George chopivsky biography

George is the managing principal of the FORTIS Companies. Prior to founding FORTIS, Mr. Chopivsky was the VP of the Mid-Atlantic region for Simpson Housing, a national apartment developer and operator with over $ billion in assets. Previous to that, George was a longtime executive of The Donohoe Companies, one of DC”s largest and oldest real estate companies. During his tenure with Donohoe, Mr. Chopivsky was responsible for managing construction and development of projects throughout the DC region: from property acquisition through project completion and stabilization. A native Washingtonian, George graduated from St. Albans School and Yale University. He serves on the Eagle Bank Advisory Board, is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and the DC Real Estate Group and is also the past chairman of the young professionals group of the Trust for the National Mall, the L’Enfant Society, which is charged with overseeing the renovation of America’s front doorstep and raising private funds to help restore and maintain the National Mall as a world-class park. Over the past decade, Mr. Chopivsky led the development of over 2, units in the DC area with a value of over $ million.

Committees: Site Selection, Development

Board Member Since:

Alexa Chopivsky, freelance writer, Kiev, Ukraine

George Chopivsky, Jr., President, Chopivsky Family Foundation, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Johann Goldammer,  PhD., Head, Global Fire Monitoring Center, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; and Professor of Fire Ecology, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.

Volodymyr Gulidov, (formerly, student at St. Albans School for Boys, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.); presently, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Aaron Hohl, PhD, (formerly PhD candidate, Yale University); presently Lecturer in Forestry and Wildland Resources, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, U.S.A.

James B. McCarter, PhD, Associate Professor Adjunct, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Dmytro Melnychuk, PhD, Rector, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences (formerly National Agriculture University of Ukraine), Kiev, Ukraine

Andrew Niccolai, PhD, (formerly PhD candidate, Yale University); presently Research Scientist, United States Coast Guard, Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Chadwick Dearing Oliver, PhD, Pinchot Professor of Forestry and

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