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STEVE WEIBEL
Chairman and Founder
Steve has owned and operated management firms in Georgia and California over the last 40 years and is the former CEO and Founder of Common Interest Management, the largest community management company in the San Francisco Bay area. After relocating to Georgia to be closer to family, Steve founded and grew Community One Associates into one of the largest community association management companies in Georgia. He sold Community One Associates in 2009 to FirstService Residential, a publicly-traded company on the NYSE.
In 2011, Steve Weibel and Lisa Simmons founded Beacon Management Services which specializes in homeowner associations, high rise condominiums, mixed use developments, commercial condominiums, large masterplanned communities and other properties of distinction. Beacon has experienced double digit growth and been named one of Georgia’s top rated management companies for eight consecutive years by the Atlanta Business Chronicle Book of Lists.

Mike Dubas, AMS, CMCA
Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer, Mike is ultimately responsible for everything that affects your association. His primary role is to keep our properties on the correct path toward proper outcomes and to deliver the leadership, counsel and support our clients expect. He manages the team using best practices to provide exceptional customer service, and methods to track Key Performance indicators to foster a strong sense of community.
Mike joined Beacon in 2018 after working extensively in the luxury high rise market in Miami Beach, Florida.
Michael maintains Community Association Management licenses in both Georgia and Florida and is proudly a designee of the Community Association Institute as a CMCA and AMS.

LISA SIMMONS
President and Founder
Lisa focuses on livability, customer service, the customer experience and helping to oversee customer facing staff members. Lisa was formerly the Vice President of the Multifamily Division of Community One Associates. Prior to that, she was a senior manager with Cousins Properties Inc. for 13 years where she oversaw marketing for many of Atlanta’s most significant office and retail buildings. She was also one of Beazer Homes’ top salespeople where she oversaw the operations for two of their largest communities including Atlantic Station.
She is a licensed realtor, accomplished high rise property manager and a graduate of University of North Carolina with a BA in Business and Marketing.

SHARI HOPKINS
VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE OPERATIONS
As Vice President of Corporate Operations, Shari Hopkins is charged with the oversight and efficient execution of major company initiatives, including technology implementation and training, process improvements, and property operations.
Shari joined Beacon Management in 2016 as a Customer Support representative where she excelled in handling various homeowner issues. In every role Shari has had with Beacon Management, it was evident that she enjoyed undertaking new challenges and making a positive impact on operational practices. She has developed a background in working with the leadership team to improve operations, execute strategic company initiatives and elevate overall performance while being a “Super User” for Vantaca, our software platform.
Shari holds her BA in Psychology from Valdosta University. Shari was born in Kingston, Jamaica but has lived in Georgia since 2001. She is heavily involved in community service and event planning in her spare time.

Tasha Fulk
Vice President of Declarant Services
Tasha oversees key relationships with Beacon’s developer and homebuilder clientele including many large, publicly traded companies. Her duties include mentoring community managers with declarant specific portfolios to ensure smooth operations during build out and transition to homeowner-controlled associations.
Tasha has successfully managed approximately $200 million of assets in Georgia including Twin Lakes, the fastest growing masterplanned community in 2021 and 2022. Tasha is a performance-driven leader who excels at delivering results for Beacon’s homebuilders, board members and homeowners.

TONYA COOKE
Senior Regional Manager
Tonya Cooke is an experienced Senior Regional Manager who oversees a growing number of managers and their respective portfolio of customers. Tonya excels at client retention, manager training, and operational support to senior leadership.
Cooke is an experienced real estate professional with over 10 years’ experience in various roles. Her background includes rental property management, real estate sales and community management as on onsite and portfolio manager.

CHRIS KOOZER
Senior ACCOUNTANT
Chris is responsible for all day-to-day financial operations, billing, receivables, collections, and payables for many of our clients, particularly those with complex accounting needs including many of our high rise condominium properties. Chris has overseen the financial reporting for several properties with bank loans of up to $6.1 six million. Chris worked with Steve Weibel at Community One Associates for 10 years, and is considered one of the best accounting professionals in the community association industry. He is a Penn State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Prior to joining us, he worked in Corporate Finance and Accounting at UPS for 20 years.

BRIAN GAY
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Brian Gay is an experienced accounting specialist responsible for myriad financial tasks that support our customers. The Beacon accounting team handles the day-to-day financial operation of community associations, including:
Generating monthly financial statements; budget input and analysis; working with the manager to update Vantaca; working with law firms to pursue delinquent assessments; processing payments to vendors; association tax payments; and assisting board members.
Before joining Beacon, Brian’s talent in accounting extends over 20 years for large multinational corporations in California where he worked for Chevron, Kaiser Permanente, and Clorox. He graduated from Los Medanos/John F. Kennedy with a degree and Business Administration and Accounting.

IVETTE GOMEZ
SENIOR CLOSING MANAGER
Ivette Gomez, senior closing manager, is a 30-year real estate professional in Georgia and her home state of New Jersey. She manages the closing department for Beacon Management handling hundreds of details, transactions and service requests from lenders, attorneys, homeowners and realtors. Ivette oversees the closing process for new construction properties as well as resales for residential and commercial units. Afterwards she ensures the precise transition of new owners and new client information to Vantaca, Beacon’s software platform.
Ivette is well known in the community association industry having spent six years with Steve Weibel’s prior company and seven for another Atlanta management company. She has been honored to have received awards for the employee of the year, best customer service, and recognition for five years of outstanding service.
She also enjoyed a long tenure in the multifamily industry and the Housing Authority of Union City, New Jersey.

KARRIE HILLIARD
Collections Manager
Karrie oversees all collections activity and is an integral part of the Beacon Management accounting team. As the Collections Manager, she is responsible for numerous functions including: monitoring accounts on a daily basis; identifying outstanding account receivables; investigating historical data for debts and bills; taking actions in order to encourage timely payments; processing payments and refunds; resolving billing issues; and working with legal institutions to resolve customer disputes.
Karrie has worked in professional property management for over 13 years, five of which was for Steve Weibel’s prior management company. Karrie excelled at customer service and was quickly promoted within several months to Collections Manager. She earned an associate degree from TC3 and is the proud mother of a wonderful little boy.

Christin Teasley
Customer Service Supervisor
Christin joined Beacon Management in 2017 bringing over 10 years of experience in the property management industry. Driven by problem-solving, she takes pride in providing a world-class customer experience with each interaction. Because of her ability to problem solve and build key relationships with our business partners, she was promoted to Customer Service Supervisor. In this role, she oversees, trains and mentors a team of customer service representatives to provide exceptional service to all stakeholders, both internal and external. Christin is also the recipient two Core Values Awards from Beacon Management Services. She holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Piedmont University. In her spare time, she loves to travel, read and spend time with her family.

MIKE HORNE
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING
As Director of Engineering, Mike Horne is responsible for the operational performance of engineering and maintenance throughout Beacon’s portfolio of sited properties. Mr. Horne is a results-driven executive with more than 40 years of experience in facilities management for the hotel industry.
Prior to Beacon, Horne served as the Director of Engineering for both Marriott International and the 73-story Westin Peachtree Plaza. He was named the Chief Engineer of the Southeast Region for Marriott International after opening the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in 1985. Also of note is his time spent leading overseas resort operations focused on recovery and restoration after a natural disaster, as well as implementing sweeping facilities upgrades while maintaining day-to-day business activities.
With Beacon, Horne is responsible for ensuring all mechanical and electrical systems are operating at maximum efficiency and overseeing all preventative maintenance. He is also responsible for annual facilities budgets, as well as recruiting, motivating and supervising engineering teams for our sited properties.

Jacob Collins
Director of Mobile Maintenance
As the Director of Mobile Maintenance, Jacob leads Beacon Management’s Maintenance Division by supervising its technicians, managing online work orders, and ensuring that all maintenance requests are completed to the highest quality standards. Jacob also oversees bid procurement and provides exceptional project management services for large capital reserve expenditures. He assists association managers and board members with the guidance needed to properly coordinate larger projects to their completion.
Jacob has over seventeen years of facilities management and building engineer experience for a variety of property types including retail, hospitality, and commercial office space.

Steve Weibel
CEO
Steve is ultimately responsible for everything that affects your association. His primary role is to keep our properties on the correct path toward proper outcomes and to deliver the leadership, counsel and strategy our clients expect. Strategy is his well-documented strength along with relationship and trust building. He has been personally involved in overseeing or transitioning many of Atlanta’s significant homeowners associations and condominiums properties. Steve has owned and operated management firms in Georgia and California over the last 30 years and is the former CEO of Community One Associates, one of the largest community association management companies in Georgia. He sold Community One Associates to FirstService Residential, a publicly-traded company in Toronto.

Lisa Simmons
President
Lisa focuses on livability, customer service, the customer experience and helping to oversee customer facing staff members. Lisa was formerly the Vice President of the Multifamily Division of Community One Associates. Prior to that, she was a senior manager with Cousins Properties Inc. for 13 years where she oversaw marketing for many of Atlanta’s most significant office and retail buildings. She was also one of Beazer Homes’ top salespeople where she oversaw the operations for two of their largest communities including Atlantic Station.
She is a licensed realtor, accomplished high rise property manager and a graduate of University of North Carolina with a BA in Business and Marketing.

Scott Manspeaker
Chief Financial Officer
Scott Manspeaker is a CPA and Beacon Management’s Chief Financial Officer. With extensive experience in multifamily real estate management, development and acquisitions, he is uniquely qualified to provide financial oversight for all corporate and client accounting, consultation and planning. Scott’s responsibilities also include financial analysis, performance, metrics and forward planning for Beacon.

Jeff Ellixson
Chief Operating Officer
Jeff is responsible for the day to day operations of Beacon Management Services’ High Rise Division. Jeff has been in the property management industry since 2013 and has successfully managed high rise condominiums, single family and town home associations and the numerous layers of master associations with commercial, retail and residential components. Jeff spent the last 20 years being a successful hotelier as a General Manager with Hilton and Marriott branded hotels.

Michael Dubas
Vice President of Management Services
Michael maintains Community Association Management licenses in both Georgia and Florida and is proudly a designee of the Community Association Institute as a CMCA and AMS.
As the Vice President of Management Services, Michael has direct oversight of our HOA Portfolio and Developer/Declarant Properties. He manages his team to provide exceptional customer service, with the most up to date training on software systems and industry changes and has established a system to track Key Performance indicators for your association to foster healthy financials and a strong sense of community.

Shari Hopkins
Vice President of Corporate Operations
As Vice President of Corporate Operations, Shari Hopkins is charged with the oversight and efficient execution of major company initiatives, including technology implementation and training, process improvements, and property operations.
Shari joined Beacon Management in 2016 as a Customer Support representative where she excelled in handling various homeowner issues. In every role Shari has had with Beacon Management, it was evident that she enjoyed undertaking new challenges and making a positive impact on operational practices. She has developed a background in working with the leadership team to improve operations, execute strategic company initiatives and elevate overall performance while being a “Super User” for Vantaca, our software platform.
Shari holds her BA in Psychology from Valdosta University. Shari was born in Kingston, Jamaica but has lived in Georgia since 2001. She is heavily involved in community service and event planning in her spare time.

Tonya Cooke
Regional Manager
Tonya Cooke is an experienced Regional Manager who oversees a growing number of managers and their respective portfolio of customers. She is also be responsible for client retention, manager training, and operational support to senior leadership. She will also be responsible for client retention, manager training, and operational support to senior leadership.
Cooke is an experienced real estate professional with over 10 years’ experience in various roles. Her background includes rental property management, real estate sales and community management as on onsite and portfolio manager.

Amber Collins
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Tasha Fulk
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Chris Koozer
Sr. Accountant
Chris is responsible for all day to day financial operations, billing, receivables, collections, and payables for your Association. Chris worked at Steve’s prior company and is considered one of the best accounting professionals in the industry. Penn State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Chris worked in Corporate Finance and Accounting at UPS for 20 years.

Brian Gay
Senior Accountant
Brian Gay is an experienced accounting specialist responsible for myriad financial tasks that support our customers. The Beacon accounting team handles the day-to-day financial operation of community associations, including:
Generating monthly financial statements; budget input and analysis; working with the manager to update Vantaca; working with law firms to pursue delinquent assessments; processing payments to vendors; association tax payments; and assisting board members.
Before joining Beacon, Brian’s talent in accounting extends over 20 years for large multinational corporations in California where he worked for Chevron, Kaiser Permanente, and Clorox. He graduated from Los Medanos/John F. Kennedy with a degree and Business Administration and Accounting.

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Ivette Gomez
Senior Closing Manager
Ivette Gomez, senior closing manager, is a 30-year real estate professional in Georgia and her home state of New Jersey. She manages the closing department for Beacon Management handling hundreds of details, transactions and service requests from lenders, attorneys, homeowners and realtors. Ivette oversees the closing process for new construction properties as well as resales for residential and commercial units. Afterwards she ensures the precise transition of new owners and new client information to Vantaca, Beacon’s software platform.
Ivette is well known in the community association industry having spent six years with Steve Weibel’s prior company and seven for another Atlanta management company. She has been honored to have received awards for the employee of the year, best customer service, and recognition for five years of outstanding service.
She also enjoyed a long tenure in the multifamily industry and the Housing Authority of Union City, New Jersey.

Karrie Hilliard
Collections Manager
Karrie oversees all collections activity and is an integral part of the Beacon Management accounting team. As the Collections Manager, she is responsible for numerous functions including: monitoring accounts on a daily basis; identifying outstanding account receivables; investigating historical data for debts and bills; taking actions in order to encourage timely payments; processing payments and refunds; resolving billing issues; and working with legal institutions to resolve customer disputes.
Karrie has worked in professional property management for over 13 years, five of which was for Steve Weibel’s prior management company. Karrie excelled at customer service and was quickly promoted within several months to Collections Manager. She earned an associate degree from TC3 and is the proud mother of a wonderful little boy.

Christen Teasley
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Mike Horne
Director of Engineering
As Director of Engineering, Mike Horne is responsible for the operational performance of engineering and maintenance throughout Beacon’s portfolio of sited properties. Mr. Horne is a results-driven executive with more than 40 years of experience in facilities management for the hotel industry.
Prior to Beacon, Horne served as the Director of Engineering for both Marriott International and the 73-story Westin Peachtree Plaza. He was named the Chief Engineer of the Southeast Region for Marriott International after opening the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in 1985. Also of note is his time spent leading overseas resort operations focused on recovery and restoration after a natural disaster, as well as implementing sweeping facilities upgrades while maintaining day-to-day business activities.
With Beacon, Horne is responsible for ensuring all mechanical and electrical systems are operating at maximum efficiency and overseeing all preventative maintenance. He is also responsible for annual facilities budgets, as well as recruiting, motivating and supervising engineering teams for our sited properties.

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From Our Team

Beacon Management Services Promotes Tasha Fulk to Vice President
ATLANTA — Beacon Management Services is pleased to announce the promotion of Tasha Fulk to Vice President of Declarant Services.

Emily Little Wins the Michael Shinners Manager of the Year Award
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Yvonne Reyes Wins Effective Communication Award
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Tasha Fulk Wins Accountability Award
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Derek Hickman Wins Service Excellence Award
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Tonya Cooke Wins Integrity Award
Beacon Management Holds 2nd Annual Awards Ceremony to Celebrate Team Achievement. Beacon Management held its 2nd Annual Awards Celebration in