Real Perspectives Podcast

Peter Conte 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. Peter is the Bay Area head of Transwestern's BioTech Advisory Group, leading the company's efforts in life science...

Bob Tiscareno is the founder and principal of Seattle-based Tiscareno Associates , an architecture firm focused on bringing design vision in mixed-use and multifamily developments across the greater Puget Sound region. Bob started the form in 2002 and built it into a mid-size, full-service architecture and planning firm.  Bob’s mantra is all about forgetting egos and forgoing habits and letting go...

As the owner and sole proprietor of SECO Development , Michael has experience in real estate development that stretches over three decades. He has been purchasing and building real estate since 1980, but he formed SECO Development in 1989 and has been developing mixed-use projects in Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, and Renton.   As a principal in SECO, Michael is intimately involved in all aspects of...

Today, I sit down with Maddie Meyersieck and Jack Seymour , two younger members of the commercial real estate community in San Francisco to talk about their perspective on the market, and how today’s environment is shaping not just their industry but also their young careers. Maddie is a Senior Associate and Jack is an Associate in agency leasing and tenant advisory with Transwestern in San Franci...

Jessica Grimes is the Chief Marketing Officer of Compass California , a division of Compass , formerly Pacific Union International.   A recognized leader in the industry, Grimes has led creative services, branding, advertising and marketing strategies and teams since 2012, guiding Pacific Union through its growth as a boutique luxury real estate brokerage to its current stage today as Compass Cali...

A son of an artist and cabinet maker, Mark Quattrocchi grew up surrounded by drawings and sawdust, influencing his decision to take drafting as his seventh-grade elective. From this early age, he knew he was going to be an architect. Paying for his architecture education by his carpentry work, he graduated equipped with a Master of Architecture degree and a keen understanding of construction, perf...

Dafna Kaplan is the founding CEO of Cassette , a Los Angeles-based fully-integrated modular system provider. As a veteran of both consumer tech and construction industries, she observed the need for a tech-driven innovator committed to working through and with the people that make buildings happen. Cassette sells its own systems within a wrap-around service model, and also offers these services in...

Today, we have an opportunity to sit down with Julie Faupel, the founder and CEO of REALM , a proprietary and patented platform made to bring real change in the way luxury real estate is transacted. REALM connects real estate professionals and their clientele to properties that fit their personalized needs and lifestyles, creating a bespoke experience that will take the guesswork out of the equati...

Lisa Novak is the Head of HR and Talent at Austin-based data.world , a company focused on making it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Their cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. Lisa...

Julie Satterwhite Chief Marketing Officer - PAE Engineers As PAE ’s Chief Marketing Officer, Julie is passionate about bringing clients the message of PAE ’s caring and conscientious people who seek to help solve the world’s energy and water challenges through high performing building design. Julie helps to strengthen relationships with clients and industry partners while working with principals a...

Today, we sit down with Matt Slepin, the founder of Terra Search Partners , a Bay Area-based executive search firm that specializes in the real estate industry. Matt is an old friend of ours and has collaborated with The Registry over the years.  Matt founded his firm around the concept that retained executive search has the power to help clients beyond the job placement. The Terra Search approach...

Today, we sit down with Wendi Baker and Don Capobres of Harmonie Park , a Bay Area-based development company focused on creating thriving mixed-use communities. Don and Wendi started Harmonie after collaborating for years on Grosvenor’s North 40 development in Los Gatos, California. Don, then an executive with Grosvenor, and Wendi, who worked for SummerHill Homes, decided to take the plunge and fo...

Phillip Raub is the chief executive officer of Oakland-based Model No. , an innovative furniture design and manufacturing enterprise that is looking to turn this centuries-old business on its head with a 3-D printing business model. Bringing experiences as co-founder of the technology retailer b8ta and a leader at Nest, Toys “R” Us and Nintendo, to name a few, Phillip and his team are looking at i...

David Greensfelder is a managing principal at Greensfelder Real Estate Strategy and a founding advisor at a retail development e-commerce enterprise called TruLocal. David works nationally with companies in providing strategic planning, market analytics and location intelligence, and real estate development services to occupiers, communities, financial institutions and investors nationally. Always...

David Gull is the founder and chief executive officer at Outer Realm , a virtual realty startup whose mission is to help real estate companies fully sell and lease their projects before they are built. David is an industry veteran who started in the business as an architect and worked with one of the world’s most renowned architecture firms, Skidmore Owings and Merrill. Following his love for inno...

Julie Treppa is a partner in San Francisco-based Farella Braun + Martel . She is a versatile, highly experienced practitioner with expertise in a broad range of tax-related issues and controversies involving federal, state and other taxing authorities. Julie is particularly experienced in developing strategies to help investors, developers, businesses and non-profit organizations use tax incentive...

Christopher Yip is a partner at RET Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on the property technology or PropTech space. He’s based in San Francisco and works with his colleagues who are all based out of Park City, UT, evaluating opportunities that will transform the real estate space in the future. Prior to RET, Chris spent twelve years at the global private equity firm TPG, where he led growt...

Cecilia Quezada is the president and Julia Campbell a partner in San Francisco-based Quezada Architecture , one of few women-owned and managed architecture firms in the Bay Area. Friends for many years and partners over the last year and a half, Cecilia and Julia share the same ambitious and pioneering spirit for design as they do for life.  Cecilia’s meandering way to San Francisco began in Argen...

Jeff Berkes is an executive vice president and western region president for Federal Realty, one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate REITs. He is responsible for leading Federal Realty’s West Coast leasing, development, asset management, and acquisitions teams; achieving corporate P&L goals; and growing Federal’s Western portfolio. Prior to his current role, Jeff served as chief inve...

Jordan Moss is the founder of Catalyst Housing Group , a Larkspur, California-based housing investor that focuses on building healthier communities throughout the state of California. Catalyst works in partnership with California Community Housing Agency ( CalCHA ) with which it has already invested over $550 million of premier multifamily rental communities throughout Northern California. These a...

Michael Harder is the Vice President and General Manager for Mortenson’s Seattle office. Michael joined Mortenson in 1994 on the Northridge Mall project. He then worked for a brief time in the Seattle office on the Federal Detention Center project before relocating to San Francisco to lead the seismic retrofit of the company’s Kaiser Permanente Hospital project. Michael returned to Seattle in 2000...

A3 Workplace Strategies is a Bay Area-based commercial office workplace solutions company focused on office design, process alignment, project implementation management, corporate facilities management and architecture. Robin Weckesser is its founder who after years of working in corporate real estate at Apple and running a workplace solutions practice for Cresa in Silicon Valley ventured on his o...

Ken Lowney founded Lowney Architecture in the Bay Area in 2003 and is the President of the firm. Ken’s approach to architecture is rooted in his belief that architecture is more than simply buildings; and, if thoughtfully and responsibly done it can positively contribute to society and advance a community. We talk with Ken today about the process of forming his own business, the challenges with do...

Keith Craw began his career in construction working for a custom home builder in California’s Central Valley. Since joining Blach Construction in 2006, he has made significant contributions to the operations team, working his way up from project manager to project executive and currently, as vice president, operations. In this role, Keith is immersed in strategic planning and staffing for all proj...

The Registry and Transwestern extend their partnership in telling startup stories from across the Bay Area and their impact on the real estate market in the region. This is the first podcast where we sit with Jack Seymour to talk to one such startup and try to understand the impact of the economic shifts on its business. As the first U.S. employee at Talkdesk, Shauna Geraghty helped scale Talkdesk...