William Brennan is the Executive Director of the California New Motor Vehicle Board, a state forum for regulating and settling disputes between franchised new motor vehicle dealers and the manufacturers or distributors of these vehicles, which include automobiles, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles. He is also President of Worldwide Safety, LLC, which is a product development company located in Sacramento, California.

Mr. Brennan has both private and public sector experience. He is a licensed California attorney since 1972, serving business and corporate clients in a variety of areas, including strategic business planning, regulatory business, public policy, government relations and corporate and small business development.

His public service includes a year at the White House, Washington, D.C. in 1984, senior advisor to Senator Pete Wilson in Washington, D.C. from 1985 to 1987 and appointment as deputy secretary and special counsel for the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency by Governor Pete Wilson from 1992 to 1999.

Ms. Burke currently works as a mediator for the Alternative Resolution Centers, and serves as a member of the Committee on Congressional Ethics, and the LA84 Foundation, which supports youth sports activities in the eight southernmost counties in California.

Ms. Burke retired from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2008 after 17 years of service, including three terms as Chairwoman. She was the first African-American elected to that body. She served three terms in the United States House of Representatives, the first African-American woman to be elected to that body, and the first Member of Congress to receive maternity leave. Prior to her service in Congress, she served three terms in the California State Assembly, the first African-American to be elected to that body.

Ms. Burke received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from the University of Southern California. She entered private practice and specialized in civil rights and laws regarding housing, immigration, eminent domain, and the licensing of board and care homes. She later served as a hearing officer for the Los Angeles City Police Commission, and staff attorney to the McCone Commission, which investigated the causes of the 1965 Watts Riots. She has served as a director of the Nestlé US Advisory Board, the University of California Board of Regents, the Ford Foundation, as chair of the L.A. County Children’s Planning Council, and vice-chair of the 1984 U.S. Olympics Organizing Committee.

Currently a housing and community development consultant, Earl Fields was Field Office Manager with the U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development from 1978 through 1994. He was responsible for the administration of Single Family Mortgage Insurance Program (FHA) for a five-county area in Southern California; was the principal representative for the Assistant Secretary /FI-IA Commissioner of HUD to local city and county government, residential home building and mortgage banking industries; managed a staff of as many as 100 real estate appraisers, loan specialists and underwriters, real estate sales agents, asset management specialists, loan servicing, clerical and administrative support staff; and was responsible for the planning and development of industry training seminars and conferences.

For the 10 years prior to this position, Mr. Fields held various management and representative positions with HUD for urban renewal, model cities, insured multifamily housing, college housing, and community development programs.

Mr. Fields serves on the Board of Century Community Development, Inc. and is President of EGP & Associates, which specializes in housing and community development issues involving HUD/HFA.

In 1993, Carrie Hawkins was elected the first woman President of the California Mortgage Banker’s Association. She also received that organization’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998. In 1995. Mrs. Hawkins sold Trinity Mortgage Company, of which she had been the owner and President for 15 years.

She served as Governor Wilson’s appointee on the board of the California Housing Finance Agency as Vice Chairman. Mrs. Hawkins has also served on the board of the California Housing Partnership Corporation; the Fannie Mae Advisory Board; the LINC Housing Corporation Board; as President of the Southern California Mortgage Bankers Association; and the Board of the Association of Professional Mortgage Women. She is a member of Lambda Alpha, a premier international real estate society.

Mrs. Hawkins serves as Chairperson of Century/LIFT and serves on the Boards of Century Community Development, Inc. and the Century Community Charter School; she sits on Claremont Institute's Committee on Local Government and is a former Vice Chair of California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA).

Mr. Lopez is an independent consultant in the area of affordable housing finance and development. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Community Reinvestment Corporation, which funds low-income multifamily housing throughout the state of California.

Mr. Lopez has also served as Director of Community Lending for Citibank, and was Chief of Housing for the Association of Bay Area Governments. Mr. Lopez serves on numerous local, state and federal advisory committees on affordable housing policy, and has lectured on housing finance, housing policy formation, and community relations at a number of universities.

Mr. Lopez serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Citizens Housing, is President of the Board for Building Futures with Women & Children, and is also Chairman of Bay Area LISC's Local Advisory Committee. He is a member of CalHCD's Development Loan and Grant Committee and LACCDC's City of Industry Review Panel.

Alec Nedelman is the General Counsel, Structured Finance at iStar Financial. Prior to joining iStar, Alec was the Senior Vice President for Business and Legal Affairs at Fremont Investment & Loan, and before that a partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP and then at Mayer, Brown LLP. While at Mayer, Brown, Alec served as a practice leader for the international real estate group and was responsible for the firm’s largest real estate client.

Mr. Nedelman is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and symposia on negotiating techniques and strategies and financing and workout issues, as well as at private workshops for clients. He is also the author of numerous articles, checklists and source material on these topics.

Alec Nedelman is a member of the California and Hawaii bar associations, and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, where he serves as Co-Chair of the Corporate Counsel Committee.

Louise Oliver is the Regional Operations Officer & Director of Government Contracts for Goodwill Southern California.

Mrs. Oliver is the former Deputy Director of Real Property of the Western Region of the Federal General Services Administration (GSA), where she served since 1989, responsible for the supervision of more than 10 million square feet of Federal Government-controlled space. She worked with the Federal Government since 1963, with GSA and the Department of Defense.

Mrs. Oliver serves on the Boards of Century/LIFT, Salvation Army, Westwood Transitional Village, Harry Pregerson Federal Child Care Center, Mission Community Hospital, and Rhythm Gym, a Project of Community Partners. She has served as Chairman of the Los Angeles Combined Federal Campaign (United Way), and on the Boards of Bell Shelter, Wilshire West Federal Credit Union, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Los Angeles.

Darroch "Rocky" Young was named Chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District on May 4, 2005 and retired on July 31, 2007. In his retirement, he is currently working part-time as the Chief Consultant for the California Collegiate Brain Trust (CCBT), a subdivision of McCallum Group, Inc.

As Chancellor, Rocky initiated the first formal Strategic Planning effort in the District’s history. Under Rocky’s leadership the District solved its financial problems – it went from being on the Chancellor’s Watch List to having an ending balance in excess of 11% at his time of retirement and created a model for dealing with the unfunded liability of retiree health benefits.

Rocky also launched a major Student Success Initiative that aims at improving all student educational outcomes across the District—including student graduation, transfer, and job placement rates.

To address the crisis of “disconnected youth”—young Angelenos 16-24 who are both out of school and out of work—he initiated discussions with local business leaders, city agencies, the Chamber of Commerce, and the LAUSD aimed at the creation of a county-wide system of education “portals” designed to guide the “disconnected” back into productive activity.