Bruce Bean
Bruce brings 30 years of experience in commercial real estate including project management, commercial design and cooperate facilities planning. Working with The Trafton Group, Cushman & Wakefield and Beavers, Bean and Hale Associates, he has completed hundreds of transactions from Texas to California. Other projects include design and project management for First National Bank of Colorado Springs, 23 branches for Midland Federal Savings and the sale of 21 properties for Greensprings Trust. Bruce has been on the Board of Crystal Springs Uplands School for over nine years and has taught public speaking at Stanford University with James Wagstaffe for 10 years. He is currently the Vice President of the Board of Trustees for HIP Housing, a non-profit affordable housing organization based in San Mateo, California.
Phil Johnson
Phil brings over 25 years in real estate including home construction, condo conversions, land subdivision and multi-family syndications, He is currently a senior partner with Pacific Regional Equities, a real estate corporation with ownership and management of over 1,000 apartment units in Sacramento and Reno ranging in size from 80-300 units. He has negotiated the purchase, sale, and debt/equity financing for large syndicated investments. He has senior management oversight of the property management team with a focus on cost efficiency including many "green" enhancements. He has led land developments projects, responsible for the purchase and sale, entitlements and final mapping processes. Phil has also worked successfully in large (i.e. Hewlett Packard, Andersen Consulting, Price Waterhouse) and start-up technology environments in sales, strategic alliance/channels and marketing positions. Phil is also active in community projects, being the co-chair of the Feist Park construction in Granite Bay, President of the Eureka School Foundation and recipient of the Placer County Heroes award.
Alex Kent
Alex Kent develops new business for ZETA as a complement to his Education and Faith-Based Real Estate Brokerage practice at Symphonic Investments in Burlingame, CA. Symphonic Investments has earned the #1 market share of closed education and faith-based real estate transactions in the Bay Area in the last 12 months, with a pipeline of over $70M in acquisitions, dispositions and leases pending. Alex Kent started his commercial real estate career as a Vice President at Cornish & Carey in 2005, after graduating from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management with an MBA in Finance, Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
Cheryl A. O'Connor
Cheryl O'Connor is the acting Chief Executive Office of the Building Industry Association of the Bay Area. In 2008, O'Connor served as the first woman Regional Chair of the BIA. As Regional Chair, she was successful in launching the first Sustainability Initiative by a home building association that endorsed mandatory green building standards.
O'Connor has thirty-two years of experience in sales and marketing of new home communities in Northern California. O'Connor was most recently Senior Vice-President of Sales & Marketing for SummerHill Homes in Northern California. In her career, she has also worked with Warmington Homes, Taylor Woodrow, Ponderosa Homes and The O'Brien Group. She is the recipient of various homebuilder awards including Sales Manager of the Year and Marketing Director of the Year at the Northern California Marketing and Merchandising Excellence Awards.
James Pardun
James is currently a Green Business Consultant for the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency. His mission is to survey all green energy employers in the six-county region to assess their hiring and training needs and to identify programs and incentives that can support their growth and success. Until his retirement in 2010, James was a manager in Sacramento County's Department of Economic Development and Intergovernmental Affairs. His responsibilities included business attraction, expansion and retention and workforce development.
Prior to his tenure with the County of Sacramento, James was Chief of Operations for the Sacramento Works Employer Services Department at the Sacramento Employment and Training Agency, where he coordinated the resources of the Sacramento Training and Response Team (START) to meet the hiring needs of area businesses.
James earned his B.A. in English from the University of Southern Colorado (now Colorado State University, Pueblo) and his M.A. in English from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Kathy Pardun
Kathryn has been a Realtor with Lyon Real Estate since 1987 and has extensive knowledge of real estate contracts, disclosures, escrow, probate, real estate law, energy efficient loan programs, bank foreclosures, and is certified in short sales. In addition, Kathryn's real estate team was the top producer in all of Lyon Real Estate in 2008 and is consistently the number one agent for Lyon's Downtown Office. She has an extremely high client satisfaction and referral network. Memberships include Sacramento Association of Realtors, California and National Real Estate Associations.
Prior to entering real estate, Kathryn was Assistant to the Chief Deputy Director of the State of California Employment Development Department where she worked closely with the Director, Governor's office and various legislative agencies.
Kathryn's education includes an A.A. Degree from Sacramento City College in General Education. She attended California State University, Sacramento majoring in English. Kathryn also studied art and design at Heald Architectural Institute in San Francisco for two years.
Maryann Pearson
Maryann has over 30 years real estate sales experience in residential, commercial, industrial and land development. Maryann owns RE/MAX of Southern Marin and has sold modular residential projects in Marin, CA. She obtained an MBA in Finance at Golden Gate University.
Gaye Quinn
Gaye has extensive experience in all facets of real estate development including: site selection, land acquisition, entitlements, project and asset management and debt and equity financing. Prior to her career in commercial real estate development and consulting, Gaye served as Planning Director for several Bay Area cities including San Mateo, Emeryville, and San Leandro. She also served as Vice President & Director of Development for Venture Corporation where she was responsible for the design, development and governmental entitlements for approximately one million square feet of commercial real estate projects and helped pioneer the creation of commercial condominiums with the development of over 600,000 square feet of these properties in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gaye holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Sandra Slater
Sandra has been lauded as a leader in environmental design and green building for more than 15 years. Her projects have been featured in numerous national and international journals, books and television programs. Sandra designed the interiors and collaborated on the overall architectural design of ZETA's first LEED Platinum, net zero energy townhome. The project received numerous awards including GreenBuilder's 2009 Home of the Year Award, AIA - Energy & Sustainability, and PCBC's Gold Nugget Grand Award for Net Zero Energy Homes.
Mark Wintz
Mark was former President and founder of Details, a modular manufacturer of energy efficient housing. He brings 25 years of general contracting experience and six years of modular experience to his work. A fourth generation California builder, Mark has been at the forefront of introducing high quality, energy efficient and architecturally distinctive modular housing to change the building industry. Recognition of Mark's work includes four Gold Nugget awards he has received from the building industry for outstanding work as a developer and builder. Mark received a BS degree in business from the University of Idaho.