John C. Murphy
President
Law Offices of John C. Murphy

Herbert A. Davis
Secretary
Prudential Carruthers Realtors

Amy Seitz
Scribe

Joseph Cronyn
Treasurer
Lipman Frizzell & Mitchell, LLC

Ackneil M. Muldrow II
Past President
ParkerMuldrow & Associates, LLC

Rachel F. Edds, AICP
President Elect
Edds Consulting, LLC

Robert M. Lefenfeld
Vice President for Membership
Real Property Research Group, Inc.

James S. Leanos, SIOR
Vice President for Development
Corporate Property Solutions, LLC

Michael A. Anikeeff, Ph. D.
Real Estate Department
Johns Hopkins University

Frank B. Coakley
Maryland Department of Housing
and Community Development

John E. Kortecamp, Ph. D.
Home Builders Association of MD

Ronald M. Kreitner
West Side Renaissance Corporation

Joseph T. "Jody" Landers, III
Greater Baltimore Board of REALTORS, Inc.

Josef Nathanson
Urban Information Associates, Inc.

Kim Schaefer
TerraLogos, P.C.

The Baltimore Chapter, formed in 1992, meets approximately
bi-monthly, typically on the third Wednesday, and typically at the Johns Hopkins University Downtown Center, corner of Charles and Fayette Streets.
Guests are welcome. (A guest fee is charged.)

MEETINGS

Chapter members free; guests welcome (regular meeting guest fee $20)
Email or call Judy Bushong for reservations

NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

LAMBDA ALPHA INTERNATIONAL Baltimore Chapter
2008 ANNUAL MEETING

The Center Club
6:00 pm Reception
6:30 pm Dinner and Program

Keynote Speaker: Roger Staiger III

The Financial Crisis and its Effect on Maryland

Roger Staiger's areas of expertise include global Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, Derivatives and Risk Management and Financial Modeling. He is a Fund Manager for a Development/Construction Fund in New York, responsible for all aspects of the $1.25B portfolio which invests all commercial asset classes on a national footprint. His is also a full-time lecturer at The John Hopkins University Edward St. John Department of Real Estate.

Mr. Staiger's professional experience includes multiple years as Chief Financial Officer for a Mid-Atlantic regional developer and builder. Prior to his CFO position, he was Managing Director with Constellation Energy for both the gas and electric retail commodity divisions. Prior to Constellation, he was the Finance Executive for Clark Construction, a privately held national commercial builder and Senior Quantitative Analyst for Columbia Energy.

In addition to his position at The Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Staiger holds faculty positions at both The Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI) and Loyola College. At DREI he lectures on Global Portfolio Management. At Loyola College he lectures on Derivatives, Financial Modeling, and Financial Strategy in the MS Finance, Executive MBA, and evening MBA programs.

Mr. Staiger currently serves on the Real Estate Finance Committees for several local Washington Metropolitan Builders Industries. He is a member of the Edward St. John Advisory Board at The Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Sellinger Applied Portfolio Advisory Board at Loyola College. He is proud to have reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in December, 2007.

Mr. Staiger was born in 1970 in Oakland, California. He earned his BS Electrical Engineering degree from Bucknell University, his MBA and MS Finance degrees from George Washington University, and his MA from George Mason University.

For reservations, contact Judy Bushong
judybushong@yahoo.com
410-828-4700

Price for members and guests: $25.00
Pay at the door

IN MEMORIAM: Charles Laidlaw, "Chuck" to his friends, one of LAI Baltimore's founding members, died August 27, 2008, following a long illness. A notice prepared for LAI's Keynotes newsletter may be viewed by clicking here (535 kb PDF file).

See a report of the chapter's recent cruise of Baltimore's renowned
Inner Harbor, in the August issue of LAI's Keynotes newsletter.

FUTURE MEETINGS

(Please contact John Murphy or Rachel Edds with suggestions for future speakers)

Resources: Baltimore Chapter Symposia

The Baltimore Chapter, in cooperation with other organizations, sponsors symposia on topics of regional significance.

April 2007: one-day symposium titled "By Choice, Not By Chance: Transportation for the Baltimore Region," cosponsored with ULI Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors. The symposium brochure may be viewed by clicking here (256 kb PDF file)
A summary of presentations and visual materials used by the presenters is available; click here.
LAI-Baltimore supports the development of a balanced transportation system for the Baltimore region; refer to the Baltimore Regional Transportation Board's latest draft Transportation Outlook 2035 (To visit the Board's web site, click here)

November 2005: half-day conference on "Baltimore's Challenge: Housing for All," sponsored jointly with the Citizens Planning and Housing Association. The conference brochure may be viewed by clicking here (223 kb PDF file).

April 2004: one-day symposium on "Technology, Smart Growth, and Future Form of the Baltimore Region" sponsored in part by grants from the Loeb Fellowship Association of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and LAI's Land Economics Foundation. The symposium brochure may be viewed by clicking here (1 Mb PDF file). A summary of the symposium is available by clicking here (2.4 Mb Microsoft Word file).

LAI International Meetings and Events

LAI Fall Weekend
October 24-26, 2008
Toronto, ON