Caldwell, Bess - REIAC: Real Estate Investment Advisory Council

Bess Caldwell
REIAC Director
GOVIG

Bess is a Certified Senior Account Manager who has held both the #1 and #2 spots globally within the Management Recruiters International Network and was named International Account Executive of the Decade (2000-2010). She has over $14 million in production and has been a Pacesetter/President’s Club winner for 20 consecutive years. She has been part of the Govig family for nearly 21 years and is a recruiter with a very eclectic background and a personality to match.

Bess began her career in the military with multiple international assignments. After leaving the world of buzzing bullets, she continued her business experience in Big 4 Accounting, Bio-Tech Start Ups/Venture Capital and then a three-year stretch in the land of High Romance working for writer Danielle Steel. Such diversity has given Bess the insight and ability to problem solve with a focused lens and a warped sense of humor.

Bess has successfully partnered with companies to place talent in multiple verticals across multiple industries locally, nationally and internationally. Her markets include construction, real estate, manufacturing, business services, healthcare and technology.

Bess’s philosophy and her success are based on the fact that “People are hired for what they can do and they are fired or quit because of who they are”. She doesn’t help find people “jobs”. She is only interested in identifying someone’s next “opportunity” and doesn’t equivocate about it.

STEVE REINSTEIN, CEO
Long Beach Judicial Partners

Stephen Reinstein is CEO of Long Beach Judicial Partners LLC, Meridiam Infrastructure’s project company, which has a signed a long-term contract with the State of California’s Judicial Council to finance, design, build and operate and maintain a new 545,000 SF courthouse in Downtown Long Beach, California. This project represents the first availability-pay, social Public Private Partnership to reachfinancial completion in the United States. With a total capital value of $495 Million, this development program includes 31 courtrooms, holding cells and administrative space for the Superior Court, 100,000 square feet of office space for five Los Angeles County justice agencies and 5,000 SF of retail space, as well as a 1,000 space parking structure renovation. Construction of this unique fast track, design-build project commenced in Spring 2011, with occupancy scheduled for Fall 2013.

With over 30 years of commercial real estate industry experience, Mr. Reinstein has played instrumental roles in financing or implementing many innovative development projects throughout the U.S. for Metropolitan Life, Homart Development, the Howard Hughes Corporation, Regent Properties and ICO Development. Mr. Reinstein’s background includes full cycle development of approximately Three Million SF of “from the ground up” and “value add” projects at a cost of over $400 Million, as well as extensive acquisition, investment, entitlement and public private partnership experience.

Mr. Reinstein holds a BA from Duke University, a Master of City Planning from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. He is a founding Board Member and former Chair of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Photographic Arts Council.

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