K Hovnanian). During his tenure, Mike conducted project feasibility studies and managed the operational side of land development for many Maryland projects. Earlier in Mike’s career, he served as Project Manger for Cardinal Industries where he supervised the construction of apartment projects in Virginia and Pennsylvania. He also served as a residential Construction Superintendent with US Home Corporation. Mike has been an active participant and enthusiastic supporter of several regional philanthropic initiatives. As a member of the Homebuilders Association of Maryland for many years, Mike was selected as President of the Anne Arundel County Chapter in 2004. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Home Builders Care Foundation since 1998 where he currently serves as the 2006 President. Mike holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Maryland. He and his wife Heather and their two daughters live in Chevy Chase, Maryland where, since 2000, Mike has been renovating their circa 1940 home. The Conley’s are members of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Washington D.C. Mike and his family love to swim, camp and play soccer.

 

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