Executive Team

David Villarreal has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Safe and Green Development Corporation since February 3, 2023. Mr. Villarreal was appointed as a director of Safe and Green Development Corporation effective April 11, 2023 and has served as a director of Safe & Green Holdings Corp. since May 28, 2021. Mr. Villarreal’s career spans over 40 years in various management, business and leadership capacities, beginning in 1977 when he served as Deputy Mayor and Senior Deputy Economic Development Advisor, under Mayor Tom Bradley in the City of Los Angeles. From August 2014 until March 2023, Mr. Villarreal served as the Chief Administrative Officer of affinity Partnerships, LLC, a Costco national mortgage services platform provider, with annual closed loan production of $8+ billion through a network of ten national mortgage lenders. From March 2011 to August 2014, he served as the President -Corporate Business Development, of Prime Source Mortgage, Inc. From September 2008 to September 2012, he served as a Consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Nicolai Brune has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Safe and Green Development Corporation since February 14, 2023. Since March 2022, Mr. Brune has served as Director of Acquisition for Safe & Green Holdings Corp. responsible for financial evaluation and modeling of all potential acquisitions, investments and divestitures. Prior to joining Safe & Green Holdings Corp., Mr. Brune served as a Treasury Analyst at GL Homes, a large private real estate developer/home builder in the state of Florida, from June 2020 to March 2022. At GL Homes, Mr. Brune was tasked with reviewing financial transactions, examining cash flows and maintaining and preparing monthly performance reports. From June 2017 until June 2020, Mr. Brune worked at Generation Nine, a company that he founded in the clothing industry.