Chairman, City Ventures
WHY: Longtime real estate exec, founder of one of area’s first homebuilders to embrace green, eco-friendly building features, with a focus on affordability.
RECENT: A different type of home sale: $35M sale last summer of home he built on Newport Peninsula, gained headlines for “Teach Me How to Duffy” parody video. Top sale along city’s harbor.
NOTABLE: Founder of O’Donnell/Atkins, which was California’s largest land brokerage firm, averaging over $1B in annual land transactions.
