David Gatzke is the Vice President, Development and Plicy for the H.G. Fenton Company, a privately held San Diego company that owns and manages over 5,000 multi-family residential apartments and 4.5 million square feet of employment space. In this role he leads the successful execution of new or redeveloped commercial, residential and mixed-use developments, focusing on customer lifestyle and making positive contributions to the evolution of their neighborhoods. Previous projects include Tru Bankers Hill, an adaptive-reuse of a 95-year old medical office building into a unique collection of 75 apartments and a neighborhood café, and Amp30 an upcoming 202-unit multifamily community in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego. He is also leading the master planning of a scattered-site portfolio of properties. Prior to his current role, Dave led acquisition, development, and finance for a nonprofit affordable housing developer, more than doubling the size of the organization’s portfolio, preserving 1,100 affordable apartments across California and creating over 900 new affordable homes including San Diego’s first LGBT-affirming senior housing complex. His projects innovated new approaches to the City of San Diego’s density bonus and inclusionary programs that were later adopted into city ordinances that significantly boosted the production of affordable and transit-oriented housing. His experience in building housing and communities is broad: Previously he led the entitlement and land development for master-planned communities encompassing over 10,000 homes and 3,000 acres and has worked with a startup homebuilder executing suburban infill development opportunities. Dave enjoys problem solving to advance projects as well as the opportunity to shape the creative vision for what a new building can offer its neighbors, future residents or business tenants. His broad experience in executing development across the spectra of affordability levels an

Jennifer Whitelaw is Senior Consultant at TW2, a full-service marketing communications agency serving clients in real estate, finance, law, nonprofit and more. She holds degrees in English and Urban Planning from UCLA and UC San Diego, respectively, and designed and completed an independent study program examining the intersections of urban planning, nutrition and childhood education, which included courses through UC Berkeley and University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Prior to her 20-year marketing and public relations career, Jennifer worked in the commercial real estate industry as a project manager for a sound stage development and as a business development director for an architecture firm. She also spent several years as Assistant Director for the San Diego Film Commission. Jennifer has served on the boards of directors of land planning organizations Urban Land Institute San Diego-Tijuana and Citizens Coordinate for Century 3 (C-3). She currently serves as Programs Co-Chair for ULI SD/TJ. She’s a past recipient of the San Diego Metropolitan 40 Under 40 award and Top Marketers award, as well as GlobeSt.’s Women of Influence award in marketing. Her work has earned an AMY Award from the American Marketing Association San Diego Chapter, an Emmy Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Science San Diego Chapter, a Telly Award and several San Diego Press Club awards.