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California People and Company News for March 8, 2024
- Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate headquartered in San Francisco, has hired Chris Curtis in a newly created role as global head of data centers, reporting to Damon Austin, Prologis’ global head of customer led development. He will be responsible for continuing to grow Prologis’ data center business, including standing up a dedicated data center team; helping energize Prologis’ portfolio of buildings and land sites; sourcing, structuring and executing data center developments; and developing relationships with top customers to continue to scale the business.
- JLL hired Silicon Valley commercial real estate veteran Clarke Funkhouser as senior managing director, leveraging his 25 years of experience with some of the region’s leading Fortune 100 technology companies, growth firms and major institutional investors. Funkhouser specializes in agency leasing and tenant representation. Based in the firm’s Menlo Park office, he joins the JLL agency team of Todd Husak, Mark Bodie and Toss Vallentine which operates from both Menlo Park and the firm’s new San Jose office.
- Rockard Delgadillo has joined law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental practice group in Los Angeles. Delgadillo joins from DLA Piper LLP. He has more than 30 years of experience in real estate transactions, economic development and government, including an eight-year tenure as the city attorney for the City of Los Angeles.
- Torrance-based Kay Properties and Investments, which operates one of the nation’s largest 1031 exchange property and real estate investment marketplaces, said SVP Matt McFarland has raised more than $550 million in equity from accredited investors who invested in Delaware Statutory Trust real estate offerings and real estate funds. Joining Kay Properties early in the firm’s history, McFarland started as an associate before being promoted to VP and eventually SVP. Along with personally raising $550 million in equity, he has also participated in more than 2,000 transactions that represent more than $15 billion worth of real estate.
- Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC, a provider of essential facility services, appointed Chris Studney as its new chief commercial officer. With 25 years of experience in commercial real estate, Studney was previously with JLL, where he held numerous senior-level positions over a 12-year career.
- EAH Housing, based in San Rafael and one of the largest nonprofit housing development and management organizations in the western U.S., added Colleen Mizuno and Laura Wilder to its board of directors. The two women will assume their new roles effective immediately. With extensive backgrounds in affordable housing within the Hawai’i and Northern California markets, Mizuno and Wilder bring decades of experience providing housing for families and individuals in these regions.
- Four Corners Property Trust, a Mill Valley-based REIT focused on ownership of net-leased restaurant and retail properties, plans to promote Patrick Wernig, managing director of acquisitions, to CFO. Wernig will succeed Gerry Morgan, who will retire effective May 3 and assume an interim advisory role to facilitate the transition.
- Ware Malcomb, an award-winning international design firm headquartered in Irvine, said its employee philanthropic giving arm WM Community has contributed more than $1 million to Orange County United Way since it began fundraising for the nonprofit organization in 1999. “Our longstanding partnership with Orange County United Way has provided our team members with a platform to celebrate our culture of giving and drive positive change across the communities in which we live and work,” said Lawrence R. Armstrong, chairman, Ware Malcomb, and chair, Leadership Council, United to End Homelessness.
- 1031 Crowdfunding, a real estate crowdfunding platform for 1031 exchanges and alternative investment vehicles focused on tax deferral, is No. 33 on Inc. Magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000 Regionals: Pacific list, a ranking of the fastest-growing Pacific private companies, based in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska. Born of the annual Inc. 5000 franchise, this regional list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the Pacific economy’s most dynamic segment–its independent small businesses.
- ◦People
