The Future of Emeryville

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  Geoffrey Sears

  Wareham Development is committed to the long-term economic and environmental vitality of our communities. We work closely with city and state agencies to ensure that each project provides maximum benefit to its surrounding community. Unlike many developers who build projects only to sell, we retain ownership of the majority of our developments, many of which have defined the thriving technology corridor between the Bay and Richmond-San Rafael bridges.

  Wareham Development

  Partner

  Geoffrey Sears

  Partner

  Wareham Development

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  Chris Barrango

  Vice President, Project Management

  Rossi Builders

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  Chadrick Smalley

  Economic Development Manager

  City of Emeryville

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  Jeff Brink

  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.

  DCI Engineers

  Principal and CEO

  Jeff Brink

  Principal and CEO

  DCI Engineers

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  Chris Goetz

  Chris Goetz is the COO of Ideal Restoration, an emergency response & building recovery contractor, servicing properties with sensitive indoor environments such as life science and hospital buildings throughout the Bay Area. Prior to joining Ideal team at the start of 2021, Chris previously held leadership roles in K-12 education organizations, most recently as the COO at Galileo Learning. Overseeing all of Ideal's company operations, Chris leads an experienced team of professionals who are committed to helping property operators quickly recover and reduce costly, slow decision making in the event of building emergencies. Chris lives in the East Bay with his wife and their two teenagers.

  Ideal Restoration

  Chief Operating Officer

  Moderator

  Chris Goetz

  Chief Operating Officer

  Ideal Restoration

Life Sciences Today

How Tenants, Owners, Developers & Investors Weathered the past year

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  Douglas Crawford

  Doug’s goal is to help entrepreneurial scientists create successful startups. To this end, Doug and his colleagues have systematically lowered the barriers between great ideas and successful companies. For instance, Doug created and manages MBC BioLabs. This state-of-the-art co-working laboratory network in San Francisco and San Carlos allows entrepreneurs to rapidly generate data without getting bogged down in facility management. Rather than spending months getting a facility up and running, MBC BioLabs startups can generate important data in their first week. In the first 8 years, this program has helped launch 245 companies that have brought 55 programs to the clinic and have raised over $10.5B. This incubator program reflects Doug’s passion for startups and his eagerness to help entrepreneurs overcome challenges. Doug is also a Managing Partner at Mission BioCapital, which provides early-stage capital to the next generation of awesome life science entrepreneurs. Founded in 2009, Mission BioCapital is now investing out of their fifth fund.

  Managing Partner, Mission BioCapital & GM, MBC Biolabs

  Managing Director, Mission Bay Capital

  Douglas Crawford

  Managing Director, Mission Bay Capital

  Managing Partner, Mission BioCapital & GM, MBC Biolabs

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  Becka Studer

  Becka represents P3RE as the Leasing Manager for our entire Bay Area life science portfolio. Her 10 years of experience within the real estate industry has equipped her with exceptional knowledge of negotiation, marketing implementation and management skills for these Class A assets. The dexterity of her negotiation skills sustains the sophistication of GENESIS while providing tenants with Class A service. Her robust background in marketing allows for strong implementation in optimizing, maintaining, and monitoring the marketing efforts with the re-purposed vision of GENESIS to the Life Science community. In addition, Becka facilitates management across the project while being the main liaison to ensure productivity, leasing operations, implementing policies and standards. Becka completed her Bachelors of Arts in Communications at California State University of San Marcos. She also holds her California Real Estate License.

  Phase 3 Real Estate Partners

  Leasing Manager

  Becka Studer

  Leasing Manager

  Phase 3 Real Estate Partners

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  Kevin Koblik

  Senior associate working with MBH Architects since 2007, Kevin Koblik has a versatile skill set gained on a variety of project types including laboratories, large scale multi-family housing projects, and commercial workspace renovations and designs. Notably, Kevin has been instrumental in the growth of MBH’s research and development project portfolio, spearheading MBH’s efforts designing life science lab spaces across the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, Kevin completed a 30,000 square foot coworking lab space for MBC BioLabs in San Carlos, which opened as an essential business in Summer 2020. The project will become part of a larger energy efficient lab campus when an adjacent ground up laboratory project, also designed and executed by MBH, is complete. Currently, Kevin is managing Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, the conversion of the former Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive into life science laboratories. He has presented the technical design challenges of this unique project at multiple architectural conferences and AIA events. In addition to his laboratory work, Kevin played a key role in overseeing the renovation of Oakland’s famed Capwell’s department store into Uptown Station, a mixed use building now home to a major tech company. Kevin’s capacity to adapt to all types of projects and handle challenges that are thrown his way while remaining practical and level-headed makes him an asset to his team and projects. Kevin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.

  MBH Architects

  Senior Associate

  Kevin Koblik

  Senior Associate

  MBH Architects

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  Evan Schwimmer

  Evan serves as Managing Director for Longfellow’s San Francisco Bay Area office. He is responsible for strategic growth and operations including oversight of acquisitions, development, property management, design and construction, asset management and leasing across properties in Northern California. Prior to Longfellow, Evan managed the San Francisco office of The John Buck Company with responsibilities for West Coast investment and development in office and residential totalling over $1.8 billion. He also led office acquisition and development activities for the Irvine Company’s Northern California region. Evan holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley

  Longfellow

  Managing Director

  Evan Schwimmer

  Managing Director

  Longfellow

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  Barry Paxton

  Barry brings over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry, and as Vice president of MAI, his responsibilities include everything from liaising with key client accounts to assisting in the growth and development of the overall firm. He provides high-level oversight of the firm’s most pertinent needs, expanding and securing new business, advising on project portfolios, and guiding internal business development projections. Barry has a wealth of experience working with clientele in life science, high technology, and education industries throughout the Bay Area, and with every project he emphasizes the importance of outstanding client service and delivering high quality results, regardless of client’s needs. With Barry’s expertise and attention to detail, you can rest assured that your project goals and expectations will always be met or exceeded.

  MAI Construction

  Vice President

  Barry Paxton

  Vice President

  MAI Construction

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  Caroline Chase

  Caroline Guibert Chase practices real estate, development, and land use law, with an emphasis on representing real estate developers in the entitlement of residential, commercial, and institutional development projects. Caroline has a unique multidisciplinary background including architecture, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) consulting, urban planning, and zoning enforcement. She has excelled at helping clients navigate the complex local and state entitlement processes throughout the Bay Area. Caroline has extensive experience with CEQA and has been involved in every step of the preparation of various CEQA documents, including the review of technical studies and the preparation of Environmental Impact Report (EIR)-required project objectives and alternatives. She is particularly well-versed in local and state historic resource issues, which often complicate the CEQA review process by triggering the need for an EIR. Caroline’s involvement and passion for her practice are also evident outside of the firm. Caroline is on the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) Board and Chair of the SFHAC Legislative Committee. Caroline is also a member of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) Housing Policy Committee and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

  Allen Matkins

  Partner

  Moderator

  Caroline Chase

  Partner

  Allen Matkins

Effectively Developing Life Sciences in the Bay Area

Best Practices for Development, Design, and Construction in 2021 and Beyond

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  Ramsey Daya

  Ramsey Daya joined Newmark in 2017 as a Vice Chairman and heads the Debt and Structured Finance team in Northern California and Pacific Northwest. Over the past 12 months, Ramsey and his team have closed approximately $900,000,000 in life science debt placements across 10 transactions throughout the Bay Area. Prior to joining Newmark, Ramsey had co-founded Regency Capital Partners in 2006, which he helped grow into the leading independent mortgage brokerage firm in Northern California. The firm specialized in complex structured debt and equity for all product types with a primary focus in Northern California. Prior to merging with Newmark, the firm was averaging over $800 million of debt placement per year. Prior to founding Regency, Ramsey was a vice president at Cohen Financial, a nationally recognized mortgage banking firm, and before that he worked in finance at Applied Materials. He began his professional career at Silicon Valley Bank.

  Newmark

  Head of Debt & Structured Finance

  Ramsey Daya

  Head of Debt & Structured Finance

  Newmark

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  Kirk Syme

  Kirk has 35 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1995 he founded Woodstock Development Inc. Prior to founding Woodstock Development, Kirk was a vice president of Coldwell Banker Commercial (now CBRE). Kirk oversees all of the company’s operations including Corporate Services, Acquisitions and Development, Property Management and Asset Management. Kirk is a graduate of Santa Clara University and he is the former Chair of the Board of Regents and a Trustee. Kirk is a past Director of Borel Private Bank & Trust where he chaired the Director’s Loan Committee. Kirk is also past Board Chair of Peninsula Family Service in San Mateo and remains on their Board as an Honorary Life member. Kirk was born and raised in San Francisco and attended St Ignatius Prep. He currently resides in Hillsborough (suburb of San Francisco) with his wife. They have 5 grown children.

  Woodstock Development

  President

  Kirk Syme

  President

  Woodstock Development

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  Mike Futrell

  Mike Futrell began serving as City Manager of South San Francisco, California, in April 2014, bringing broad executive experience in local, state and federal government. He was Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; served on staff in the United States Senate; and was an elected member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and of the Baton Rouge City Council. He served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and rose to the rank of Navy Captain in the Navy Reserves. He previously practiced law with a private firm and was Executive Vice President of a public utility company in Hawaii. Mike holds a bachelor's degree in Business/Public Administration and a Juris Doctorate degree from Louisiana State University, a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Learn-Engage-Accelerate-Disrupt (LEAD) Certificate program in Corporate Innovation.

  South San Francisco

  City Manager

  Mike Futrell

  City Manager

  South San Francisco

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  Todd Ahern

  Todd Ahern, Chief Estimator, is recognized as an industry leader in preconstruction, providing best-in-class estimating services on the region’s most complex construction projects. Todd has nearly two decades of experience executing successful bid strategies and running high performance estimating teams. Truebeck Construction is an industry-leading, full-service general contractor specializing in commercial, healthcare, life science, mission critical, education and interiors projects. With offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland, Truebeck is licensed in California, Oregon, and Washington.

  Truebeck Construction

  Chief Estimator

  Todd Ahern

  Chief Estimator

  Truebeck Construction

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  Rob Williamson

  Rob is an architect and Principal with HOK, based in the San Francisco studio. As Regional Leader of Science and Technology, Rob oversees projects between San Francisco and Seattle in the private and public sector, ranging from tenant improvements to new ground-up speculative and build-to-suit R&D buildings to multi-acre corporate campuses. Clients include biotech and technology companies at every stage of growth from early venture-backed to multi-national Fortune 500s, as well as globally recognized academic research universities. Current projects include the 10x Genomics Operations Building in Pleasanton, The Freenome headquarters in Brisbane, Longfellow’s San Mateo Bay Center in San Mateo and Redwood LIFE in Redwood Shores, BioMed Realty’s Lincoln Centre Phase 2 in Foster City, and UC Berkeley’s Heathcock Hall Chemistry Research Building. Rob lives in Lafayette where you might find him on the sports fields with his 3 children when he’s not rooting for his Cal Bears, 49ers, Giants, or Warriors.

  HOK

  Regional Leader of Science + Technology

  Moderator

  Rob Williamson

  Regional Leader of Science + Technology

  HOK

Facility Types and the Future of Architecture & Design

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  Michelle Nemits

  As Executive Director of Biocom’s South San Francisco office, Michelle is responsible for building the framework for enabling the creation of a strong, well-connected life science community in the Bay Area. She leads Biocom’s programming and benefits efforts and helps raise awareness of the region’s innovations and accomplishments. Michelle has spent over 20 years in Bay Area life science sales, marketing and business development. She has held leadership roles at a large lab supply distributor and at a biotech tools startup, which fostered her broad view of the Bay Area market, its challenges and its opportunities.

  Biocom

  Executive Director, Bay Area

  Michelle Nemits

  Executive Director, Bay Area

  Biocom

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  Joe Ernst

  Joe is a founder of srmErnst and has over 20-years of real estate experience in development, investment, asset management and finance. Joe joined SRM Associates in 1999 and was the principal in charge of all new development since 2005. Prior to SRM, Joe was a Vice President in Structured Finance with Norwest Bank Minneapolis (prior to acquisition of Wells Fargo) structuring private mortgage and asset-backed securities transactions. Joe was also a Vice President with Cargill Financial Services focused on developing a conduit for acquisition and securitization of subprime residential mortgages, and a Vice President with Piper Jaffray as a structured finance analyst involved in the acquisition, restructuring and fund management of a $1 billion portfolio of distressed residential loans and under-performing CMBS deals. Joe graduated magna cum laude from the University of Saint Thomas receiving his B.A. in Finance and Computer Science. He is a Portfolio Advisor with Inner City Advisors, an Oakland based non-profit small business and jobs advocacy group.

  srmErnst Development

  Founder

  Joe Ernst

  Founder

  srmErnst Development

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  Peter Conte

  Peter is a member of a Transwestern team that assists clients in every stage of the real estate process including: Real estate leasing or disposing of facility leases; providing strategic, long-term planning via portfolio analysis, site selection and employee location consulting. We excel in assisting early, mid and late stage funded start-ups in managing growth in terms of cost analysis with the goal of increasing their bottom line. Additionally, Peter is the Bay Area head of Transwestern's BioTech Advisory Group, leading the company's efforts in life science and biotech office and laboratory disposition, having years of professional lab experience with the USDA and public/private cancer research departments before working in brokerage. He is also a LEED® Accredited Professional, and member of the United States Green Building Council, helping to merge green building and leasing practices into commercial real estate.

  Transwestern

  National Director - Lab + Life Sciences

  Peter Conte

  National Director - Lab + Life Sciences

  Transwestern

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  Danielle McGuire

  Danielle M. McGuire AIA, DBIA is the Science Practice Director at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, overseeing the firm’s diverse global portfolio of science and engineering projects. Danielle grew-up thinking she was destined for a career in the sciences and the only question was scale - studying gluons or hot jupiters. While at University, Danielle became fascinated with how the built environment tells the story of the people for whom the buildings were created and how in turn those buildings affect those people's lives. After graduating with a Master of Architecture, Danielle worked on a wide variety of projects eventually finding her niche, combining her love of science and drive to create places to improve the lives of their inhabitants. Infinitely curious, Danielle focuses not just on understanding what is needed in research buildings today - but in working with her clients to project what will be needed in the ever changing world of discovery. With over 30 years of experience, Danielle’s portfolio includes commercial, university and government research buildings. These projects are intentionally designed to be adaptable and grounded in creating research environments that are as much about the people who work in them as they are about the equipment they use. “Even as technology advances, it’s people—their thinking, ideas, and “a-ha” moments—that are the key to discovering what we don’t yet know. We partner with our clients to create adaptable buildings to house new technology and tools, while never losing sight of the need to design good spaces for the people who fuel discoveries.” Danielle McGuire

  SOM

  Principal & Science Practice Director

  Moderator

  Danielle McGuire

  Principal & Science Practice Director

  SOM

Opening Remarks

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  Monique Salas

  Monique Salas, MPP, is the North American Director of Health & Wellness at SageGlass. In her role, she focuses on the impact Saint-Gobain SageGlass bears in Healthcare spaces. She has a rich history in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Healthcare Tech space. Monique is passionate about design that incorporates health & wellness as she has a strong belief that it uman performance. Some of her recent clients include Emory Healthcare, Geisinger Health, University of California Davis and University of California Davis Health.

  SageGlass

  National Healthcare Business Development Manager

  Monique Salas

  National Healthcare Business Development Manager

  SageGlass