The Future of Real Estate

Specializing in Real Estate Strategy for stok, Warren helps clients realize sustainability goals throughout their entire real estate portfolio, allowing for maximum impact through the sustainable built environment. Having worked with major corporations and NGOs to develop, retool, and implement sustainability programs across the globe, Warren has industry insight that spans corporate, retail, hospitality, and governmental sustainability and strategic real estate programs. He applies his international experience in high performance buildings and project management to enable stok’s clients to realize their most ambitious sustainability goals. As trusted advisor to the world’s most iconic and innovative companies, he is working on the design of some of the most ambitious buildings globally.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Calvano Development, Inc. is a privately held development company specializing in urban infill projects in the Bay Area. Our Bay Area focus allows us better to understand market trends allowing us to be responsive to opportunistic projects that contribute to the communities we serve. As a privately held firm, together with creative problem solving, we can take on complex projects that others cannot. A native of Silicon Valley, Mark Calvano started his real estate career at Marcus and Millichap in 1986. Over the last 35 years, Calvano has been involved in the sale, leasing, and development of projects totaling over 1.8 million square feet of office, retail, and R&D projects valued at over one billion dollars. Mark Calvano graduated from S.F.S.U. with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Calvano serves as a member of the Silicon Valley branch of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) and is a member of Bay Area Council.

Kyle is a Senior Manager in the commercial division of Ten-X, the nation’s leading online real estate marketplace with over $37 billion sold. He began his career as a broker with Cornish & Carey Commercial in San Francisco, which later became Newmark Cornish & Carey. After brokerage, Kyle founded Tech & Timber, a strategy consulting firm for early stage marketplace and real estate tech businesses. In addition to Ten-X, Kyle is a board member for Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE) with over 2,000 members worldwide.

Jeff Brink has over 20 years of structural design experience with significant developments up and down the west coast, ranging from Performance Based Design high-rises to mixed-use projects at Candlestick Point, the SF Shipyard, and Yerba Buena Island. Current projects include the City of San Francisco’s new office tower at 1500 Mission Street and the Virgin Hotel adjacent to the Moscone Center. Jeff’s technical expertise at integrating innovative structural systems, combined with his broad understanding of the construction industry, allows architecturally decisive projects to be achieved while still maintaining the project budget.

As Studio Lead for the San Francisco office of ESD, James is responsible for leading ESD’s engineering team as well as coordinating the operations and business development for the office. He has collaborated with and offers his knowledge and expertise for some of the most recognized companies in the world as well as providing leadership for high-profile and complex mixed-use, cultural, and workplace projects. He helps clients realize their vision. Technology, energy and water efficiency are critical components of construction projects and each project’s unique requirements require innovative design solutions. He enjoys working collaboratively with design and construction teams to meet these challenges and exceed expectations, delivering not only a successful project but one of which the client can be proud.

David Madrid manages the Western US for Beyond, a unit of Allsteel Inc. Since joining, he has been responsible in the execution and delivery of over 3m sqft. of commercial real estate. In addition, David has 10 years of experience in design, investment, finance, and construction delivering in excess of $300m of office, multi-family and single-family assets. David holds a Masters in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design with a concentration in Real Estate Design and Development from the Wharton School.

An established thought leader and writer in the green building community, Lindsay was previously at Google, working as a sustainable operations consultant. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Building Science at U.C. Berkeley, and was on the original staff team developing the LEED Rating System at USGBC.