Florida Suppliers Council Update
Upcoming FSC Meeting and Panel Presentation
FAA's Florida Suppliers Council will meet on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., in the Seacrest Ballroom Salon D at the Opal Grand Oceanfront Resort & Spa (10 N. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, FL 33483). The meeting will be followed by a panel presentation from 4 to 5 p.m.
Multifamily's Future: Jumping the Hurdles Together
The panel presentation will discuss:

  • The current state of the market and predictions of future trends
  • Obstacles and opportunities in the industry
  • How suppliers can help turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones
Panelists
Kristie Hickman is a senior community director with UDR Inc., overseeing two communities in the Tampa Bay region. She began her multifamily career in 2002 as a leasing agent in the apartment community she called home. Hickman has a proven track record of increasing economic and physical occupancy, lowering delinquency, maintaining an above-average renewal rate, and implementing effective marketing and resident retention strategies. She has an associate's degree from St. Petersburg College for Business Law.

Keri Walker Pfeifer is senior vice president at Bozzuto. She has 20 years of property management experience with a strong focus on the planning of new developments, execution of lease-up strategies, and repositioning of value-add properties. She also has a history of building talented operations teams with high online reputation rankings. Since entering the South Florida market in 2017, Pfeifer continues to guide the pre-development consulting strategies for new developments. She currently oversees the operations and planning of several thousand units throughout South Florida. She is a past president of SEFAA and current secretary of FAA.
Myka Staryk, CAM, is a regional manager with ZRS, overseeing assets in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.She has more than 25 years of experience in the South Florida real estate market, in new home sales as well as commercial and multifamily real estate. She is accomplished in acquisitions, operations, due diligence, budgeting, team building, training, and marketing. In addition to value-add renovations and capital projects, Staryk's background includes lease-ups of high-rise, garden, and mixed-use product types. Staryk previously worked for Greystar and Lincoln Property Company. She is the current president of SEFAA.
Moderator
Keith Gibbons is the national director of sales for iApartments Inc., a leading enterprise-level smart home platform for multifamily that transforms "ordinary" apartments into intelligent apartment communities. He is an 18-year veteran of the multifamily industry. Prior to iApartments, Keith worked as the senior southeast regional account executive at CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider. He has also held roles as a financial advisor with WM Financial Services and American Express. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration, management and operations from Auburn University. He is vice chair of the FSC.
The panel presentation will be followed by a reception with the FAA Board of Directors, SEFAA Board of Directors, and FAA Leadership Lyceum students. View the full schedule of FAA spring governance meetings and events here.

Advance registration is required.
About the Florida Suppliers Council
The Florida Apartment Association Florida Suppliers Council is comprised of supplier members committed to informing and educating Florida's multifamily housing professionals in order to maximize their return on association involvement.
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