Organizational capacity is the foundation of CBKC’s strategy, requiring a strong, committed and experienced team to deliver on its ambitious plan outcomes. While Weatherford’s CFO role is not new, Schultz adds capacity in CBKC’s urban planning, public policy and stakeholder engagement initiatives and Langenkamp fills a new role in generating investment opportunities, acquisitions, partnerships and projects.
These new hires join the rest of CBKC’s high-performing team including Shannon Hesterberg, director of real estate development; Felicia Mann, asset manager, Bob Pearson, chief accounting officer; and Sharon Gurley, administrative assistant. Other positions remain to be filled to complete the highly skilled, experienced and motivated team equipped to transform the city’s urban core.
Pierson
Pierson previously served as director of real estate for the Community Development Corporation of Kansas City and as senior advisor for the Housing and Economic Development Financial Corporation of Kansas City. He began his career with CBKC in 2001 where he advanced to vice president of real estate development before leaving in 2007 to form North 40 Development, LLC, a development management consulting firm specializing in mixed income housing, public private partnerships and numerous other community and economic development issues.
Among his community commitments, he chairs the Lee’s Summit Housing Authority, serves on the board of the Black Community Fund and served as a commissioner and treasurer for PortKC and as policy committee chair for the National Congress for Community Economic Development.
Weatherford
Weatherford most recently served as senior lending officer at Kansas City-based Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) where he oversaw all capital investments in support of real estate projects in low- to moderate-income areas throughout Kansas City. Additionally, he led the development of LISC’s overall strategies to increase the impact of local community development investment through policy changes at the local and state level.
Prior to LISC, Steve spent a majority of his career in housing finance policy and affordable housing. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton as U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development regional administrator. In Kansas City, he worked as an investment banker in public finance with George K. Baum & Co., later joining Governor Kathleen Sibelius’s administration as president of Kansas Development Finance Authority and Kansas Housing Resources Corporation. Weatherford served in the Obama administration for three years as senior advisor in the office of chief financial officer for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Schultz
Schultz has years of experience in neighborhood revitalization, corridor redevelopment feasibility, innovative place making and architecture. Previously, she was a senior associate at DRAW Architecture and Urban Design in Kansas City where she led feasibility studies for neighborhood redevelopment initiatives and served as project manager for three multi-family projects. Before that she held architect and urban planner positions at Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle, Washington, and ZGF Architects in Washington, D.C. and Seattle.
Active in the community, Schultz is particularly engaged in the Swope Parkway/Blue Parkway, Brush Creek Corridor and Kansas City Design Center’s Neighborhood Prospects Advisory committees.
Langenkamp
Langenkamp is responsible for generating investment opportunities, acquisitions, partnerships and projects. Prior to joining CBKC, he served for four-plus years as president and CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri, and as an assistant city manager, director of City Planning and Development for the city of Kansas City, Missouri, where he was involved in most of the major redevelopment projects undertaken during his 26-year tenure there.
He was an Urban Land Institute (ULI) Daniel Rose Program Fellow and has served on the boards at PortKC (ex-officio), the Jazz District Redevelopment Corporation, the Downtown Council, the Performing Arts CID, Bridging the Gap, chaired the organization that became AltCap, and chaired ULI’s Kansas City District Council.