Christine Fedukowski is the principal of CFC, formed in August 2009 to assist developers, municipal agencies, and economic development agencies with tax-advantaged financing strategies for rehabilitation of historic properties and urban in-fill construction. 

Prior to founding CFC, Ms. Fedukowski worked with NTCIC (subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation), a syndicator of historic and new markets tax credits.  Joining the National Trust in 1999, Chris was a co-founder of NTCIC and the Banc of America Historic Tax Credit Fund, formed in 2000.  The first of several funds with Bank of America, it was one of the first in the country to invest in both the historic and new markets tax credits. Ms. Fedukowski also helped to establish funds formed in partnership with Citibank, US Bank, and Capital One, through which more than $300MM was invested.  Ms. Fedukowski was responsible for $70MM in historic and new markets tax credit equity investment in 33 projects, ranging from $3MM to $90MM in development costs for office, retail, residential, and performing arts uses.

Chris has an MBA in Real Estate and Urban Economics from the University of Connecticut, an MA in Arts Management from American University, Washington, DC, and a BFA in Music from the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts.  She has traveled throughout U.S. and Europe to study urban planning, preservation, and public-private real estate investment

Charles brings more than thirty years of experience in architecture, historic preservation planning, new construction and rehabilitation.  His past work in architectural practice, governmental service and nonprofit institutional management, provides a unique perspective and knowledge base to facilitate successful planning and project development.  He has participated and directed planning, historic resource surveys, developed design guidelines and preservation plans serving private, public and nonprofit sectors throughout the Southeast and California.  Charles’ architectural design and preservation work has received honors from the American Institute of Architects, and has written on architecture and historic preservation; and has represented the United States and city governments in France and India.

• Advisory Committee of the Urban Land Institute’s Los Angeles District Council
• Immediate Past Chair, Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
• Trustee, Vice President of Development - California Preservation Foundation;
• Past Board Member - Association for Preservation Technology International, Western Chapter;
• Founding Board Member and Treasurer of the US Green Building Council – Los Angeles Chapter;
• Past President of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Los Angeles Chapter;
• National Instructor, Business Development Institute of SMPS
• Advisory Board of Little Sisters of the Poor - San Pedro, CA
• Past President of Habitat for Humanity San Fernando / Santa Clarita Valleys.

David is the Community Development Director for Mercy Housing California's Sacramento office. MHC is a non-profit housing developer, whose work includes historic preservation. At MHC David has been involved in several historic preservation projects that involve adaptive reuse of buildings for housing, retail, and child care. His advocacy and grant writing has led to the formation of several Historic Districts in small rural towns in the Sacramento Valley. He is also part of a general partnership that completed a mixed-use tax credit project in downtown Winters (Yolo County). David has been an active volunteer in Woodland (Yolo County) since he and his family purchased a historic home there in 1986. He co-authored walking tour booklets and co-founded the Woodland Stroll Through History event in 1989, an annual day-long celebration that has introduced thousands to Woodland's exceptional architecture and history. In 2003 David's full-length book, Crafting A Valley Jewel: the Architects and Builders of Woodland was published by the Yolo County Historical Society. David holds a B.S. in Finance (with honors) from San Diego State, a M.A. degree in Economics from San Francisco State and completed additional graduate studies in Economic Development at UC Davis.

Ray Adamyk is the Founder and President of Spectra Company.  Spectra Company is headquartered in Pomona, California and has been in business for over 20 years.   Ray is well known in the construction community as an “expert” on historic buildings and restoration services.  The company's main focus is historic restoration, preservation and conservation.  

Ray is a member of

• Los Angeles Conservancy,
  
• WACPT, Pasadena Heritage,
  
• International Concrete Repair Institute and
  
• Roof Consultants Institute. 
  

Ray has overseen restoration work on the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, the Gamble House in Pasadena, Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, and Villa Riviera in Long Beach.   Ray is a graduate of Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Robert Imber is a ten-year resident of Palm Springs, CA where he owns and operates Palm Springs Modern Tours.  Specializing in daily educational tours of the Recent Past desert modern architecture for visitors in addition to in-depth excursions for students, professional associations, museums, et al Robert has been an active community-involved preservation advocate for more than twenty-five years. Originally from St. Louis, MO, education continued at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge) and Antioch Graduate School of Education. He has served on various boards including: the NEWSCHOOL Arts Foundation at the NEWSCHOOL of Architecture and Design, San Diego, CA, and the San Clemente Historical Society, San Clemente, CA. Robert was founder and director of MUSARCH, the (now closed) museum of architecture in John Lautner’s Alto Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, CA.  Active in preservation outreach and organizations, he was founding member of the Palm Springs Modern Committee, where he serves on the Board of Directors and is chairman of the Education Committee. He is executive producer of the documentary, Desert Utopia: mid-century architecture in Palm Springs and among other writing collaborated on the Assouline Press book, Palm Springs Style.

A La Jolla resident, Diane Kane is recently retired from the City Planning and Community Investment Department at the City of San Diego, where she handled large scale historic surveys as part of the long range planning process.   Previously, she was the Heritage Resources Coordinator for Caltrans, District 7 in Los Angeles, where she handled Sec. 106 and CEQA review of historic properties.  As “mother” of the Arroyo Seco Parkway National Scenic Byway in Los Angeles, she has had extensive experience with large scale cultural landscape documentation and treatment issues. She is a Professor of Architectural History at the NewSchool of Architecture in San Diego and has taught architectural history and planning at several southland universities, including SDSU, UCLA and Cal Poly, Pomona.  As a Trustee Emeritus of the California Preservation Foundation, she is a frequent contributor to CPF conferences and workshops and is a volunteer for the La  Jolla Historical Society.

Lydia is a veteran public relations professional and owner of a Palm Springs based public relations consulting service, Vortex Public Relations, specializing in “bringing people and ideas together.”  Prior to relocating to the desert in 1992, she worked with Fortune 500 clients sponsoring the Olympics, as well as other clients providing global public relations.  In her mission to bring people and ideas together, Lydia’s talent for writing is a key component to her success in articulating concepts and building consensus. 

Since relocating to Palm Springs, she has worked in public relations for several prominent Coachella Valley institutions and organizations including:

• Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism,
  
• Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians,
  
• Palm Springs Art Museum,
  
• Palm Springs International Film Festival,
  
• Bighorn Institute, Palm Springs Follies,
  
• Eisenhower Medical Center,
  
• Coachella Valley Unified School District, and
  
• Stroke Activity Center as well as numerous other local clients. 
  

As a strong advocate for cultural and architectural preservation, she has served on the executive committee of the Riverside County Cultural Heritage Tourism Project.  She is presently on the board of the Architecture & Design Council of the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Architect David Marshall is President of the highly respected preservation firm of Heritage Architecture & Planning in San Diego. Heritage specializes in the restoration and adaptive reuse of historically designated buildings. David graduated from Cal Poly Pomona and joined Heritage Architecture as a drafter in 1990. In 2004, David became co-owner and President of Heritage, taking over for Wayne Donaldson who founded the firm in 1978.

David Marshall has worked on many significant buildings in the western United States. As Project Architect for the House of Hospitality reconstruction in Balboa Park, David spent thousands of hours documenting the building and supervising its $15 million dismantling and reconstruction.  The House of Hospitality is the only building in San Diego to have won a National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award.  More recently, David was the Preservation Architect for downtown’s PETCO Park and helped with the successful restoration of the award-winning Western Metal Supply Building. David is past President of the Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO), was on the City of San Diego Historical Resources Board from 2002 to 2008 and was Chair of the HRB’s Design Assistance Subcommittee. David has lived in San Diego County since 1967 and currently resides in La Mesa with his wife and son.

Gil Mathew was the founder and President of Benchmark Thermal, a Grass Valley export manufacturer, designing and manufacturing industrial heating elements and applications for a variety of industries from aircraft galleys to semiconductor tools.  Benchmark grew from 2 employees to 60 employees over its 23 years under Gil’s direction.  Gil brings a culture of business development with two other start-up businesses, Eocom Corporation a high tech optics company from Irvine, California, where he served as Chief Financial Officer, and a mortgage banking business also in Southern California.  Gil moved to Nevada County in 1980 and began Benchmark Thermal in 1984. Gil graduated from Chapman College having studied economics and accounting.  

He has served on a variety of Non-Profit boards, including:

• Foothill Theatre Company,
  
• Domestic Violence Coalition and
  
• Past President of the 49er Rotary Club.
• Current President of the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation Board. 
  

Julianne Polanco is currently the Chair of the California State Historical Resources Commission.  She is also the Director of Cultural Resources for Actus Lend Lease - stewards of more than 1500 National Register Listed buildings and three National Historic Landmark Districts throughout the United States.  Prior to joining Actus, she was a Senior Project Manager for the Presidio Trust in San Francisco.  Julianne has directed numerous planning and preservation projects including those utilizing historic tax credits.  Ms. Polanco received degrees from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and UC Santa Barbara.  Before entering the Historic Preservation field, she held numerous environmental policy appointments for the State of California.

Richard Sucré received his M.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and since 2003 has worked as an architectural historian with Page & Turnbull, a San Francisco historic preservation architecture firm.

Mr. Sucré has served as project manager and lead historian on numerous projects in California and the Western U.S., including:

• San Francisco Mission and SOMA Area Plan Historic Resource Surveys,
• NASA Ames Research Center Space Shuttle Assessment survey,
• Historic Structure Report for Lookout Studio in the Grand Canyon.
  

Passionate about professional development and education, he served as the Programs Committee Co-Chair for the 2008 CPF conference in Napa, and was a member of the planning committee for the 2007 US/ICOMOS Annual Symposium. Richard has hosted historic preservation training sessions for the City of Vallejo Landmarks Commission and the South Carolina Mayors’ Institute, and is a founding member of the San Francisco Young Preservation’s League. He also served as the Programs Committee Co-Chair for the 2009 CPF conference in Palm Springs.

Kelly Sutherlin McLeod, AIA, founded her Long Beach based firm, Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc. (KSMA), in 1988. KSMA’s award winning portfolio is focused on the preservation of significant historic resources and adaptive reuse of existing buildings for commercial, institutional and residential projects. 

Ms. McLeod was Project Architect for the nationally recognized conservation of The Gamble House project, completed in 2004.  Preservation and new construction projects designed by KSMA have received numerous awards presented by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Conservancy, California Preservation Foundation, and Long Beach Heritage.  Ms. McLeod’s three decades of involvement in preservation, development, and advocacy organizations includes: Pasadena Heritage Board Member and Advocacy Committee Chair; Long Beach City Redevelopment Agency Board and Chair, Long Beach Cultural Heritage Commission, and Economic Development Commission. Ms. McLeod is a member of USC Architectural Guild Board of Directors, and Urban Land Institute.  Ms. McLeod is a faculty member of the USC School of Architectural Historic Preservation Summer Program and participates in academic and preservation programs across the country.  Ms. McLeod graduated Magna Cum Laude from USC with both her Bachelors of Science from the School of Architecture in 1982, and her Bachelors in Architecture in 1983.  She resides in Long Beach, California with her husband and three children.