Staff & Board of Directors
Executive Officer
Kelsey Grow
BIO
Kelsey graduated from Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business in 2012 with a degree in Hospitality & Tourism Management. Upon graduating, she worked for Marriott Hotels in Washington DC. Wanting to travel the world, she soon was accepted into a German-US young professional exchange program and spent a year learning and working in Germany. She joined the New River Valley Home Builders Association in June of 2019 after serving as the Director of Marketing and Events for The Blacksburg Partnership. Kelsey brings extensive event planning experience to the table, along with excellent marketing, communication and organizational skills.
In her free time, Kelsey loves to travel and see new places, cook, and binge watch documentary series. She lives in Christiansburg with her husband, dog and two cats.
President
Justin Boyle
Green Valley Builders
BIO
Justin Boyle is a 2001 Virginia Tech graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics. During his childhood and early 20’s, he ran his own business as a successful Livestock Broker traveling between Lancaster PA and Southwest VA. After deciding a change was needed, he sold everything, moved to Denver to live with his sister, and travelled the Western States for a year. Upon returning to Blacksburg in 2004, he begin working with his brother, Jason Boyle at Green Valley Builders. In a short amount of time, the brothers decided to create a partnership and together have developed and built over 100 dwellings across the New River Valley. Green Valley Builders focuses on Energy Efficient Custom homes and became certified EarthCraft Builders in 2006 when the program was introduced to VA. GVB works hard to keep a successful building model and was named the 2010 Virginia EarthCraft Builder of the Year. In 2015, the brothers formed a new venture - Southeastern Contracting Inc. with Ben Price, a Blacksburg native with a strong commercial construction background, which specializes in Commercial Masonry.. Green Valley Builders continues to grow with more of an emphasize on Commercial Construction and celebrated their first projects’ grounding breaking in 2016!
Vice President
Ian Friend
SAS Builders
BIO
Ian was fortunate enough to have his now fiance move down to Virginia with him from Ohio. They currently live in Christiansburg with their two dogs Lilly & Cappy.
Treasurer
Philip Walker
National Bank of Blacksburg
BIO
Secretary
Austin Hauslohner
Setter Construction
BIO
Born and raised in southwest Virginia, Austin Hauslohner has over 18 years of construction industry experience. Taking an interest in carpentry at an early age, Austin began learning the carpentry trade before graduating high school. He then went on to obtain two trade degrees in Construction Technology during his college years. After completion of college, Austin spent many years in construction material distribution in both sales and management. Austin also focused on construction design and drafting throughout his career. Having worked as a carpenter, project manager, and retail sales manager, Austin brings a diverse skill set to the team at Setter Construction. Austin joined the NRVHBA Board of Directors in 2021.
Immediate Past President
Jeff Nosenzo
Brown Insurance
BIO
Jeff Nosenzo is a 2004 graduate of Virginia Tech with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing Management from Pamplin’s College of Business. From an early age he was passionate about business and hard work as he could often be found playing in the dirt with his toy trucks or later, selling golf balls he found along the course to passing golfers. Upon graduation, he immediately began working for Ferguson Enterprises honing his skills in their management trainee program. In 2015 Jeff, as an Area Branch Manager, was approached by a past customer to pursue a start-up venture in the heavy equipment industry. Though this new venture turned out to be short lived, his knowledge of contracts, management, and general business practices grew dramatically and eventually led him to Brown Insurance; a company who has served Southwest Virginia since 1927. There Jeff serves as Vice President and handles all lines of insurance with special focus on contractor and business coverage. In his free time Jeff enjoys spending time with his wife Joy, son Braden, and dog Duncan. He can still often be seen playing in the dirt via adult soccer leagues, golf, or many other activities that bring him and his family outdoors.
Builder Director
Jim Drader
Habitat for Humanity of the NRV
BIO
Jim joined the great team at Habitat of Humanity of the New River Valley as its Executive Director in August 2020. Jim formerly served as CEO of the New Creation Men's Center in Valparaiso, IN, a Christian organization that helps single men experiencing homelessness. Throughout his tenure, he consistently increased community awareness for those served through collaboration with over 50 churches in Northwest Indiana, Mental Health Facilities, United Way, the local Housing Authority, and related non-profit agencies.
Jim looks forward to continuing his servant leadership with Habitat for Humanity NRV, which serves Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski Counties, and Radford City. We work side by side with our neighbors to build safe, affordable housing, helping communities thrive. One in three households in our service area is "cost-burdened" – paying over 30% of monthly income to cover housing costs. Habitat NRV helps families free themselves from this statistic. These families build and buy their homes at cost, with a low- or no-interest mortgage. We control the cost of our homes with donated materials and volunteer labor. Everyone needs a solid foundation to build a better future.
Associate Director
Jason Hardy
Carter Bank and Trust
BIO
Builder Director
Sean Beliveau
Slate Creek Builders
BIO
After college, Sean framed houses in Denver, Colorado before getting into a career developing CAD and positioning technologies in the early days of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Sean's work has brought him onto construction projects all over the world and onto some of the largest and most complex construction projects in North America including Frank Gehry projects, airports, stadiums and arenas, hospitals, high-rises, government and military bases/facilities.
Since founding Slate Creek Builders in 2010, Sean has focused on education as his custom design build company has evolved. Sean is an at large member of NAHB Remodelers and is an annual attendee of NAHB’s International Builders Show where he attends educational sessions, discovers new products and networks with other builders. Sean has received NAHB certifications for CGP (Certified Green Professional) and CAPS (Certified Aging in Place Specialist)
Sean is also a member of an NAHB Builder 20 Club - Remodeler club R9 - ‘The Mavericks’. Builder 20 assembles builders/remodelers from all over the country to work together to improve all aspects of their construction businesses. The Mavericks are now part of the Slate Creek Builders family and are Sean’s de facto ‘Board of Directors’ and the group collaborates on any and all business related issues including financials, comprehensive sales through production processes, succession planning and anything else that may come up in a typical day as a builder.
Builder Director
Cat White
Tyris Homes, Inc.
BIO
Associate Member Director
Chris Pfohl
Rome Mechanical
BIO
Associate Director
Stephanie Bell
Foresight Design Services
BIO
Associate Director
Reid Broughton
Sands Anderson, Marks & Miller, P.C.
BIO
Associate Director
Steve Semones
Balzer & Associates, Inc.
BIO
Steve is an Executive Vice President for Balzer and Associates and is the office manager for their New River Valley office. Balzer and Associates is a multi-discipline design firm founded in 1967 that provides Engineering, Architecture, Surveying and Landscape Architecture across Virginia. Upon graduation from Virginia Tech in 1998, Steve began his career with Balzer in their Richmond office and in 2002, he took the opportunity to open a new office in the New River Valley. The New River Valley office serves primarily private development clients on a number of different project types including residential subdivisions, multi-family developments, medical facilities, office and commercial buildings, and religious facilities.
Steve has been active in the New River Valley Home Builders Association since 2002 and has served on the Board of Directors for over 17 years. He served as President of the Association for 3 years with an agenda to foster more open communication between the development community and local governments and continues to serve as the Chair for the Governmental Affairs Committee. He is also active in the housing industry on a statewide level with the Home Builders Association of Virginia by serving on the Legislative Committee. His commitment to the industry was further recognized in 2012, when he was appointed by Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell to represent the 9th Congressional District on the Board of Housing and Community Development. He was reappointed in 2016 by Governor Terence McAuliffe.
Steve and his wife Lynn live in Christiansburg with their three boys where he is also active with the Virginia Tech Landscape Architecture Advisory Board, Christiansburg Kiwanis Club, Boy Scouts of America and the New River Valley Lacrosse Club.
Builder Director
Tyler Price
Price-Williams Realty
BIO
Tyler Price is a part of 3 generations of Real Estate in the New River Valley. Tyler became a licensed Real Estate Salesperson in Virginia in 2016 and received his education at High Point University in North Carolina where he received his B.S. in Business Administration and minored in Sales in 2018. After graduation, he moved back to the New River Valley where he worked in property management as a Leasing Specialist in Residential and Commercial Real Estate. Tyler is now an Associate Commercial Broker with Price-Richards Commercial in Blacksburg and a Property Manager for Price-Williams Realty in Radford. On his days off you can find him playing golf or spending time at the lake with his family.