Position: President

Massimo Kaz

Company: Prometheus

  • Massimo is a Director of Acquisitions at Prometheus Real Estate Group based in San Mateo. Prometheus is a privately held firm specializing in the acquisition, development, and management of residential and commercial properties throughout Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Portland. Prometheus’ current portfolio totals over 12,000 units and the firm is actively working through a development pipeline for an additional 3,000 units and 560K square feet of office. Massimo holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from USC.

Position: Vice President

Austen Peterson

Company: Lift Partners

  • Austen is an acquisitions and asset management Associate at Lift Partners in San Francisco, CA. Prior to joining Lift, Austen was an analyst with Cushman & Wakefield, initially in New York City before relocating to San Francisco to join the Institutional Capital Markets team. Lift Partners is a full-service real estate investment company focused on the adaptive reuse and repositioning of industrial and office properties on the West Coast. Austen holds a bachelor's degree in Urban Studies and Architecture from Trinity College in Connecticut.

Position: Counsel

Rachel Kramer

Company: Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP

  • Rachel Kramer is a commercial real estate lawyer at Allen Matkins. She represents a wide variety of clients throughout the country, including private investors, institutional investors, technology clients and office owners through their acquisitions, dispositions and leasing of industrial, retail, office, life science and multifamily. Rachel also regularly represents both lenders and borrowers in loan originations and loan assumptions. In addition, she has extensive experience in representing sellers and buyers in portfolio projects involving industrial, office and multifamily properties. Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree in city and regional planning from Cal Poly SLO and a juris doctorate from UC Berkeley School of Law with a concentration environmental law.

Position: Treasurer

Warren Porter McClean

Company: JLL

  • Warren is an investment sales & advisory director with JLL Capital Markets in San Francisco. JLL is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. Since joining JLL in 2019, Warren has been involved in over 25 transactions totaling over $1 billion in total consideration. Warren holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance and minor in economics from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Position: Technology > Ben Mollahan

Company: CBRE

  • Ben Mollahan specializes in the acquisition and disposition of multifamily properties and land development opportunities throughout the Greater Bay Area. Since joining the CBRE Bay Area Multifamily Group he has been involved in the acquisition and/or disposition of 1,000+ apartment units representing more than $500m in transaction volume. Ben holds a bachelor's degree in Business finance from Chapman Universtiy.

Position: Sponsorship

Will Cassriel

Company: JLL

  • Will specializes in tenant representation, providing real estate advisory services to companies in San Francisco and across the globe. His responsibilities include strategy development/implementation, site identification, and lease review/negotiation. His well-developed technical knowledge of the real estate process gives him a broad understanding of the principles that must be incorporated into a transaction. Will holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Position: Special Events

Kenna Royse

Company: JPMorgan Chase

  • Kenna is an Analyst on the Real Estate Banking team at JPMorgan Chase and supports clients based on the West Coast. The Real Estate Banking team provides financing and payments solutions to top tier commercial real estate owners, developers, operating companies, and investment funds, and covers asset types including multifamily, industrial, retail, and office across the United States. Kenna graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Business Administration (Finance Concentration) and a Minor in Real Estate.

Position: Membership

Matt Tripaldi

Company: Ballast Investments

  • Matt Tripaldi is an Associate on the Investments Team at Ballast Investments. Ballast is a vertically integrated owner-operator of multifamily, student housing and single-family rental properties in the Western United States. Matt is based in the San Francisco office and focuses on multifamily and student housing acquisitions. Before joining Ballast, Matt held the position of Investment Analyst at Newmark Knight Frank, where he contributed to the Investment Sales team based in San Francisco. Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from Indiana University, complemented by a minor in Finance from the Kelley School of Business.