Scott T. Carey
Chairman & General Counsel
scarey@ccarey.com

Scott, a fourth generation Californian, is Chairman of the Board and General Counsel for Cornish & Carey Commercial. He holds a B.A. and L.L.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

From 1955 until 1958, he served as a pilot in the United States Air Force. After graduating from Boalt School of Law at Berkeley, he was admitted to the State of California Bar and the U.S. District Court - Northern District of California in 1962. In 1976, he was admitted to the United States Supreme Court.

Scott joined Cornish & Carey in 1968 and has concentrated on commercial real estate transactions since that time. He has served as President and CEO of both the Residential and Commercial companies. In addition to real estate brokerage, he has developed both residential and commercial property and has extensive experience in negotiating with governmental agencies for the entitlement or re-entitlement of undeveloped land, including a 100-acre residential subdivision in Lafayette and a 100-acre redevelopment project for Sun Microsystems.

Scott was a Palo Alto City Councilman from 1975 to 1979 and served as the Mayor of Palo Alto during his tenure.

He was an organizer and the attorney for the Economic Opportunity Council of Northern Santa Clara County, a member of the Santa Clara County Land Use Commission, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley.

He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. The Centers goal is to research, teach and advise on the inter-relationships and impacts of the law, business and the economy, working with U.C. Berkeley’s Law School, Business School, their students and faculty, as well as the public.

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Charles E. Seufferlein
President & Chief Executive Officer
chuck@ccarey.com

Chuck Seufferlein has been actively involved in the commercial real estate industry since 1975. He began his career with Coldwell Banker Commercial in San Jose as a sales professional. During his ten years with Coldwell Banker, he transacted some of Silicon Valley's most significant deals.

Chuck's experience during those years positioned him to become the Northern California President for The Sammis Development Company in 1985. During his six years as the President and Partner at The Sammis Company, Chuck acquired and developed a multitude of projects throughout the Bay Area totaling over three million square feet. He oversaw project designation and design, asset management and construction management, new acquisitions, and marketing of all projects. He continues to manage and develop projects as a Managing Partner for CAP Associates. In 1991 he rejoined the now CB Commercial brokerage company to head up the Silicon Valley office as Senior Vice President/Managing Officer. His responsibilities also included Regional Bay Area efforts for business development and recruitment. He was awarded the J. Frank Mahoney Leadership Award for Management Excellence in both 1992 and 1993 by the Board of Directors of CB Commercial. In October of 1995, Chuck joined Cornish & Carey Commercial as Executive Vice President and Partner. In January 2000, the Board of Directors appointed him Chief Executive Officer. In June 2002, the Board of Directors appointed him President & CEO.

Chuck holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business from California State University Chico and a Masters of Business Administration Degree from the University of Santa Clara. He currently serves on the World Board of ONCOR International, the Advisory Board of Directors for the College of Business at California State University, Chico, the Board of Directors of C&C Capital, and the Board of Directors of Cornish & Carey Commercial.

A California native, he and his wife Sylvia and their three children make their home in Los Altos Hills.

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Erik Doyle
President
edoyle@ccarey.com

Erik joins Cornish & Carey as President and will focus his attention and efforts on expanding the already strong regional Investment Sales and leasing business. Erik’s impressive background comes with over 20 years of brokerage experience and development. As an Executive Vice President at CBRE, Erik was the top producer in Silicon Valley from 2004 to 2007, and the top producer for the region in 2007. A member of the Colbert Coldwell Circle, he was nationally one of the top sales professionals in CBRE’s Institutional Investment Group.

From 1998 through 2003 Erik was an Executive Vice President and Principal at Deerfield Realty Corporation. From 1984 through 1997, he was a Senior Vice President at Fox and Carskadon Commercial and Senior Vice President/ Principal at CPS, The Commercial Property Services Company. During his career, Erik has been involved with sales of over 22 million square feet of property and more than 700 acres of land with a value in excess of $5.8 billion.

During his tenure with CB Richard Ellis, Erik, his partners and team closed nearly $7.2 billion of real estate transactions and actively worked on an additional $1.1 billion. Clients have included BlackRock Realty, ING Clarion, Peery Arrillaga, RREEF, Myers Development, The Carlyle Group, Cousins Properties Incorporated, TA Associates, TIAA, Rockwood Capital, JMA Properties, Archon Group, Sprear Street Capital, Embarcadero Capital Partners, Equity Office, Deerfield Realty Corporation, Lincoln Property Company, Cornerstone Properties, First Industrial, and Kaiser Family Foundation.

Erik, along with CEO Chuck Seufferlein, will focus on Cornish & Carey’s strategic plan implementation which will include further expansion, growth, and market penetration. C&C already boasts ten offices in the Northern California market and is a California leader and consistent top producer in the commercial real estate market.

Erik holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University. He was the 2006 and 2007 Investment Broker of the Year for ASVB and is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Belden Real Estate Club of California. He and his wife Leslie have two boys, Zack and Easton and make their home in Portola Valley.

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Jay Belquist
Chief Financial Officer
jbelquist@ccarey.com

Jay joined Cornish & Carey Commercial ("C&C") in Sept. 2000 as Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for accounting, finance, marketing and information technology. At that time, he also co-created and currently manages the Financial Advisory Group within Client Solutions, the corporate real estate practice division with C&C. As head of the Financial Advisory Group, 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 development.

Client Solutions specializes in tenant representation and exclusively services the multi-market, strategic and facility management needs of clients such as BEA Systems, California Lottery, PDL Biopharma, Tellme Networks, Palm, ArthroCare, Downey Brand, Credence Systems, Pinnacle Systems, MIPS, SGI and Greater Bay Bank.

Jay is also Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer of Cornish & Carey Capital, an affiliate of C&C, which specializes in all areas of commercial real estate finance. Since its inception in May 2005, C&C Capital has closed over $3 Billion in structure debt financing primarily on the U.S. West Coast.

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 over six 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.

Throughout his 17 year career in real estate, Jay has been involved in numerous portfolio consulting assignments – some of which were individually in excess of 1.0 million square feet for companies such as U.S. West, AT&T Broadband, Coca-Cola & Dermody Property/CalPERs. He also has been involved in leasing and sales transactions in excess of $2.5 billion. Besides numerous successful advisory assignments, his closed transaction list includes the largest individual real estate deals in the Bay Area - 4 of the last 7 years – deals in excess of 1.25 million square feet.

Jay holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Business from the Leeds Business School and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he currently sit on the Board of Directors.

He is a licensed State of California Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Real Estate Salesperson. In 2007 he was recognized by the San Jose Business Journal as one of “40 under the Age of 40 of Silicon Valley’s intellectual and managerial talent” to watch in Bay Area business.

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Michael R. Brand
Executive Vice President
mbrand@ccarey.com

Mike joined Cornish & Carey Commercial in 1972 following an eight-year career as a Regional Sales Manager for Motorola Communications in Northern California. He immediately established himself as a successful salesperson by earning the trust of the local real estate developers and major corporations in their search for land and lease facilities. Many of the major business parks in Santa Clara County were assembled by him: Fair Oaks and Oakmead in Sunnyvale, Marriott, San Tomas and Mission in Santa Clara, as well as Orchard Park, River Oaks, and Oakmead in San Jose.

His professional and skillful approach to client representation has earned him the prestigious Silicon Valley “Broker of the Year” Award five times. In 2001, Mike was elected “Land Broker of the Year” by the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers for land sales that totaled in excess of $500,000,000.00. He was elected into the South Bay Brokers “Hall of Fame” in 1991. He was promoted to Partner and Executive Vice-President with Cornish & Carey Commercial in 1977.

Mike founded the Corporate/Institutional Services division of Cornish & Carey Commercial in 1989 to better serve the major clients’ needs for a broader level of real estate services. In conjunction with the ONCOR affiliation, he has completed consulting assignments and a number of major transactions for his local clients outside of “Silicon Valley.”

He specializes in land site acquisitions and dispositions, major lease requirements, and build-to-suits. During his career, Mike has sold over 6,000 acres, 80% of which has been in the Silicon Valley. He has also negotiated over 19,000,000 square feet of lease and built-to-suit transactions and improved property investment sales that exceed One Billion dollars in total sales volume. The total dollar value of all of his major transactions exceeds Five Billion dollars.

Mike is also a General Partner in a real estate development firm that has constructed over 1,550,000 square feet of commercial, industrial, and research and development buildings in the Silicon Valley. His partnerships currently retain approximately 550,000 square feet of leaseable space. This development expertise is an invaluable asset for client representations, which center around entitling property for build-to-suit based transactions or sites for acquisition or disposition, whether improved or unimproved.

Mike is an active member of the Association of South Bay Brokers (ASVB) and the NAIOP, which is funded by the majority of the nation’s largest corporations and developers. He is one of only a few service providers invited to be part of the NAIOP “strategic real estate” committee. Major Fortune 500 corporations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Intel, National Semiconductor, and Westinghouse, as well as many local major corporations and developers, have retained his services and relied on his expertise to solve their larger, more complex real estate needs.

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Howard E. Dallmar
Executive Vice President
howard@ccarey.com

Howard Dallmar is an Executive Vice President of Cornish & Carey Commercial, specializing in representing corporations and property owners in the acquisition and disposition of office and research and development properties. Specifically, "Howie" specializes in properties between Sunnyvale, to the south, and San Mateo, to the north.

Howie has distinguished himself as one of the premier real estate agents in the San Francisco Peninsula area for over twenty years. For fifteen of his last sixteen years he has received from Cornish & Carey Commercial, its prestigious top performer award for achievement that underscores his abilities and achievements. Howie was awarded the Office Broker of the Year by the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers (ASVB) in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2003. In 1998, he was inducted into the ASVB’s Hall of Fame.

Howie has represented some of the most prestigious business entities in his career of over 1,150 transactions, totaling in excess of 14.5 million square feet. Among his clients are Mozart Development Company, Metropolitan Life, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, and Stanford University.

Prior to joining Cornish & Carey Commercial, Howie was an account executive for Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company.

A San Francisco Peninsula native, Howie grew up in Menlo Park, where he currently resides with his wife and two children. He received his degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University where he played Varsity Basketball for the Pepperdine team. After graduation, he played professionally for a European team in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Bob Garner
Executive Vice President
bob@ccarey.com

Bob has maintained a top performer’s position at Cornish & Carey Commercial since joining the San Mateo office in 1986. As a leader in the San Mateo County commercial market, he was promoted to Sales Manager of the San Mateo office in 1997. In January 2003, Bob was appointed Executive Vice President and Board Member of Cornish & Carey Commercial.<p>In his 21 years of working in the real estate industry, Bob has completed over 650 lease and sales transactions and represented some of the Peninsula’s leading corporations. Some of his local clients represented include:

Specializing in office and R&D leasing, Bob has negotiated transactions for spaces ranging from 1,000 to 175,000 square feet. Among the larger tenants Bob has represented are: Sony Entertainment for 60,000 square feet of general office space; California Casualty Management Company for 55,000 square feet; Invision Technologies for 95,000 square feet and Inventa Corporation for 46,000 square feet.Bob has represented some of the speculative projects on the Mid-Peninsula, including Shorebreeze I and II, Bayside Towers, and Park Place at Bay Meadows. These successful Class A office projects are landmarks on the Mid-Peninsula.

Bob, his wife, and four children live in Los Altos Hills.

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C. Bradley Lyman
Executive Vice President
lyman@ccarey.com

"Brad" Lyman joined Cornish & Carey Commercial in November 1980, after having begun his real estate career (and being the Top Rookie Performer) with CB Commercial in June 1979. He was the top producer for Cornish & Carey for all but 2 years (finishing 2nd in each of those years) for the span 1981 through 1988. He was appointed to Executive Vice President, thereby negating future rankings within the Company.

During his 24-year commercial real estate career he has been involved in approximately $3.8 Billion of lease transactions and approximately $140 Million in sales transactions. The Association of South Bay Brokers named him to the Hall of Fame in 1993. Brad has been, and continues to be, involved in representing many large corporations in Silicon Valley, most notably Apple Computer, Varian, Xerox Corporation, etc., and law firms, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, Morrison & Foerster, McDermott, Will and Emery, and Baker & McKenzie. In addition, he devotes much time to working with owners of many office and research & development buildings in the Mountain View/Palo Alto/Menlo Park area.

For the five years prior to working in commercial real estate, Brad was the director of advertising/promotion for the distributor of Adidas products for the 13 western states. Prior to that, Brad played 1 year of professional football for the Houston Oilers before retiring due to a knee injury.

Brad is a 1972 graduate of UCLA. He is married, has three children and is very active in the community.

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Philip A. Mahoney
Executive Vice President
philm@ccarey.com

Phil Mahoney, one of the most successful service providers at Cornish & Carey, earned his degree in economics at Stanford University where he played varsity football. A native of Boston, he and his wife, Kelly, and three children now make their home in Los Altos Hills.

Phil’s education and experience in the intensely competitive world of intercollegiate athletics helped prepare him for his career in commercial brokerage. He brings to his clients a unique knowledge, perspective, and awareness of the successful technology markets serving the Boston Area and the Santa Clara Valley.

In his 24th straight year among Cornish & Carey Commercial’s elite list of top five producers, Phil has negotiated over 750 transactions totaling approximately 35 million square feet of space valued at over $10 billion. In 1995 - 2000 and 2006, with over 1.6 million, 1.8 million, 1.8 million, 1.6 million, 2.4 million, 6 million, and 3.8 million square feet worth of transactions, respectively, he was the top square footage producer in all of the Silicon Valley. Having been nominated for eleven straight years, Phil was named “Broker of the Year” for all of Silicon Valley for 1989, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2006. In 1995, he became one of the few “Hall of Fame” brokers of the Valley as elected by his peers. The San Jose Business Journal rated Phil the “#1 Broker” for all of Silicon Valley from 1999-2001 and again in 2004 and 2006. Phil was the top producing broker in the nation in 2000 with 6 million square feet of transaction totaling $2.8 billion. In 2006, Phil again led Silicon Valley by being involved in a combined 3.8 million square feet of transactions worth an additional $1.25 billion.

Tenacious and dedicated, Phil counts among his clients Fortune 500 firms seeking to expand, and start-up companies looking for that first facility. Clients from start-ups to Palm, Netscape/AOL, Hewlett Packard, NEC, Kaiser, Agilent, BEA Systems and Network Appliance have relied heavily upon Phil’s expertise and comprehensive understanding not only of the marketplace, but also of the real estate process as a whole. In addition to his successes in the leasing market, Phil has sold numerous buildings, and has been involved in some of the most significant purchases of commercial/industrial property in the history of Silicon Valley.

In 1992, Phil was appointed as Senior Vice President and Manager of the Santa Clara office. In the fall of 1995, he left his managerial post and became a partner with Cornish & Carey Commercial. Phil now helps lead the Corporate and Institutional Services Group.

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R. Randolph Scott
Executive Vice President & Partner
rscott@ccarey.com

Randy Scott received a Bachelor of Arts, Economics degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979 where he is a fourth generation U.C. Berkeley graduate.

Randy joined Cornish & Carey Commercial in 1984 as an Office & R&D leasing specialist where, as an agent, he has achieved unparalleled company success to date. He has been responsible for negotiating over 1,600 transactions representing $8.0 billion. In 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 he was honored as the ASVB R&D Broker of the Year (Association of Silicon Valley Brokers – 720 agents). From 1991 through 2004 Randy was the number one agent company wide (200 agents).

In 2004, he was promoted to partner and Executive Vice President, where he was the number one producer within the company. Randy also has been named to Cornish & Carey’s “Top Ten Performer” list twenty-two of his twenty-four years with the company.

Randy has developed unequaled experience working with early stage Life Science and high-tech companies in structuring appropriate facility strategies throughout the Bay Area. Competitive and focused, Randy’s outstanding real estate performance has earned him an induction into the ASVB Hall of Fame, which comprises a total of only 30 recipients since its inception in 1980.

Randy is involved in competitive tennis and in 1990 was ranked #1 in doubles and #2 in singles for Men’s 30 and Older Division for Northern California. Randy resides in Palo Alto with his wife, Cindy, and their two young children.

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Jack Troedson
Executive Vice President
jackt@ccarey.com

Jack is an Executive Vice President and Principal at Cornish & Carey Commercial, as well as the Co-Manager of the Palo Alto office. With 25 years of commercial real estate experience at Cornish & Carey Commercial, he specializes in office, R&D property leasing and sales in the South San Mateo/Santa Clara County areas.

In 1999, Jack was named to the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers' prestigious Hall of Fame. The award honors his career accomplishments and recognizes him as truly one of the top commercial real estate professionals in the area.

Prior to becoming a Principal in 2000, Jack was a Top Ten performer for twelve consecutive years. This is quite an accomplishment considering that Cornish & Carey Commercial is the largest regional brokerage firm in the area with over 200 agents in ten offices.
Jack Troedson received a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing in 1979 from San Diego State University.

He is married, has four daughters and resides in Portola Valley. In addition to coaching numerous youth sports teams, he has previously served on various school boards in the area.

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