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.

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

Currently, John is responsible for the management of Yahoo's Global Real Estate Portfolio, Facilities Management Practice, Procurement and Sourcing, Safety and Security, and Travel.

At Lehigh Hanson John was responsible for the management of the corporation's real estate activities in the Western United States.

Earlier in his career John was an executive with DMB Associates. While with DMB he was responsible for leading the development efforts of DMB Redwood City Saltworks. John was also responsible for the business development operations for Northern California.

Emily Williams is the Head of Global Real Estate at Twitch where she oversees the company’s global portfolio strategy and supports its design development, change management programs and strategic workplace operations. During her tenure at Twitch, she has worked cross-functionally to scale business operations from a single headquarters location to approximately 400,000 square feet in more than 20 locations worldwide. Focus areas in recent projects include data-driven design programming, strategic partnership alignment, and brand integration. Prior to Twitch, Emily worked as a Paralegal at Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp where she managed relationships with major corporate litigation executives and served as one of the firm’s key trial strategists. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Kenyon College.

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.

Prior to joining Spieker in 1998, Mr. Burkard held numerous positions with Bank of America N.T. & S.A. During nearly six years at Bank of America, he worked in its Real Estate REO Group, Real Estate Project Finance Group, National Accounts Group and Special Assets Group. These positions involved asset management, analysis and disposition, loan sourcing and evaluations of project finance opportunities with Northern California-based real estate developers, underwriting for residential, multi-family, retail, office and industrial properties, loan restructuring, workouts, and credit analysis.

Mr. Burkard currently serves as a ULI council member and is a past president of NAOIP Silicon Valley. A graduate of Silicon Valley Leadership Group, he is also actively involved with a number of volunteer organizations in the Silicon Valley.

Mr Burkard graduated Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a second major in European History.

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.

In 2018, Preston O’Connell joined Harvest Properties to lead the development team with a focus in office, mixed-use and multifamily projects. Preston specializes in the entitlement, curation and execution of large-scale, amenity rich mixed-use developments. Prior to Harvest, Preston was the Managing Director of Acquisitions and Head of Capital Markets at the Jay Paul Company in San Francisco. He co-managed the 5 million square foot acquisition and development pipeline and was also responsible for capitalizing the 8 million square foot portfolio of office, residential and retail properties. During his tenure at Jay Paul Company, Preston sourced and closed in-excess of $7 billion in debt and equity transactions and assisted with the negotiation of 7.3 million square feet of leasing with some of the world’s leading technology firms including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.

Prior to joining Jay Paul, Preston worked for HFF’s structured finance platform in the San Francisco office raising debt/equity for office, multifamily, mixed‐use, retail and land transactions.

Preston received his BS from Cornell University in Applied Economics & Management. He is member of the Urban Land Institute and a Junior Board Member of City of Hope. In his free time, Preston enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife and young son. He is an avid skier, hunter, mountain biker plus an active member of his family’s wine operation in Napa Valley.

For more than 30 years at ESD, Kurt Karnatz has provided leadership in guiding the company in becoming a world-recognized consulting practice. As a strategic leader, consultant and engineer, he has developed long-term relationships with corporate real estate clients in finance, high-tech, medical, energy and beyond, while establishing ESD’s expertise in building sciences, intelligent buildings and smart cities. As President, he works to foster global thinkers who are admired for their innovative approach in creating sustainable solutions. ESD’s teams of professionals focus on solutions that maximize efficiency, reliability, flexibility, longevity and marketability – resulting in competitive advantage and enterprise value for its clients.

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.

Shervin Gerami is not your typical CEO. Sure, he trained at Harvard and Wharton. Yes, he oversees day-to-day operations at TeleWorld Solutions and leads the company’s product and service development strategy departments. And, of course, he’s a proven entrepreneur, having previously founded and grown three companies in the IT, Internet, and Enterprise Mobility sectors, and been named an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist by Ernst & Young.

But Shervin is also a disruptor. When he sees the old way of doing things no longer works, he’s quick to find a solution that fits the new world. In creating SmallCellSite.com, he has turned traditional telecom site acquisition on its head. He’s unafraid to shake things up when status-quo no longer works. And he’s just getting started.

Aside from all of that, Shervin can also bring the beat. He integrates elements into his EDM tracks in the same way he plans and navigates business, ensuring that the baseline is the best it can be, and layering in the sounds one-by-one to create a sick composition. In the boardroom, his baseline comprises stellar people. He layers in an open-minded approach to problem-solving, a keen understanding of operator challenges, and deep technical and business expertise. Ultimately, he composes customer solutions unlike anything else offered by other wireless integrators.

In addition to harboring an uncommon and at times unsettling ability to create an analogy out of just about anything, he also collects superheroes. Does he see himself as Superman, Batman, or the Incredible Hulk? You’ll have to ask him yourself.

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).

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.

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.

An avid entrepreneur, Rich has launched and run numerous businesses including an international arbitrage textbook company, a college marketing network, and an offshore technology outfit. Most recently, Rich was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company specializing in Financial Services.

Landbank is a third generation, family-owned commercial real estate development company. We've acquired, developed, leased, managed, and provided over four million square feet of Office/R&D space to leading technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We're looking to build extraordinary places that create opportunities for extraordinary experiences.

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.

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 is the CEO of Lucid and founder of Onramp Capital. Lucid is the developer of

BuildingOS, a cloud based data and analytics platform for commercial building operations that

empowers modern approaches to building efficiency and sustainability.

Will is also an advisor and investor in a range of innovative companies including Honest

Buildings, Phylagen, and Spire. Will was previously a Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures where

he focused on early stage investments across sectors such as energy, buildings, materials,

cleantech, and IT. He has also worked with GE, X/seed Capital, the Global Environment Fund,

and previously worked on energy policy issues.

Will has been a leader in clean technology innovation for almost 15 years as an investor,

entrepreneur and thought leader. He is on the advisory board of the National Renewable Energy

Laboratory (NREL), the investment advisory board of the California Energy Commission’s

Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (an $840m fund to stimulate

deployment of low carbon transportation technologies), and has testified multiple times before

the US Senate and Congress on how to unlock innovation in the sector. Will is also on the board

of the Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute and the Governing Council of the Wilderness

Society. He has been actively engaged with the national labs, ARPA-e, MIT, Berkeley, Rice, and

on the boards of The Center for Clean Energy Innovation, and the University of Colorado’s early

ventures fund.

Will received his AB magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned a MBA and MS in

Energy & Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley Will

founded the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) and the Center for Energy &

Environmental Innovation (CEEI).

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.

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.

Ronen Olshansky is a co-founder and CEO of Cross Campus, a Los Angeles based real estate and hospitality platform re-imagining the office experience for creative professionals through a combination of workspace, services, and business events. Ronen’s background in finance and technology includes having worked for companies like Lehman Brothers, Arthur Andersen and JPMorgan in countries including Russia, UK, Turkey, and Brazil. He has been a founder or early stage executive in software, climate change, and real estate businesses.

Jesse Gundersheim is a market economist for CoStar, the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces. Jesse analyzes real estate tends and maintains market reports for the San Francisco Bay Area, helping investors, property managers, and lenders minimize risk and maximize returns. Jesse regularly speaks at industry events to discuss his findings, and has been quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Business Times, Bloomberg, and BisNow.

Jesse was raised in Marin County and studied finance at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Previously, he led Bay Area market research departments at the brokerage firms of Grubb & Ellis, Studley, and DTZ. Jesse has also worked for private apartment investors, providing due diligence and pro-forma analysis. Jesse enjoys hiking in the North Bay in his free time, and has traveled to nearly 50 countries.

Jeffrey Heller, FAIA is president and founder of Heller Manus Architects. Since its beginning in 1984, the firm has established a reputation for influencing architecture and urban design in the Bay Area, nationally and internationally.

Jeffrey’s experience covers a broad range of professional endeavors. He is a leader in the profession and green movement with some of the first sustainable architecture and large scale urban planning projects in the US and China, including the first LEED Gold office towers in the sister cities of San Francisco and Shanghai, the first LEED Platinum neighborhood development master plan, a sustainable/livable master plan for Guangzhou’s North and South Axes, a sustainable urban plan proposal for Shanghai’s Yangpu Waterfront, and a sustainable urban plan for the city expansion area of Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia. His work in China often now involves land use implications for high speed rail.

Jeffrey is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He has been recipient of several awards and honors including AIA design awards and various professional organizations’ awards. He is particularly proud of receiving the National AIA Honor Award, ‘Citation for Excellence in Urban Design’. He has been guest lecturer and speaker at various academic and professional venues for more than 20 years.

Prior to forming Heller Manus Architects, Jeffrey held various roles at well-known architecture firms including SOM, Gensler, and at KMD where he was partner.

Holly Neber is CEO of AEI Consultants, an international property consulting firm. AEI provides real property insights and solutions through environmental and property condition assessments, health and safety consulting, building performance evaluations, remediation and corrective action, and construction risk management from 25 offices in the US and Europe. Holly is the 2019 President of CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) Network and past president of the National Engineering and Environmental Due Diligence Association (NEEDDA). Holly was named among RealShare’s California Women of Influence in 2015 and Bisnow’s Bay Area Power Women in 2016 and 2017. In 2018, Holly was named to the Real Estate Forum Women of Influence and Connect Media Women in Real Estate lists and honored with the Courage in Leadership Award at EDR’s PRISM Conference.

In 2011, Amy founded Bradac Co as a full-service real estate construction management firm. As the CEO, she is responsible for the daily operations of the company, building new business relationships, and ensuring our team delivers high quality, high value service to all of our clients. Amy's career started at an award winning architecture firm. After a number of years of experience on high profile corporate, academic and retail projects, she left to gain practical experience in implementing design and administering construction, landing at one of the premier independent construction companies in the Bay Area. She thought it would be only a few years before she returned to working at an architecture office, but the work was so exciting and challenging that she worked as a Project Manager managing commercial construction for seven years. Eventually, her dedication to her client's best interests led to working as an owners representative and construction manager. Amy’s two decades of diverse experience as an architect and contractor give her the unique perspective of having viewed the industry from every angle, which makes her particularly adept at facilitating communication between all project participants, and moving projects forward on time and on budget.

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.