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Mr. Sobrato is the third generation to be involved with the family-owned firm where he has worked since his teens. As CEO, he has primary responsibility for the strategic direction of the firm's portfolio of over 15 million square feet of commercial and residential income properties as well as the company's investments in global marketable securities. Mr. Sobrato graduated from Santa Clara University in 1983 with a BSC. He is very involved in the local community and recently completed his terms as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bellarmine College Preparatory. He has also served as past chair or past president of KTEH Public Television, Santa Clara University Board of Regents, Catholic Charities of San Jose, the San Jose Repertory Theater, Charities Housing Development Corporation and the Board of Fellows of Santa Clara University.

Since joining Lincoln Property Company in 2006, he has been directly involved in the acquisition, management, leasing, and disposition of over 3.2 million sq. ft. of office and industrial properties throughout Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, valued at more than $1.2 Billion. In addition, he has been directly involved in over 500,000 sq. ft. of lease transactions, and has personally overseen more than $30 Million of tenant improvement and building renovation projects. Prior to joining Lincoln, Patrick worked as an onsite project manager for a 2100 acre high-end residential development in Santa Barbara County. Patrick holds a B.S in Psychology with an emphasis in Business Administration from the University of Oregon. He is an active outdoorsman, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Guardsmen; a San Francisco charitable organization that sends at-risk youth to Summer camps.

Mark Tersini oversees the implementation of KT Urban's downtown development strategy and works closely with Silicon Valley cities and its community's members to successfully navigate the challenges faced by urban infill development. Mark won the Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce “2016 Businessman of the year” award, and is the former President of the Homebuilder’s Association of Northern California (South Bay Division). Mark joined KT Urban in 1989. Mark Tersini has been involved in real estate development and construction since he began his career in 1982. He was born and raised in San Jose and attended San Jose State University.

Bijal Patel is Of Counsel in Lubin Olson's Real Estate and Land Use Practice Groups. She specializes in transactional real estate and land use matters, with a focus on public/private partnerships, project development, land use entitlements, affordable housing, and eminent domain. Ms. Patel has extensive experience representing both private developers and public agencies on complex development projects, from acquisition through entitlements and financing. Ms. Patel also is an expert in transit-oriented development (TOD), from acquisition/disposition of TOD properties to financing and entitlement of TOD projects consisting of both market rate and affordable housing. In addition to transactional expertise associated with private deals, she has considerable experience negotiating and documenting long-term ground lease structures and procuring entitlements for projects involving public partners. In eminent domain, Ms. Patel is an expert with the acquisition of property through the eminent domain process, both California and federal, from the inception of the statutory process through condemnation proceedings, including relocation and goodwill issues related to such acquisitions. Before joining Lubin Olson, Ms. Patel served as Deputy Director, Property Development and Management for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, where she oversaw the Authority’s acquisition of hundreds of properties in Silicon Valley for its various transportation projects, including the federally funded BART Silicon Valley Project, as well as the formation and implentation of Authority's Joint Development Program. Ms. Patel also served as Deputy City Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco, Port of San Francisco Team, where she advanced the redevelopment of prime San Francisco waterfront properties as lead Port real estate counsel. As a former tax accountant with Deloitte & Touche, Ms. Patel started her legal career as a land use attorney in the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie LLP.

With an extensive background in real estate development, construction, and banking, John leverages his robust array of strategies to lead the business development of Teamwrkx Construction. Prior to joining Teamwrkx, John served as vice president of business development for Heritage Bank of Commerce in San Jose and has more than 25 years of experience in real estate development with prominent Bay Area firms such as Mobile Capital, Westwood Company, Simeon Properties and Cornish and Carey. In addition, as business development manager and partner with South Bay Construction, John helped grow the company’s annual sales from $35 million to $475 million over a seven-year span.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Pelletier has designed and executed hundreds of subsurface investigations, coordinated several emergency response jobs, and worked on fast-track brownfield redevelopment projects with challenging environmental problems. He assists clients with the development and implementation of numerous remediation programs involving soil excavation, soil vapor extraction, dual-phase extraction, air sparging, bioremediation, phytoremediation, chemical injections, and groundwater pump and treatment. With a focus on practical solutions, Mr. Pelletier works closely with developers, engineers, toxicologists, and regulatory agencies to lead his clients to favorable results.

Leonard has more than 20 years design build experience in mechanical contracting. Prior to joining UMI in early 2014, he served as Vice President in charge of the Northern California Project Group for an established west coast mechanical and plumbing contractor. Starting his career as a designer and project engineer gave Leonard the experience needed to support his successful years managing technical projects. His role as project manager grew to a regional management position responsible for training, recruiting, and executive oversight on a wide variety of projects. Leonard holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University - Minor in Technical Communications. He is a member of ASHRAE, DBIA, LCI, and Bay Area Council.