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Elizabeth Pinkham

Executive Vice President & Head of Global Real Estate - Salesforce

Elizabeth Pinkham is responsible for Salesforce’s global real estate strategy, overseeing the company’s real estate portfolio and office design, as well as creating unique brand experiences for Salesforce’s stakeholders. Pinkham has created inspiring brand experiences for more than 20 years. A Salesforce veteran of 17 years, Pinkham was previously responsible for global strategic events. She oversaw a wide range of brand and event experiences, including management of the company’s annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco since its first program in 2003 to the current conference experience, which drew 171,000 registered attendees and 16 million plus online viewers in 2016. Before joining Salesforce, Pinkham held marketing positions at Oracle and Sybase. Pinkham holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sameer Pangrekar

Head of Global Design & Construction and Asia-Pacific Operations, Real Estate and Workplace - Twitter

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Ken Perry

CEO - The Swig Company

Ken Perry joined The Swig Company in 1998 and as Chief Investment Officer and Director of Asset Management had oversight over all of the Company’s investment and portfolio activities. Promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in 2014, Mr. Perry is responsible for all aspects of the company’s operations, asset management strategies, and investment activities. He is also primarily responsible for building and maintaining relationships with financial partners and reporting to the Company’s Board of Directors and ownership group. Mr. Perry has over 30 years of diversified experience in institutional commercial real estate with demonstrated success in value creation, successful investment realization, and strategic planning. Prior to joining The Swig Company, Mr. Perry was the Director of Asset Services for Northern California for Cushman & Wakefield. He has also held senior positions with Northern California regional developers Bedford Properties and Norland Properties. Mr. Perry is a member of Lambda Alpha, and a former Board member and past President of BOMA San Francisco.

Jen Nguyen

Head of Workplace - Pinterest

Emily Williams

Head of Global Real Estate - Twitch

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. 100+ million unique monthly viewers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming and more. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of both live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. With applications on Web, Mobile, Tablet, XBox and PS4, Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay.

Rick Newman

Chief Executive Officer and President, Real Estate - Lowe Enterprises

Chief Executive Officer and President, Real Estate, is responsible for all of the Company’s development activities, commercial property acquisitions and commercial property operations including over $1.5 billion of current development projects and 5.5 (check #) million square feet of commercial properties managed. He is a member of NAIOP, the Urban Land Institute, and Young Presidents’ Organization.. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles District Council of the Urban Land Institute, the Board of Governors of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College, the Executive Board of the Western Los Angeles County Council of Boy Scouts of America, and the Advisory Board of the Simms/Mann – UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. Education: Stanford University, BS; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS

Tido Pesenti

Director, Global Real Estate, Procurement & Travel - Airbnb

Ani Vartanian

Managing Partner - Rubicon Point Partners

Ani co-manages RPP and is specifically responsible for acquisitions and investor relations. Prior to Rubicon Point Partners, Ani served in the Obama administration responsible for the $200 billion TALF program and restarting the securitization market during the height of the recent financial crisis. Previously she was with Rockwood Capital, in the capacity of acquisitions, asset management, and establishing a $400 million separate account on behalf of a state pension fund. Her career began at Goldman, Sachs & Co.Ani is a graduate of StanforUniversity and Harvard Business School.

Mike Bangs

VP of Real Estate and Facilities - Oracle

As Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities for Oracle, Mike Bangs is responsible for the design, construction and operation of Oracle’s 6.5 million square feet real estate portfolio in the San Francisco bay area. Bangs has developed and operated corporate campuses around the world, including properties in Boston, Budapest, Dublin, Paris, London, Noida, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has more than 25 years of experience working for technology companies, including Adobe and Juniper Networks, where he served as director of global real estate. He is a board member of CoreNet Global Northern California, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and SPUR San Jose. He also served on the board of directors of the Guadalupe River Park. He was the founding board chairman of the Moffett Park Business and Transportation Association and is a past board president of the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce.

David Dowdney

Senior Vice President - Columbia Property Trust

David Dowdney joined Columbia Property Trust in 2014 as Senior Vice President – Western Region. In this role, he oversees all transaction and investment management activities for the Company in the Western United States. He also manages the Company's regional office, based in San Francisco. Mr. Dowdney came to Columbia from GE Capital Real Estate, where he spent nearly eight years managing activities for GE's West Coast portfolio, first as Acquisitions Director and then as Western Region Manager, Asset Management. In the latter role, he managed the team of 20 real estate professionals that oversaw all leasing, asset management, and capital markets activity for GE's 15 million square foot portfolio of office/R&D buildings in California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Prior to his time with GE, Mr. Dowdney spent 10 years leading other asset management and real estate transaction activities, primarily in the Western U.S. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Portfolio Management for Divco West Properties, and earlier, with Jones Lang LaSalle, he was Vice President of JLL's Leasing and Management Group in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and then became Vice President of Corporate Services. Mr. Dowdney is an active member of both the Urban Land Institute and the Commercial Real Estate Development Association (NAIOP). He also serves on the board of the Northern California Real Estate Council for the City of Hope, a leading research hospital in Los Angeles. He received a B.A. in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Real Estate at the University of California, Berkeley – Walter A. Haas School of Business.

Preston O'Connell

Managing Director of Capital Markets - The Jay Paul Company

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Alan Walker

Senior Vice President, Portfolio Director - Equity Office

Ronen Olshansky

CEO & Co-founder - Cross Campus

Rob Hollister

President - Sobrato Organization

As President of Real Estate at The Sobrato Organization, Mr. Hollister has day-to-day responsibility for the company’s commercial and residential real estate activities, including 15 million square of existing properties and a development pipeline valued at more than $1 billion. He oversees the real estate team in deal sourcing, development, marketing, construction, financing and asset management. Prior to joining TSO in 2013, Mr. Hollister served Hines for 17 years, most recently as Senior Managing Director and Country Head for China and Australia. At Hines he contributed to the development and marketing of more than 14M sf of commercial and residential real estate, representing more than $3B in value. Based in Shanghai since 2006, Mr. Hollister directed all activities for China and Australia. Previously based in Seattle, he oversaw all acquisition, development and disposition activities for the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Hollister earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1989 and his Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1996 and is a member of the Stanford Real Estate Council.

Scott Jacobs

CEO - Landbank

Michael Johnston

Senior Vice President - Menlo Equities

Mr. Johnston is responsible for acquisition and asset management efforts relating to Menlo Equities’ Northern California and Pacific Northwest portfolios. Mr. Johnston works closely with Menlo’s managing principals in all aspects of operating and expanding these portfolios, including investment selection, financings, leasing, and dispositions. Since joining Menlo Equities in 2007, Mr. Johnston has been involved in the acquisition of more than 3.3 million square feet of office, R&D, and industrial product totaling more than $800 million in value through more than 20 distinct transactions. He played an active role in the formation of Menlo’s three most recent proprietary investment funds, Menlo Realty Partners III LP, Menlo Realty Partners IV LP, and Menlo Realty Partners V LP, and he participated in the launch of Menlo’s mortgage-backed securities investment platform, Menlo Asset-Backed Partners LLC Mr. Johnston holds a BA in Sociology and Business Institutions from Northwestern University. He is a board member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) Silicon Valley Chapter, where he serves as its Developing Leaders Chair; an active volunteer in the UrbanPlan Program and a member of its oversight committee; and a member of the Young Leaders Group of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

Bruce Burkard

Founder - Four Corners Properties

Mr. Burkard has extensive experience in real estate investment, financing, asset management and development. Prior to founding Four Corners Properties in 2005, Mr. Burkard was an Acquisitions Director with Broadreach Capital Partners, where he was responsible for the acquisition of approximately 1 million square feet of office and R&D investments in Northern California and Denver with a total investment value of approximately $80 million. Formerly a Vice President of Leasing at Equity Office Properties Trust (“EOP”), Mr. Burkard was the senior leasing executive for the Silicon Valley region. He was responsible for a team managing and leasing approximately 11.3 million square feet of office, R&D, retail, and industrial space located throughout the greater San Jose area. Prior to EOP’s acquisition of Spieker Properties (“SPK”), Mr. Burkard served as a Project Director at Spieker Properties where he acquired, disposed of, leased and managed a portfolio of office, R&D and industrial properties in the Silicon Valley totaling 3.5 million square feet with a total value of $600 million.

Steve Dostart

President - Dostart Development

Steve is the President and Founder of the Dostart Development Company, LLC (DDC). Prior to founding DDC, he was a Partner at the Mozart Development Company. Steve is a leader in Transit-Oriented Design and in utilizing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for efficient and sustainable design. He has overseen the development of significant campus and single-building projects totaling over two million square feet in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale working collaboratively with notable international firms such as Hewlett Packard, Goldman Sachs & Co., TDK USA, KPMG, AOL Netscape, Morgan Stanley, Norwest Bank, Synopsys and Network Appliance. Earlier in his career, Steve worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in New York, for the Trammell Crow family at the Trammell Crow Company in Dallas and for the Centre City Development Corporation in San Diego.

Claudia Folzman

Co-Founder/COO - Iron Construction

Awarded a Woman​ of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Claudia’s balance of construction expertise, operations and leadership are key to Iron Construction’s success. With over 25 years in every aspect commercial construction, her leadership of Iron’s project management, estimating, accounting, and human resources ensure every project runs smoothly and exceeds the clients’ expectations. Claudia was named 2016 Businesswoman of the Year ​by the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and is the MVP Award recipient of CREW Silicon Valley.

Peter Sellick

Head of Real Estate - Breather

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Jay Shaffer

Partner & Co-Founder - Colton Commercial & Partners, Inc.

James Gronek

VP - ESD

A vice president in ESD’s San Francisco office, James Gronek works closely with project managers on scheduling, design and coordination of commercial, mixed-use and hospitality projects. He focuses on solutions that maximize efficiency, reliability, flexibility, longevity and marketability – resulting in competitive advantage and enterprise value for his clients.

Albert De Plazaola

Global Principal, Strategy - Unispace

A Boston College graduate with a master's degree from Georgetown and former positions at Gensler and DEGW, Albert joined Unispace in late 2015 based in our San Francisco studio. He specializes in design strategy, workplace strategy, and change management. "I look to how the business needs to work, and then determine how we can develop an architectural kit of parts that will encourage the kinds of work behaviors that will achieve organizational and business success," explains Albert. "I'm not a traditional designer, I'm an organizational designer – but I wanted to pursue this career path with the intent to bring design thinking to solve business problems." In this Unispace Design Profile Albert shares some of the trends he's seeing in workplace plus how his client's priorities have changed from a decade ago.

Richard Sarkis

CEO - Reonomy

Chris Robison

General Manager - Poppin

Chris Robison, Poppin’s General Manager of Direct Business, is responsible for developing and implementing the company’s B2B and B2C sales initiatives. Since his tenure began in 2014, Chris has overseen the company’s overall development, growing both profitability margins and the sales force, which is now over 50 employees. Chris has also led the brand's bio-coastal expansion focused on growth-based initiatives. Chris and his teams developed an outreach and engagement program for Architects and Designers, and are in the process of building a Broker Referral Program. Prior to joining Poppin, Chris was primarily engaged in the technology sector, establishing profitable sales avenues for companies including Microsoft, GM, and Dell. In 2010 Chris joined Demdex as the SVP of Product and Strategy. Demdex was acquired by Adobe Systems, where Chris went to work leading product, go-to-market strategy and services for Adobe’s Audience Soltuions.

Michelle Bodick

Managing Director, Sales, and Marketing (Americas) - The Instant Group

A highly experienced marketing and business development professional, Michelle joined The Instant Group to support the growth of our business in the US and develop and maximise new opportunities. Before joining The Instant Group, Michelle spent 8 years with Williams Lea, a global BPO provider, in marketing leadership roles. She most recently held the position of Head of Global Marketing for Williams Lea and Tag Worldwide, which was acquired by Williams Lea in 2012. Prior to Williams Lea, Michelle spent more than 10 years with Gartner Inc, a leading technology, research and consulting provider. Michelle spent 8 years in Global Account Management roles and 2 years leading the Gartner consulting SMB sales channel.

Will Coleman

CEO - Lucid

Will is Lucid’s CEO. Will has been involved in the building technology industry for over a decade as an investor and entrepreneur. He was a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and founded Onramp Capital. Will has worked with companies including Honest Buildings, Phylagen, Academic Partners, and GE. He has been a leader in clean technology innovation testifying multiple times before the U.S. Senate and Congress. At Lucid Will sees the opportunity to transform an age-old industry with technology. Will is on the advisory boards of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute, and the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society. Will holds an AB magna cum laude from Harvard University, an MBA from the Haas School of Business, and an MS in Energy & Resources from UC Berkeley.

Natalie Engels

Principal and Design Director - Gensler

Principal and Design Director at Gensler, Natalie is passionate about delivering spaces that people want to experience again and again. Her 19 years of experience in commercial interior design has been focused on workplace in the technology sector where she has leveraged her background in hospitality design to create immersive experiences. She works to guide the shift from traditional offices of the past into more well-rounded spaces for the future, enhancing the quality of the end-user's life. A thought leader in her field, Natalie's most recent speaking engagements include "Future of Work" at the Adobe Global Summit and "Designing for Tech" at San Jose State University. An active community member, Natalie serves on the board of SV Creates and is a member of the Knight Foundation's Community Advisory Committee in San Jose, as well as the past president of the International Interior Design Association's Northern California Chapter. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from Louisiana State University. She is certified with the National Council for Interior Design Qualification and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accredited.

Caroline Fenlon-Harding

Senior Vice President, Lead Electrical Engineer - WSP USA

Caroline Fenlon-Harding is a Senior Vice President with global engineering firm WSP, where she is responsible for design and project management for some of the most notable projects in the Bay Area, including Salesforce Tower, Salesforce Transit Center,181 Fremont, and Park Tower. She has 25 years of leadership in the design of building electrical systems, specializing in designing state-of- the-art solutions for projects that present uniquely complex technical challenges. Her projects have spanned a broad range of project types, including Commercial, Hospitality, Retail, Residential, Higher Education, and Data Centers. Caroline holds a degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Illuminating Engineering Society.

Jenna Ruth

Principal - FENNIE+MEHL Architects

Jenna Ruth is a at FENNIE+MEHL Architects, an award-winning architecture and interior design firm celebrating 20 years in San Francisco. Ruth is a strategic businesswoman as well as an imaginative designer whose collaborative instincts have given her an agility to work across industries. She leads selective business development efforts at F+M and has a key role developing the strategic planning and visioning, while also being one of the three creative directors. “Jenna has an exquisite ability to extract and translate through design what people within a company need to flourish in their workplace,” said Ned Fennie, the co-founder of the firm. “We know that nailing a firm’s culture affects recruitment and retention, and Jenna’s ability to translate culture and brand into the bespoke design allows our clients to achieve their business goals.” Ruth has been honored for her work with GitHub, The House (a start-up institute at UC-Berkeley) and ThoughtWorks. Forbes Magazine recently featured Jenna, describing her work as “offices you actually want to work in (and might even dream of living in).” Before coming to F+M, she focused on interior work in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of an international architecture firm, including a stint as a Revit 3D modeling specialist at a sustainable engineering firm. She is a LEED accredited professional with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Davis.

Jesse Gundersheim

Market Economist - CoStar

Jesse is a market economist with 12 years’ experience interpreting commercial real estate trends for investors and brokers. Jesse presents analysis of San Francisco Bay Area markets to CoStar clients and produces insightful written analysis of market fundamentals. Previously, Jesse led market research at the brokerage firms of Grubb & Ellis, Studley, and DTZ in San Francisco. He has also worked in acquisitions, providing due diligence and pro forma analysis for private apartment investors. Jesse attended the University of Arizona, earning a BSBA in finance.

Jeffrey Heller

President - Heller Manus

Mark Calvano

Principal - Calvano Development

Peter McIntyre

Vice President - AEI Consultants

Peter manages AEI’s northern California site investigation and remediation services group and is responsible for these services nationwide. Since joining AEI in 1998, Peter has worked in environmental due diligence, site characterization, and remediation services, and currently provides client management and technical oversight for a wide variety of projects along with his senior management role at AEI. Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology and Master of Business Administration, both from the University of California at Berkeley. Peter is a California Professional Geologist, along with being licensed in Nevada and Illinois and is a member of the Groundwater Resources Association and Urban Land Institute.

Amy Bradac

Founder + CEO - Bradac Co

Michael Muzzy

Partner - Lubin Olson

Michael P. Muzzy is a Partner in Lubin Olson's Real Estate, Business and Finance and Workouts Practice Groups. He specializes in real estate transactions, development, finance, loan restructures, loan workouts, construction and general business law. Mr. Muzzy’s practice encompasses transactional matters involving real estate and land development, construction, lending, loan workouts, acquisitions, dispositions, operations and business joint ventures. He represents buyers and sellers in single asset, portfolio and entity acquisitions and sales; borrowers and lenders in single asset and portfolio transactions; borrowers and lenders in restructurings and workouts of troubled real estate loans and developments; and developers, investors, private money lenders, hotels, private mortgage funds and institutional lenders on all sides of real estate transactions. He also represents numerous financial institutions, owners and developers in the loan origination, entity structuring and closing process. Mr. Muzzy is experienced in both portfolio and conduit lending for various property types. Prior to joining Lubin Olson, he practiced at a boutique firm in San Francisco where he represented high net worth individuals and closely held businesses in the areas of real estate and taxation. Mr. Muzzy served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Elizabeth Laporte of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Doug Byles

Project Executive - Hathaway Dinwiddie

Brian Veit

Principal - Seal Rock Investments

Tony Natsis

Partner - Allen Matkins

A name partner of the firm, Anton N. Natsis is Chair of Allen Matkins’ Real Estate Department and is one of the top real estate attorneys in the United States. His practice focuses on development, leasing, purchase and sale, and portfolio investment sales transactions involving office, retail, and industrial projects, as well as arbitrating numerous fair market value disputes, CAM disputes and other significant landlord/tenant disputes. He also has extensive experience in debt, equity, and joint venture workouts, and the purchase of distressed assets and distressed debt. Tony is continually sought out by some of the largest national land owners, such as J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Blackstone Real Estate, Brookfield Properties, HCP, Vornado Realty Trust, Regent Properties, The Irvine Company, Boston Properties, Equity Office Properties, Kilroy Realty, Inc., Beacon Capital Partners, MPG Office Trust, Kamehameha Schools (The Bishop Estate) and Westfield Corporation. He represents many governmental entities, including the LAUSD, State of California, and City of Anaheim. Tony is also frequently retained as counsel for major national office tenants, such as AT&T, Citicorp, the FDIC, AIG, The Walt Disney Company, and the Los Angeles Times. A frequent lecturer and author, Tony is the chief consultant for the California Continuing Education of the Bar Commercial Leasing Series, the legal education reference book on leasing for California attorneys, is an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles for a course covering commercial real estate transactions, and has spoken before such national real estate groups as ULI and BOMA. Tony is a founding board member of The Ziman Real Estate Center, which is governed under the joint auspices of the UCLA Anderson School of Business and the UCLA Law School. In the past decade, Tony has closed commercial office leases exceeding 50 million square feet. He has worked on real estate purchase contracts with a total consideration of more than $30 billion and on development transactions with a total consideration in excess of $25 billion. Since 2006, Tony has represented clients in office building portfolio investment sales transactions involving over $75 billion of consideration. One of Tony's most significant transactions is the largest real estate acquisition deal in the history of the United States. He provided extensive real estate services in connection with Blackstone Real Estate's purchase of Equity Office Properties Trust, at that point the largest owner of office space in the U.S. other than the Federal Government, for $43 billion. Subsequently, Blackstone contracted to sell over 50% of the properties it purchased with such sales closing in the first and second quarter of 2007. Tony assisted Blackstone in its acquisition due diligence related to EOP and the subsequent sales of the properties. The transactions related to this deal included Maguire Properties' purchase of Blackstone/EOP in Orange County for $2 billion, Irvine Company's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Diego for $1 billion, Morgan Stanley's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Francisco for $2.5 billion, and Beacon Capital Partners’ purchase of Blackstone/EOP Seattle for $6.3 billion.