Councilman Paul Ridley was elected to the District 14 position of the Dallas City Council in June of 2021. Councilman Ridley attended the University of Michigan, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree and master's degrees in architecture and urban planning. After graduation, he took his first job as a staff planner for the City Plan Commission of Kansas City, Mo., and later went to work for an architecture firm to complete the requirements to become a licensed architect. Later, he decided to get a law degree and moved to Texas to attend the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. Following admission to the bar, Councilman Ridley practiced construction law and commercial litigation in Dallas for more than 30 years, during which time he founded three different law firms. He lives with his wife Joan in a century-old home in an Old East Dallas historic district, where he has lived for 27 years. Councilman Ridley has been committed to public service in Dallas for more than 13 years. He served on the Dallas Plan Commission for eight years representing City Council District 14. While on the Plan Commission, he chaired the Thoroughfare Committee for several years. He also represented District 14 on the Dallas Landmark Commission for four years, helping to preserve Dallas's historic neighborhoods.

Evan joined GFF as an architect in 2005 and was named Chairman and CEO in 2020. He has over 18 years of experience in architecture and planning, and was named one of the Dallas Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2013 as well as one of the “Top 20 Under 40 in Architecture, Engineering and Construction” by ENR Texas & Louisiana in 2011. His experience includes managing complex residential, retail, and mixed-use projects through design and construction phases, as well as planning for large-scale placemaking projects with retail, restaurant, office and institutional components. Evan takes a collaborative approach to design with an emphasis on meeting project goals and exceeding client expectations. He has a strong interest in sustainable design, density, smart growth, and New Urbanist principles, and is a frequent speaker on these topics at ULI, AIA, TREC and other design and commercial real estate related events. Evan’s high level of community engagement allows him to contribute meaningfully to zoning change efforts in the Dallas area, where land use regulations are often not aligned with best practices in walkable urban design and quality placemaking. Evan is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, including extended studies in Western Europe and Central Mexico. He is an active member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), The Real Estate Council (TREC) and Chaired the 2017 Associate Leadership Council (ALC) leadership development program. He serves on the Board of Governors for Downtown Dallas, Inc., as Secretary for the City of Dallas North Oak Cliff Municipal Management District Board and as Chair of the City of Dallas Downtown Connection TIF Reinvestment Zone 11, and is a member of the RZ 5 TIF board. Additionally, Evan is involved with the North Texas Chapter of Urban Land Institute (ULI). He was the founding member and is a former President of the Henderson Neighborhood Association.

Anthony Page is Head of Risk Management of Jaguar Growth Partners. Mr. Page serves as a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to Jaguar, Mr. Page served as Senior Vice President and Director, Commercial Mortgage Investments for Capstead Mortgage Corporation (NYSE: CMO) and portfolio manager of Redtail Capital Partners, L.P., a joint venture with Crescent Real Estate (NYSE: CEI) which invested in credit-sensitive commercial real estate-related assets, including subordinate commercial real estate loans. As the senior executive responsible for all commercial real estate investment activity, Mr. Page also sat on the firm’s management and investment committees. Before joining Capstead, Mr. Page was a principal at Apollo Real Estate Advisors, a global opportunistic real estate private equity fund advisor, where he led the firm’s Eastern European investment initiative and opened a Hong Kong regional office to oversee its Asia-Pacific investment activities. Mr. Page served as the Chief Financial Officer and member of the management and investment committees of Winthrop Financial Associates (NYSE: FUR), a real estate firm engaged in the acquisition and operation of real estate for its own account and the provision of property management, asset management and investor services to affiliated investment partnerships. Prior to Winthrop, Mr. Page served as a real estate investment banker for both Victor Capital Group and Chemical Bank (NYSE: CHL, now JPMorgan Chase & Co.). Mr. Page serves on the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board and the boards of directors of both Uptown Dallas, Inc. and the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority. Mr. Page holds a BS in Commerce with High Distinction from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where he was an Echols Scholar, Thomas J. Watson Scholar and Appraisal Institute Educational Trust Scholar. He is a graduate of the Advanced Development Management Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, has completed extensive coursework at Harvard Business School and Universidad Internacional de Morelos (UNINTER) and is a CFA charterholder.

Joseph F. Pitchford serves as Managing Director, Development, for Crescent Real Estate Equities, LL. As the firm’s senior development officer, his responsibilities include project identification, feasibility analysis, design management, and execution in Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Mr. Pitchford has twenty-five years of experience in commercial real estate, particularly in real estate development and project management. Prior to joining Crescent, Mr. Pitchford served as senior vice president and regional director with Concord Eastridge, Inc. in Phoenix. Prior to that, he served as vice president and regional partner with Hines Interests, LP based in Houston and Phoenix. Mr. Pitchford led the development and asset management of several notable Class A office projects in Arizona, including US Airways Headquarters (218,000 square feet), 24th and Camelback (300,000 square feet), and the office campus for Vanguard Mutual Funds (330,000 square feet). In Texas, Mr. Pitchford is currently responsible for the development of The Hotel and Residences at the Ritz-Carlton and The Tower Residences and Regency Row, Ritz-Carlton in Dallas, and he was involved in the development of the 1.4 million-square foot CenterPoint Energy Plaza in Houston. He also led the development of 3893 Howard Hughes Parkway (175,000 square feet). Mr. Pitchford received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame and his Master of Business Administration degree from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the President of the Board of the Uptown Dallas Public Improvement District.