Casey Board, CAM, NAAEI Faculty.  Casey brings to the classroom onsite experience and an energetic teaching style. She has extensive experience of the multi-housing industry in different capacities from working on-site, assisting middle management, and training and marketing for a large firm with over 31,000 units in the United States. She is a graduate of the NAAEI Advanced Instructor Training program. She was an active volunteer on the Career Development Committee as well as a Thinklink Facilitator.

Char Burnside-Rice, CAPS,ARM is a Regional Vice President for Sunchase American. Char’s portfolio covers Texas and Tennessee. In her 23 years of property management experience she has worked for AIMCO, AMLI Residential, and Mid-America Apartments. Her experience includes lease up communities, mixed use, tax credit, and all classes (A, B, and C). Char is very active in both AATC and AAGD. For AATC she serves as a CAM instructor, serves on the Lone Star Award Committee and is a graduate of the AATC Lyceum program. She started her Thinkink facilitator role in 2007 where she truly made magic happen. She has chaired the AAGD Education Committee and in 2006, she received the AAGD CAPS student of the year. In 2007, she participated in the NAA Lyceum program and NAA education conference committee. In 2005, Char received the NAA Professional Designate of the Year award. Char enjoys every aspect of this crazy business, but mostly enjoys watching the growth and successes of her team members.

Jennifer Campbell-Brown, is the Training Coordinator for Pace Realty. Prior to Pace, Jennifer worked for Equity Residential where she wore many hats. (Sparky likes hats, too!) She was a property manager, assistant manager, mentor and field trainer. Her passion for training is what led her to Pace.

Brenda Carpenter, CAS candidate, Executive Vice President of Superior Floors, served as the 2005-2006 AATC Education Committee chair. At Superior, she oversees all operations and sales for the company. Prior to joining the vendor side, Brenda spent more than 17 years on the management side on the industry with her last position being regional vice president of the southwest region for AMLI Residential. Brenda is a dynamic trainer who can motivate even the hardest to motivate.

Jorge Castillo, Regional Maintenance Director, AMLI Residential

Lisa Clark, CAM, CAPS, is District Manager for Bell Partners. She is a 2006 graduate of AATCs Leadership Lyceum program. She is an active volunteer serving on the Lyceum and Lone Star Awards committees. She chairs the Career Development Committee. She has been facilitator for AATC’s 2006, 2007 and 2008 ThinkLink conferences, she trains CAM and serves on the board of directors. If you ask Lisa’s team about her, they smile and say “She’s the best!!”

Mark Cukro, National Speaker

Beth Doty, Capture the Market, Beth Doty, Regional Sales Executive, Capture the Market, Started her career in 1998 as a leasing consultant, specializing in new construction lease ups. She joined BG Personnel in February 2003, handling sales for the DFW area along with training of all non-experienced leasing consultants. Beth currently is the Regional Sales Executive for Capture the Market and handles sales for video media in the DFW, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio markets. She serves on several association committees throughout the state of Texas. She is a two time Thinklink Facilitator and loves bringing energy and fun to the classroom.

Angela Fox, Angela Fox is the Marketing and Education Director of BH Management Services. She is currently responsible for a portfolio totaling over 130 communities and 33, 000 units. Angela has been with BH Management Services for the past three plus years overseeing mainly the marketing efforts for the BH portfolio across the nation. Prior to establishing her marketing career, Angela spent 11 years on site, nine as a manager. Specializing in the development of marketing programs for individual sites as well as company wide campaigns, Angela also trains employees on improving their leasing and marketing skills as well as creating other education programs for multiple levels within BH Management Services. Armed with an outgoing personality and a quirky humor, Angela makes a memorable and lasting impression on everyone she meets.
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David Fritsche is General Counsel to the San Antonio Apartment Association and co-general counsel to the San Antonio Housing Authority for landlord/tenant matters. He has served on the faculty of the Texas Justice Court Training Center for three years teaching landlord/tenant law, evictions and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to Justices of the Peace and JP personnel.

Carrie Gebhart,Director of Sales-Fort Worth for BG Personnel, began her career in the apartment industry in 1998 as a leasing consultant in North Carolina. Prior to moving to Dallas in 2001, she received her degree in business marketing. While living in North Carolina she was very involved in the Apartment Association of Greenville where she sat on several committees. She has held all onsite positions before venturing into the vendor side of the industry working at For Rent Media Solutions as an Account Executive specializing in Marketing/Advertisings as well as a Trainer for their leasing classes. Carrie has been involved in AAGD and AATC since 2003. She currently sits on the AATC Career Development Committee and the AATC ThinkLink Task force and is a 3rd time ThinkLink Facilitator. Carrie has a passion for assisting people with advancing their careers in Property Management through development and education.

Gregory Ann Goldrick, NALP, CAPS, is the Marketing Director for Simpson Property Group in Dallas. Her enthusiastic approach to multifamily training is her passion. She formerly served as the director of marketing and training for Archon Residential. She is a past chair of AATC’s education committee, and serves on the Career Development committee. Gregory has taught NALP, CAM, CAPS and many other great topics at AATC and AAGD. She has been the face of all the Thinklink Brainstorming Conferences by co-hosting 2006 and 2008 and leading the group in 2007! Gregory is passionate about everything she does.

Susan Goff, NALP, Assistant Community Director, Milestone Management. Susan started in the business through a leasing class at a temporary agency. As she says "the rest is history". After joining the team at Milestone Management she took her career to the next level by becoming an NALP graduate. Her dedication and passion for seeing others grows led her to begin teaching classes at AATC. Students say her class say she is a natural and makes the class fun.

Drew McOlgan, Pinnacle, Director of Purchasing, McOlgan has more than 10 years of experience in the property management industry. Before joining Pinnacle, he served as the director of marketing for BH Management Services of Dallas. He managed the development and implementation of national marketing initiatives to increase brand recognition, procurement, and development of procedural manuals and web-based market surveys. McOlgan also served as the director of resident services for BH; as director, he created a sustainable, national customer support service and enhanced customer retention for a range of housing portfolios including new and renovated, conventional, affordable and senior housing.

Laurie Pascoe, CAM,CAPS, offers students more than twenty years of multihousing experience. Currently she works is an asset manager for MacDonald Companies. She has served as the Director of Marketing and Training with Archon Residential, and Director of Training and Education with Pace Realty. She specializes in developing and training programs that improve and motivate willing teams. Laurie is active in the Apartment Association of Tarrant County and Apartment Association of Greater Dallas, serving as a member of the faculty and on several committees with each.

Patti Rodriquez, Regional Training Director, Camden Property Trust. Patti is has been the education coordinator for Camden Realty Trust since 2002. She began her career as a leasing consultant in 1994. She served as a senior leasing consultant with Post Properties for three years and was promoted to assistant manager. Patti also serves as Post's director of recruitment for three years before becoming the operations manager for Post Properties Corporate Housing. Patti is currently involved in AATCs education committee.

Christy Sanchez, District Specialist, Riverstone Residential. is a District Specialist and has 12 years of experience in the multi-family housing industry. She began her career with Trammel Crow Residential Services and as a leasing consultant and excelled from there going on to be a Senior Property Manager over several communities. She has almost 11 years on-site including 8 years as Property Manager. She formally served as a District Trainer for Riverstone Residential Group serving Texas and Louisiana. Christy taught all Achiever Academy Classes including basic and advanced leasing classes, one-on-one specialized coaching and lease-up training. She continues to instruct as an ACE Trainer in Dallas for Riverstone. Christy has a passion for the industry and loves to share her experience and excitement for multi-family housing in the classroom.

Sarah Turner, NALP, NAAEI Faculty, Account Executive, For Rent Media Solutions. She's been on the vendor side, the property management side of the business and served as AATC Director of Career Development. She brings to the classroom onsite experience and an energetic teaching style. She has extensive experience of the multi-housing industry in different capacities from working on-site, assisting middle management, and training and marketing for a large firm with over 31,000 units in the United States. She is a graduate of the NAAEI Advanced Instructor Training program. She is an active volunteer at AATC serving on numerous committees (golf, community service, trade show) as well as chairing the career development committee. She helped plan and facilitate the Thinklink Brainstorming Conferences. Sarah was named 2007 AATC Vendor of the Year. Participants from her seminars will tell you that she is easy to relate to and can make learning even the most basic concepts fun.

Sue Weston, CAM, CAPS, NAAEI Faculty is Vice President of Learning and Development for Pinnacle. She is responsible for education, staff development and implementing marketing strategies throughout the Central Region.­­­­ Susan has served as the National Apartment Association Director of Education where she was responsible for the national designation programs and association education initiatives. Susan has worked in executive level capacity with Archon Residential Management and Walden. Susan has 25 years experience in the property management industry. She has been an active member of and volunteer for the Tarrant County, Dallas, and Texas Apartment Associations. She is a member of the NAA Education Institute faculty, completing its Advanced Instructor training program in 2006. She is a licensed Texas Real Estate Broker.

Pat Wiley, NAAEI Faculty, VP of Education, Alliance Residential. Vice President of Education, joined Alliance in March, 2001. She is one of two educators responsible for the training and management development of all Alliance team members, employing an Alliance University curriculum of thirty diversified courses. These classes range from orientation of new team members, software instruction and implementation to management development and leadership programs. Pat earned her Bachelor of Science in Education from Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio and has twenty nine years experience in professional property management. She is very involved in her local apartment associations and a frequent instructor and speaker for them. She has been honored with several recognition awards, including Alliance Most Valuable Player-2002, Dallas Apartment Association Legend of Education-2004, Alliance Executive Award of Excellence-2006, and Alliance Most Valuable Player-2007. She is especially proud of her designation as an Advanced Instructor on the faculty of the National Apartment Association Education Institute. Pat’s passion is training others to be the best they can be and watching them grow into successful, productive team members.

Jason Young, Jason Young has been called a “rare breed” when it comes to developing leaders and customer service initiatives. As a former senior-level manager at Southwest Airlines, Jason learned the value of a successful workplace culture. During his 10-years with the airline consistently rated No. 1 in customer service and employee satisfaction, he was a key driver in creating and developing the company’s innovative training programs for its successful leadership and customer service culture that have become renowned in the business world today.