Managing Member at Unexpected Development, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area
Managing Member at Unexpected Development, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area
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Real estate developer in seven countries, currently. Residential, hotels, fractionals, and a little commercial overseas. In the US, commercial developer including multi-family, assisted living, senior housing, and ministorage. We also do some office, industrial, R&D, and retail including big-box retail.
Licensed California real estate salesperson and broker. (Real estate) brokerage owner.
I used to do many other things, such as:
Licensed securities salesperson able to sell institutional grade TICs for individual investors to 1031 in to.
Former money-raiser.
Successful real estate investor. Experienced venture investor, including technology & hospitality ventures.
Business expertise in real estate, finance, technology, hospitality, consulting.
Former winery owner.
Former technology executive with a track record of increasing responsibility. Fifteen+ years as President, CTO or VP of Engineering in technology/services businesses.
Stanford BS; UC Santa Cruz MS; and Ph.D. work, all in Computer Science and related fields.
Former expertise in the creation and support of scalable, secure, highly available mission-critical enterprise software, as well as DLAs, social networks, media and device management, open source, the blogosphere, and personal & mobile publishing & communications.
Series 22 and 63 and 24 licensed.
Real estate: development, brokerage, TIC brokerage, investment, management. Hospitality. Wine. Angel Investing. Private equity & debt. Financials. Supply chain. Advertising. Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, & South America.
Ph.D. , Computer Science , September 1994 — June 1997
Completed classwork, passed oral examination, advanced to candidacy, completed thesis code and dissertation draft. Dropped out prior to defending dissertation to become an entrepreneur in high-tech and start my first company.
MS , Computer Science , September 1990 — June 1994
Master's Thesis: PALette, a Platform-Independent Animation Language.
BS , Symbolic Systems , September 1984 — January 1990
Double self-designed concentration within major.
low risk, high return investments; travel; rural properties; wine
* Zoom Systems, Advisory Board
* LiquidTalk, Advisory Board
* Craigslist Foundation, Advisory Board
* Founding member, Technical Leadership Forum (formerly Bay Area CTO Forum)
* Keiretsu Forum, member
* North Bay Angels, member
* Golden Gate Angels, member
* Pass The Hat, member
* IIFF (International Institute for Film Financing), Board Member
* EarthTrain, advisor and supporter
* Bitzi, Board of Advisors
* Media Machines, Advisory Board
* Catamount Ventures, Technical Advisory Board
* ChainCast Networks, Technical Advisory Board
* TICA (Tenant in Common Association), member
* CREA, supporter
Recipient: multiple awards for work at Charles Schwab (several Excellence in Service awards and the Presidential Award, given to 4 teams out of 15,000 employees)
Comdex Gold Medal Award (1994)
various scholarships