Bay Area State Of Office

Alan is a Senior Vice President & Portfolio Director with EQ Office (formerly Equity Office), a U.S. office company wholly owned by Blackstone’s real estate funds. As the leader for the Northern California region, Alan oversees acquisitions, asset management (including major repositionings and strategic planning), and dispositions for the 4 million sf portfolio and since joining 18 months ago he has overseen nearly $2 billion of transactions. EQ’s national office portfolio encompasses over 45 million sf and he is a member of the Senior Leadership Team, working closely with EQ’s executive leadership team and Blackstone. Prior to EQ, Alan was a Vice President with Swift Real Estate Partners in San Francisco. Swift was founded in 2010 and as an early partner, Alan was a member of the Investment and Finance Committees. Including additional prior experience, Alan’s real estate track record includes ~$6.0 billion in real estate specific transactions and projects over the course of his nearly 20-year career in real estate and institutional investment management. A native of New England, Alan holds a degree in International Trade from Brown University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is a ULI Council Member, Fisher Center Policy Advisory Board Member, and a member of The Guardsmen. Alan lives with his family in the East Bay and enjoys masters swimming.

David Copeland is a Director at Swift and is responsible primarily for acquisitions and asset management in Swift’s Bay Area markets. Prior to joining Swift in 2014, David was an Acquisitions Officer and Asset Manager at ASB Capital Management. Additionally, David worked at Presidio Partners, a leading real estate investment bank and Lincoln Property Company. David holds a B.A. from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kyle Jeffers is a Managing Director and Head of Western Region Originations. He has 22 years of experience in the commercial real estate finance industry and capital markets. Prior to joining ACORE, from 2010 to 2015, Mr. Jeffers was a Managing Director at Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD), a public mortgage REIT, managing west coast loan originations and was responsible for over $5 Billion of first mortgage, mezzanine, and preferred equity investments. Before joining STWD, Mr. Jeffers was a Managing Director at Coastal Capital Partners, LLC, a firm focused on acquiring distressed debt and advising clients on restructurings. Prior to Coastal Capital, he was a Senior Vice President with Countrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., where he was one of the top large loan producers for the company with origination volume in excess of $4 billion. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Jeffers was a Vice President at Coastal Capital Partners, and from 1997 to 2000, he was an asset manager at Nomura Securities’ real estate division in New York. Prior to Nomura, Mr. Jeffers was the financial controller at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, CA. Mr. Jeffers began his career as an accountant, spending three years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP and KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP. Mr. Jeffers received a B.B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, with a major in Accounting and was a licensed CPA in the state of Texas for 8 years.

Jim Carbone joined The Swig Company in 2018 as President and Chief Executive Officer and as such 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. Carbone has spent the last 38 years in multiple facets of commercial real estate including brokerage, development and institutional advisory, including the last 22 years as a partner at RREEF and its successor company, Deutsche Asset Management. Throughout his career, Mr. Carbone has demonstrated success in value creation, successful investment realization and strategic planning. Mr. Carbone is a member of Lamda Alpha, ULI, NAIOP and ICSC.

Todd Sklar joined Shorenstein in 2006. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s development activities nationwide, including site evaluation, entitlement, design, construction and initial tenant improvements. Mr. Sklar is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the American Institute of Architects, is licensed to practice architecture in California and New York, and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. Prior to joining Shorenstein, Mr. Sklar was a principal of Mezzatesta Sklar, a San Francisco-based development service and planning firm, for twelve years. Prior to Mezzatesta Sklar, he practiced architecture at EHDD in San Francisco and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in New York. Mr. Sklar graduated from The University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts with a Bachelor of Architecture where he currently serves as a board member.

Kevin Herron is the Regional Director for Cumming’s Northern California and Pacific Northwest regions. He is a highly accomplished project and cost management professional with more than 30 years’ experience in project management, cost and change management, contracts administration, project controls, dispute avoidance / resolution and the identification and management of risk throughout the project cycle. Kevin has been successful in the practical integration of project control principles within the management of a wide range of projects valued to $25 billion.

Ryan Haworth is a Project Development Executive for Clark Construction’s San Francisco office, leading Clark’s most complex construction work in the region. In this role, Ryan leads front-end activities from pursuit stage through cost estimating and purchasing. He focuses on fostering key client relationships in the Bay Area, implementing Clark’s proven preconstruction platform, and coordinating efforts of the front-end teams. Ryan led construction efforts on the recently completed Salesforce Tower. Named by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as the “Best Tall Building Worldwide” for 2019 and by Engineering News-Record as a “Global Best Project, Office” for 2018, Salesforce Tower dominates the San Francisco skyline at 61 stories, 1,070 feet. Ryan led a team of more than 30 Clark employees and 40 trade partners through design completion, trade coordination, and a 24/7 construction schedule. Ryan oversaw the deepest foundation system in North America, along with a hybrid climbing concrete core and composite steel structure that was unique to a high-rise in an active seismic zone. While finishing work on Salesforce Tower, Ryan successfully transitioned to a similar role to lead Clark’s efforts at Park Tower. This 43-story office high-rise will be the future San Francisco headquarters for Facebook. Throughout his 14-year career with Clark, Ryan has a proven record of guaranteeing a project’s safety and quality outcome through planning and effective relationships. His varied experience exposed him to the challenges associated with design coordination, scheduling, and executing work with direct labor and material risk. This skill set has proved essential to delivering many of his landmark projects, which often included more than 30 trade partners and 500 craft workers on site each day. Ryan is considered as one of the most experienced high-rise builders in the region. Ryan has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree from Lehigh University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia Management & Leadership Certificate program. A Bay Area native, Ryan was recently named as a Top Young Professional by ENR California.

Travis Perkins is the Head of Customer Experience at Join Digital based in San Francisco, CA. He and his team focus on delivering new and innovative experiences to CRE owners/operators and their tenants. Travis has 12+ years in customer experience working for a wide range of technology companies in the cybersecurity, and real estate verticals including Cloudflare, iCiX and Till Mobile. Join Digital delivers on-demand IT services that help tenants become productive in their space from day 1. As the leader for customer experience, Travis is helping to curate new ways of delivering a frictionless experience for tenants and their employees.

Cameron Love is a senior vice president with Hughes Marino, an industry-leading commercial real estate firm that exclusively represents tenants and buyers, never landlords. As a leader in the firm’s San Francisco office, Cameron advises companies in various industries with all aspects of their commercial real estate activities in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and beyond. His extensive knowledge of the market, combined with his experience and problem-solving skills, make him a trusted advisor when representing tenants in strategic planning, dispositions, lease renewals and renegotiations, site selection analysis, financial modeling and portfolio management. Before joining Hughes Marino, Cameron was a director at Cushman & Wakefield where he represented occupiers exclusively. He has held leadership positions as chair of the Bay Area C&W Future Leaders organization and was a member of the Emerging Technology Advisory practice group. Cameron is also an active member of CoreNet, the global corporate real estate association, holding a chair position in the Bay Area chapter of the CoreNet Young Leaders network and is a candidate for his masters in corporate real estate (MCR) designation. Cameron graduated with honors from the University of San Francisco, receiving a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a focus in real estate, while also pitching for the USF Dons baseball team. Cameron resides in San Francisco with his wife, Caroline, and in his free time can be found on an intramural soccer field, a tennis court or running near his home in the Richmond District.

As IWG’s Executive Vice President for the Western United States, Jim is responsible for building the North American portfolio of its operating brands, including Regus and Spaces. He oversees sales, operations, revenue and profitability of more than 300 locations. Jim is a respected veteran of the flexible workspace industry and has more than 19 years of industry experience. He has seen the flexible workspace sector evolve and grow to what it is today with many companies wanting to transform their workspace strategies. He was born in the Netherlands and has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years. Jim earned his MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business and his BA from California Lutheran University.

Adam Voelker serves as Business Unit Leader and Principal for Trammell Crow Company’s Northern California Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for day-to-day operations of the office and strategic oversight of all new development and investment activity in the Bay Area. Prior to joining Trammell Crow Company, Adam worked as a Managing Director for Tishman Speyer for nine years in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. He was responsible for acquisitions and new development opportunities in Northern California across office, life science and residential product types. In this role he was integrally involved in all capital markets activities, partner relationships and managed the development of Mission Rock, a 2.7-million-square-foot mixed-use project in San Francisco on the waterfront. Before joining Tishman Speyer, Voelker worked in Acquisitions and Project Management at The Abbey Company in Southern California after graduating from Penn State University. Voelker is actively involved in ULI through the national IOPC Council, with City of Hope on the Bay Area Building Hope board, and through several local community organizations.

Evan serves as Managing Director for Longfellow’s San Francisco Bay Area office. He is responsible for strategic growth and operations including oversight of acquisitions, development, property management, design and construction, asset management and leasing across properties in Northern California. Prior to Longfellow, Evan managed the San Francisco office of The John Buck Company with responsibilities for West Coast investment and development in office and residential totalling over $1.8 billion. He also led office acquisition and development activities for the Irvine Company’s Northern California region. Evan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley

Ms. Nemeth rejoined Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. to continue to manage the company's large entitlement efforts and growing community relations needs, after two years at UC Berkeley where she led the effort to create a 5.4 million square feet new campus hosting international academic and business partners focused on academic and research endeavors. Prior to joining, Terezia was Vice President of Development at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and at Catellus Development Corporation where she spent nearly 15 years leading the design, entitlement, construction and operation of over 5 million square feet of private commercial office and biotechnology laboratory space development at Mission Bay in San Francisco. She participated in design and implementation of key infrastructure including roads, utility systems and open space.

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 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.

Linda Shaw joined Slack Technologies the same year the company was launched. As Director of Global Real Estate Development, she plays a vital key role to the successful growth of the Companies’ Real Estate Portfolio. Prior to Slack, Linda has 15 years of facilities management experience within various Tech start-ups based in Vancouver. Her exceptional leadership, interpersonal skills, strategic planning and collaboration with external and internal key stakeholders is what drives her projects from the ground up to be so successful. In the last four years Linda has led multi-million award winning Slack offices in Vancouver, San Francisco, Melbourne, New York, Toronto, London, Dublin, Chicago, Denver and Tokyo; with more offices in the pipeline.

Dan Kretchmer is the Director of Projects at Studio O+A in San Francisco California. He has led design teams on notable projects such as Uber, Cisco, Slack, McDonalds, Paypal, Venmo, Sony Playstation, Eventbrite, and GE. Prior to his time at Studio O+A, Dan worked on a variety of project types throughout the country including multi-family residential, civic, commercial, education, urban, government and athletic facilities. He has a strong interest in BIM technology and the integration of natural environments. Dan has received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Master of Architecture and Master of Construction Management from Washington University in Saint Louis.

Roy is the Bay Area Business Leader for Pivot Interiors, a Certified Herman Miller dealer. His focus is on driving performance and providing access to the extensive workplace knowledge, products, and resources that Pivot offers. He is responsible for the management of divisional sales, business development operations, and strategy for Northern California. At Pivot we believe environments should inspire, support, and empower people. We are known for creating exceptional solutions for companies of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 500s. Our designs reflect your brand and inspire employees to create and collaborate in the workplace. Companies throughout California turn to us when they want to reimagine their workspace. With 45 years in business, Pivot is the world's largest Herman Miller dealer, and also represents Framery, Maars Living Walls, and hundreds more manufacturers. We have six locations across California, and in-house delivery, installation, maintenance and repair services, and warehousing.

Jessica leads Skyline Construction’s Silicon Valley office and is responsible for the oversight and management of all construction projects and personnel. She serves on the firm’s executive team and plays a vital role in creating the highest quality client experience modeled here in the Bay Area, and replicated across Skyline's family of companies. As a 20 year veteran of the industry, Jessica is an expert in guiding clients through complex tenant improvement projects and an advocate for helping employees learn the intricacies of the business. Some of Jessica’s key clients include Workday and Oracle. She spearheaded the development of the Building America Challenge (BAC), an initiative that encourages sourcing American-made materials for construction projects. Jessica was recently named one of the 40-under-40 rising stars of the Bay Area.

Manuel Fishman focuses his practice on representing real estate developers and owners in the acquisition, sale, and financing of commercial properties. In addition, he has an active leasing practice representing owners of several major office buildings in San Francisco, including the Transamerica Pyramid, as well as tenants in lease and sublease transactions. His expertise includes letters of intent, tenant improvement work agreements, security deposits/letters of credit, signage rights, expansion and contraction rights, permitted transfers, operating expense audits, and lender and master landlord recognition agreements. Mr. Fishman maintains close relationships with the real estate brokerage community and utilizes these relationships to provide clients with market based information important to their existing and prospective real estate requirements. Mr. Fishman also has extensive experience in the area of ground leasing and retail leasing and is recognized as a leading attorney in the area of landline and wireless communications and Internet-based services in commercial properties and rooftop installations. In addition, Mr. Fishman acts as outside general counsel to start-ups that seek to leverage some part of commercial real estate into a tech application, and helps guide these companies in their efficient use of legal time and expertise in various subject matters, from employment and IP to enterprise contracts and web site privacy policies. Mr. Fishman also represents clients in equity structuring for, and the acquisition of, value add properties, including the formation of single purpose entities and joint ventures, and acquisition financing. Mr. Fishman has negotiated numerous construction management, project development and property management agreements relative to ground up development projects, as well as all types of easements and other adjoining owner agreements. Mr. Fishman serves as chair of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of San Francisco’s Government Affairs and Policy Advisory Committee (GAPAC). He served on BOMA San Francisco’s Board of Directors from 2003–2006, and was the recipient of the 2006 Associate Member of the Year from BOMA San Francisco. He is the past representative of BOMA San Francisco to the California BOMA Board. Mr. Fishman is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Real Property Sections of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California. Most recently, Mr. Fishman has been recognized as a 2017 Best Lawyer in America in Real Estate Law, an honor he has received since 2007, and was recognized as a 2014 Top Rated Lawyer by American Lawyer Media in conjunction with Martindale Hubbell. He has also been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer from 2012-2016 and as one of Bay Area Magazine’s Top Lawyers in the Bay Area. Mr. Fishman is a frequent lecturer on office and shopping center leasing matters and writes frequently for industry newsletters.