Austin is the founder, owner and president of Wedgewood Property Management and Consulting, LLC. She
has served as president of IREM Michigan Chapter
No. 5, and was honored by the chapter in 1998 as “CPM
of the Year,” and then again in 2002 with a “Special Recognition Award.” Austin has also served as an IREM Governing Councilor, and as chair of the IREM Membership
Committee and the Ethics and Discipline Committee. She
is a long-time IREM faculty member.
RegION 7 VICe PResIdeNt
Jeffrey I. Burck, cpM, of Sugar Land,
Texas, serves as the 2009 and 2010
Regional Vice President for Region 7.
During his two-year term, he has oversight for the activities of the seven IREM
chapters in Texas and Oklahoma.
Burck is a property manager with Brookfield Properties,
Houston, and has more than 20 years of industry experience managing office, retail and industrial properties. In
addition to his CPM designation, Burck holds the Real
Property Administrator (RPA) credential from the BOMI
Institute and holds a Texas real estate broker’s license.
Burck has served in numerous leadership positions
with IREM Houston Chapter No. 28, including president.
Recently, Burck received the chapter’s “Jeff Williford
Award of Excellence,” an award named after the well-loved
chapter past president and a past IREM regional vice
president who embodied professionalism and ethics at the
highest level.
RegION 8 VICe PResIdeNt
Donald B. Wilkerson, cpM, of Reno, Nev.,
serves as the 2009 and 2010 Regional
Vice President for Region 8. During his
term, he has oversight for the activities
of IREM chapters in Arizona, Colorado,
Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
Wilkerson is president and chief executive officer of
Gaston and Wilkerson Management Group, AMO, a
full-service real estate firm engaged in multifamily, com-
mercial and industrial management, development and
brokerage. He is also a licensed real estate broker and
holds a property management permit in Nevada.
Wilkerson has held numerous chapter leadership positions with IREM Northern Nevada/Tahoe Chapter No.
89, serving two terms as president. He has twice been
honored as the chapter’s “CPM of the Year,” first in 2005
and then again in 2009.
RegION 9 VICe PResIdeNt
Deborah J. ho-Beckstrom, cpM, of
Apple Valley, Minn., will serve as the
2010 and 2011 Regional Vice President
for Region 9. During her two-year term,
she will have oversight for the activities
of the IREM chapters in Minnesota,
Ho-Beckstrom is the chief executive officer of
Community Association Group, Inc. in St. Paul, Minn.,
a property management and consulting firm that
specializes in common interest communities. She is also
a licensed real estate broker in Minnesota.
Ho-Beckstrom earned her CPM designation in 1987
and has held many leadership positions with IREM
Minnesota Chapter No. 45, including president. She was
honored with the chapter’s “President’s Award” in 2003
and its “CPM of the Year” award in 2004.
RegION 10 VICe PResIdeNt
M. andrea May, cpM, will serve as the
2010 and 2011 Regional Vice President
for Region 10. During her two-year
term, she will have oversight for the
activities of IREM chapters in Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, North
May is vice president of investor services for Colliers
Turley Martin Tucker, AMO, in St. Louis. She is responsible for a 223-million square foot industrial portfolio
located on the West Coast and in the Southwestern
United States, and is the liaison between asset managers
and on-site property managers serving the portfolio. May
also holds a Missouri real estate salesperson’s license.