Mr. Leonard, who holds and AB from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, has been actively involved in commercial real estate since 1987, and has owned Bayside Realty Partners since 2002. Formerly head of Trammell Crow Company’s Northern California division, he has been responsible for overseeing a 5 million sf portfolio, a team of 55 professionals and has acquired and developed over $100 million in office/R&D properties.

Having completed transactions totaling over $925 million in leases, acquisitions, dispositions, development and financings, Mr. Leonard provides an extensive level of transactional and management experience, particularly with healthcare properties.

Senior level healthcare sales management and corporate development leader with over 20 years experience. Track record of delivering results in an evolving healthcare landscape by empowering talented teams and driving a performance oriented culture with unwavering integrity. Develop meaningful strategies for health systems, physician specialist groups, and payers to effectively align with the rapid transformation and shift of ambulatory surgical care to lower cost settings.

Established executive level health system relationships throughout the western region that have been maintained through trust, transparent interactions, and successful joint ventures.

Led tenured sales teams, managers, and complex development efforts for exceptional healthcare organizations. Deep clinical understanding in Orthopedics, Radiology, Cardiology, General Surgery, Vascular, and Dialysis specialties.

Cynthia NeSmith-Montanez, a Senior Director in MGAC’s San Francisco office, has over 37 years of experience working on a wide variety of projects, from small tenant improvements to multi-building projects. She has worked on teams big and small for medical office buildings, hospitals, biotech facilities, corporate campuses, hotel renovations, and financial institutions. Cynthia brings deep knowledge of the industry, combining practical knowledge and theoretical understanding developed from her time in both owner’s representation and as a general contractor.

Tom is based in Walnut Creek and focuses exclusively on tenant

representation, with emphasis on multi-market occupiers in the

West. Tom partners with his clients to manage their real estate

portfolios based on their evolving occupancy requirements, offering

services that include workplace and portfolio strategy, site

selection, transaction management and lease negotiations. He is

focused on building long-term relationships based on his

demonstrated ability to drive value and help his clients make

informed real estate decisions.

Experience

Tom joined JLL in 2017 after representing clients at Cushman &

Wakefield in San Francisco. Prior to joining JLL’s Walnut Creek

brokerage group, Tom was a transactions & acquisitions manager

on the Kaiser Permanente account, where he worked on site

acquisition, financial modeling, due diligence, and transaction

negotiation on behalf of Kaiser Permanente throughout Northern

California and the Pacific Northwest. Over the past seven years, Tom

has represented office and medical clients in complex real estate

transactions totaling in excess of 2m sf.

Education

Tom graduated from The University of Arizona with a Bachelor of

Science degree in Psychology, as well as minors in both Finance and

Business Administration. Tom grew up in the East Bay and remains

an active member in the community. He lives in Concord with his

wife, Erin, and their dog Otto.

Caitlin Stevenson is a project director and the Sacramento office leader for Taylor Design, a multidisciplinary design firm with a deep legacy of healthcare expertise throughout California. Her particular specialty in complex healthcare projects stems from years of experience with a wide variety of project types and scales – ranging from campus-wide master planning projects, to phased inpatient renovations within active hospital departments, to new ground-up construction, and outpatient clinic renovations. Passionate about the application of rigorous design methodology to improve the end-user experience and patient outcomes, her recent work has focused on long-range planning efforts, guiding organizations through a strategic analysis of future facility and space needs to correspond with their projected clinical growth. Caitlin’s clients include major healthcare organizations such as UC Davis Health, UCSF Health, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, Stanford Health Care, CommonSpirit Health, and the County of San Mateo Health System. A registered architect in California, Caitlin holds a degree in architecture and urban studies from Princeton University and a master’s in architecture from UC Berkeley.

Makayla began her career in the trades as a project assistant and has gained over a decade of experience. At Mark III, Makayla has held the titles of project engineer and project manager and most currently holds the title of Director of Pre-construction. Makayla is skilled in growing contractor relationships, managing virtual construction and prefabrication efforts, and delivering projects on time and within budget. Over the past seven years at Mark III, Makayla has managed over $50 million in M3 MEP and M3 Components projects.

Since 2017, her focus has been building a productized approach to healthcare construction. She has completed multiple rounds of research and development, known as Project Mountain, and has successfully completed multiple projects utilizing M3C products.

Outside work, she enjoys golfing, cooking, visiting Tahoe, attending concerts, and spending time with her partner and dogs.

Dave Leong is an architect whose practice at DES focuses on forging welcoming, healthy and well-functioning patient care spaces outside of the hospital environment—from ground-up medical office buildings to tenant improvement projects. He specializes in conversion and renovation projects. Dave has transformed former office and retail spaces to accommodate clinics, ranging in type, scale, and complexity from integrating a 20K sf Ambulatory Surgery Center into an office building, to a 12K sf expansion of a multi-faceted clinic in a retail strip mall. His clients include Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health as well as independent providers.

Sara joined Turner Construction Company in 2007 and has taken on a range of roles within project management and business development. In her current role as Healthcare Project Executive for Turner’s Northern California region, Sara provides leadership in the planning and execution of preconstruction and construction services, ensuring operational excellence that meets the project’s conditions of success. With an extensive and varied portfolio of Healthcare and HCAI work, she consistently demonstrates her expertise in handling complex, fast-paced builds that demand precision and innovation. Sara received her Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Chico State University.

Having started his healthcare architecture career in his late teens, Matt’s experience runs the gamut. From 3D visualization modeling to facility assessments to construction administration, he has worked for a variety of healthcare providers throughout California. He brings a passion for creating spaces to heal the mind and body through the application of Lean philosophy, Agile software tenets, and human-centered design to every effort on which he is involved. A founding member of the AIA-AAH Healthcare Essentials committee, he has been a speaker at Healthcare Facilities Symposium, is a certified Project Management Professional, and leads the Project Management Quality group at Taylor Design.