Officers
President
Ronald P. Kirby, CMCA - Now retired, Ron is the past Chairman of the Board of Community Management Corporation, Chantilly, Virginia. He has served as National President of Community Associations Institute, President of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of Community Associations Institute, Vice Chairman of the Condominium Committee of the National Association of Home Builders, Chairman of the AAMC Review Board for CAI, Member of the Sub-Committee for CIC’s of the Virginia Housing Study Commission. Ron has been an instructor the Graduate Realtors Institute (GRI) Course on common interest communities an affiliate of the Virginia Association of Realtors. Ron has spent over 40 years as a real estate professional in real estate sales, mortgage banking, real estate development and community association management.
Vice President
Chet Hahne, President, Sequoia Management
Chet Hahne began his property management career over twenty-
five years ago with Paramount Communities Corporation. In 1978, Klingbeil Management Company hired him to supervise their acquisition of some 2,000 apartment units. By 1981, he was named Operations Manager for more than 200 buildings, covering more than 90 acres, including four shopping centers and numerous commercial holdings.
Treasurer
Christiaan P. Melson, CMCA, AMS, PCAM - Chris is President and owner of CFM Management Services, Alexandria, Virginia. Chris has served as President of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of Community Associations Institute, as a Member of the National Board of Trustees of CAI.
Secretary
Board Members
Ed Alrutz has over 25 years experience in the management of townhouse, garden, office, high-rise, and mixed use community associations in the Northern Virginia area. Mr. Alrutz also has extensive experience as a consultant for the organization and creation of new community associations and condominium conversions. www.kpamgmt.com
Arthur N. Dubin, CPM, PCAM, CMCA
Mr. Dubin presently serves as an Executive Vice President of Zalco Realty, Inc. He is a resident of Potomac, Maryland and has over 32 years of property management experience in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. He is a Certified Property Manager (CPM) as designated by the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM), a Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) through the Community Associations Institute (CAI), a Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) through the National Board of Certification for Community Association Managers (NBCCAM), and a licensed real estate agent in Maryland and a licensed Property Manager in the District of Columbia. Mr. Dubin serves on the Board of Directors of the Local Chapter of Community Associations Institute and previously served as an Education committee member. Mr. Dubin also continues to teach and lecture for the organization. He has also been a speaker for the local chapter of the Realtors Association and was an instructor for Prince George’s Community College. He has also published articles in the Journal of Property Management, CAI News Realtor Magazine, and Quorum Magazine.
Thomas A. Mazzei, President & CEO, AMS, Florida CAM
Thomas A. Mazzei has been the President and CEO of Cardinal since it’s inception in 1987. A graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, Mr. Mazzei is also a licensed Real Estate Broker in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has been a recurring author and speaker on issues related to community management on both local and national basis and has addressed such topics as developer litigation strategies, management transitions, warranty investigation issues, personnel management, professional manager growth and dealing with difficult people.
Scott Meardon, President of Community Group
Scott Meardon is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Community Group, and supervises the management operations of all the Community Group offices. Scott is one of the original three owners of Community Group. He has been at Community Group for 24 years and has 30 years of multi-property management experience, having previously worked with Harrison & Bates in Richmond and Grady Management in Washington, D.C. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science from the College of William & Mary, and received his Masters of Business Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. Scott is one of only a few managers in the country who have obtained both the Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) designation from Community Association Institute (CAI) and the Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). He also is a recipient of the Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) designation of the National Board of Certification for Community Association Managers (NBC-CAM). In addition to his role as a contributor for the CAI chapter newsletter, Scott is frequently sought as a speaker and instructor for area professional functions.
Paul L. Orlando, CMCA, PCAM, Armstrong Management Services
Paul L. Orlando, CMCA, PCAM, Vice President of Management Services, has more than 30 years of experience in association management services. He holds a degree from Southern Connecticut Sate University and has earned the Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) and Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) designations from CAI. Paul has been associated with Armstrong Management for 10 years and is responsible for overseeing all the company's management services operations. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of CAI and is active in legislative affairs as a member of the Virginia Legislative Action Committee. Paul is also a member of the Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia Board of Directors.
Michael T. Shehadi, President & CEO
As President & CEO of Legum & Norman, Mr. Shehadi manages the day-to-day operations of the company and its five business lines: Community Association Management, Multi-Family Rental Management, Amtek Engineering Group, New Community Services and Brokerage. Mr. Shehadi holds an MBA from George Washington University, a BBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AAS from Syracuse University.
Lobbyist
Iron Ox Consulting, John (Jack) H. Rust, Jr., Principal
Founding Members
Armstrong Management Services, Inc., has been in business since 1980. The company is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, with regional offices in Alexandria, Virginia, Montclair, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Our client portfolio encompasses the entire spectrum of association types, including single family detached homes, townhouses, garden-style condominiums, mid-rise and high-rise condominiums, master associations and recreational facilities, ranging in size from fewer than 100 homes to more than 5,000 homes. We are a member of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and earned CAI's Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC) designation. We are also a member of the Property Management Association (PMA).
Armstrong Management Services, Inc., is a subsidiary of FirstService Corporation, a publicly traded corporation that is the premier national residential association management company in the country. The affiliated residential association management companies under the FirstService umbrella manage more than 3,000 communities comprising over 550,000 homes in 16 states.
Cardinal Management Group, Inc., a founding member of the Virginia Association of Community Managers, is a full service community and property management firm with offices in Springfield, Fairfax and Herndon Virginia and in Naples Florida. The company is a privately held family operated business originally established in 1987. Presently managing over 100 community associations, the company’s motto is “we manage to make a difference”.
With a group of top-shelf managers, administrative and support personnel the firm prides itself on providing outstanding customer service to its clients from the entire spectrum of the real estate industry. Cardinal represents homeowner associations, planned unit developments, resort communities, condominium associations and commercial clientele. Cardinal also works with some of the country’s best-known developers including Toll Brothers, KSI, Greenvest, Gulf Bay Development and Centex Homes, among many others. Our goal in working with any of our clients is to establish long-term relationships based upon superior service.
Cardinal also has a full service accounting department that is overseen by its Chief Financial Officer and Certified Public Accountant. It’s related companies; CMG Select Services, Inc., CMG Financial Services, Inc. Property Service Group, Inc. and MCG General Contractors, LLC provide further in depth support of its client base regardless of their needs.
Since 1988, CFM has been a leader in the management of premier community associations in the Washington, DC Metro area. Our success lies in the performance of our dedicated professionals and staff, and our commitment to them to provide every available tool to make their job as simple and efficient as possible.
Our people have faithfully served our clients through the years. They have often been cited as the primary consideration at contract award, and contract renewal. We make every effort to balance the needs of our clients and our employees, to produce a reliable team that can serve our clients’ needs today, and in the future.
We are selective in our choice of clients. We balance your community’s needs against our staff’s ability to address them. Once committed, you will not find anyone more devoted to your future than the people at CFM Management Services.
Community Group is one of the nation's largest and most respected providers of services to community associations. We are the largest manager of community
associations in Virginia, representing more than 250 condominium, townhome and single-family home communities.
Community Group was one of the first companies in the nation to be awarded the prestigious Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC) designation from the Community Associations Institute (CAI).
Community Management Corporation
Our mission at Klingbeil, Powell & Alrutz, Inc. is to provide superior management services for our community association clients by maintaining and enhancing associations’ assets, commitment to personal attention, professional integrity, flexible to each individual community’s needs and exceeding the expectations of our customers. We want to be the employer of choice in the industry by providing our employees a pleasant, enthusiastic and enjoyable working environment, empowering employees to surpass expectations, share ideas and supply continuing training and education.
Legum & Norman has been providing comprehensive Real Estate Services since 1945. The company was founded in Washington, DC and is now headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with regional offices in Chicago, Illinois, and Ocean City, Maryland. The company remains entirely employee owned, with the principals, William P. Norman, Chairman of the Board; Michael T. Shehadi, President and Chief Executive Office; and John A. Rhodes, Executive Vice President, maintaining active leadership roles in daily operations. Legum & Norman is the area’s largest multi-family management company with a current portfolio of over 75,000 units under management in the Washington Metropolitan area and its satellite offices in Ocean City, Maryland; Bethany Beach, Delaware, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; and Chicago, Illinois.
Sequoia Management Company, Inc. was incorporated in December of 1986. We are more than a holding company or an investment vehicle because the principal ownership and management has extensive background in both residential and commercial real estate development and fee-based management services.
Our diverse portfolio includes residential communities comprised of over 14,000 homes and over 200,000 square feet of commercial space. From our experience, we have learned that seemingly insignificant details can often have the most significant payoffs. We scrutinize each expenditure to maximize your property's value and return on investment.
Zalco, Inc.
Zalco is a full-service management company located in Silver Spring, Maryland. We were founded in 1971 and manage properties valued in excess of three Billion ($3,000,000,000) Dollars including a management portfolio of condominiums, homeowner associations, cooperatives, commercial buildings, shopping centers and apartments in the Washington Metropolitan area. Our firm currently manages over 90 residential and commercial properties. The majority of the properties in our portfolio have been our clients for an average of seven years. Several of our client communities have been with our firm for periods in excess of 20 years.
In 1995, the Community Association Institute (CAI) awarded Zalco the designation of Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC). This designation identifies Zalco as a member of the elite and specialized association management community. Only 80 other firms in the nation have been so honored. In 1983, Zalco was recognized by the Accredited Management Organization (AMO) of the Institute of Real Estate Management, Zalco has met the most stringent professional and educational criteria set for the real estate management industry. This award is given to those firms proven to hold the highest standards of excellence in property and asset management. The Institute of Real Estate Management is the national organization and educational arm of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) that awards the designation Certified Property Manager (CPM).
Zalco has extensive experience in the field of property management. All of managers have been awarded at least one professional designation. Some of our Community Managers are Certified Property Managers (CPM) through the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and others are Professional Community Association Managers (PCAM) through Community Associations Institute (CAI). Most managers hold the Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) designation through the National Board Certification of Community Association Managers. An individual earns these designations by demonstrating extensive experience in the field of property management and by successfully completing rigorous courses of study as administered by the respective institutes. We offer our client properties strong leadership skills resulting from years of experience and education.
