Member Highlight
Ben Boyce
Ben Boyce is Vice President of Laer Pearce & Associates, one of Southern California's premier public affairs firms serving the building and water industries. Ben has led several successful land development entitlement campaigns in both Northern and Southern California, and is currently managing campaigns for the largest proposed community in California's history (SunCal's Waterman Junction in Barstow) and one of the largest in the nation (SunCal's Atrisco property in Albuquerque). He has also successfully managed crisis communications for several public-agency and private-sector clients, and recently penned a cover article for California Builder magazine on the complex world of California's state bond measures. Ben sits on the board of the Orange County Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America and is a member of Orange County Building Industry Association and the Association of California Water Agencies.
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