Washington, D.C., November 20, 2014 – Mark Weiss, currently Senior Vice President of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), has been named by the MHARR Board of Directors to succeed the retiring Danny D. Ghorbani as President and CEO of the Association effective January 1, 2015. Ghorbani, at the request of the MHARR Board and the new President, will continue to serve the Association as its Senior Advisor on national policy issues.
Making this announcement in Washington D.C., MHARR Chairman John Bostick stated that: “MHARR will not miss a single beat in making a seamless transition from Danny Ghorbani, our President and CEO of nearly thirty years to a trusted and capable colleague in Mark Weiss who has been an important part of the MHARR team in the nation’s capital for over two decades.”
An honors graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in Political Science, Weiss received his Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1983 and began working on manufactured housing regulatory issues almost immediately as an attorney for the firm of Casey, Scott & Canfield, P.C., then General Counsel for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), and later General Counsel for MHARR when MHARR was founded in 1985. Weiss later became General Counsel for MHARR in his own right and has been MHARR’s Senior Vice President since 2006.
During his career with MHARR, Weiss has been involved in formulating and supporting MHARR policy with respect to nearly every aspect of the federal regulation of the manufactured housing industry. He played a direct role in the development and passage of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 and has worked to advance the views and interests of the industry’s smaller businesses before Congress, the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) and other government boards and committees. Weiss served as a member of the U.S. Access Board’s Advisory Committee on Transportable Emergency Housing from 2007 to 2008, and most recently served as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy Working Group on manufactured housing energy conservation standards, voting against proposed standards – and leading the industry effort to roll-back those proposals — that would significantly and needlessly increase the cost of manufactured homes to consumers.
In Washington, D.C., Weiss said: ”It is a privilege and honor for me to continue serving the industry and MHARR and to succeed my friend and mentor, Danny Ghorbani, as President and CEO of MHARR. Needless to say Danny is a legend in the industry, who leaves big shoes to fill and I expect to work hard every day to justify the trust and confidence that the members of our association have placed in me.”
