LCHF Board of Directors

Jon Jaffe - LCHF President

Jon Jaffe is Chief Operating Officer, of Miami-based Lennar Corporation. Located at the company's Western Region headquarters in Aliso Viejo, he heads operations for one of the Nation's top homebuilders.

Mr. Jaffe came to California after 12 years with Lennar in Florida in 1995 to lead Lennar's entry into the California market. Starting from the ground up, he built Lennar into one of the largest builders in the state. The company's tremendous growth includes the combination of Lennar's homebuilding operations with Pacific Greystone Corp. and US Home in addition to many private homebuilders.

Mr. Jaffe is an undergraduate of the University of Florida and attended graduate studies in architecture at Georgia Tech University.

He enjoys spending time with his wife Karen and three kids and playing tennis.
 

Mike White - LCHF CFO

Prior to joining FivePoint Communities as the CFO, Mike White was Lennar's Executive Vice President of Asset Management.  White spent over 11 years with Lennar in various capacities including CFO and Treasurer overseeing the areas of California, Arizona and Nevada.  He was responsible for the Western Region finance group and was actively involved in growing this group to provide in excess of five billion dollars of financing to the various Lennar managed joint ventures.  Additionally, he was responsible for several land banking relationships used to grow the company's footprint in the Western Region.  Prior to joining Lennar in 1998, he served as Vice President of the Real Estate Industries Group at Sanwa Bank California.  Prior to Sanwa Bank, he was a Senior Manager at KPMG Peat Marwick's Los Angeles Real Estate Industries Group.

Mr. White resides in Orange County, California with his wife Patti, and two children, Christopher and Danielle. A family man, he is heavily involved in soccer, softball and surfing with the kids.
 

Jeff Roos - LCHF Secretary

Mr. Roos is Regional Homebuilding President overseeing the South-West  Region for Lennar. Previously he started and managed Lennar's Orange County Division, which was the foundation for Lennar's expansion in California. Prior to that, he was responsible for all the homebuilding activities, financial restructuring and subsequent sale of Bramalea California to Lennar.

Mr. Roos currently serves on the Board of Directors for HomeAid America, The Boys and Girls Club of the South Coast area and The Chimbote Foundation. In addition, he has been actively involved in supporting the International Relief Team, Orangewood Foundation and numerous other charities.

Trudie Wilson - LCHF Assistant Secretary

Ms. Wilson is Director of Western Region DRE for Lennar. She leads a team that supports the Lennar Homebuilding divisions in Los Angeles , Ventura , Kern, Orange , Riverside , San Bernardino and San Diego Counties . They also support Lennar Land divisions and Newhall Land with master-planned communities developed in the same geographic areas. Her career in the industry has become specialized in the areas of Department of Real Estate Processing and Homeowner Association formation and management.

Ms. Wilson's real estate career started with retail sales. She obtained a broker's license that is still active. In the early-1980's she transitioned to the development industry and, in the late 1980's, made a career move to Bramalea which was subsequently acquired by Lennar.

She enjoys spending time with her family, including her grandchildren, Christina, Ashley and Ryan. She enjoys walking on the beach, and combining her interest in genealogy and history with her vacation travels.

Over the years she has participated in several HomeAid and Habitat for Humanity projects in Orange County and other local charity events.

Lucy Dunn - LCHF Director

Lucetta “Lucy” Dunn is president and CEO of the Orange County Business Council. OCBC serves its business investors and the Orange County community in leadership and advocacy to enhance the county’s economic development and quality of life through its efforts to increase workforce housing, improve workforce development and maintain adequate infrastructure.

Before joining the Business Council, Dunn was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and confirmed by the California State Senate in 2004 to serve as Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Dunn’s position included oversight for administering the state’s housing law, finance, and rehabilitation and community development programs. In the private sector, she served as Executive Vice President of Hearthside Homes, a division of California Coastal Communities, one of Southern California’s premiere home builders.

Dunn received the California State Legislature “Woman of the Year 1997” for her civic involvement, influence and participation in public policy task forces. In 2001, she served as the first woman president in the 80-year history of the Building Industry Association of Southern California and was slated to be president of the California Building Industry Association when Governor Schwarzenegger appointed her to his team. In 2005, she received CBIA’s “D. Gregg Brown Award” for her work advocating housing and homeownership.

Dunn is also a respected attorney who owned her own private practice from 1981 to 1987. She is admitted to practice before the California State Bar, the federal bar and the U.S. Supreme Court. She has also been a director and member of a number of non-profit organizations including the Building Industry Legal Defense Foundation and the Bolsa Chica Conservancy.

Dunn is the mother of two sons and resides in Coto de Caza
 

Bob Gilmore - LCHF Director

Mr. Gilmore, District Manager of the subdivision section of the Department of Real Estate for southern California. He has been involved in drafting numerous statutes and regulations pertaining to the Subdivided Lands Act. He has written articles for various real estate publications and is a frequent speaker on the subject of real estate and common interest subdivisions.

He is also co-author of the Continuing Education of the Bar book titled "Forming California Common Interest Developments".

Mr. Gilmore earned his B.S. degree in 1972 from Sacramento State University.
 

Scott Jackson - LCHF Director

Mr. Jackson concentrates in real-estate law and is a founding shareholder of Jackson DeMarco Tidus Peckenpaugh. He chairs the common interest subdivision group of the firm, which has created over 1,000 community associations.

Mr. Jackson has authored several books and articles including two chapters in California Condominium and Planned Development Practice, published by the California State Bar. He also co-authored the book entitled Condominiums and Cooperatives with the Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York, and he co-authored the textbook Business Condominiums published by the National Association of Home Builders.

A past president of the National Community Associations Institute, Mr. Jackson is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a charter member of the Board of Governors of the College of Community Association Attorneys. In addition, he is a member of the Homeowner Association Dispute Resolution Task Force of the California Building Industry Association and a member of the CBIA Committee on Master Planned Communities.

Described as “a leading commentator” by the California Court of Appeal, Mr. Jackson's writings have been widely cited. He has also addressed a full range of topics in speaking engagements throughout California.

Mr. Jackson is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned his J.D., cum laude, in 1971 at the University of Denver College of Law.
 

Michael Lennon - LCHF Director

Michael Lennon is an independent non-profit consultant, providing strategic planning and fund-raising assistance to local, regional and national non-profit organizations.

As President of HomeAid America from 1996 to 2006, Mr. Lennon guided the business development of HomeAid America, a non-profit organization founded by the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC), an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders. Their mission: "to build dignified housing where homeless families and individuals can rebuild their lives."

Mr. Lennon was Founder of HomeAid America's prototype chapter, HomeAid Orange County in 1989. There he presided over the development of 28 shelter projects throughout Orange County serving groups such as homeless families and individuals, women in crisis pregnancy, mentally disabled homeless, and homeless youth, victims of domestic violence and single mothers and children.

Today the organization is the nation's largest provider of shelter beds for the temporarily homeless and the HomeAid model has expanded nationwide to include twenty-two chapters in eleven states; More than 60,000 homeless families and individuals have found hope for new lives through HomeAid-built housing.

In the past 25 years Mr. Lennon has helped guide the establishment and/or development of a dozen non-profit organizations which serve the community and help the poor and disadvantaged.

 

Jim LeSieur - LCHF Director

Since retiring from Sunwest Bank in 2003, Mr. LeSieur served almost two years as the Director of the Ralph W. Leatherby Center of Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics at Chapman University. During his 28 year career with Sunwest Bank he served in several management positions, including Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer before being named President and CEO in April of 1991. Under his leadership, Sunwest Bank became one of the most successful banks in Orange County, California. Prior to joining Sunwest Bank, the former U.S. Marine Corps Captain was a manager with Arthur Young & Company's management consulting practice in Santa Ana, California. He is a long time volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Orange County where he was a member of the Board of Directors for many years, as well as Chairman of the Board.

He earned his master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

Mr. LeSieur and wife Mary Ellen have two grown sons and reside in Newport Beach , California.