The board is small and growing deliberately. Each member has agreed to sit with our members and take questions.
Rhys founded the association to give residents and business owners one place to come together around the decisions that shape the Grove. He has spent 25 years in luxury hospitality and has led the repositioning of multiple properties in the Grove, including one that earned Two Michelin Keys.
He has built civic and business organizations in Miami before. He convenes the events, recruits the guests, and answers for how this is run.
As president of the Coconut Grove Neighborhood Association, Rhys has kept the idea simple: get the people who live and work in the Grove in the same room, keep each other in the loop, and spend money with each other on purpose. Under his leadership CGNA hosts gatherings at Grove venues with a guest worth showing up for, from a commander to a commissioner to an operator. Mixers are free for members, and other events are discounted.
He also built Grove 33, the member perks program that gives members at least 10% off at participating Grove businesses, with business members enrolled as merchants themselves so the card runs in both directions, along with a business directory that helps neighbors find and support one another. Local decision makers and community leaders come to CGNA events, so members get to meet them, ask questions and hear what's happening first-hand.
David calls Coconut Grove home. As CEO of Terra, the Miami development firm he founded in 2001, he has built a portfolio of more than 23 million square feet across South Florida. He sits on Miami-Dade County's Biscayne Bay Task Force and Sea Level Rise Committee, and chairs the Neighborhoods Committee for The Underline.
Terra is active across every major asset class — multifamily, luxury condominium and single-family homes, retail and office, hotels and industrial — and David oversees development, design, construction, financing, marketing, sales and leasing.
Since founding the firm he has worked with architects and designers including Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Renzo Piano, Bjarke Ingels, Rene Gonzalez and Chad Oppenheim.
A Florida native, he has pushed the firm toward resiliency and long-term thinking: green space, renewable energy and transit connectivity built into its projects. He also serves on the Urban Land Institute and the advisory board of the University of Miami's MRED+U program, and Terra supports Nicklaus Children's Hospital Foundation, the Freedom Tower, Vizcaya, The Bass and Teach for America.
He holds an MBA, a JD and his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, where he sits on the board of the School of Business. He lives in Coconut Grove with his wife and two children.
Rosa runs The Ritz-Carlton, Coconut Grove, Miami. She began in hospitality in 1993 and has spent more than two decades with the Ritz-Carlton brand, most of it in Miami. Few people know more about what it takes to run a business on these streets.
She joined The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne as Executive Steward and moved up through the Food and Beverage division, including Director of Pool and Beach Operations and Director of Banquets.
Her longest tenure came across nearly 11 years as Director of Food and Beverage there, leading the division, overseeing multiple restaurant concepts and building a culture of service excellence. In 2021 she was promoted to Director of Operations, taking on every department in the hotel.
In April 2026, at Marriott International's Global Residential Leadership Conference, she received The Ritz-Carlton Residences Award of Excellence for Mixed Use Hotel General Manager of the Year, USA East.
Her career has taken her across the brand's opening teams in New Orleans, Dorado Beach, Dove Mountain, Aruba and Portland, and she brought that expertise to the Edition brand for the openings of Edition Barcelona and Edition Miami Beach.
Few people have spent more years telling the story of Coconut Grove than Marshall Steingold. He served as the first Marketing Committee Chair for the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District, helping shape how the Grove presented itself to residents, visitors and the merchants who make it run.
He went on to serve for many years on the board of the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce, and currently sits on the board of directors of the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, where he is co-chair elect.
Marshall is the founder and publisher of Miami Maps, which has been producing and distributing custom designed City Guides for South Florida's most distinctive neighborhoods for more than 20 years. The Coconut Grove edition of Your Free City Guide is a fixture at hotel front desks, shops and restaurants throughout the village, widely used by concierges directing guests to local merchants and points of interest, with a particular focus on showcasing the small businesses that give the Grove its character.
He holds a Master of Arts in Communication from the University of Miami.
In partnership with the Board of Trustees, Rachel carries out the school's mission to train leaders who give more back to the community than they take from it. She works with a leadership team across every part of Ransom Everglades to see that each student, family and community member has an unparalleled academic, athletic and artistic experience.
After 15 years in Miami-Dade County Public Schools as a teacher, English Department Chair, Exceptional Education Department Co-Chair and Educational Specialist, she joined Ransom Everglades in 2005.
She served as Assistant Director of the Middle School for two years and Head of the Middle School for 14. She worked as an education consultant during the 2021-22 school year, returned as Interim Head of School for 2022-23, and assumed the Head of School position in July 2023.
She earned a Bachelor of Science from Florida International University and a Master of Science from Nova Southeastern University, and in 2018 completed a Certificate in Advanced Education Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Professional Education.
She and her husband Jose have two sons, Christopher '10 and Alec '14, and a very large dog named Jack. Outside of Ransom Everglades she enjoys yoga, Pilates, hiking and traveling.
Allan Stewart, MD, FACS, FACC, is a board-certified cardiovascular surgeon, author and educator. Over more than 20 years he has performed over 9,000 cardiac and structural heart procedures, and he is known for taking on complex, high-risk cases. He is the author of Heart of Longevity: A Surgeon's Prescription for Strength and Vitality (2025).
He founded the Aortic Surgery Program at Columbia University Medical Center (2005–2013), where he trained more than 25 fellows who now hold leadership positions worldwide, and later built an international reference center at Mount Sinai Health System (2013–2018).
From 2019 to 2025 he served as Medical Director of Cardiovascular Surgery for HCA East Florida.
Today he continues complex aortic and structural heart surgery across South Florida hospitals through his independent practice, MIAORTA, LLC. He is also the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of U Gen Wellness, a Senior Partner at Innovation Platform Capital, and serves on the advisory board of GenZen Pharmaceutical.
A devoted husband and father of three, he gives back through global teaching and mentorship and through service in the Naval Reserve Medical Corps, honoring his family's naval heritage.
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