Before DHA, Guerrero was vice president for U.S. Bank Community Development Corp., responsible for structuring equity investments in low-income housing tax credit partnerships. He has more than 15 years of experience in affordable housing development and finance, including senior positions at Mercy Housing Southwest, Rocky Mountain Mutual Housing, and The Resurrection Project in Chicago.

Guerrero has an engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Board affiliations include the Denver Dept. of Human Services, Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, West Colfax Partnership, and Denver’s Economic Prosperity Task Force.

Carl Koelbel is the new co-chair of ULI Colorado’s 200-member Young Leaders Group (YLG). Koelbel works at Koelbel & Co., where he carries on a three-generation tradition of real estate development in the Denver metro area. He focuses on development of land currently held by the firm as well as identifying future development opportunities. In 2010 Koelbel received his MBA with a concentration in real estate and finance from CU Boulder. At CU he was a member of the winning team in NAIOP’s Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge.

Previously, he was a research associate at ULI in Washington, D.C.  At ULI he assisted the senior resident fellows in research projects with a focus on infrastructure and its effect on land-use patterns. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from the University of Southern California.

Koelbel joins Elena Scott, senior associate of Norris Design in Denver and Frisco, as co-chair of the YLG, which consists of ULI members younger than 35. The YLG hosts project tours, a mentoring program, seminars, community service days and monthly socials.

ULI Colorado’s 24-member Executive Committee consists of 10 committees covering technical advisory panels, project tours, lecture series, finance, affordable housing, membership, sponsorship and the Young Leaders Group. Committee chairs organize more than 200 volunteers annually to plan more than two dozen events, advisory panels and mentoring programs.