Jim Derrickson

President

Jim Derrickson is Senior Vice President at First Bank in Builder Finance with a focus on locally owned home builder companies. Jim started his career in the early eighties and is proud to say he has been lending to the home building industry for a majority of that time.

His primary focus in the HBA of Raleigh - Wake County has been to protect the integrity of the local home building industry by being active in the political/entitlement arena. During his involvement, he has been engaged in most of the candidate discernment processes and has served as Build-Pac Chair.

Jim has been a member of the Board of Directors for over 22 years. He has served three terms as Treasurer. He was awarded the Rookie of the Year in 1997, Outstanding Associate of the Year in 2000, and has won Presidential Awards in 1998, 1999, 2003, 2015,2017, 2021 and 2022.

In addition to his involvement with the HBA, he serves on the Board of the Magellan Charter School Foundation.

David Price

Past President

David Price is a graduate of East Carolina University with a degree in Construction Management and a minor in Business Administration. With over a decade of experience in the construction industry, David has successfully managed multi-million dollar commercial construction projects including retail, offices, golf clubhouses, and apartment buildings in the past.
 

In 2009, David founded David Price Construction LLC with the goal of bringing his experience to bear in a way that emphasizes customer service. Since then, we have grown to be capable of tackling larger projects such as home additions, wall removal and movement, and full ground-up builds.

Alaina Money-Garman

First Vice President

Alaina Money-Garman is a homebuilder, writer, speaker and mom to three rowdy feminists and 1 tiny misbehaving dog. Alaina is the Founder and CEO of Garman Homes. Known for her award winning blog, Build Like a Girl, Alaina is passionate about the role of women and BIPOC in homebuilding. Alaina was named to Professional Builder Magazine's list of 40 Under 40, she's also been named Builder of the Year twice - in 2015 by the Home Builders Association of Durham Orange Chatham County and in 2017 as the first female recipient of the award by the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake. She is on the Executive Board of the HBA of Raleigh-Wake as well as Hope Renovations, which trains underemployed and underserved women to learn trade skills to enter the construction industry. She is a full member of ULI and Chair of the Residential Neighborhood Development Council - Blue Flight. Most recently, Alaina supervised construction on the Concept Home for the America at Home Study based on nearly 7,000 consumer responses around life from home during the pandemic. The Concept Home has since been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, USA Today as well as ProBuilder and Builder Magazine

Christy Beck

Second Vice President

Christy N. Beck, MIRM, CSP, Broker possesses a solid background in new home sales, management, marketing, and training. Her extensive knowledge of the New Homes industry has been gained through her vast experience in positions such as Sr. Vice President of new Homes at Coldwell Banker Howard Perry & Walson, Vice President of Marketing for Bill Clark Homes, and Regional Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sunstar Homes/Lennar Corporation. She is a Master in Residential Marketing (MIRM) and a Certified Sales Professional (CSP). She has held various leadership positions with NAHB including Chair of NSMC, NAHB Convention Education Chair and serves on the NAHB Education Committee. In January 2017 at the International Builder Show, Christy received the Bill Molster Lifetime Achievement award for her service to NAHB, NSMC, and the Institute of Residential Marketing. Locally, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Raleigh-Wake HBA and was recognized as Builder member of the year in 2019. Serving as Parade of Homes chair 2020 and 2021, she currently is the Presidential Appointee on the Executive Board of the Raleigh- Wake HBA. Christy has been the recipient of numerous sales and marketing awards by the Triangle Sales and Marketing Council (TSMC) MAME awards including Rookie of the Year (1995), Sales Person of the Year (1999), and Silver Marketing Manager of the Year (2001). In 2012 she was named Sales Manager of the Year by the National Association of Home Builders. Christy joined Caruso Homes in 2017 as the Director of Sales and Marketing to help launch the brand in North Carolina. Recently, Christy was promoted to Division Manager for North Carolina, managing the sales and construction teams for all communities within the Triangle area of North Carolina. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband Greg, son Dylan, and her golden doodle, Harley. 

Keith Hill

Treasurer

Keith Hill is Mortgage Consultant for United Community Bank. Keith graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics. He is also the President of the Raleigh Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mark Ashburn

Kathy Young

David Colgan

James Cregger

Melissa Ervin

Amanda Hoyle

Ryan Johnson

Mike Hunsaker

John Christy

Mikkel Thompson

Eddie Casanave

Dicky Gephart

Jon Showalter

Jay Upchurch

Jerry Dean

Mark Johnson

Linda Dickert

Cristi Green

Jim Allen

Warren Smith

Wayne Holt

Alex Yost

Tim Thompson

Allen Oliver

Lou Baker

Sharon Andrews

Gaye Orr

Matt Gault

Lisa Baldwin

Luke Dobbins

Tripp Loyd

Jeff Logsdon

Christina Hurley

Tony Frazier

Erica Oliver

Vanessa Jenkins

Tom Anhut

Secretary

In May 2014 Tom Anhut founded Anhut Properties, a residential land acquisition and development firm, leveraging Tom’s 20 years of new home construction industry experience.  The company focuses mainly on upper-end projects in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina.  Anhut Properties created A2Group, LLC, a partnership with Jim Adams of Millridge Investments, one of the area’s leading developers with over 30 years’ experience.  A2Group currently has 10 projects consisting of almost 700 lots under contract and in various stages of the approval and site development process.

As the Raleigh Division President for both Ashton Woods Homes and Toll Brothers for a total of 14 years, Tom is an expert on the new home market in the Triangle. He relocated to Raleigh in August, 1999 to develop Toll’s $700 million Brier Creek Country Club community, consisting of over 1,800 homes surrounding $27 million in amenities and featuring an Arnold Palmer Signature golf course.  In 2010, Tom negotiated Toll’s purchase out of foreclosure of the Triangle’s highest end residential golf course community, Hasentree, and reset the project to become one of the top selling in the area.  Under his leadership, Tom’s new home divisions in Raleigh delivered almost 2,500 luxury homes, representing $1.3 billion in revenue.  At Toll, he was also promoted to Group President responsible for overseeing the company’s operations in the Carolinas and Georgia, comprised of new home divisions in Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Hilton Head, and including 4 golf course communities. 

Tom joined Toll Brothers in April 1995 as a Project Manager in the Philadelphia area and was promoted to Vice President in less than 5 years.  Prior to that he worked for Ryland Homes as a site superintendent, as a Realtor in Alexandria Virginia, and before that spent 9 years as an officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, stationed in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Boston, and in northern Virginia 3 separate times.  Tom graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1984.

Tom was born into a family of nine children and grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan.  He and his wife Theresa have been married for 36 years and have 3 adult children; Colin, Devan and Haley.

GO IRISH!

Joshua Gould

Vice President of Associates

Rich Van Tassel

Appointee