John Scovell has an oversight role, lending organizational support and direction to Woodbine's building committee on all projects. He has been with Woodbine since its founding in 1973 and brings strong organizational and project management experience. Mr. Scovell has direct involvement with all Woodbine projects. He is deeply involved in the Dallas community and with Texas Tech University, where he graduated first in the School of Business Administration and was captain and quarterback of the football team. Mr. Scovell earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is on the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents.

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Jim Cihak is responsible for asset management of Woodbine's hotels and mixed-use properties. He represents ownership in dealing with hotel and retail operators, developing and implementing property tax value appeals strategies, monitoring facility conditions and recommending capital requirements. Mr. Cihak ensures compliance with operators under management agreement, approves the operators' annual operating and capital budgets and attends periodic operational review meetings with the operator.

Mr. Cihak joined Woodbine in 1984 and was subsequently promoted to treasurer and controller of the company. His responsibilities included developing the overall financial policies and practices; planning and directing treasury functions, budgeting and forecasting; and auditing, tax planning and reporting for projects overseen by Woodbine. In 1999 he was promoted to his current position directing asset management.

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Gary Coffman has lead responsibility for Woodbine's vertical construction projects. He supervises project management professionals assigned to the project and leads the selection of architectural design, interior design, engineering, construction, FF&E purchasing and installation firms for the projects. His group also provides project budgeting, project scheduling and support for the asset management team. He joined Woodbine in 1974 and has been involved in all of Woodbine's vertical construction projects.

Before joining Woodbine, Mr. Coffman oversaw construction of The Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri; an aircraft engine testing facility; and a missile packaging building. While a structures engineer at General Dynamics, he specialized in aircraft structural design and modification.

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Daniel W. “Buzz” Gosnell joined Woodbine in 1996 as director of marketing of the 730-acre Kierland master-planned community in Northeast Phoenix. In 2004, he was promoted to president of Woodbine Southwest Corporation in charge of overseeing the company's regional development group. Since successfully negotiating the sale of all available commercial and residential property in Kierland, Mr. Gosnell's primary responsibility shifted to oversight of the project's 700,000-square-foot Kierland Commons mixed-use project and to identifying new projects in the Southwest.

Prior to joining Woodbine, Mr. Gosnell was senior investment analyst for the Robert C. Wilson Company – Arizona in Phoenix.

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Cami Hardee is involved in market research, branding and marketing efforts for all of Woodbine's projects, serving as liaison with operators' sales and marketing teams. She manages the marketing function for Woodbine's master-planned projects and is the company's liaison with marketing staffs at Woodbine-owned/developed hotels. Additionally, she handles the company's market research efforts in the pre-development phases of all projects. She also serves as project manager for the 524-acre Legacy Trails project in San Antonio, Texas.

Ms. Hardee joined Hunt Oil Company as a public relations writer in 1980, was promoted to manager - corporate communications in 1985, and transferred to Woodbine in 1991 as vice president of marketing. She was promoted to senior vice president in 2004. Prior to joining Hunt, she worked as a reporter and editor for Dallas/Fort Worth Business Journal, Arlington Citizen-Journal, The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun and the North San Antonio Times.

She has managed a number of award-winning communications projects, including the pre-opening advertising and branding campaign for Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa, which was honored with an Addy award.

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Mike Koesling joined Woodbine in August 1986 and has lead responsibility for horizontal construction, selecting and supervising additional construction management consultants, contractors and professionals assigned to the project for planning, design, engineering and construction of all site development / infrastructure and golf course components. Mr. Koesling also provides site selection, evaluation and land entitlement services.

Before joining Woodbine, Mr. Koesling was vice president of Albert H. Halff Associates, Inc., a civil engineering and scientist firm based in Dallas. During his 13-year association with Halff Associates, he acquired extensive and varied experience in the design of major land development projects. Mr. Koesling also worked as a graduate engineer for Burk and Associates, Inc., in New Orleans.

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Kelly Lindig joined Woodbine in 1996 and was involved in the design implementation of infrastructure projects in Dallas and San Antonio, as well as management of property owners associations (POAs) at Woodbine-developed properties. His responsibilities included management with all design team members, governmental entities and utility service providers. Mr. Lindig also serves as project manager for vertical construction projects as well as management of the architectural control committees for Woodbine-developed properties. His primary responsibilities include design team coordination and ground-up new construction services.

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Les Melcher joined Woodbine Development Corporation in 1997 as senior vice president responsible for the company's new project identification, as well as acquisitions and dispositions. He also is responsible for all of Woodbine's land developments, leasing Woodbine's office projects and expanding existing corporate relationships.

Before joining Woodbine, Mr. Melcher was senior vice president for Transcontinental Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA. He was responsible for all corporate acquisitions and dispositions and managed all third-party and affiliate company relations.

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Greg Mowatt joined Woodbine's staff in 1976 and is currently senior vice president and chief financial officer. He has lead capitalization responsibility for all projects and coordinates the negotiation and closing of multimillion-dollar real estate project financings. He is also responsible for "financial engineering" in the creation of new project partnership structures, along with associated economic analysis.

Mr. Mowatt serves as owner representative in relationships with partners, lenders and operators of the company's convention/resort hotels. He is responsible for recapitalization of various components of Woodbine's real estate portfolio, as well as supervision of the corporate accounting department. Mr. Mowatt previously served Woodbine as corporate controller and treasurer, with full responsibility for all corporate planning (profit plans, cash forecasts, budget analyses, etc.) He has significant experience in the development of computer economic models for testing project financial feasibility, as well as for review of construction project costs.

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Dana Swope joined Woodbine in 1996 and serves as project manager on vertical projects. She has been responsible for the project management of multiple corporate headquarters facilities, hotel and hospitality venues and historic preservation assignments.

Ms. Swope's responsibilities include pre-development; pre-construction; development and analysis of Requests for Proposals from consultants, contractors and suppliers; project schedule development; interface with owners, operators, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and governmental agencies and departments; design and construction cost control and scheduling from project start to finish; as well as furniture, fixture and equipment design, purchasing and installation processes.

Before joining Woodbine, she spent six years in pre-construction services, cost estimating and project administration for Austin Commercial, Inc., in Dallas, Texas, with construction structural responsibilities for major manufacturing facilities for Texas Instruments, Twinstar Semiconductor, Inc., and Advanced Micro Devices.

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Scott Watson joined Woodbine in 1999 as treasurer and controller. His responsibilities include developing overall financial policies and practices; planning and directing treasury, risk management, budgeting, forecasting, tax planning, company benefits and reporting for projects overseen by Woodbine. Mr. Watson also provides project capitalization support and partnership structural guidance.

Prior to joining Woodbine, Mr. Watson worked for Hunt Consolidated, Inc. for 17 years, most recently as manager of taxation.

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