RE Seminar: Stephen and Susan Chamberlin (B. Arch ‘66)

Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Venue: Beck 198
Dress: Business

Stephen Chamberlin

Stephen Chamberlin, is the founder and Chairman of Chamberlin Associates, a firm specializing in commercial real estate development, management and marketing. The firm develops, owns and operates buildings in the San Francisco Bay area.  www.chamb.com

He is also the founder and Chairman of Rouse/Chamberlin Homes, a residential developer and home builder operating in the Philadelphia market. The firm received the gold award as “America’s Best Builder” from Builder Magazine in 1997. www.rcltd.com

He was an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at the Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley from 1986 until 2003 teaching land use and development. He is the creator of the NAIOP Challenge, an annual competition between UC Berkeley and Stanford Universities; the program is now used by twenty two other colleges and universities throughout the US. He is one of the co-authors of Urban Plan, a ULI land use decision teaching problem used nationally in colleges and high schools.

He is a member of: The Urban Land Institute, past chairman of the Industrial and Office Park Council, and a Governor of the ULI Foundation; the Executive Committee of the
Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at UC Berkeley; Lambda Alpha; and the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, where he is a past president of the San Francisco Chapter.

He is an avid sailor with seven trans-Pacific crossings, and recently spent two years with his wife Susan aboard their sailboat Surprise in the South Pacific. www.sailblogs.com/member/surprise

Susan Chamberlin

Susan Chamberlin is retired from a career as an architect and project manager spanning 30 years. She received her B.Architecture from Cornell University in 1966 and worked for a number of architectural firms in Philadelphia, PA. After relocating to California in 1985 with her husband Steve she received an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in real estate and public policy. She worked for the City of Oakland’s Redevelopment Agency for six years on a variety of public/private projects.

Her final project was the overall management of design and development for the California State Office Building in Oakland, one of the first design/build projects undertaken by the state with a private development team.

She is a member of the Urban Land Institute, licensed in Pennsylvania and California, though no longer actively practicing architecture. She was a lecturer in land use issues at the Haas School for seven years.

She and Steve were active whitewater canoe/kayak competitors for a number of years and Susan has served on the boards of the American Canoe Association and International Canoe Federation. She was active as a judge at national and international whitewater competitions and has officiated at two Olympic Games. She is also a skier and sailor.

In retirement she has served on the boards of various art organizations and is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Oakland Museum of California where she chairs the building committee. The museum is three quarters of the way through a $62 million renovation project.