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Executive Chair, The Urban Group of Companies
CA DRE #01182553
Over a period of 15 years, Mr. Chaplan has created and shaped the Urban Group of Companies into an integrated multi-service firm with the capacity to structure financing, acquire, develop, rehabilitate and manage over $1 billion of multi-unit residential, mixed use, commercial and office properties. Many of these projects involve historic buildings which have been rehabilitated to provide affordable family housing in low-income communities.
Mr. Chaplan was also a pioneer in developing environmentally sustainable projects in the inner-city, and formed Urban Eco Housing to service this perceived need well ahead of competitors. Leveraging the knowledge built in urban development, Mr. Chaplan has developed a comprehensive consulting business that assists organizations and individuals in low-income communities in developing successful and sustainable business skills and strategies. Thousands of community leaders attend Urban Seminars across the United States each year, and are clients of Urban Consulting.
Mr.Chaplan serves on the Governing Board of or advises multiple faith-based non-profit entities including City of Refuge Ministries;Perfecting Faith Church; God?s Grace Covenant Church; Temple Kol Tikvah; Force of Hope International; Iglesia Fuenta de Vida; Iglesia de Cristo Mission Elim; Century Christian Center, and others. He is also aboard member of the Foundation for Camp Max Strauss, which serves thousands of inner city youth annually; the Chase Foundation, serving the City?s extremely ill youth through Children?s Hospital; and the Mid-City Housing Task Force, serving the City?s lowest income tenants.
He has utilized his expertise and experience in co-authoring The West Corporation?s Code Form Book, the National Business Institute?s Landlord Tenant Guide and, with Bishop Noel Jones, A Vow of Prosperity. He teaches courses for the National Business Institute, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and is an Advisory Board member and Adjunct Professor for the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law.
Mr.Chaplan began his professional career at the ?Big 8? accounting firm of Peat Marwick Mitchell prior to attending Pepperdine University School of Law, where was a member of the Law Review. Mr. Chaplan was a Partner in the law firm Argue Pearson Harbison & Myers prior to co-founding Greene, Fidler, Chaplan & Hicks, LLP, a business boutique with an emphasis on real estate, nonprofit and corporate law.
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