Brooks has played a pivotal role in the growth of SGA’s Manhattan office, where he leads both

the architecture and interior design practices. His responsibilities are all inclusive: He oversees

all New York-based projects and several commissions around the country, encompassing new

construction, adaptive reuse, corporate interiors, and master planning. He also mentors

colleagues, provides design direction, cultivates new business, and guides the continuing

evolution of the Manhattan office, with the aim of cementing SGA’s position at the forefront of

technology. An advanced REVIT user, he is a strong advocate of fully intergraded integrated

BIM project delivery.

Before joining SGA in 2015, Brooks ran his own studio for 10 years, where he focused on

commercial, institutional, and residential projects. Previously, he served as a design architect at

I.M. Pei’s office (Pei Cobb Freed), a project manager at HOK, and a senior project architect at

Polshek Partnership (Ennead). During his tenures at these firms, he developed expertise in a

number of markets, including science and technology, healthcare, cultural institutions, and

courthouses.

Bill Hunter is a nationally recognized Life Sciences Real Estate expert with over twenty years of relationships and experience in every U.S. and Western European R&D cluster from Boston, through New York, to Miami and Seattle to San Diego as well as The Golden Triangle in England.

Bill Hunter has completed more than $3.95 billion in advanced technology real estate acquisitions including 7.7 million square feet of complex leasing and over 3.85 million square feet of strategic campus re-positioning and adaptive re-use projects including 95 Greene Street (Jersey City, NJ), The Pacific Research Center (San Francisco East Bay), The Landmark at Eastview (Tarryrown, NY), The University of Miami Life Science & Technology Park (Miami, FL) and the NJ Center of Excellence (Bridgewater, NJ).

Yasmeen Ahmed Pattie has 20+ years of relationship building and project

management experience in life sciences, real estate, and economic development.

Yasmeen works with small biotechs to find and plan new spaces and with public tax

incentives. She also advises organizations on development and planning initiatives.

Projects include; The Long Island City Partnership’s life sciences feasibility study, Guiding Biolabs@NYULangone tenants through START-UP NY, Accessing $6.5M in city and state funding for Celmatix and Quentis, NYCEDC’s Life Science Infrastructure Initiative, the precursor to its $500M LifeSciNYC program.

Yasmeen was employee #2 at the New York Genome Center, overseeing site selection, design and construction, and fit-out of their new 170,000-sf home; she also helped obtain private and public funding. Before NYGC she worked in incentives consulting and at NYCEDC, where she was the lead project manager for the Alexandria Center for Life Science.

John Cahill is a Senior Vice President in JLL’s Midtown New York office. He focuses on tenant representation and agency leasing services for life sciences and biotechnology clients throughout the New York metropolitan area. He is highly experienced in evaluating new markets for clients, as well as in the leasing and disposition of office space, research and development facilities, and laboratory and manufacturing buildings.

John has more than 16 years of experience in commercial real estate, primarily focusing on life sciences and biotechnology transactions. Prior to joining JLL, John was a principal at Cresa New York, where he served as senior advisor and head of the life sciences practice, overseeing the expansion of the firm’s pharmaceutical, medical and biotechnology client base both in the New York metropolitan area and nationally. Earlier, John specialized in life sciences leasing for Colliers International and, before that, Cushman & Wakefield. Prior to joining the real estate industry, he worked in pharmaceutical sales and marketing at Johnson & Johnson and Alcon Laboratories.