Capital, Risk & Return

Navigating Capital Markets, Funding, Investment, Acquisitions & P3 Opportunities in a Constrained Market

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  Tom Lam

  Tom Lam is a Principal of Luminous Capital Management, a life science real estate investment management firm based in Irvine, CA. Tom’s primary responsibilities include acquisitions, due diligence, and capital raising. Over his 17-year career in commercial real estate, he has invested over $1 billion across multiple asset types and major Western markets on behalf of institutional and high net worth investors. Prior to Luminous, Tom has worked at firms such as Boardwalk Investments Group, Buchanan Street Partners, and Emmes Group. Mr. Lam graduated with an MBA and a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California in 2014. He is an active member of NAIOP.

  Luminous Capital Management

  Principal

  Tom Lam

  Principal

  Luminous Capital Management

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  Jenner Smith

  Senior Director, Real Estate Acquisitions & P3

  University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

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  Miguel Motta

  As Vice President of Strategic Operations and San Diego Head, Miguel is responsible for customizing and delivering the Biocom California benefits to our San Diego members, including policy issues, as well as supporting the implementation of the organization’s strategic plans across California. Prior to joining Biocom California, Miguel held executive positions in Fortune 500 companies, and has been chairman, president, chief executive officer, chief financial officer or chief operating officer of growth-stage, venture capital-backed companies. Miguel brings a true global perspective having led organizations in Switzerland, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Japan, Mexico and the US. Miguel received his MBA with honors from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands and his B.S. with honors from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.

  Biocom California

  VP

  Miguel Motta

  VP

  Biocom California

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  Bill Hunter

  Bill Hunter is Managing Director at Perceptive Real Estate Equities, Inc. With more than two decades of experience as a life sciences and healthcare real estate investor, developer and operator, his career spans a period dating back to when institutional life sciences real estate was still emerging as a distinct asset class. His career spans acquisitions, leasing, development, and asset repositioning across major US life sciences markets, with involvement in more than $10.5 billion of acquisitions, 12.4 million square feet of leasing, and 4.6 million square feet of campus repositioning projects in Boston, the Mid Atlantic, Research Triangle Park, San Francisco, San Diego, and Miami. Bill was a pre-IPO hire at BioMed Realty Trust and an early team member at Wexford Science and Technology, where he helped build two of the platforms that shaped the modern life sciences real estate market. His experience spans the full life cycle of laboratory, GMP, clinical, and R & D environments, including technical infrastructure, regulatory requirements, and the operational needs of pharmaceutical, bio technology, medical device, CDMO, and university research users. More recently, Bill has focused on complex and dislocated situations, supporting owners, lenders, and investors in navigating stalled projects, capital structure challenges, and asset repositioning decisions, with an emphasis on restoring stability and long-term optionality.

  Perceptive Real Estate Equities, Inc.

  Managing Director

  Moderator

  Bill Hunter

  Managing Director

  Perceptive Real Estate Equities, Inc.

Building the Space Science Needs: Designing & Future-Proofing Tomorrow’s Lab, R&D & Biomanufacturing Facilities

Conversions, Tenant Improvements, Retrofits & AI Integration

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  Dan Krachon

  Dan Krachon is BioMed Realty’s Vice President of West Coast Facilities, currently overseeing facilities for the Company’s operating assets across the Bay Area, San Diego, Seattle, and Boulder markets. With 30 years of experience in real estate and construction, he has deep expertise in building, operating, and maintaining complex life science facilities, with a focus on adaptability, system redundancy, and risk management. Since joining BioMed Realty in 2010, he has played an integral role in supporting BioMed Realty’s West Coast facilities, maintaining resilient infrastructure while also tailoring operations to meet the evolving needs of tenants ranging from early-stage labs to large-scale users. Dan maintains an active Certified Energy Manager (CEM) designation and holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from San Diego State University.

  BioMed Realty, A Blackstone Portfolio Company

  VP, West Coast Facilities

  Dan Krachon

  VP, West Coast Facilities

  BioMed Realty, A Blackstone Portfolio Company

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  Sarah Williams

  VP, Design & Construction

  Breakthrough Properties

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  John Pittman

  John, an Education and Science Principal for HDR’s California practice, is a seasoned design professional with more than 35 years of experience in program management, architecture, strategic leadership and project management. He has successfully led multidisciplinary teams across global offices, delivering complex capital programs with consistent success in budget alignment, project execution, and client satisfaction. His leadership has played a key role in expanding market share and building inclusive, high-performing teams. He has been involved in facilities that empower scientists to discover cures for devastating diseases, develop clean energy solutions, protect natural resources and improve public health, enriching people’s lives around the world.

  HDR

  Education and Science Principal

  John Pittman

  Education and Science Principal

  HDR

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  Habiba Manjurr

  Habiba Manjurr is a Senior Project Manager and Team Lead at Clune Construction with 19 years of experience delivering complex, MEP-intensive commercial construction projects across healthcare, life sciences and advanced manufacturing. She joined Clune in 2024 to help lead Clune’s life sciences and lab portfolio in Los Angeles and currently manages Clune’s Ford Motor Company’s Electric Vehicle Development Center in Long Beach, a multi-phase design-build project incorporating advanced battery research, manufacturing and testing technology. A University of Southern California graduate with a BS in Biochemistry, Habiba brings a scientific mindset to construction—approaching challenges through rigorous analysis, collaboration and methodical problem-solving. In addition to her project leadership, she is an active mentor within Clune, a member of the firm’s Women’s ERG and a longtime community volunteer, reflecting her commitment to developing both people and the industry as a whole.

  Clune Construction

  Senior Project Manager

  Habiba Manjurr

  Senior Project Manager

  Clune Construction

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  Amanda Pritchett

  Project Executive

  DPR Construction

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  Kurt Lindorfer

  Kurt’s professional engineering career spans over 40 years. His expertise includes structural engineering design for Mission Critical Facilities such as Data Centers, Health Care Facilities such as Hospitals and Clinics and Life Sciences Facilities such as Biopharmaceutical Pilot Plants and Production Facilities around the United States and the World. His area of expertise is in designing buildings to be occupable after natural disasters including Tornados, Hurricanes and Earthquakes. He has been the structural engineer of record for conventional “fixed Base Buildings” ranging from 1-23 stories, “Base Isolated Buildings” ranging from 1-5 stories, and the retrofit and new construction of buildings incorporating Fluid Viscous Dampers ranging from 1-22 stories. He has published numerous papers on passive energy dissipation and presented the findings at various conventions in Boston, San Francisco and Milan. For over 23 years as the Founding Principal at PARADIGM Structural Engineers, Kurt spends most of his time developing new leaders at PARADIGM and mentoring staff in Chicago and San Francisco.

  PARADIGM Structural Engineers

  Founding Principal

  Moderator

  Kurt Lindorfer

  Founding Principal

  PARADIGM Structural Engineers

The Next Phase of Life Sciences in Southern California: Pivoting Through Market Uncertainty

Sector Evolution, Demand Shifts & The Rise of Flexible Lab Environments

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  Allan Glass

  Allan S. Glass is a Co-Founder and Principal at HATCHspaces LLC. With 25 years of brokerage, redevelopment and consulting experience, Allan has worked through three full market cycles advising private equity funds, developers, banks, non profit institutions, private landowners and real estate investors across the country. He has extensive expertise in areas of distressed assets and value added development utilizing in-depth knowledge of structuring and unwinding complex ownership and finance arrangements. His experience crosses multiple product types in both the commercial and residential markets.

  HATCHspaces

  Co-Founder

  Allan Glass

  Co-Founder

  HATCHspaces

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  Bob Nowak

  Bob Nowak is Senior Vice President of Operations at BioMed Realty, where he oversees operations and facilities management across the company's San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boulder markets — encompassing approximately 10 million square feet of lab and office space. In this role, Bob drives portfolio-wide performance while delivering a high level of service and strategic partnership to tenants, empowering innovators to focus on advancing new therapies and technologies. Bob joined BioMed Realty in December 2024, bringing more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience to one of the industry's most respected platforms. BioMed Realty is the largest private owner and operator of real estate for the life science, technology, and innovation industries, with an international portfolio of more than 16 million square feet of best-in-class lab and office space, spanning premier innovation hubs across the United States and the United Kingdom. Founded on the principle of providing mission-critical infrastructure that expands the innovation capacity of its tenants, BioMed has built a reputation for engineering and operating highly specialized lab environments that companies depend on to perform their most critical work. The company's purpose-built facilities are designed with robust power capacity, adaptable lab grids, and advanced mechanical and utility systems — the kind of complex building infrastructure that demands deep operational expertise and uncompromising standards. Bob's leadership is central to upholding this standard across BioMed's West Coast and Mountain markets. His background spans operations, asset management, development, property and construction management, and real estate finance — a breadth of experience that equips him to oversee both the technical complexity and the day-to-day performance of world-class research environments. A commitment to operational excellence and strong client and investor relationships guides his approach at every level. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Arizona State University and an MBA from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado.

  BioMed Realty, A Blackstone Portfolio Company

  SVP

  Bob Nowak

  SVP

  BioMed Realty, A Blackstone Portfolio Company

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  Robert Fagnant

  An associate partner with Syska Hennessy Group, Robert manages staff and projects across the multi-discipline MEP services. Robert has extensive experience with laboratory and life sciences projects including spaces for ISO cleanroom pharma manufacturing, electron microscopy, mass spectroscopy, BSL-3 containment, NMR environments, neuropharmacology and electrophysiology. He’s worked on projects with The Scripps Research Institute, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, The Burnham Institute, Pfizer and Genentech. Robert’s depth of experience in both design and project management enhances collaboration with owners, architects, and contractors.

  Syska Hennessy Group

  Associate Partner

  Robert Fagnant

  Associate Partner

  Syska Hennessy Group

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  Trevor Wells

  Trevor Wells, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is an Associate Vice President and Principal in the Science + Technology practice in San Diego. With more than 25 years of architectural experience, Trevor brings expertise in the design and planning of interdisciplinary physical sciences and engineering environments, biocontainment laboratories, vivaria, cleanrooms, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. As a licensed Architect and a LEED Accredited Professional, he implements his experience in planning, interpreting, organizing, and managing projects through all phases of development, including establishing and monitoring budgets, managing the project team, and preparing schedules to ensure efficient utilization of resources. Trevor will focus on growing the firm’s life science client base and design expertise in research facilities throughout southern California. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.

  HGA

  Principal

  Trevor Wells

  Principal

  HGA

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  Brenna Underwood

  Brenna Underwood has more than eight years of experience in the construction industry, delivering a diverse portfolio of high-profile laboratory, cleanroom, research and development, data center, secure space, advanced manufacturing, corporate office, and repositioning projects across Southern California. In her role as senior project manager, she serves as the primary point of contact for clients throughout the construction process, ensuring project success by monitoring client satisfaction, team effectiveness, and resource allocation, as well as each project’s financial, quality, safety, and schedule goals. Brenna leads preconstruction and budgeting efforts, subcontractor procurement, change management, and project closeout. During her time at HITT, she has built a notable portfolio of life sciences clients, including HATCHSpaces, PHASE Scientific, AstraZeneca, Abbvie, Metic Labs, Appia Bio, BioscienceLA, and Instil Bio. She is affiliated with Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and Women in Bio (WIB) and is currently overseeing a test cell secure laboratory renovation in Anaheim, California, along with several corporate office and laboratory projects in Los Angeles.

  HITT Contracting

  Senior Project Manager

  Brenna Underwood

  Senior Project Manager

  HITT Contracting

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  Travis Jeffries

  Travis is a transactional attorney with comprehensive experience representing developers and property owners in all aspects of life science, retail, office, and mixed-use assets, including the negotiation and drafting of leases, purchase and sale agreements, development and management agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, and all other agreements related to the acquisition, construction, development, operation, and repositioning of commercial projects. Travis also represents master developers in public-private partnerships, including drafting and negotiating their long-term ground leases. Travis’ clients appreciate his ability to thoroughly analyze and explain the legal complexities of a situation, while balancing the practical, business, and strategic ramifications of potential options, and his ability to creatively develop solutions to complex matters. He understands that legal issues are not one-dimensional, and it is often necessary to approach issues holistically and provide counsel that draws upon several disciplines to provide the highest quality legal representation. Travis’ diverse experience, attention to detail, solution-oriented mindset, and in- depth legal knowledge provides clients with customized, comprehensive, and practical legal counsel aimed at achieving their objectives. Travis is licensed in three states. He earned his B.A. in Hispanic Literature and Latin American History from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he was captain of the men’s soccer team. He received his J.D. from The University of Illinois at Chicago, John Marshall Law School where he received two CALI Awards in Real Estate Transactions and Constitutional Law. He has also worked and lived in Cuba, Spain, Mexico, and Ecuador.

  Cox, Castle & Nicholson

  Senior Counsel

  Moderator

  Travis Jeffries

  Senior Counsel

  Cox, Castle & Nicholson