May 26-27, 2004, The Eden Roc Spa & amp; Resort, Miami Beach, Florida

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - March 22, 2004 - Today Contact Development Company, LLC (CDC), headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Mexico City, announced that its Chairman & CEO, David Ellsworth, will be one of the featured speakers at the Urban Land Institutes (ULI) Latin America Real Estate Investment and Development Conference, on May 26-27, 2004. Mr. Ellsworth will be a featured speaker and will moderate a panel of other distinguished speakers entitled "Hotel & Resort Development in Latin America", which is scheduled for Thursday, May 27, 2004 from 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

Ellsworth Shares his Experience
Mr. Ellsworth is an expert in the United States and abroad in the structuring, development and regulatory aspects of major U.S. and International resort real estate development and in the structuring, documentation and closing of all aspects of business transactions involving the development, financing and marketing of all types of resort real estate projects and all of its components including hotels, fractional interest and whole ownership residential, golf courses and club, marinas, spas and fitness facilities, etc. Over the years he has been involved in hundreds of projects in the U.S. and internationally, including Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, for both public and private sector clients.

Mr. Ellsworth leads his executive group at CDC in the three principal areas of specialization: (1) development of new resort projects with a mixed-use resort/residential component including both whole and fractional interest ownership with a special emphasis on the luxury, high-end sector, (2) facilitating the investment of equity and debt financing capital for the development or acquisition of resorts and master-planned communities, and, (3) within the marketing and sales division of CDC, Mr. Ellsworth is responsible for conceptualizing and strategizing the development of complex domestic and international "cross-border" marketing and sales programs including the implementation of their operations that specialize in the on-site as well as off-site sale of the retail real estate products within private residential/resort golf club communities such as within the Punta Mita Resort near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with CDCs owned and affiliated marketing and sales company, Punta Mita Properties.

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For more information about David Ellsworth and CDC, press only:
Kevin Roberts, Vice President & Counsel
415-921-6318
kroberts@cdcglobal.com

For more information about the ULI Latin America Real Estate Investment and Development Conference:
http://planet.uli.org/events/581904/581904_fst.htm

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