LEADERSHIP TEAM
Carl Neuss is a Founder of Woodbridge Pacific Group (WPG) and serves as Chairman of the WPG Investment Committee. Carl also operates Pacific Cascade Group, a family office and real estate investment holding company which he established in 2005. In 2011, Carl and Todd Cunningham, teamed to establish WPG and together have built the firm into one of the leading privately owned homebuilding companies in California. WPG top management has a long professional history working as a team. Carl began working with both Todd Cunningham and Andrew Murphy in the late 1990s teaming on several housing development joint venture projects during Carl’s tenure at IHP.
Prior to founding WPG, Carl was a senior executive at leading California housing investment and development companies including IHP Capital Partners and The Buie Corporation. From 1994 to 2005, Carl was employed at IHP Capital Partners where he was Co-Owner & Principal and served on the Executive Committee and Investment Committee for the firm’s $1.0+ Billion portfolio of IHP Funds. At IHP, Carl oversaw and managed scores of equity investments in major housing and land development projects throughout California. Carl also oversaw a team of professionals responsible for both housing project investment & underwriting as well as for the market strategy and research efforts which supported IHP’s overall investment activities. Prior to IHP, Carl served as a senior executive and Project Manager at The Buie Corporation, a major Southern California housing and land development firm. Earlier in his career, Carl, a Registered Professional Civil Engineer, served as Vice President and Principal Engineer for J.G. Bouwkamp & Associates, Consulting Civil Engineers (Oakland, CA).
Carl has broad background in real estate development, real estate investment, property acquisition, project management, and market / economic assessment. He created and directed the development of the proprietary Market Expert System, which has been recognized as the one of the housing and land development industry's most sophisticated market assessment tool.
Carl holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University, a Master of Engineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He completed the Professional Program in Real Estate Development at UC San Diego and has completed the Registered Investment Advisor certification. A former Board Member of the Harvard Center for Housing Studies, Carl currently serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Baker Graduate Program in Real Estate and is a member of the Cornell Real Estate Council. Over the past twenty-five years, Carl has authored several articles and studies on the behavior of California's housing market and regional economies. Carl and his wife Elaine have three grown children and have been married for thirty-six years. They live in Laguna Hills, CA.
Todd Cunningham is a Founder of Woodbridge Pacific Group (WPG) and serves as Chief Operating Officer for the firm. Todd manages community planning, housing product design, and project management. In addition, he oversees all project construction, marketing, merchandising, and sales functions. Beginning in the late 1990s, Todd teamed with IHP’s Carl Neuss in assembling and executing a portfolio successful joint venture housing projects throughout Southern California. In 2011, Todd and Carl founded Woodbridge Pacific Group. Between 2011 and 2018, WPG has grown into a company delivering up to $170 Million in new home sales per year. Since its founding, WPG has acquired and developed a portfolio of projects in Southern California comprising over $1 Billion in total new home sales value.
For the thirty years prior to WPG’s founding, Todd has been professionally engaged as a residential development executive and company owner in California's land and housing development industry. Todd possesses in-depth experience in all aspects of the business including project planning and entitlement, product design and construction, and sales & marketing. Under Todd’s leadership, WPG maintains a strong commitment to a hands-on management approach in both daily operations and longer-term decision making at the firm.
In 1976, Todd joined the staff of M.J. Brock, a leading California homebuilder. Starting in project and construction management, he was promoted to Division President of Brock's Orange County Division in 1983. In 1987, Todd co-founded Brighton Homes, building the company into one of the top ten Southern California homebuilders, with annual new home deliveries of 300 to 400 homes and annual revenues reaching $175 million. In 1994, he co-founded Woodbridge Development. Between 1994 and 2010, this company completed twenty-four new home projects throughout Southern California. In 2011, the operations of Woodbridge Development and Pacific Cascade Group were merged to form Woodbridge Pacific Group. Todd earned his BS degree in Construction Management at the California State University at San Luis Obispo in 1974. He also completed his MBA at Cal State San Luis Obispo in 1976. Todd and his wife, Jody, have five children and live in Laguna Hills, California.
Andrew Murphy is the Chief Investment Officer of Woodbridge Pacific Group where he oversees the companies land acquisition, finance and control functions. Prior to joining WPG in 2014, Andrew held leadership roles in the Southern California homebuilding and real estate development industry for over twenty years, serving in top management positions at Fieldstone Communities & American Property Enterprises. Andrew’s relationship with the WPG leadership team began in the late 1990s when, while at Fieldstone, he teamed with IHP’s Carl Neuss to originate and execute several homebuilding joint ventures located in Southern California.
Between 1992 and 2006, Andrew was a member of the executive team at Fieldstone Communities, a leading California homebuilding company. At Fieldstone, Andrew served as President of the South Counties Division, managing a two-office, two-county division that constructed about 400 homes annually and produced revenues of over $200 million per year. He also served on the Fieldstone Executive & Land Committees. Previously, Andrew was corporate Treasurer, arranging both joint venture equity and construction debt. After the early 1990s recession, Andrew managed the resolution and restructure of a company $180 million land loan, which resolution re-positioned Fieldstone for rapid growth in the follow-on economic upcycle.
Between 2006 and 2014, Andrew served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for American Property Enterprises (APE), a diversified real estate investment and operating firm based in San Diego. At APE, Andrew was responsible for the acquisition, asset management, leasing, and operations of the company’s multi-tenant income property portfolio and land investment portfolio (including over 1,000 Southern California lots between 2008 and 2010). Previous to this, Andrew served as Vice President at Birtcher, an office/industrial development company, where he assisted in a $100 million partial sale of the company to Mitsui Inc. Early in his career, Andrew served as a commercial real estate loan officer at First Interstate Bank.
Andrew has a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, graduating with honors . He has been married to his wife, Martha, for twenty-five years and lives in Orange County, CA with the youngest of their five children. He has previously served as President of the Building Industry Association of San Diego, as Vice Chairman of the YMCA of San Diego County, and as Chairman of the Residential Real Estate Committee at the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker.
Steve Cameron, president and founder of Foremost Companies has more than 25 years of experience in California real estate development and has been closely involved in every aspect of the residential real estate industry from financing and acquisition to the sales and marketing of new homes. Prior to forming Foremost Companies, Cameron was the chief operating officer of Fieldstone Communities, a private residential builder of more than 20,000 homes. Cameron had been associated with The Fieldstone Group of Companies since 1990. Before Fieldstone, he worked at Continental Bank in Chicago in the bank’s real estate capital markets group.
Cameron is well known and respected in the local building industry, where he has developed a strong reputation for integrity and community involvement. He is a past president of the Orange County Chapter of the Building Industry Association and has served on the board of directors for several non-profit organizations. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and a Master of Business Administration at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Cameron lives in San Juan Capistrano with his wife, Suzanne, and their five children.