Tim Love is the current president of the BSA and the founding principal of Utile. Love’s primary focus is the relationship between individual works of architecture and the larger city – both through his work as an architect and urban designer.

In her role at the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, Sheila Dillon has oversight of the Section 8 Program, the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program, and many of the State’s homeless programs. During her time as Deputy Director of Housing at DND, she oversaw affordable housing development and homeless programs, including management of Community Development Block Grants, Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) and several other programs. After leaving DND, she assumed the role of Deputy Director of Housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, where she created housing policy for the City of Boston and managed the Inclusionary Development Program. Before leaving the City, she served as Mayor Menino’s Housing Advisor. Prior to her tenure with the City of Boston, Dillon was Director of Real Estate Development at the Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund and Director of Housing Development at Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation.

Nader Tehrani is an Iranian American designer and educator. He was born in England, raised in Pakistan, South Africa, Iran, and the United States. With degrees from Harvard and RISD, he was also educated in London and Rome during his college years.

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. He is Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Design School, where he received a Master in Urban Planning degree.

Ed has 30+ years of real estate development, investment and management experience. He founded Cresset to focus on opportunities solely in New England, principally the Greater Boston area. Since the firm’s inception in 2000, he has been involved in all aspects of the company’s projects, which have an approximate aggregate total of $400 million. Prior to founding Cresset, he was president and a principal of the three operating companies of Intercontinental, a group of real estate development, construction and management companies based in Boston.