Michael Covarrubias joined TMG in 1988; he oversees all of the company’s operations and has directed the company since 1995.

Prior to TMG: Mr. Covarrubias’ professional background includes 17 years with Union Bank, including commercial and real estate lending as well as administrative management. In his last position, he served as Senior Vice President and Manager of Union Bank’s Silicon Valley Regional Real Estate Center. Mr. Covarrubias is a graduate of the University of San Francisco with a Bachelor’s degree in business administration.

A highly successful senior executive with a thirty year track record managing high-end commercial real estate portfolios and 40+ million sf in assets. Effective team leader who maximizes financial performance, business growth, capital planning and relationships. Consistently demonstrates superior judgment in all decision-making matters and crisis management situations. A proactive community leader combining a strong sense of civic loyalty and authentic interpersonal skills to guide major change initiatives.

Mark joined Lane Partners in 2008 and focuses on acquisitions, entitlements, leasing and construction management.

Mark has been involved in more than $300M in acquisitions and dispositions during his tenure at Lane. In addition, Mark has negotiated over 1 million square feet in lease transactions, including leases with Apple Inc., E*Trade Financial, Stanford University Hospitals & Clinics, Evernote Corporation, Boardvantage and Lattice Semiconductor.

Prior to joining Lane Partners, Mark was an Associate with Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Stanford University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. Mark is a member of the California State Bar and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

• Lead facilities and space planning strategy for all offices and studios.

• Successfully evaluate, analyze, negotiate and recommend commercial property leases, purchases and dispositions.

• Manage the transition of properties from development/construction to operating phase.

• Evaluate, develop, and implement departmental policies and procedures, goals and objectives, and standards of work performance for the staff, building, building systems, and equipment.

• Facilitate and oversee office moves.

• Have direct involvement in design and supervision of all studio and office construction projects. This includes vendor recommendation and negotiation.

• Regularly communicate high-level real estate & studio requests, projects and concerns with Senior Executives.

• Develop and track budgets for capital projects, operational expenses and internal events.

• Assure projects are delivered on time / on budget.

• Manage interactions with the Landlord for building services and to ensure all legal and lease obligations are met.

• Manage ongoing maintenance of the offices: serve as direct contact for all vendors and building relationships.

• Manage relationship and delegate projects between in-house office and facilities staff with landlord and other studio staff.

• Track employee requests and department response to assure a very high level of satisfaction.

• Recommend new or modified processes that improve functional efficiency and effectiveness.

• Work closely with our Director of Company Life and in-house design team on all office space internal and external signage.

Rick spearheaded a long-term real estate strategy for the U.S. as well as EU market penetration that aligned with CXO’s vision for growth and market expansion, as well as a tactical project roadmap for managing global growth and HQ facilities improvement.

Rick led a site and workforce analysis culminating in building the case for Chicago as the company’s ideal U.S. expansion site that persuaded the CXO to approve this alternative location.

Via incentive negotiations with Economic Development parties, Glassdoor received state income tax credits valued at up to $28M over 10 years for this 52K s/f, 13-year lease with space for 400+ associates (with options for further expansion).

Rick helped established the Dublin operations as part of a global market expansion strategy, and articulated a data-driven case for company’s U.S. real estate presence critical to hit aggressive annual revenue and headcount growth goals.

Rick drove a plan based on team member survey feedback resulting in valued HQ facility improvements including valet parking, dining space reconfiguration and a food vendor overhaul. In addition, Rick implemented an automated space planning and move-management system that reduced process time 40% and introduced real-time reliability and efficiency, with added functionality for planning, tracking and reporting space usage.

As the go-to for all facilities operations issues, Glassdoor achieved resolution that reduced executive-level HVAC-related complaints 6X by resolving mechanical issues.

Matt Field, Chief Investment Officer, has 30 years of commercial real estate experience, including development, finance, leasing and project management. Mr. Field has been with TMG Partners since 1993 and is responsible for managing acquisitions and dispositions, while supporting the firm’s development activities with lead responsibility for the real estate portfolio. Mr. Field also chairs this Investment Committee.

He has been responsible for over $3 billion of acquisitions and dispositions for TMG since 2003. Previously, he was responsible for managing complex entitlement and development projects.

Prior to TMG: Mr. Field worked at Catellus Development Corporation in corporate financial analysis and major asset acquisitions and dispostions. His prior experience also includes work at Sedway Associates and Halcyon Real Estate Advisors.

Mr. Field has a Bachelor’s degree with a major in Political Science from the University of Colorado.

Affiliations

Lambda Alpha, Member

NAIOP San Francisco Chapter, Advisory Council

Urban Land Institute, Member, IOPC Blue Council

Fisher Center Policy Advisory Board, Member

BuildOn Northern California, Board of Directors

Christopher Rising is the CEO of Rising Realty Partners (RRP), a Los Angeles-based real estate investment and operating platform that owns and manages over five million square feet of properties. He serves on the company's Executive and Investment Committees, drawing on his extensive experience in managing acquisitions and creative development. Prior to joining RRP, Christopher was Senior Vice President of Asset Transactions at MPG Office Trust, where he worked directly with the CEO to improve finances through debt reduction and restructuring.

Under Christopher's visionary leadership, RRP has spearheaded the revitalization of historic buildings in Downtown Los Angeles into creative office spaces, attracting unique businesses back to the region. The company's transformation and subsequent sale of the PacMutual Campus, one of the oldest office buildings in the heart of DTLA, was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "record price for a pure office building downtown." More recently, RRP has generated great success by entering the industrial space, acquiring five multi-tenant light industrial properties in the past year. Christopher's success in the real estate industry has earned him recognition by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles.

In 2003, Christopher founded The Rising Real Estate Group (RREG) and eventually partnered with Barker Pacific Group to create Hamilton Capital Partners (HCP), an equity fund vehicle. RREG is also a principal in 626 Wilshire Blvd, a 156K square foot office building located in downtown Los Angeles.

Christopher began his career as an associate at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and later worked at Cushman Realty Corporation (CRC) under brokerage legend John C. Cushman, III. He then served as a Director at Cushman & Wakefield of California, Inc. (C&W), joining C&W after its merger with CRC in 2001.

Outside of work, Christopher is an active member of the Los Angeles community, serving on the River LA Board and The Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation. He formerly sat on the Board of Overseers at Loyola Law School and the Duke Athletic Advisory Board. He is a past President of the Board of Chandler School in Pasadena and served for ten years on the Board of Regents of Loyola High School, where he chaired the Investment Committee. Christopher holds a J.D. in Real Estate Law from Loyola Law School and a B.A. in History and Political Science from Duke University. He also attended Duke on a football scholarship and was a member of the 1989 ACC Championship team.

Based out of the Colliers International's Orange County office in Irvine, CA, Martin Pupil serves as President for Colliers' Western Region commercial real estate service lines, which include; Consulting Services, Valuations & Advisory, Retail Services, Industrial Services, Project Management, Agency & Brokerage Services, Facilities Management, Asset Services, Corporate Services, Research and Capital Markets. The Western Region covers operations in California, Arizona, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Orange County, Los Angeles and Phoenix with over 700 sales professionals and staff.

Martin was tasked with integrating The Seeley company which was purchased by Colliers in 2005 into Colliers’s national platform. Martin has met various challenges in the integration of the two firms, most noteworthy are, streamlining the operations by reducing the firm’s breakeven point by 46% and expanding its service delivery by increasing the number of professionals by 35%. Prior to this move, Martin had been the Executive Vice President and General Manager for Colliers International’s Montreal operations since 2004.

Martin helped assemble a top-notch team of real estate advisors for Colliers International’s downtown Montreal operations. He built solid relationships with diverse stakeholders in the business community and led the successful task of positioning Colliers International as a leader in the Montreal real estate market. As a result of his leadership the office’s revenue grew by 140% during his tenure.

Martin began his career at De Gradpré Chait as a lawyer specializing in real estate and construction law. His most significant accomplishments include the construction phase of the Bell Centre, Transat AT’s commercial and real estate litigation, and transfer of underperforming mortgages for Bandera. Martin recognizing that his talents would be better served helping clients directly in their real estate decisions left law and pursued a career as tenant representative broker with Staubach Leonard McKeague in Montreal.

Lewis C. Horne is the President of the Greater Los Angeles-Orange County Region for CBRE, Inc., the leading provider of commercial real estate services globally.

Mr. Horne is responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the firm’s eight regional offices, and oversees a 15-person management team to ensure excellence in client service across all CBRE business segments. Under his leadership, the region has grown to include nearly 1,200 employees with diverse expertise spanning the firm’s primary service lines and all specialty practices.

Mr. Horne and his leadership team support all regional professionals as they manage more than 80 million square feet of commercial properties and annually complete over 12,000 sale and lease transactions, 500 financial consulting assignments, and thousands of appraisals.

Mr. Horne is passionate about collaboration in service delivery, and actively promotes the integration of multiple disciplines to ensure well-conceived, strategic solutions for complex client assignments. He is partnering with CBRE’s Workplace Strategy group to better align the regional offices with this goal, beginning with the transformation of the firm’s global headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. Together they are creating innovative work environments with cutting-edge technology to attract and retain top talent and better meet client needs.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Horne held a variety of leadership positions in the company, beginning as an industrial brokerage professional in 1984 and quickly growing to become one of the top 3% of brokerage professionals company-wide. He then moved into a management position, and has successfully grown his career in CBRE leadership for nearly 25 years.

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.

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.

As McWhinney’s Executive Vice President of Commercial and Mixed-Use

Development, Krista Sprenger leans on more than two decades of diverse

real estate experience, providing office, mixed-use and boutique hospitality

development and execution for the company’s commercial and mixed-use

divisions. She places a strong emphasis on placemaking and sustainable

development practices to provide users with a vibrant mixed-use environment

that offers long-term value to those working within the spaces and visiting these

places. Krista is also responsible for guiding her teams through structuring,

visioning, entitling, and delivering transformational mixed-use projects.

Her role at McWhinney follows the culmination of more than 20 years of real

estate development experience as an independent developer and corporate

executive. Her career has focused on motivating matrixed, global real estate

teams to deliver some of the industry’s most innovative and progressive

workplace, corporate real estate, and sustainable development projects. Prior to

joining McWhinney, Krista held several senior leadership positions at Lendlease

in Denver, New York and Los Angeles.

Ever passionate about cultivating places that foster community and stewarding

environmental resources, Krista is inspired by McWhinney’s commitment to

creating unprecedented value and a better world where communities and people

can thrive. She aims to create a legacy and sustainable growth footprint through

the development of great people and great projects.

Gene Klein is the CEO of BarkerBlue, a Bay Area-based document and digital asset management company that acts as the central hub of information on thousands of construction projects across North America. Gene has led the company’s expansion into professional services and jobsite staffing as well as As-Built management of facilities and maintenance information for organizations worldwide. BarkerBlue also provides Environmental Graphics for workspace interiors of the fastest-growing companies in the region.

Chris Hazen is Director of Corporate Development for Enovity, an engineering firm that operates, maintains, and optimizes facilities to assure higher-performing places. In this role, he helps key clients leverage the full array of solutions available through Enovity and the ORIX network. This includes forging strategic partnerships with technology and capital providers to multiply the energy and sustainability benefits that Enovity delivers to clients. Throughout his 25+ year career, including 15 years working in Asia, Chris has enabled multinational corporations to apply sustainable practices in their global operations.

Wally is an industry leader for complex ground up, seismic, tenant improvement and building renovations in office, retail, civic, hospitality and commercial buildings, many in occupied spaces. Wally is the primary client representative for his projects, ensuring that the project gets the resources and commitments it needs to guarantee a successful outcome. His responsibilities include client communication, design consultation, budget and cost estimating review and coordination of construction operations. Wally provides direct leadership to project management staff, performs executive-level project management functions, and executes business development efforts for the region. He is accountable for understanding the client’s project objectives and ensuring Pankow’s solutions meet or exceed the Client’s needs.

Angelique Brunner is the Founder and President of EB5 Capital, a leader in the EB-5 investor industry,

raising foreign capital for investment in job-creating real estate projects across the United States under the

EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, which is overseen by the United States Citizenship and Immigration

Services. EB5 Capital owns and operates a number of USCIS-authorized Regional Centers across the country,

most notably in Washington, D.C., California, and New York, and has a portfolio of 13 current and

completed projects, with six more in the pre-development phase. EB5 Capital has raised funds from

immigrant investors in nearly 50 countries, maintaining a 100% project approval rate from the USCIS. Ms.

Brunner was one of the first authorized Regional Center operators; among the first 15 of the approximately 800 that exist today. As

President, she provides strategic direction and oversight to EB5 Capital’s real estate, marketing, and legal teams.

Ms. Brunner is considered an industry expert, a seasoned and highly respected Regional Center operator, and a strong advocate for

the EB-5 Program as a tool for economic development. She serves on the Board of Directors for Invest in the USA (IIUSA), the

national EB-5 industry trade association, and was the Inaugural Chair of the IIUSA Policy Committee, which guides the industry’s

communications with USCIS and other governmental agencies. In 2011, at the request of Senator Leahy’s (D-VT) office, Ms. Brunner

submitted official congressional testimony in support of the EB-5 Program. She works closely with Marriott International and Hilton

Worldwide in their efforts to make the EB-5 Program more effective.

Ms. Brunner has also had the opportunity to speak at numerous conferences for industry organizations, including the National

Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Urban Land Institute (ULI), IIUSA, SelectUSA, the International Economic Development Council

(IEDC), and the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA), among others.

Before founding EB5 Capital, Ms. Brunner spent more than a decade working in finance and investments for both public and private

organizations focused on real estate and venture capital. Her past employers include: Fannie Mae, Neighborhood Development

Company, National Capital Revitalization Corporation, CORE Capital Partners, and Public Financial Management.

Ms. Brunner is a graduate of Brown University and holds a Master’s Degree in Policy and Economics from Princeton University,

where she studied under Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. She also earned a Certificate in Urban Planning

from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Sean is the co-founder of Truebeck Construction, and serves as Principal. He drives the firm’s strategy and growth as a progressive builder setting the standards in the construction industry. Sean fosters the firm’s entrepreneurial spirit and encourages an innovative culture for a high-performing and high-achieving team. With a background in preconstruction and estimating, Sean’s focus is always on delivering an extraordinary level of detail, reliability and precision. He is dedicated to building a team of best-in-class estimators, engineers, superintendents and executives to keep Truebeck at the forefront of the industry. Sean earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Mike Humphrey is the San Francisco regional manager for DPR Construction. In his role, Humphrey leads new business development and customer relationship efforts. He shares responsibility for over 400 administrative staff and 400-500 craft workers. He is also actively involved in all the region's projects, working regularly with owners and architects. His extensive technical expertise includes project evaluation, scheduling, logistics, cost control, subcontractor management and strategic planning.

Humphrey began his DPR career in 1992 as an intern on the company's first ground-up project. After graduating from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science in construction management, he joined DPR as a project engineer and was serving as a project manager soon after. Later roles included pre-construction manager and member of the Bay Area regional management team. DPR has also sponsored Mike on three disaster-relief trips, the latest in Haiti after the country's devastating earthquake in 2010. Mike has achieved LEED® Accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

DPR Construction, currently ranked No. 21 on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors list, is a forward-thinking national general contractor and construction manager specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets.

Over the past twenty five years, Mr. Chesnut has successfully acquired, repositioned and/or built numerous properties totaling over 1,250,000 square feet representing complex high performance life-science buildings, large-scale corporate buildings, landmark above Class “A” buildings and industry leading sustainable projects.

Today, Chesnut Properties is strategically positioned to bring to various communities its passionate approach to delivering complex and impactful real estate projects; with projects under way that represent over 60 acres of land and entitlements that total over 3,000,000 square feet.

The Company utilizes multiple relationship and financial structures in order to execute this scale of development including: Private pursuits, Long-Term Ground Leases, Customized Structured Debt strategies, and P3 relationships (Public/Private/Partnerships).

Bill Strang serves as President of the Americas’ Operations for TOTO USA and Chairman of TOTO Mexico. In these capacities, he is responsible for all of TOTO’s North American operations, including supply chain, design and development engineering, quality, ISO, environmental resource management, and management of TOTO’s five North American plants with 1.8 million sf under roof.

Under Bill’s leadership, TOTO has received numerous awards and recognitions for its leadership in environmental resource conservation, including the U.S. EPA’s Water Efficiency Leadership award (TOTO is the only plumbing manufacturer so honored); former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s Water Conservation Leadership award; the South face Sustainable Homebuilders’ Argon* award; the City of Atlanta’s Phoenix Award, and the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s River Sustainability award. Recently, the Brookings Institution distinguished TOTO for its leadership in Clean Economy jobs creation.

With over 28 years of real estate and business operations experience, Scott serves as CityLift’s Chief Executive Officer. Prior to creating CityLift, Scott served as Chief Operating Officer for Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust where he played a key role in establishing the single family rental industry as an institutional asset class—eventually taking the company public in 2014. Previous to this, Mr. Gable was with Wells Fargo Bank where he helped create the home equity lending business and ultimately served as its EVP of Operations across the United States. Scott began his career with Booz Allen & Hamilton where he consulted on operations and strategy for consumer products, entertainment, and retail companies—eventually becoming a principal. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in International Relations from Stanford University.

Mike Jameson is a Managing Director with Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. In this role, he is responsible for managing the company’s third-party, commercial mortgage asset management business. Mike is located in San Francisco.

Mike was named as a managing director in 2009. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, Mike oversaw the West Coast Generalist Origination teams, responsible for loan originations from all capital sources in northern California, the Pacific Northwest, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. He was also responsible for the pricing of General Account loans in his territory. Mike also acted in a real estate disposition role and served as Prudential’s point person in the 2000 acquisition of The WMF Group, Ltd. Before joining Prudential in 1990, he was a retail leasing agent for Norris, Beggs & Simpson, a commercial brokerage firm. Earlier, he acted as the assistant to the president for The Shorenstein Company.

Mike received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in economics from the University of California, Davis, and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Mike serves as the immediate past chair and current board member of the San Francisco District Council of the Urban Land Institute. He is a member of Lambda Alpha International, and is actively involved with several non-profit agencies.

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Though she majored in accounting at Washington University in St. Louis, Leah discovered her passion for food and hospitality while spending a year behind the bar in Argentina and farming in Italy. After a stint as an auditor with Deloitte, Leah made the transition into hotels and restaurants in NYC, honing her skills as a concierge at Mondrian Soho and event manager at Red Rooster. Leah loves a good trivia night and isn't embarrassed to admit that she DVRs Jeopardy

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Dern, AIA is the Principal of Dern Architecture + Development, an architecture led design + build firm. His experience throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with mixed-use and urban infill developments, multi-stakeholder community-based projects, and commercial interiors provides a proactive, collaborative solution-oriented leadership to Michael’s clients. While primarily in architecture and design, the firm’s experience provides project management and construction management.

Michael has been part of the early residential high-rise developments including The 88 in downtown San Jose as an Associate at HKS Architects, and has helped architecture firms with the Waverly in Foster City and a hospitality project by Homewood Suites in north San Jose. Dern Architecture + Development as architect of record recently completed the Lyric for Laconia Development and helped Essex Property Trust through construction of the Agora in Walnut Creek.

Michael Dern is the 2018 President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Silicon Valley Chapter, and holds a Bachelors of Architecture with a minor in Construction Management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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.