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California People and Company News, Week of Oct. 24, 2025
- Law firm Latham & Watkins LLP announced that Tom Lee has joined the firm’s Bay Area offices as a partner in the Environment, Land & Resources Practice. Lee advises clients on chemical regulatory issues, particularly PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), as well as the environmental aspects of high-stakes M&A and real estate transactions, with an emphasis on brownfield acquisition and redevelopment.
- Christian Palmer has joined Savills as SVP, Enterprise Solutions within its Global Occupier Services practice, based in Orange County. He joins Savills from Colliers, where he served as SVP, Occupier Services – Enterprise Client Solutions, leading large-scale, multiservice pursuits and managing a significant global occupier pipeline
- The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Orange County/Inland Empire, the local district council of Urban Land Institute, appointed Rob Reitenour as District Council Chair 2025-2026. Reitenour has more than 30 years of industry experience and serves as SVP at Lowe Enterprises, a real estate development and management firm.
- Gio Aliano, AIA, has joined NAC as principal and affordable housing practice leader. With more than three decades of experience shaping equitable communities, Aliano brings deep expertise in affordable housing, supportive housing, educational and health facilities. He previously served as SVP of Abode Communities and principal of the architecture studio.
- Santa Clara-based One Workplace, one of the country’s leading providers of integrated workplace solutions for corporate, healthcare, education and government organizations, recently named Dave Albert as CEO. Albert succeeds Mark Baker, who after more than eight years of leading the company through significant growth, will work closely with Albert to ensure a smooth leadership transition before his planned retirement later this year.
- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and Alexandria Venture Investments, the company’s strategic venture platform, were honored by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) with a 2025 Charles A. Sanders, MD, Partnership Award. The award recognizes Alexandria’s significant contributions to the FNIH’s work in accelerating biomedical innovation, epitomized by the company’s leadership in catalyzing a mission-critical public-private partnership with the FNIH to build a precision medicine framework for depression to address the urgent need for new, more effective medicines for patients.
- ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate REIT and DST investments, has fully subscribed Essential Income 4 DST. The $28.85-million portfolio of net-leased real estate comprises eight properties leased to Sprouts Farmers Market, Dollar General, CVS Pharmacy and Advance Auto Parts, totaling 88,851 square feet across eight markets in four states.
- ◦People
