Patrick Duffy has consulted on various development projects throughout the United States with the country's leading consulting firms, homebuilders, land developers, investors and lenders on residential, mixed-use, commercial and industrial projects.  He also written extensively on real estate issues for The Los Angeles Times, Builder & Developer magazine, Inman News, Multi-Housing News, California Builder magazine and various titles published by local BIA groups.

As a Managing Director of Consulting with Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (formerly The Meyers Group), he was instrumental in a statewide alliance with the California Building Industry Association which included monthly press releases and analysis on statewide housing trends.

Prior to that he was a Vice President of Consulting with MarketPointe Realty Advisors and has also worked with The Concord Group, Robert Charles Lesser & Co. and managed the internal market research activities for a public homebuilder with operations in California, Arizona and Nevada.

As a consultant, he has been frequently quoted by leading print media including the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as by California regional newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, Bakersfield Californian, Orange County Register, the Daily News, Riverside Press Enterprise, the San Diego Union and various Business Journals. He has also been featured on radio station KTIE NewsTalk AM590 in San Bernardino for the BIA show "HomeTeam Radio" and the K-CAL9 and ABC7 Eyewitness News in Los Angeles.

As a speaker he has presented at PCBC, BIS, Big Builder, Great Valley Conference, UCLA Extension, First American Title's Real Estate and Economic Outlook Conference Series, Hanley Wood Market Intelligence's Executive Housing Seminar and various BIA Chapter events, including hosting Orange County's "Industry Giants" panel.

In late 2007 he launched The Housing Chronicles Blog, which is currently featured on sites produced by Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Forbes magazine, CNN, The Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times.
 

With over 15 years of experience as an independent real estate research consultant for residential developers, market research firms and investors, Heidi Gothard has worked on many large-scale projects and master plans throughout the southwestern United States.  Prior to joining MetroIntelligence, Heidi worked with other regional consulting firms including MetroStudy, The Meyers Group (now Hanley Wood Market Intelligence), MarketPointe Realty Advisors, Real Estate Economics, and Market Profiles as well as directly for builders and developers including Pulte Homes, Western Pacific Housing (now part of D.R. Horton), Playa Vista LLC and The Irvine Company.

As a Marketing Research Manager for the Irvine Company, Heidi led a team of analysts to offer pricing recommendations for existing and future projects on the Irvine Ranch to use in various pro-formas critical for land sale negotiations, oversaw the in-house databases and provided all aspects of housing research (including both new construction and resale data) to the senior management team.

Heidi also brings an extensive background in technology to each consulting assignment, having served as a Client and Industry Relations Manager for Cox Communications to create some of the country's first wired broadband communities -- including high-speed Internet access, digital telephone and digital television -- for the master-planned communities Ladera Ranch and Newport Coast.

Christopher Thornberg is a founding partner of Beacon Economics. Dr. Thornberg is an expert in the study of regional economies, real estate dynamics, labor markets and business forecasting. He has been involved in a number of special studies measuring the impact of important events on the economy, including the NAFTA treaty, the California power crisis, port security, California water transfer programs and the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Prior to launching Beacon he worked with the UCLA Anderson Forecast where he regularly authored the outlooks for California, Los Angeles and the East Bay as well as performing a number of specialized forecasts for regions and industries. Dr. Thornberg lectures on a regular basis at a variety of public and private events, has appeared on CNN, Fox News and CNBC and is widely quoted in the press.

He received his Ph.D in Business Economics from The Anderson School and his B.S. in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He specializes in International and Labor Economics. Dr. Thornberg continues to teach in the MBA program in the new Rady School of Business at UCSD and previously held a faculty position in the economics department at Clemson University.