Richard M. Gollis – Principal & Founder

Richard M. Gollis is a co-Founder and Principal of The Concord Group based in the firm's Newport Beach office.

Richard oversees all phases of strategic analysis including market and financial feasibility, consumer focus groups and economic feasibility. He is also responsible for the overall company operations of all the offices. Richard has a wide range of experience in the analysis of residential and commercial development. In particular, his experience with product program development for urban multi-use projects and large-scale master planned communities has positioned him as a leading authority in the field.

Richard's professional affiliations are numerous. He is active in ULI-the Urban Land Institute where he is Chair of the Community Development Council (Blue Flight). As a past Chair of ULI's Orange County District Council, he now serves as a District Council Counselor. In 2006, Richard became a Governor of the ULI Foundation and has been appointed to on the Policy & Practice Committee and Awards of Excellence - Americas Jury. In addition to professional affiliations, Richard serves on the Boards of Directors of several civic and community-based organizations in Orange County and southern California. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of The Department of Policy, Planning and Design at the University of California, Irvine.

Richard has been a guest lecturer at University of Southern California; SciArc; Georgia Institute of Technology; the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University; and University of California, Irvine. He has also spoken at the Society for College and University Planning; ULI-the Urban Land Institute; Seniors Housing Council of Orange County; Pacific Coast Builders Conference; Southern California Builder Show; Multi-Housing World Conference; and the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM).

He is often quoted and provides source material on real estate industry trends in various publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Investor's Business Daily, Builder magazine, Professional Builder magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register and the Orange County Business Journal.

Richard, a native of Boston, is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in international relations.

Recent speaking engagements

California State APA Conference
September 21 - 24, 2008
Renaissance Hollywood Hotel
Hollywood, California

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