University of California at Los Angeles, BA, Business / Economics 2002
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, MBA, 2009
QUALIFICATIONS
Public accounting and real estate development, finance and acquisitions experience since 2002
Whitney Stephenson is responsible for the oversight of the company's finance, accounting, reporting, tax & IT Departments. Ms. Stephenson plays an active role in asset management accounting / reporting, underwriting, due diligence and acquisitions of new investments as well as budget oversight for all Urban Partners projects.
Prior to joining Urban Partners in 2005, Ms. Stephenson served three years as a public accountant at a CPA firm in West Los Angeles, where she worked on a broad range of professional services assignments for a range of clients, including manufacturing companies, real estate, hospitals and health service facilities, retail, restaurant, hotel operators, and a variety of individuals.
Merced College
QUALIFICATIONS
Communications experience since 1999
Cheryl Rauth is responsible for front office services at Urban Partners and for correspondence with clients. She also assists Executive Assistants and Accountants with organization and record-keeping and with office supplies.
Prior to joining Urban Partners Ms. Rauth was a Retail Sales Executive at Clearwire, a wireless internet company, with an emphasis on sales, marketing and communications.
Rio Hondo College
QUALIFICATIONS
Administrative and governmental experience since 1996
Denise Mendoza is responsible for Urban Partners’ office management, event coordination and public relations. In addition she serves as Executive Assistant to Urban Partners’ Principal Paul Keller and as project development coordinator for University Gateway.
Ms. Mendoza came to Urban Partners in 1999 with nine years administrative experience in private industry and at Los Angeles City Hall.
Indian River Community College, AA, Sociology
QUALIFICATIONS
Project accounting and executive experience since 2001
Jennifer Kamphuis is responsible for all Urban Partners’ pre-development project accounting. She is also corporate accountant for Urban Partners and Executive Assistant to Matt Burton, Principal and Chief Financial Officer.
Ms. Kamphuis joined Urban Partners in May 2004 with three years experience in the insurance industry.
Stephens College, BFA, University of Texas at Austin, MFA coursework
QUALIFICATIONS
Commercial real estate business management, marketing, project coordination and client support since 1999
Amy Hoffman is a development analyst for Urban Partners in the Seattle office where she is responsible for organizing the development process and providing marketing analyses for projects throughout the Northwest.
Prior to joining Urban Partners Ms. Hoffman spent seven years with Cushman & Wakefield where she provided business management, marketing and client support to industrial, office and retail brokerage and investment teams.
Ms. Hoffman is a Kansas native, but has called Seattle home for over ten years.
University of London
QUALIFICATIONS
Marketing and administrative experience since 1999
Cwennen Corral serves as Project Coordinator for several Urban Partners projects.
Immediately prior to joining Urban Partners Ms. Corral worked for Sony Pictures Television in affiliate marketing. She worked previously for Disney Magazine Publishing as an Advertising Sales Coordinator and also worked for MGM in the outside producer accounting group focusing on contract research for profit participation.
Santa Ana College, Advanced Technical Center MCP, CNA, MCSE and CCNA training AMA management training
QUALIFICATIONS
Information Technology support experience since 1998
Aaron Betts manages all Information Technology (IT) issues in the Los Angeles and Seattle offices, as well as all IT field personnel.
Prior to joining Urban Partners, Mr. Betts was one of the principal partners in MB Systems Technology. As the Director of Technology, he was responsible for the design and deployment of new technologies for clients, including Stussy, ICI Development Company, New Horizons, Update Legal and Country Garden Landscape.
Previously, Mr. Betts served as the IT manager for companies such as Menemsha Construction Solutions, Gateway Learning Corporation (a.k.a. – Hooked on Phonics) and Honeywell.
University of California Los Angeles, MBA, Finance and Entrepreneurship
Western Washington University, BA, Music
QUALIFICATIONS
Real estate finance and construction experience since 2001
David Armitage provides strategic and analytical direction to transaction structuring and capitalization, asset management, and accounting oversight for Urban Partners’ investments and operations. In addition, he reviews acquisition and joint venture opportunities, and assumes development management responsibilities for certain projects.
Prior to joining Urban Partners, Mr. Armitage was a member of the Debt Advisory Group at AIG SunAmerica Affordable Housing Partners, where he was responsible for transaction management and financial modeling for loan origination, securitization, tax-exempt bond finance, and other real estate capital markets activities related to a multi-billion dollar debt portfolio secured by over 156,000 multifamily units nationwide.
Mr. Armitage holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business.
