BRIAN CATALDE
President & Chief Operating Officer, Principal

2006-2007 President of the National Association of Home Builders
2005-2006 First Vice President of the National Association of Home Builders
2004-2006 Treasurer - Vice President of the National Association of Home Builders
2000-2003 National Vice President of the National Association of Home Builders, Area 14
2001 Chairman of Federal Governmental Affairs of the National Assoc. of Home Builders
1999 President of the California Building Industry Association
1996 Building Industry Association of Southern California "BUILDER OF THE YEAR"
1995 President of the Building Industry Association of Southern California
1993 Sales & Marketing Council of Greater Los Angeles/Ventura "CEO OF THE YEAR"
1992 Building Industry Association of So. CA/L.A.-Ventura "BUILDER OF THE YEAR"

A driving force and leader within Southern California's home building industry, Brian Catalde has served on the Executive Board of the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIASC) and National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) for the past 14 years. Among Mr. Catalde's other past industry accomplishments, he has earned the Building Industry Association's "Individual Achievement Award." Intimately concerned with the legislative side of the building profession, Mr. Catalde has headed the governmental affairs functions for both the California Building Industry Association (CBIA) and BIASC and is frequently called upon as an industry resource. Additionally, he is past President of the Southern California-based Governmental Affairs Council, which focuses on state and national government issues affecting all developers and the business community. He has been the California representative to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and has served on the NAHB Governmental Affairs Committee for more than several years, and was the chairman for 2001. Currently, he has taken the role of Secretary - Vice President of the National Association of Home Builders for 2004-2005.

JEFFREY DONFELD
General Counsel

Mr. Donfeld is a 1968 graduate of U.C. Berkley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He served as a Staff Assistant to the President of the United States from 1969-1971 and as Assistant Director of the White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention from 1971-1973. Mr. Donfeld co-founded Donfeld, Kelley and Rollman in 1985. His legal practice concentrates in the representation of shopping center, office building, industrial park and residential land developers in the formation of their limited liability companies, land and ground lease acquisitions, construction and permanent financing, securing of disposition and development agreements, and drafting and negotiating of tenant leases. In connection with his representation of residential land developers, he represents privately held development companies and multi-national oil companies in securing development agreements and drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements and land disposition agreements with merchant builders.

GARY CATALDE
Director of Construction

With over 30 years of experience, Mr. Catalde joined Paragon Communities in May 2003, as Director of Construction. He is responsible for overseeing development, planning and entitlement issues. Mr. Catalde has been involved as a consultant in the home development industry throughout California and the Western United States, as well as in the Orient. His extensive experience includes management and development of new residential subdivisions and master-planned communities. In his most recent position, Mr. Catalde worked as Construction Manager and Superintendent for Grace Baptist Church to develop a combination of sanctuary, classrooms and a conference center, totaling 108,000 square feet. His responsibilities were acquiring the land, as well managing and planning through the project's final stages to obtain certificate of occupancy.

PATRICIA CLACK
Director of Sales

Ms. Clack joined Paragon in November 1986 as a Sales Consultant and in December 1994 was promoted to Director of Sales. She is responsible for recruiting and training all onsite sales consultants, with emphasis on implementing new strategic action plans to achieve the finest professional client relations. Prior to joining Paragon, Ms. Clack worked in international sales for Pan-Am Airlines in New York City and as a Shareholders Control Coordinator for Radio Corp. of America - Wall Street in New York City. Ms. Clack received her degree in England, majoring in economics/finance. Advancing her career, Ms. Clack continued her education in real estate at California State University, Los Angeles and in January of 2002, obtained her broker's license.

JAY MORIN
Project Manager

Mr. Morin joined Paragon in September of 1999 as Purchasing Manager. In March of 2002, he was promoted to Project Manager. He is responsible for overseeing the management of consultants, project scheduling and budget control and subcontractors. Previously, Mr. Morin worked in project management and cost estimating at the Sares-Regis Group in Irvine, California and worked as general manager for a commercial contractor based in Commerce, California. Mr. Morin received his Bachelors of Science degree in construction management and engineering at California State University, Long Beach.

MARISA SAN MATEO
Office Manager

Ms. San Mateo joined Paragon in October 1998, as Office Manager. She applies her 15 years of experience in real estate, combining her office management and human resources background. Ms. San Mateo has obtained a degree at United College of Business, emphasizing in business management.