{"id":990,"slug":"chba-overview-1943-kevin-lee-leadership","title":"CHBA: founded 1943, ~8,500 member firms today, 10 provincial + ~80 local associations, CEO Kevin Lee since 2013","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["gc-vertical","regulatory-signals","hba-membership"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** The Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA) was founded in **1943**. Today it represents **\"some 8,500 member firms across the country\"** (CHBA's own May 8, 2026 release) — see the existing scale entry [[chba-1200-renomark-members-2023-and-8500-total-2025]] for the cross-referenced number and timestamp.\n\nCHBA serves **10 provincial and approximately 80 local associations**.\n\n**Sources:** chba.ca; wrhba.com/pages/chba.\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n## Leadership\n\n**CEO since 2013: Kevin Lee.** Professional engineer with a Master's in Architecture from McGill. Has appeared before the federal HUMA committee on labour shortages and is the principal CHBA voice on federal housing policy.\n\n**Sources:** theconstructionsource.ca; chba.ca; openparliament.ca testimony archives.\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n## CHBA Board structure\n\nGoverned through a **Board of Directors that meets three times a year**. Members are drawn from provincial and local HBAs, CHBA Councils, and the elected Executive (current and past Presidents, one First Vice President, two Second Vice Presidents, Treasurer, CEO, plus up to two Presidential Appointees).\n\n**Source:** chba.ca/committees-and-councils.\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\nFor the council-level governance (which is where program-level decisions like RenoMark trademark transfer happened), see [[chba-councils-crc-net-zero-modular]].","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"chba-1200-renomark-members-2023-and-8500-total-2025","title":"CHBA scale: 1,200+ RenoMark members (2023, possibly stale); ~8,500 CHBA member firms across Canada (October 2025)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-canadian-hba-stack","title":"Research brief: The Canadian HBA stack — CHBA / OHBA / BILD / WRHBA federated three-tier model, with marketing implications for Ontario builders and renovators (May 24, 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-24T16:32:33.741Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T16:32:33.741Z"}