Young Professionals Ask a Contractor – Members Only

Please join the Housing Colorado Young Professional Committee for a thought-provoking discussion with Brian Cohen, Principal and Vice President of Business Development with Taylor Kohrs & Mark Bokhoven, Director of Preconstruction with Pinkard Construction. Bring your questions and concerns to this small group discussion where Brian & Mark will answer anything about affordable housing development. 

This event is for members who are young professionals, emerging leaders, and those who are new to the affordable housing industry.

All Housing Colorado members are welcome, but you must register to attend. Email miranda@housingcolorado.org with questions about membership or if you need your member login. 

Moderators:

• Ahmed Abdelhameed, Ulysses Development Group
• Brian Reilly, Volunteers of America

Speakers:

Brian Cohen - Principal and Vice President of Business Development, Taylor Kohrs

Brian is a Principal and Vice President of Business Development with Taylor Kohrs, a Colorado based general contractor.  With over 30 years of experience in the construction industry, Brian brings the full 360 view when it comes to client’s projects. In his 22 years in Colorado, Brian has served in project management, preconstruction, construction management and corporate leadership roles on multiple large-scale, complex projects across the Rocky Mountain and Midwest regions. He excels at integrating high performance teams to deliver tangible results on complex projects across multi-family, municipal, office, recreation and industrial markets.

As part of the leadership team for Taylor Kohrs, he is responsible for all facets of business development and marketing for the company. He serves on the Executive committee and leads the strategic acquisition of new markets. Brian is a LEED® Accredited Professional who received his MBA from Loyola University and his Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University. He lives in Denver with his twin sons and enjoys mountain biking, paddle boarding and the outdoors.

Mark Bokhoven - Director of Preconstruction, Pinkard Construction

Mark has a BS in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University and began his career with Pinkard in 2006 as a project engineer with aspirations of working in the field as a superintendent. He worked in the field as an engineer until November 2008, when he had the opportunity to represent the USA playing rugby full-time. He started competed for team USA starting in 2005 but then took a break from his construction career to travel the world representing his country. He ended his career with a Bronze medal in the 2011 Pan-Am Games and, at the time, had played the 2nd most amount of games all-time.

In 2012, Mark retired from rugby and rejoined Pinkard as a Project Engineer / Estimator. Since then, he transitioned full time to preconstruction when he saw the value of setting up a project for success from the start. He has successfully tackled a variety of projects during his tenure, and is currently our Director of Preconstruction Services. While Mark is pricing a project, he spends huge amounts of time bringing designers and engineers together with subcontractors to ascertain the true bottom line for our clients vision and design. His preconstruction experience includes both renovation and ground up projects with values up to $100M in the affordable housing, senior living, recreation, healthcare, and office markets. Most recently his affordable housing project, VIDA at Sloan’s Lake, won a 1st place National Excellence in Construction award.