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
Warren Mcclean
Company: Newmark
- Warren is a Director on the Retail Capital Markets team with Newmark in San Francisco. Since beginning his career in brokerage, Warren has been involved in over 45 closed transactions totaling over $1.8 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: 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
Francesca Zappula
Company: Newmark
- Francesca Zappula is an Associate Director on Newmark’s Capital Markets team, assisting with the marketing and disposition of office, flex/R&D, life science, and industrial properties throughout the Western Region. Since joining Newmark in 2021, she has been involved in the sale of over $4.5 billion in total deal volume. Francesca holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Marquette University.
Position: Technology
Ben MOllahan
Company: CBRE
- Ben Mollahan is a Senior Associate with CBRE Capital Markets 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 3,000+ apartment units representing more than $1 billion 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: Events
Kenna Royse
Company: J.P. Morgan
- Kenna is an Associate on the Real Estate Banking team at JPMorgan Chase. Real Estate Banking 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 holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance and minor in real estate from the University of Washington.
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.