Pamela joined SKS in 1998 and has over two decades of experience in finance, acquisition, asset management and disposition of commercial properties. In her career, Pamela has negotiated over 3 million square feet of lease transactions. From 1993 – 1998 Pamela was Investment Manager for Aetna Life Insurance Company, where she was responsible for all aspects of investment management. From 1985 until 1993, Pamela was a V.P. with First Interstate Bank where she was involved in finance, REO/workouts and corporate assets. From 1982 – 1985, Pamela was a public relations executive with Dorr Public Relations. Pamela holds a BA degree in Public Relations from the University of Southern California School of Journalism and an MSBA degree in Finance from California State University, Los Angeles.

Based in San Francisco, Brian Gagan is managing director of Client Services for Greystar in the Northern California region. Active in the multifamily industry since 1990, Brian has extensive experience in all facets of multifamily, property, and asset management, including pre-development services in many western markets. Before joining Greystar in 2011, Brian was a director at BlackRock Realty Advisors with portfolio and asset management responsibilities for several separate accounts. Prior to that, Brian was the president of Metric Property Management, managing over $2 billion of multifamily housing in 14 states. Brian has direct lease-up experience with approximately 8,000 units in California, Arizona, Washington, and Utah. Brian’s experience includes the management of garden-style, mid-rise, and high-rise multifamily product for private owners, REITs, and institutions.

As Vice President of Real Estate and Facilities for Oracle, Mike Bangs is responsible for the design, construction and operation of Oracle’s 6.5 million square feet real estate portfolio in the San Francisco bay area.

Bangs has developed and operated corporate campuses around the world, including properties in Boston, Budapest, Dublin, Paris, London, Noida, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He has more than 25 years of experience working for technology companies, including Adobe and Juniper Networks, where he served as director of global real estate.

He is a board member of CoreNet Global Northern California, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce and SPUR San Jose. He also served on the board of directors of the Guadalupe River Park. He was the founding board chairman of the Moffett Park Business and Transportation Association and is a past board president of the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce.

Derek K. Hunter, Jr. (Deke) is the President of Hunter Properties, Inc. and Managing Member of Hunter/Storm, LLC. Hunter Properties is a 50-year old development and management company currently with 17 different assets, totaling 2,100,000 square feet. The family-oriented company developed well in excess of 4,500,000 square feet during its history. Mr. Hunter is involved with all new project developments, property management, leasing, and Bay Area Self Storage oversight.

Mr. Hunter is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, Urban Land Institute, Self Storage Association and the Policy Advisory Committee for Fisher Center of Real Estate & Urban Economics. Mr. Hunter is a member of the Northern California Chapter of the National Resource Defense Council. The Hunter Family is an active supporter of Summer Search, Santa Clara and the Boys and Girls Club in Menlo Park.

Mr. Hunter resides in Portola Valley with his wife and three children. Mr. Hunter is active in community affairs, such as the Portola Valley School Foundation and Town Center Library redevelopment. Mr. Hunter is a seasoned tri-athlete and has coached both National Junior Basketball and baseball. He is a graduate of the University of the Pacific with a degree in Business and Public Administration, concentrating in real estate finance.

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.

Real estate professional with more than 15 years of experience in development, land planning, and project management. Experience includes planning and implementing the Transbay Redevelopment Project in Downtown San Francisco, which involved serving as the lead negotiator on a variety of complex real estate and public/private development transactions, including more than $400 million in land dispositions.

Jeff Birdwell joined Sares Regis Group in 1994 and manages the Northern California Commercial Division, overseeing Office, R&D, Industrial, and Retail developments. Prior to moving to Northern California, Jeff was employed with our affiliate Sares Regis Group in Irvine, California for seven years, responsible for development activity in the Los Angeles/Ventura County Regional office.

Cameron Johnson currently works at Netflix, where he is Director of Product Innovation. He leads a team of designers and engineers to build and test improvements to the Netflix service. Prior to Netflix, Cameron was a Director of Product Management at Yahoo.

Mr. Johnson serves on several regional boards including the San Mateo County Transportation Authority, the San Mateo County Library System, and the City and County Association of Governments of San Mateo County. He previously served as Chair of the San Mateo County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Recovery Commission and the San Carlos Economic Development Advisory Commission.

Mr. Johnson has an MBA from Stanford Business School and a BA in political science from Reed College

Mr. Johnson and his wife, Celina, have two young children, Josephine and Ellis.

Mayor Joe Goethals is a life-long resident of San Mateo. Joe was elected in November 2013 and is currently serving his first term. He works as a prosecutor in the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. Joe served on the Public Works Commission 2010-2013, and was serving as the Chair of the Public Works Commission when he was elected. Joe also has a Master’s degree in Public Health and he served on the Peninsula Health Care District Board prior to being elected to the City Council.

Jim Ruane was reelected to the San Bruno City Council as Mayor in 2015 to serve a two year term. He has served on the City Council since 1995. His term expires November 2017.

Salil Payappilly heads Real Estate Development in the Bay Area for BioMed Realty, a Blackstone portfolio company, and a leading provider of real estate solutions to the life science and technology industries. He has worked in the industry for 20 years, and with BioMed Realty for over 10 years in various markets including Boston, Cambridge, New York, Seattle and San Francisco. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University and an MBA from Yale University.

Andrew Baker oversees Anton DevCo’s Bay Area market rate multifamily development platform from inception through asset stabilization. He is responsible for land acquisition, joint ventures, entitlements, development and construction. Prior to joining Anton, Andrew held the position of Vice President of Development at Essex Property Trust, where he delivered over 1,000 units and was part of a team that delivered over $1.2 billion in asset production over nearly a decade. Prior investment experience includes roles in capital markets and trading with financial institutions including Bank of America, Blackrock (previously BGI) and Wedbush Securities.

Steven G. Wood, Esq., Of Counsel: Steve earned his B.A. (1984) degree in History Summa Cum Laude and his J.D. (1987), both from UCLA. He is a member of the Business, Litigation and Real Property Sections of the California State Bar and has handled real estate and related matters throughout California and in Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington, with asset values ranging from $5M to $450M. He is admitted to practice in all California State Courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the California Federal Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern District Courts.

From 1986-1990, Steve worked at Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in San Francisco, where he practiced transactional corporate and real estate law with an emphasis on troubled assets and real estate workouts, land use and developments, and secured lending, involving over 30 transactions with property values ranging from $1.5M to $95M. From 1990-1993, he worked at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, where he handled over 25 corporate and real estate matters that involved documenting and overseeing development, leasing, and loan transactions with property values ranging from $5M to $250M.

From the mid-1990’s through 2005 in private practice Steve handled real estate arbitrations, litigation, start-ups and transactions in matters ranging from $12M-$450M with some of the top real estate experts, forensic accountants and workout specialists in California and Utah. In 2006-2007, Steve consulted with McKenna, Long & Aldridge in Los Angeles, handling ground/retail leases, and purchase transactions, development agreements and CC&Rs for the rollout of over 300 “Fresh & Easy” stores in Arizona, Nevada and California for Tesco, Ltd., the fourth largest retailer worldwide.

From 2008 through 2013 Steve advised and represented real estate investors, brokers, developers and so-called “vulture funds” in charting the treacherous waters of the “Great Recession.” During this period, he also successfully handled several writs and appeals, most notably, writing the winning Appellant’s Opening and Reply Briefs for appeal before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fortune Dynamic, Inc. v. Victoria's Secret Stores Brand, Case No. 08-56291 (2010).

Steve currently advises and represents commercial real estate investors, brokers, developers, tenants and landlords. Within the last couple of years, he successfully handled several dozen complex commercial lease transactions with lease values ranging from $1.5M to $17.2M, a variety of mixed real property and hi-tech personal property purchase and sale transactions, ranging from $6M to $40M that involved major Silicon Valley companies, and advised a variety of real estate and other early to mid-stage companies on investment strategies and structures, as well as risk alloction and management.

Steve has worked with in-house counsel, CEOs of major corporations, and investors, as well as local business and family interests, on multi-million dollars transactions, litigation, and dispute resolution. Steve has provided real estate clients—adjoining landowners, developers, providers (lenders, lessors), and users (borrowers, lessees)—with business-oriented, results driven counsel based on substantial experience at the beginning, middle, and end of the investment or project cycle. Many deals involve disputes at some stage in the cycle. Virtually all commercial disputes, in particular those involving real estate, require a “resolution transaction” (i.e. the settlement). Having worked the entire spectrum in a variety of complex and high value matters, he sees the “big picture” in any given transaction or dispute and always operates according to the mantra,“Advocacy for Solutions.”

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.

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.

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.