As Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Callahan drives the vision, strategy and overall direction at Urban Renaissance Group (URG), a full-service commercial real estate operating company with approximately 6.2 million square feet of office space, nearly 80 employees and multiple award-winning acquisitions and redevelopments.

With more than twenty years’ experience in the real estate industry, Patrick has been directly involved in numerous multi-million dollar lease transactions, acquisitions, development projects, assimilations, asset repositions and renovations. His firm has placed more than $500 million in capital on behalf of clients in downtown Seattle and Portland in the last 24 months alone.

Prior to founding URG in 2006, Patrick held numerous key roles at Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP). As Senior Vice President, he oversaw a business unit of 18 million square feet, 114 buildings, 300 employees and more than $450 million in revenues in Seattle and Bellevue, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; and Denver, Co. He was also directly involved in more than 30 million square feet of acquisitions and 2.5 million square feet of completed development projects across nine markets. He played a significant role in one of the largest transactions in U.S. history when EOP acquired Spieker Properties for $7.2 billion in February 2001.

Mr. Gooding has 34 years of commercial real estate experience, 27 of them with SKB

where he is credited with developing the firm’s “value-add/opportunistic” acquisition

platform. He was named a principal in 2002 and president and chief investment officer

in 2006. During his tenure at SKB, Mr. Gooding initiated some $5.6 billion of

acquisitions, and concomitant debt placements and restructuring, and he serves as a

member of the SKB Investment Committee. He was also responsible for initially

sourcing and maintaining SKB’s institutional capital partner relationships.

He started his real estate career as a licensed real estate appraiser with then CB

Commercial, Inc. Prior to joining SKB in 1996, he served as vice president of

acquisitions for G.E. Capital Investment Advisors and senior real estate analyst with CB

Commercial, Inc. in San Francisco. In these capacities, he underwrote over $500 million

of commercial real estate investments for clients such as General Motors retirement

funds, CalPers and the AT&T Master Pension Trust. Mr. Gooding is a member of ULI,

ICSC, and an Advisory Board member for The Center of Securities Analysis at the

University of Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the

University of Oregon.