People & Partners

Mark Goodstadt

Managing Director

Mark is fascinated with new technology and the impact it can have as a transformative force for the way we deliver housing. His role at RHS is to identify and facilitate the technologies, strategic partnerships, and organizational structures that allow us to fulfill our mission. This includes high level executive oversight and the critical evaluation of our ongoing effort.

Early in his career, Mark joined American Direct Mail, a privately held company founded in 1906, as a sales executive. After six years of accelerated revenue and customer growth, he acquired a major stake in the company and formed the parent organization Global Document Solutions (GDS). As the Chairman and CEO of GDS, he led the firm beyond its roots in traditional offset printing and direct mail to become a leading provider of highly differentiated, technology-driven customer communications. His visionary leadership took GDS nationwide as a pioneer in transaction processing services for the financial industry and government agencies and sold the company as it approached its 100th anniversary.

Mark’s transformative passion has led him into the modular construction industry as yet another technology that will change the landscape as we know it today, building hotels and multi-family housing, in addition to his greatest passion in resilient solutions post disaster in the greatest time of need.

Overall, Mark has founded, led, built and sold companies through his driven passion for success and he continues to mentor, coach and inspire many people along his journey.

Barry Goldsmith

Project Management

Barry organizes and manages project delivery for RHS. He has extensive experience in project management, the monitor of large scale construction projects and delivery assurance for lending institutions. He has managed projects with construction costs ranging from 2 to $50 million dollars.

Barry’s responsibilities include managing pre-construction, construction supervision, cost control, progress reporting construction and closeout. He reviews all payment requisitions and ensures timely, high quality project delivery. His experience includes project management for large scale development projects in association with Sterling Project Development.

Deborah Gans

FAIAArchitecture, Urban Design and Community Planning

Deborah has spearheaded the revitalization of socially responsible architecture for a new generation. Educated at Princeton Gans has spent her career seeking new forms for architecture’s social participation and engagement. From her masters’ thesis for a workers’ club in a shrinking post-industrial town to her current involvement in coastal resiliency, she has had tremendous impact on the contemporary community-based design movement. Much of Gans’ design work focuses on the challenges of housing, especially in relation to the underserved, where she has used her design speculation as a platform for policy change and the revitalization of communities.

Her public presentations range from local community visioning sessions to speeches on the international stage including Rome, Ulm, and Oxford. To impress her design concerns on the largest possible audience, she writes for both scholarly and popular publications and serves as Board Member for PLACES/Design Observer and the Institute for Public Architecture, Contributing Editor for BOMB magazine and Advisory Board Member for the Italian journal Boundaries.

Deborah Gans is the founder and principal architect of Gans studio. Her firm's projects include architecture, industrial design, and community-based urban planning, where she frequently tackles extreme sites and programs. Through writing, design research and inventive public advocacy,

Deborah has taught for over 25 years, and is the Director of Research, Professor and former Chair of the Undergraduate School of Architecture at Pratt Institute. Recipient of the 2014 AIANYS Educator Award, Deborah has forged new alliances between planning and architecture generating student work that has life beyond the studio.

James Garrison

Architecture, Modular Design and Technology

For the past three and a half decades Jim and his firm, Garrison Architects, have relentlessly searched for new techniques to improve the value, design and quality of housing and public buildings. Through industry collaboration, a strong technical program, and academic research Jim and his collaborators have realized continuous improvement and innovation in modular housing. They have dramatically improved design quality, speeded production, and reduced the time needed to assemble in the field. Their experience in the design of modular buildings includes:

• Post Hurricane Sandy Beach Infrastructure (40 units)

• US CBP Modular Housing System (3000 units)

• Pod Micro Hotel (250 rooms)

• Tanzania Workforce Housing (2000 units)

• Caribbean Resilient Post-Disaster Housing (3000+ units)

• NYC Interim Post-Disaster Housing Prototype

• Lehman College Child Care Center

• St. Joseph College Dormitories and Student Center (300 beds)