Wilson pledged also to step-up NAHB’s inward focus on its membership, including efforts to expand and improve member resources.
“In the coming year, we’re going to focus on what NAHB does best, and we’re going to do it even better,” Wilson said. “We’re looking forward to working with Congress and the Bush Administration to ensure that efforts to re-regulate the housing government-sponsored enterprises do not impede the housing finance system that has helped generate the strongest U.S. homeownership on record.
“In the meantime, we’re going to expand NAHB’s professional education and networking opportunities for our members. And we’re going to take full advantage of cutting-edge communications to better reach and serve our grassroots,” he added. Wilson is particularly interested in expanding the association’s successful 20 Club program, where company executives from non-competing markets learn from one another by comparing business strategies, financial results and personal experiences.
Wilson is a custom home builder from Ketchum, Idaho, whose company, Wilson Construction LLC, specializes in building primary and vacation homes in the 3,000- to 22,000-square foot range. The company also does major remodeling and light commercial construction projects, and derives much of its business from repeat customers.
Known as a “hands-on” builder who personally oversees all aspects of a project down to the finest details, Wilson’s primary guiding principle is his commitment to excellence and getting the job done right. He started in the home building business 25 years ago in Seattle before relocating to the resort community of Sun Valley, Idaho in 1982, where he became a Registered Master Builder and began taking a leadership role in the local building industry as well as local politics.
He served as president of the Wood River Building Contractors Association and was eventually elected president of the Idaho Building Contractors Association. There, he worked closely with then-U.S. Senator Dirk Kempthorne on Endangered Species Act reform and was instrumental in getting state legislation passed to rein-in excessive impact fees.
For his dedicated service to the building industry, Wilson was named Idaho’s Home Builder of the Year in 1993 and was twice honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award for Profound Influence on the Economic, Social and Political Atmosphere of the Building Industry, in 1997 and 1999.
During this time, Wilson’s involvement in the local political scene escalated from serving as a planning and zoning commissioner to being elected multiple times to the city council and eventually becoming mayor of Sun Valley from 1999–2003. He was also recently appointed by Gov. Kempthorne to serve on the board of the Idaho Housing Finance Agency. In these roles, he has become uniquely familiar with the challenges of providing affordable housing for a resort area’s workforce — particularly public servants as well as hotel, retail and restaurant employees.
First Vice President David Pressly
David Pressly is president of Pressly Development Inc. and has more than 25 years of experience in the home building business constructing single-family homes and apartments and light commercial projects in the Statesville area.
He has held a wide range of leadership positions in home builders associations at the local, state and national level. At NAHB he has chaired the Resolutions Committee, the State and Local Government Affairs Committee, the Smart Growth Working Group, the Multifamily Council and NAHB’s political action committee, known as BUILD-PAC.
Pressly was president of the North Carolina Home Builders Association in 1996 and twice served as president of the Iredell County Home Builders Association, which named him its Builder of the Year in 1991.
Vice President/Treasurer Brian Catalde
A driving force in the Southern California home building industry for more than 30 years, Brian Catalde is president and chief operating officer of Paragon Communities, which develops and builds single-family and multifamily communities as well as commercial properties.
Long active in home builders associations at the local, state and national levels, Catalde served as an NAHB National Vice President from 2000 to 2004 and a National Representative from 1979 to 1999. He has served on the association’s board of directors for almost a decade and is a trustee of NAHB’s political action committee, known as BUILD-PAC.
Catalde was president of the California Building Industry Association in 1999. He served as president of the Building Industry Association of Southern California in 1995, and in 1996 he was named that association’s Builder of the Year.
Vice President/Secretary Sandy Dunn
Sandy Dunn is president of Point Pleasant-based B.J. Builders, Inc., a company founded by her father in 1953 that specializes in single-family, entry-level homes. She joined the firm in 1970 and opened Homestead Realty in 1974, which has since expanded into the largest real estate firm in Mason County, W. Va.
She has held a wide range of leadership positions in home builders associations at the local, state and national level, and has chaired numerous NAHB committees, including the Consumer Affairs Committee, Public Affairs Committee and Resolutions Committee. She also served as an NAHB National Vice President in 1988-89 and 2000-01.
Dunn was president of the Home Builders Association of West Virginia in 1991 and 1992 and served as president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Charleston in 1987. She was named Builder of the Year by her local HBA in 1976.
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