For 40 years, Belden has established itself as the premier real estate professional industry association on the West Coast, providing select membership with educational, social, and charitable programs for personal and professional development. Club activities address current industry topics of interest to the membership. Belden includes many of the up and coming professionals on the West Coast. More than any other organization, the Belden Club has helped make the West Coast institutional real estate investment industry an informal community of friends doing business together. The Belden Club is incorporated as a 501(c)(6) California Not For Profit Corporation.

In 1980, a group of young professionals met on Belden Alley in the shadow of Bank of America building in downtown San Francisco. They met seeking camraderie and an exchange of ideas. Their association grew into the Belden Club which was established in 1981 and incorporated as a 501(c)(6) California Not For Profit Corporation. The name “Belden” was adopted from Belden Alley, the location of the club’s first “business office”, Carlos Goldstein’s. We like to make the comparison with the founding of Lloyds of London in Lloyds coffee shop.

The founding members were Jim Curtis, Tom Enberg, Pat Flanagan, Randal Howard, Jeff Kott, Roy March and J. Witt, III. Matt Moran, a former director of the San Francisco Belden Club, founded the Los Angeles club in 1991. Rick Prado helped start the Seattle Belden Club in 1993.

Past Presidents

• 2022-2023 | Darren Hollak | Newmark
• 2020-2021 | Miles Kersten | Presidio Bay Ventures
• 2018-2019 | Tom Doupe | JLL
• 2016-2017 | Jordan Angel | JLL
• 2014-2015 | Pat Callihan | Prometheus Real Estate Group
• 2011-2013 | Carolyn Powell | PCCP, LLC
• 2010-2011 | Derrick How | Fornine Investment Company
• 2008-2010 | Miles Treaster | Westbrook Partners
• 2005-2007 | Jeff Mills | Prudential Real Estate Investors
• 2004-2005 | John Bellack | JB Matteson
• 2002-2004 | Chris Wight | Cypreso Properties Group
• 2000-2002 | Courtney Boscoe | Wells Fargo
• 1998-2000 | Mike Jameson | Prudential Captial Group
• 1996-1998 | David S. Fries | Orchard Partners
• 1994-1996 | Tyler Higgins | Orchard Partners
• 1992-1994 | Tony Zanze | Hamilton Zanze
• 1990-1992 | Ian Cameron | Arthur Anderson & Co.
• 1989-1990 | David Bohegian | Martorana, Bohegian & Co.
• 1987-1989 | Jim Carbone | Carbone, Mariano & Co.
• 1985-1987 | Peter Merlone | Merlone Geier Partners
• 1983-1985 | Tom Engberg | Kidder Peabody
• 1980-1983 | Pat Flanagan | Cushman & Wakefield