Real Perspectives Podcast

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...

You should not be thinking about opening your office post-COVID before you speak with our next guest. A creative and innovative industry veteran, Laurie Sewell rose through the ranks at Servicon since she joined the company in 1988, working in payroll, supplies, inventory control and distribution, and appointed President of Servicon in 2008. She oversaw a management restructuring in 2014 that led...

Today, we sit down with Doug Demers, the managing principal of the Seattle office of B+H, a global architecture and design strategy firm. Doug is, first and foremost, an entrepreneur – in business, at play, and in life there is nothing he approaches without wondering how he could do things differently and improve the outcome. His entire Advance Strategy team, located in the Seattle studio he found...

Today, we are excited to talk to Nellie Hayat and Parin Ahmadi, co-founders of Workplaced , a brand new commercial real estate venture that connects industry experts with employers that want to build world–class employee & workplace experiences! Nellie is a former workplace strategist at Stripe. She specializes in employee experience and advises companies on how to design and curate spaces to...

Today, we have an opportunity to chat with one of The Registry’s oldest friends, the affable Paul Zeger. Paul has been instrumental in helping us get off the ground back in 2008 and served at one time on our Editorial Board. Paul is a partner in the San Francisco-based Polaris Pacific where for over 30 years, he’s helped lead his clients in identifying and capitalizing on residential-development o...

Rob Zirkle is the founding principal at Brick, an Oakland, California-based architecture firm that describes itself as friendly, un-conventional, can-do architects. Rob brings a strong record of successful and recognized design excellence to a wide variety of project types in both architecture, interiors, and urban design. Having studied under noted Pritzker prize-winning architect Glen Murcutt, R...

Rex Hime is the President & CEO of the California Business Properties Association. CBPA is the recognized voice of all aspects of the commercial retail industrial real estate industry in California — representing the largest commercial real estate consortium with over 10,000 industry members. Established in 1972, CBPA proudly serves as the legislative and regulatory advocate for property owner...

Shannon Loew, is the founder and CEO of Settle-based Hatchback Cottages. The company was created to increase housing options in Seattle while complementing the character of the neighborhoods people love. By generating the opportunity for supplemental income, Hatchback can help stabilize homeowners and create options for their future, which helps families and communities stay connected. The company...

Alan Collenette is a great friend of The Registry and someone with whom we have been collaborating for many years in his capacity as a commercial real estate industry leader. Over the past decade, as a Managing Director of Colliers leading the firm’s efforts across Northern California, Alan created and led a rapid expansion strategy for Colliers' brokerage operations in San Francisco by recruiting...

Today, we sit down with Veronica Givone. She was recently hired by IA Interior Architects in their London office as Managing Director and head of the firm’s hospitality practice. Veronica will drive the firm’s global hospitality market efforts to develop and expand the practice and collaborate with the firm’s bank of talented design and architectural professionals. Veronica brings deep expertise a...