Co-Chairman
Jeffrey S. Burum
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Diversified Pacific Communities

Chairman Jeffrey S. Burum President and Chief Executive Officer Diversified Pacific Communities Mr. Burum is one of Southern California’s most prominent business leaders, with more than 30 years’ experience in commercial and residential real estate.

 A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, Burum is the founder of three successful real estate companies. As a managing partner of a land investment group, he has developed a 400-acre community featuring more than 1,000 home sites and over a million square feet of commercial space, much of which is occupied by nationally known tenants. In 1991, using his own resources, he founded a nonprofit company with the goal of providing quality affordable housing and community centers that offer onsite job training, day care and other social services.

Eventually, he expanded his nonprofit affordable housing enterprises, creating National Community Renaissance (CORE), the third largest provider of affordable housing in the United States. Since 1992, CORE has acquired or built more than 12,000 multifamily-units nationwide, and currently provides housing and vital social services for more than 30,000 residents. CORE was rated the number one nonprofit developer in 2009.

Burum was one of twenty-two real estate professionals in the nation appointed by the U.S. Congress to serve on the Millennial Housing Commission, whose mission was to make recommendations of Federal housing policy to legislators.

Burum is active in civic affairs and serves on a number of boards, previously having served on the board of AIG Sun America’s Asset Management Company. Burum has been a youth basketball and football coach. To boost local enterprise and athletic opportunities in the region, Burum recently acquired ownership interest in a local professional indoor soccer team.

Co-Chairman
James L. Previti, Jr.
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Frontier Enterprises

A longtime Southern California homebuilder and entrepreneur, Jimmy Previti is president and CEO of Frontier Enterprises, one of Southern California’s leading and most respected builders of high-quality new homes for first-time buyers, growing families and seniors. 

Previti’s personal philosophy to help create and support sustainable communities through careful planning, philanthropy and neighborhood revitalization guide both his companies and their operations. A veteran of the homebuilding industry and a second-generation homebuilder, Previti launched his career as a construction superintendent overseeing new home construction. After honing his skills and expanding his practical knowledge of the housing industry, Previti advanced to increasingly challenging positions in purchasing and entitlements, and rapidly progressed to management. Before founding Frontier Enterprises in 2002, Previti served as Area President for one of the nation’s top public builders, with full profit-and-loss responsibility for multiple land development, construction and sales for singlefamily and multi-family projects. 

Under Previti’s steady leadership, Frontier was quickly recognized as one of America’s leading builders after just three years in operation. Previti and Frontier were named to the prestigious Builder 100 list, compiled annually by Builder Magazine, based upon the company’s 2004 revenues of more than $300 million from nearly 800 deliveries. 

A recognized member of the building community, Previti has also held several leadership positions with area trade groups, including president of the Building Industry Association Baldy View Chapter, which oversees the San Bernardino County region.