After over a decade in executive client side & agency roles, overseeing the sales and marketing of billions of dollars in transactions, Ben Smith started Kinsman Marketing Partners as a response to a need for trusted strategic advice to lead and grow businesses through intense project launches or corporate change and growth stages. Kinsman Marketing Partners is a strategic MARKETING firm focussed on partnering with clients and suppliers in an holistic approach to Price, Product, Place, Promotion, and Persona developing and executing creative and rationale strategies that achieve defined business objectives. As profit focussed marketers the results of our approach are proven to minimize risks of market rejection while maximizing rewards from market acceptance.

Jacqueline Gruber is the Director of Built Environment for the Downtown Seattle Association. She works with public and private stakeholders to balance the functional needs of a growing downtown with the careful art of hospitality, placemaking, and community. She spends her time collaborating on public policy, real estate, urban design, and transportation policy to keep downtown economically vibrant and inviting to all. A dedicated urbanist, she gets her inspiration by traveling to other cities to partake in adventures such as riding transit during rush hour, frequenting local markets, and lingering in pocket parks. Her curiosity has taken her to the cities of 30 countries and counting. Jacqueline holds a Master’s Degree in Urban & Regional Planning from Portland State University and is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). She is a Fellow of the University of Washington Runstad Department of Real Estate and a Fellow of the International Downtown Association Emerging Leaders program. In 2019, she received the Connect Seattle Commercial Real Estate Next Generation Award.

As a Principal and Investment Director, Deva leverages her experience in corporate and real estate strategic planning, financial/market analysis, investment and real estate development to assist organizations in defining and realizing their objectives. Within both public and private advisory work, she has a particular emphasis on capitalization strategy and implementation. She also leads Heartland’s investment opportunities. Prior to joining Heartland, Deva lived in Japan, as well as worked at a San Francisco Bay Area-based affordable housing developer and at Fannie Mae’s Bay Area Partnership Office. Deva received her MBA, Honors degree with a concentration in Real Estate and Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts, Highest Distinction, in History and Urban Planning from University of California, Berkeley. Deva currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Bellwether Housing Board of Directors. She is an alumni of Leadership Tomorrow and has been a long-term volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, having completed four global village builds around the world.

As Director of Development, Michi  oversees  the  development  of all Killian Pacific’s  projects  and acquisitions . Michi is a member of the firm’s Executive Leadership Team and Investment Committee.  She sits on the Oregon Smart Growth and Greater Portland Inc.  boards and is a member of the CREW Portland Economic Forecast Breakfast Committee and the ULI Portland NEXT Committee. Before moving to Portland, Michi spent eight years with Tishman Speyer in New York, Washington, DC, and Shanghai, and spent several years prior with architecture firms in New York and Los Angeles. Michi received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.