Mr. Burkard has extensive experience in real estate investment, financing, asset management and development. Prior to founding Four Corners Properties in 2005, Mr. Burkard was an Acquisitions Director with Broadreach Capital Partners, where he was responsible for the acquisition of approximately 1 million square feet of office and R&D investments in Northern California and Denver with a total investment value of approximately $80 million.

Formerly a Vice President of Leasing at Equity Office Properties Trust (“EOP”), Mr. Burkard was the senior leasing executive for the Silicon Valley region. He was responsible for a team managing and leasing approximately 11.3 million square feet of office, R&D, retail, and industrial space located throughout the greater San Jose area. Prior to EOP’s acquisition of Spieker Properties (“SPK”), Mr. Burkard served as a Project Director at Spieker Properties where he acquired, disposed of, leased and managed a portfolio of office, R&D and industrial properties in the Silicon Valley totaling 3.5 million square feet with a total value of $600 million.

Prior to joining Spieker in 1998, Mr. Burkard held numerous positions with Bank of America N.T. & S.A. During nearly six years at Bank of America, he worked in its Real Estate REO Group, Real Estate Project Finance Group, National Accounts Group and Special Assets Group. These positions involved asset management, analysis and disposition, loan sourcing and evaluations of project finance opportunities with Northern California-based real estate developers, underwriting for residential, multi-family, retail, office and industrial properties, loan restructuring, workouts, and credit analysis.

Mr. Burkard currently serves as a ULI council member and is a past president of NAOIP Silicon Valley. A graduate of Silicon Valley Leadership Group, he is also actively involved with a number of volunteer organizations in the Silicon Valley.

Mr Burkard graduated Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a second major in European History.

Katia Kamangar leads all new community development activities for SummerHill Homes and SummerHill Apartment Communities in Northern California.

Ms. Kamangar joined SummerHill in 2005. She oversees all duties related to new community development, including initial land planning, due diligence, architecture and design, budgeting and forecasting, and securing all necessary entitlement approvals through the commencement of construction and sales.

Ms. Kamangar also leads the company’s Green Task Force that evaluates new technologies and construction practices aimed at increasing the sustainability of the homes SummerHill constructs. For ten years prior to joining SummerHill, she was with Greenbriar Homes Communities Inc. as Senior Development Manager and Director of Development. Previously, she was Construction Project Manager for Mobil Oil Corporation. From 1998 to 2001, Ms. Kamangar served on the City of Los Altos Planning Commission. From 2001 to 2005, she was a Board Member for the BIA Bay Area. Ms. Kamangar holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from U.C. Berkeley and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Denise Pinkston has over 30 years of experience in real estate and development including acquisitions, asset and construction management, marketing, leasing, planning/entitlements, transit and green building, planning management, and public affairs. Ms. Pinkston was named one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times in 2012, 2013, 2016 and was named to their Forever Influential Honor Roll in 2014.

Prior to TMG: Ms. Pinkston directed Current Planning, Code Enforcement, Housing, and Redevelopment as the Marin County Planning Services Coordinator. She served as a zoning officer, planning commissioner, chamber of commerce board member, and instructor at SFSU and Mills College.

Ms. Pinkston cares deeply about improving housing and transportation programs and policies and has served in the following policy leadership roles:

Board Chair of MVGO and EmeryGoRound shuttles;

Chair Bay Area Council Housing Committee

Chair &Vice Chair Berkeley Zoning Board

Moderator, Technical Committee, MTC Committee to House the Bay Area (CASA)

Member SPUR Housing Committee

Technical advisor on State bills to ease rules for ADUs and Student Housing

Ms. Pinkston attended the University of California at Berkeley where she earned a B.A. in History, and a Masters in City and Regional Planning.

Newmark Cornish & Carey Vice Chairman Phil Mahoney is one of the most successful commercial real estate brokers in Northern California. He brings to his clients a unique understanding, perspective and awareness of the successful technology markets serving the Silicon Valley, and has for more than 35 years.

In 1992, Mr. Mahoney was appointed senior vice president and manager of Newmark Cornish & Carey’s Santa Clara office. He left his managerial post in the fall of 1995 to become a partner and director. He currently helps lead its Corporate and Institutional Services Group.

Mr. Mahoney has been among Newmark Cornish & Carey’s top five producers since 1982. He has negotiated over 1,100 transactions totaling more than 80 million square feet of space valued at over $19.0 billion.

Clients have relied heavily upon Mr. Mahoney’s expertise and comprehensive understanding not only of the marketplace, but also of the real estate process as a whole. In addition to his successes in the leasing market, Mr. Mahoney has sold numerous buildings, and has been involved in some of the most significant purchases of commercial/industrial property in the history of Silicon Valley.

Tenacious and dedicated, Mr. Mahoney counts among his clients Fortune 500 firms seeking to expand, as well as start-up companies looking for their first facility.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Calvano Development, Inc. is a privately held development company specializing in urban infill projects in the Bay Area.

Our Bay Area focus allows us better to understand market trends allowing us to be responsive to opportunistic projects that contribute to the communities we serve. As a privately held firm, together with creative problem solving, we can take on complex projects that others cannot.

A native of Silicon Valley, Mark Calvano started his real estate career at Marcus and Millichap in 1986. Over the last 35 years, Calvano has been involved in the sale, leasing, and development of projects totaling over 1.8 million square feet of office, retail, and R&D projects valued at over one billion dollars.

Mark Calvano graduated from S.F.S.U. with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Calvano serves as a member of the Silicon Valley branch of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) and is a member of Bay Area Council.