Kevin developed the Client Solutions Group within Cornish & Carey Commercial ("C&C") that provides a range of bespoke services for corporate customers. Kevin's corporate and service career spans 34 years, as both a user and manager of corporate real estate and in the provision of services to the industry.

Kevin came to C&C from Cushman & Wakefield, where he was Managing Director, International Corporate Services, responsible for the overall strategy, marketing, sales and delivery of Corporate Services in 43 countries outside the United States and was instrumental in the process that shaped C&W's current global presence, particularly in Asia Pacific. In this capacity, he traveled extensively throughout North America, South America, EMEA and Asia.

Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Kevin was Managing Director of the United States & the Americas for Colliers Jardine. As the senior US-based executive, he was responsible for a sales and marketing team producing and servicing business for Colliers' offices in some forty Asia Pacific locations. Before Colliers Jardine, Kevin owned a successful Silicon Valley commercial brokerage company.

During the early 1990's, Kevin and his teams were responsible for several pioneering innovations in servicing the international needs of US-based companies. At both Colliers and Cushman & Wakefield, Kevin's teams developed the structure for, won and serviced the first international corporate real estate accounts ever awarded by companies such as Whirlpool, Microsoft, Bank of Boston, General Motors, Ford Motor, Disney, ACNielsen, Westinghouse, McGraw Hill, Pitney Bowes and ABN Amro Bank.

Prior to his brokerage career, Kevin spent 15 years as Worldwide Director of Corporate Real Estate for Atari, Western Area Facilities & Real Estate Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation and Facilities Planning Manager for Puget Power.

Kevin is a popular speaker on servicing clients globally and the aspects of doing business in Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America.

Kevin graduated Magna cum laude from Seattle University and holds a BA in Urban Planning.

He was a member of and sat on the Editorial Board for the North American Council of Corporate Real Estate Executives (NACORE). He had also been a member of the International Development Research Council (IDRC) for twenty years and is now a full member of CoreNet Global.

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Jay R. Belquist, CPA
Senior Vice President
Cornish & Carey Commercial ONCOR International
(408) 987-4195
jbelquist@ccarey.com

Jay is a Senior Vice President in the Client Solutions Group within Cornish & Carey ("C&C") and responsible for the Financial Advisory group. As such, he advises C&C's clients on determining optimal real estate-based, financial and transactional methodologies. This includes structuring and financial engineering real estate transactions aimed at maximizing critical benefits including cash flow, GAAP/financial statement reporting and capital (re) deployment.

Prior to joining Cornish & Carey, Jay was Director and regional head of Cushman & Wakefield's Financial Consulting Group where he was responsible for strategy, marketing, sales and delivery of real estate-based financial consulting.

Before Cushman & Wakefield, he spent seven years at Price Waterhouse, LLP, where he was a manager in the Real Estate Industry Services Group providing accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services to real estate companies involved in portfolio and asset management, property management, construction management, hotel and resort operation and real estate development.

Jay holds a B.S. in Accounting and Business from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a licensed State of California Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also is a licensed California Real Estate Salesperson.

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San Francisco Bay Area veteran executive Joe Hamilton joined Cornish & Carey's Client Solutions Group in May 2007 as Senior Vice President focused on offering Strategic Planning and Advisory Services for our clients. Joe brings an impressive background in a range of executive leadership roles in the real estate, financial and professional services fields to his role at Cornish & Carey Commercial.

Joe’s Strategic Planning and Advisory Practice is built on a sophisticated approach to solving complex real estate problems with a combination of a deep understanding of business strategy, corporate finance and real estate market dynamics.

Prior to joining Cornish & Carey Commercial, Joe was Senior Managing Director at Liberty-Greenfield California where he initiated Liberty-Greenfield’s Silicon Valley based office in 2003 and helped build the firm’s successful track record in the Northern California market. At Liberty-Greenfield, Joe handled the acquisition of over 330,000 square feet of data center assets for Equinix and he worked closely on multiple assignments with Sun Microsystems, Blue Shield of California and FormFactor.

Prior to joining Liberty-Greenfield, Joe ran a management consulting practice that supported the key strategic and operational needs of CEOs. Before that, he was president and COO of Citigate Cunningham, an international marketing consulting firm focused on technology industry leaders. Joe also served as CFO, CAO and a member of the Board of Directors of the Grubb & Ellis Company, an NYSE listed national real estate firm. Earlier in his career, Joe was an executive at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco and Citibank in New York.

Joe is a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the Northern California Chapter of CoreNet Global.

Joe holds a BA in Mathematics from Fordham University, an MS in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from Columbia University and an MBA in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley.

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“In the time Jay Phillips has supported the real estate requirements of our Company, we have found that we can rely upon his performance in both solving problems and in realizing opportunities. He has never failed to exceed our expectations.”
Terry Schmid, Chief Financial Officer, ONI Systems, Inc.

“The results of his efforts were impressive. "The transaction structure" allowed us to improve cash flow to help fuel our expansion program and maintain maximum flexibility."
Arthur W. Zafiropoulo, President and CEO, Ultratech Stepper, Inc.

Today, Jay leads a team of professionals providing leading edge real estate solutions (at little or no cost to the client) that have proved effective in reducing costs, improving productivity, and increasing flexibility in his client’s real estate commitments. The team’s experience in brokerage, facilities management, construction management, finance and international real estate enable them to provide effective real estate solutions and services to small and large companies alike.

Firms such as BEA Systems, Portal Software, Vitria Technology, Skystream Networks, and ONI Systems, among others have relied on his expertise for many years. Jay’s comprehensive understanding of the real estate market and corporate facilities needs make him highly qualified and capable of providing a unique and valuable service to his clients.

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Sherry Gubera
Senior Advisor, LEED AP
Cornish & Carey Commercial ONCOR International
(408) 987-4169
sgubera@ccarey.com

Sherry Gubera joined Cornish & Carey Client Solutions in February, 2005. Prior to joining Cornish & Carey, Sherry built a successful career at One Workplace, the largest furniture dealer in the Bay Area. With projects totaling over 7 million square feet, she managed a multi-disciplinary team and grew sales volume each year by a 20-30% increase and reached 10.7 Million in Sales revenue. While a long-time member of the President's Club, in 2000, she earned the Steelcase Partner of the Year Award for Northern California. In 2002, Sherry earned the honor of Top 10 Sales in the US for the new Steelcase systems product introduction.

Sherry's background in Sales within a team environment is perfectly suited for the challenges of working in Real Estate Brokerage. Her 15 years of experience in managing projects from development to completion serve her Clients with an unsurpassed level of customer service.

Some of Sherry's previous clients include Abbott Laboratories, LifeScan, Geron Corporation, Molecular Devices, Applied Biosystems, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Interwoven, Quintus, New Focus, The Learning Company, Turbolinux, Quantum Corporation, iomega, Ziff-Davis, Pennie & Edmonds, Latham & Watkins, eLoan, Positive Communications, ePeople and Kanisa.

Sherry joined the Client Solutions Team working with Jay Phillips, primarily focusing on Tenant Representation engagements with high technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Both large and small companies find their process to be consultative first and transactional second. Together, Jay, a veteran of Corporate Real Estate, and Sherry, a workplace consultant, lead a team of corporate real estate advisors, workplace planners, project managers, and tax and accounting experts in building long-term relationships focused on excellence in customer service.

Sherry was born and raised in Fremont, California. She graduated with Honors from San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design.

Sherry resides in Alamo with her husband and three children. She enjoys spending time with her family and is an enthusiastic volunteer in Community activities. She is an avid runner and recently finished her first marathon.

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As a member of the Client Solutions Group within Cornish & Carey, Armand uses his considerable experience as a business owner and financial manager as well as the broad array of advanced strategic and tactical services available through Client Solutions to provide his customers a very high level of service.

Beginning in 1993, Armand formed the Sologne Restaurant Group, Inc. and operated several well known, high-end restaurants in the San Jose area. His responsibilities included:

• Financial & Business Manager for the corporation including profit and loss, vendor relations, contract and lease negotiations, acquiring capital and funding for business expansion, growth and oversight of $2.8 million of annual revenue.

• Marketing & Sales responsibilities for corporation by designing campaigns and logos, creating marketing programs to increase sales revenue and increase client base.

• General Manager of corporation for day-to-day business as well as long-term planning and management of over 45 employees and managers.

Armand commenced his commercial real estate career at Grubb & Ellis in 2006 and joined C&C in 2008.

CLIENT REPRESENTATION

• Novellus Semiconductor
• Amwest Braun
• Modern Ceramics
• Pen Power, Inc.
• Creative Solutions
• GT Jordan Electric
• REIG Construction
• HPC Systems
• Nanochip, Inc.
• Blackwell Homes
• Experimental Associates

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Member of Association of Silicon Valley Brokers
• 2003-2005 Board Member for San Jose Convention and Visitor Bureau
• 2004-2005 Chair of the board development committee for San Jose Convention and Visitor Bureau
• 1993-2005 Member of San Jose Downtown Association
• 2004 Speaker for the Youth Leadership of America
• 2000-2005 Active sponsor & contributor to the San Jose Repertory Theatre

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Ryan Brandenburg
Associate
Cornish & Carey Commercial ONCOR International
(408) 982-8453
rbrandenburg@ccarey.com

Ryan is a new and welcomed addition to Cornish & Carey’s highly reputable Client Solutions Team. Ryan specializes in tenant representation with a focus on leasing office and office/R&D space for high tech users in the Silicon Valley. Ryan is fortunate to have started his career working with Jay Phillips and Jon Condrey; two of the Bay Area’s leading tenant representation brokers who are also part of the Client Solutions Team.

Before joining Cornish & Carey, Ryan was a personal trainer for numerous Silicon Valley executives. The hours spent with these individuals helped Ryan to gain a deep understanding of the Valley and the inner workings of technology companies and the challenges that they face. This experience also created strong, lasting, relationships based on trust and Ryan’s strong communication and organizational skills.

Ryan’s athletic background taught him perseverance and provided him strength of character. Ryan is a student of Mixed Martial Arts and enjoys riding his dirt bike and hanging out with his Girlfriend Megan and their dog Tica.

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Brent Baskfield
Director, Facility Services
Corporate Real Estate Services

As Director of Facility Services Brent leads a 30-person team of United Properties employees who perform facilities management and engineering for MIPS Technology in Mountain View and SGI in Eagan, MN; Chippewa Falls, WI and Mountain View, CA. Brent is also responsible for the 21 SGI field office sites throughout the United States and Canada. His primary focus is working as the client relationship manager for our Facility Management Group. In this role Brent, works to enusre that expectations for the delivery of facilities services are exceeded.

Brent brings to a rich background of executive and operational management experience with a focus on customer service and communications. He served as Vice President of Northwest Airlines for over ten years in the areas of Public Relations, In-flight Service, Ground Service and Customer Relations. Recently, he headed the client services division of a major marketing firm in the Twin Cities.

Active in civic affairs, Brent earned his bachelor of arts degree in Political Science and Speech from the University of Minnesota.

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Meredith Kern
Director
Portfolio Administration

As Director, Client Solutions for Portfolio Solutions Group, Meredith’s responsibilities include business development, and project management. Since joining PSG in September of 1999, she has successfully implemented cost-effective abstracting and data entry solutions involving over 2,000 leases and 6 different databases.

In February of 2000, Meredith managed a 400-lease abstracting and data entry project, with a staff of 5, for a national fast food restaurant chain. Throughout the four-month project, Meredith developed a custom abstract, which allowed the client to access all of their required information. Meredith assisted in the mapping of the client’s data from excel workbooks into the database, as well as beta-tested the new version of the software.

In late 1999 Meredith managed a project team responsible for abstracting and auditing 350 leases for a Chicago based REIT. She supervised the monthly billing and collection of rents, rent roll reconciliation’s, resolving lease issues for 30 retail shopping centers, coordinating and imaging lease files, lease abstracting and custom report writing through Crystal Reports, Lotus Notes and Excel.

Prior to joining Portfolio Solutions Group in 1999, Meredith was with Scribcor, Inc. where she supervised a project team and assisted in the successful implementation of projects for Sears, and BankBoston.

Meredith graduated from Denison University in Ohio with a B.A in Communications and English Literature.

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Michael Hanneken, M.Arch., CCIM
Real Estate Strategies & Solutions

As the strategic planner for Cornish & Carey Client Solutions, Michael performs situation assessments to advise clients in the alignment of their current property assets and workplace environment to desired corporate business practices and objectives.

Michael has represented owners and occupiers under diverse contract structures, consulting clients on preconstruction negotiations, location selection, workplace programming, schedule estimation, and budget forecasting. He undertakes the acquisition of design, construction and relocation best-in-class providers - creating a client tailored solution from the full spectrum of project delivery methods.

Well versed in facility operations, Michael guides clients on furniture, fixtures, equipment, signage, audio-video conferencing, security, communication and mechanical & electrical system integration. He demonstrates expertise in comparing potential locations based on net present value of all-inclusive (direct and indirect) occupancy budgets.

Over the past nine years in northern California, he has successfully managed in the public and private sectors, completing healthcare, education, institution, commercial office and advanced technology projects.

Prior to affiliation with Client Solutions, Michael was an Owner Representative for Sun Microsystems' fast-track development of a 1.2 million gross square-foot Silicon Valley campus. The project consisted of nine build-to-suit class 'A' office and server laboratory buildings. Michael's team was responsible for cradle-to-grave management of the 47-acre greenfield site, building shell/core and interiors for an on schedule occupancy below established budget.

Employing industry best practices to achieve client goals, Michael's approach has a proven track record of success in over two million square-feet of property for companies such as Plantronics, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Downey Brand, LLP, Marin General Hospital and Tellabs, Inc.

Michael obtained a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and is a California licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner and General Engineering & Building Contractor. He serves as Corporate Relations Vice President of the international Project Management Institute (PMI), Bay Area Chapter and is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM). Michael has lived in the Bay Area with his wife since 1996. They have two children and enjoy sea kayaking, golf, tennis, and scuba diving.

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Timothy G. Doss, CPA
Principal
Ad Valorem Solutions

Timothy G. Doss co-founded AVS in 1997 and has been actively involved in property tax management and consulting for the over twenty-five years. His experience includes working as a managing partner in the tax practice at a Big Six accounting firm; as a tax manager at a Fortune 100 company and a Big Eight accounting firm and as a staff appraiser for a California County Assessor. Mr. Doss has special experience in complex and unusual tax situations, including possessory interest valuation cases. His additional interests include property tax management enhancement, administration and dispute resolution.

Mr. Doss is an active member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, the California Assessors' Association, the Institute for Real Estate Management and a past member of the Mayor's Fiscal Advisory Committee in San Francisco. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He completed postgraduate studies in strategic management at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

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Theodore F. Bayer, JD
Principal
Ad Valorem Solutions

Theodore F. Bayer co-founded AVS in 1997 and is a California attorney specializing in transactional real estate with an emphasis in real and personal property tax matters and commercial leasing. Mr. Bayer received his BS in Business and Economics from Lehigh University. After service in the U.S. Air Force as a 1st Lieutenant, Mr. Bayer received his Juris Doctor from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has held a California real estate broker's license since 1980.

Mr. Bayer is admitted to practice before all California courts, the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and Central District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the San Francisco Bar Association (Real Property Subsection), the California State Bar Association (Real Property Section), and the California Assessors' Association. Mr. Bayer is a past President of the Board of Directors of the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco and the past President of the Board at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, California.

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Bob Falciani, P.E.
Partner
AlfaTech

Bob is a partner at Alfa Tech, and is a 30-year veteran in the strategic planning, development, project management and design and construction of facilities worldwide.

During his career, Bob has been involved in the management of the planning, design, construction and start-up of worldwide commercial and industrial manufacturing projects of all types, totaling over $10 billion in construction value, with operations exceeding one million square feet.

Bob has orchestrated the planning and execution of advanced technology facilities, including design and design/build projects in the telecommunications, biopharmaceutical and electronics industries from planning, and concept development through operation. Bob’s commission has involved the development and implementation of unique project delivery approaches, including fast-track design-assist, project management/construction management and design/build at risk. Projects under his purview are located throughout the USA, Asia and Europe.

Bob’s credentials include a BSME, MSME and a second post-graduate MBA degree in Finance and Business Strategic Planning.

Bob is active in the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), and the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE).

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Gina Caruso
President
Relocation Connections, Inc.

Gina has extensive experience in project management and has designed and implemented numerous business relocation programs. This has included coordinating the relocation of computer systems, phone systems, furniture and people, as well as the coordination of construction, architectural plans and space planning. Through her excellent organizational skills and system background, she combines the extensive detail associated with a business move and trims it down to a manageable project.

During the thirteen years Relocation Connections has been in business, Gina has grown the company from a small provider of move coordination services to the leading full service relocation management consulting firm in the East Bay, with services ranging from construction management to post-move asset disposal, lease administration and space management. Her passionate commitment to outstanding customer service has remained a core focus of the company.

Prior to starting Relocation Connections Inc. in 1989, Gina spent six years as the Director of Corporate Automation and Administration for a major financial services company. In this role, she developed and implemented the company's strategic direction for office technology and telecommunications and through a staff of 50 professionals managed the corporate facility. Prior to working in financial services, Gina spent 10 years in law firms as a litigation support and legal technology specialist.

Gina has received several East Bay Business Times awards including Fastest Growing Private Companies, Women in Leadership, and Largest Woman Owned Businesses in the Bay Area. Gina has a degree in Psychology and Education from Loyola-Marymount University and is a member of the International Facility Management Association.

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