Boards and Staff

CEO, BIM Connection LLC

Herb is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (Mechanical Engineering, M.S.), and is passionate about entrepreneurship and socio-economic initiatives. His firm provides Building Information Modeling (BIM) services for the AEC community. Most of all, he values his faith in Christ and his family.

Fred Carter, CPA

Owner/President, Well Faculty, LEED AP+ BD&C, Assoc. AIA

ecoREAL (D/E/WBE #6977): Green Building consulting company founded by Summer Fowler in 2009 with a mission to provide sustainability with equity in the built environment. Summer has over 20 years of experience in the Green Building industry starting in a global architecture firm. Her team provides services for reaching LEED, Living Building, Path to Net Zero Energy to Zero Carbon, and Well Building goals with cost-effective tools and training, including proprietary Green Canary healthy material tracking software to optimize sustainability and equity goals.

Co-Owner, Electrical Engineer

CE Engineers, Inc. (D/E/MBE OR #5618): Founded in 2006, CE Engineers, is a father-daughter-owned electrical engineering firm. Diana has been with the company since 2010 and her team focuses on electrical power distribution design, instrumentation and controls engineering, and arc flash studies.

President, Ampere Electric

MAXXIMO Investments, LLC, President

Dimas graduated from the University of Oregon with a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning and is passionate about investing, entrepreneurship, and collecting art from the underrepresented artist in our community.

Naim Hasan Photography, LLC

Naim Hasan Photography, LLC has been providing quality photographic services since 2002, for Local, Regional, and National Clients including Local Government, Regional and National Business Associations, and Regional and National Travel and Tourism Associations.

Received the OAME MWESBSDV “Company of the Year Award”, May 2023

Received the Portland Business Alliance “Community Champion Award”, 2019

Naim, spent 14 years in the Telecommunications Industry, as a Sales, Management, and Marketing professional where he earned numerous top sales awards.

As a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, he won over 100 Regional Championships, and as a National and International Competitor, he won Seven (7) Gold, Two (2) Silver, and Four (4) Bronze Medals including a Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympic Trials earning a spot on the 1988 US Olympic Team.

As a (PADI) Master Diver, Naim has over 300 dives in Regional and exotic dive destinations. Inspired by one of his favorite Television shows called Sea Hunt, with Lloyd Bridges.

Elected to the Travel Portland Executive Board in 2014 and was elected to serve as the Travel Portland Board Chair beginning July 1, 2017, through June 2018. And remains an active member of the Travel Portland Association Board.