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Daniel Lee has spent a career driving social change. Now he’s helping the Levi Strauss Foundation show its true colors.

The ay Area’s 50 Largest LGBTQ-Owned Businesses 20-24

Battle to preserve LGBTQ gains 8

Cracking the concrete ceiling 10-12

Legacy Leader: Paul Pendergast 4-6

Corporate Pride: Genentech 14-16

PAGES 27-44

OUTSTANDING VOICES:In their own words, 12 Bay Area LGBTQ business leaders explain how they are making a difference.

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Perils are racing alongside progress

BUSINESS OF PRIDE FEATURES

Getting a seat at the table . . . 4

New battle to preserve gains . 8

Crack the concrete ceiling . . 10

Equality is in their DNA . . . . . 14

Entrepreneur: Vanguard . . . . . 18

THE LISTInside the List . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Largest LGBTQ-Owned Businesses . . . . . . . 22

OUTSTANDING VOICESSherilyn Adams . . . . . . 28

José Cisneros . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Mary C . Daly . . . . . . . 32

Erin Flynn . . . . . . . .34

Richard Fuentes & Sean Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Thomas Gaynor . . . . . .36

Dipti Ghosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Daniel Lee . . . . . . . .39

David Newson . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Shelley Saraniti . . . . . . 41

Minna Tao . . . . . . . . 42

Kate White . . . . . . . .44

ALSO INSIDEStructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Techflash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Bioflash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Hospitality . . . . . . . 54

Banking . . . . . . . . 55

Viewpoint . . . . . . . 64

Executive Profile . . . . . . . . . 67

EDITOR’S NOTE

THE BUSINESS OF PRIDEA S P E C I A L E D I T I O N O F T H E B U S I N E S S T I M E S

It’s a famous quote, one that we cited in this very same space as recently as two years ago as a reason to remain optimistic: “The arc of the moral universe is long,” Dr . Martin Luther King Jr . said, “but it bends toward justice .”

Since then, however, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the force of the federal government is being applied in an effort to bend it in the opposite direction . As we publish this week our fifth annual Business of Pride, it is with the realization that the Trump administration’s attempts to roll back years or even decades of LGBTQ progress are only accelerating on a number of fronts . It’s a theme cited by

many speakers in this year’s publication, and some of the new dangers emerging are detailed in a story on page 8 .

But if perils are speeding up, progress is matching them stride for stride . As it does each year, this publication highlights some of the people and companies who are driving equality forward .

They include Paul Pendergast (pages 4-6), who has been successfully advocating for LGBTQ businesses both locally and at the state level for more than a quarter century . Pendergast has been instrumental in changing laws and policies to ensure that LGBTQ-owned businesses are able to compete for contracts from vendors as diverse

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W ells Fargo is proud to celebrate Pride month. We are excited to celebrate the contributions

of LGBT entrepreneurs, business leaders, and the community as a whole to the greater Bay Area and our country.

For over 30 years, Wells Fargo has supported the LGBT community. In 1987, the company added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy. Since then, Wells Fargo has provided financial and programmatic support

to LGBT organizations—contributing more than $50 million.

Since 1992, Wells Fargo has participated in hundreds of Pride parades and events, including appearances by our iconic Wells Fargo stagecoach. Wells Fargo team members participate in more than 60 Pride celebrations nationally and internationally.

Supporting our families is important to us. That’s why since 1998, all benefits extended to spouses of Wells Fargo team members have been extended to the domestic partners of team members as well. We are humbled to be recognized for our commitment to inclusion. For 16 consecutive years, The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBT equality gave Wells Fargo a perfect score of 100 percent on

the Corporate Equality Index, earning the coveted distinction of being one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality.”

As a leading small business lender in the U.S., we are committed to helping LGBT business owners access capital and financial resources. In 2004, Wells Fargo became the first financial institution to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), an organization created to better address the financial and educational needs of LGBT-owned businesses. And in 2017, NGLCC not only recognized Wells Fargo as the one of the “Best-of-the-Best Corporations for Inclusion,” our Chamber Training Institute program was named “The 2017 Best-of-the-Best Program or Initiative of the Year.” The program develops and empowers diverse chamber leaders with training on how to grow and build their local organizations for the benefit of its small business community members.

We are committed to supporting the LGBT community, and to respecting and encouraging diversity among our team members. We strive to reflect the communities we serve so we can better understand and help our diverse customers achieve financial success. When it comes to partnering to help our communities succeed, we are in this together. I look forward to continuing our partnership well into the future!

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Wells Fargo’s commitment to the LGBT communityBy Ina Murray, EVP and San Francisco region bank president

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as California’s utilities to Super Bowl 50’s organizing committee . That work has earned him the designation as this year’s Selisse Berry Legacy Leader awardee for a career of sustained positive social impact .

It also includes Genentech (pages 14-16) . The pioneering biotech company was blazing a trail in accommodating LGBTQ members of its workforce long before corporate America starting doing the same . Genentech’s work is recognized with the 2019 Corporate Pride award .

Progress toward equality in the construction and architecture industries has been slower than in some others . But as we detail on pages 10-12, cracks are starting to appear in the “concrete ceiling .”

In addition, this week’s entrepreneur charts his real estate company’s course from its origins in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood to a wider empire (pages 18-19) .

Our list of Largest LGBTQ-Owned Businesses (pages 20-24) includes 50 others who are successfully building business empires of their own .

And last but certainly not least is the ever-popular OUTstanding Voices (pages 27-44) . Each year we select 12 LGBTQ business and nonprofit leaders and ask them to tell the story of their personal journeys in their own words . This year’s dozen had a lot to say on a range of topics, and we hope you enjoy meeting them .

Putting together the Business of Pride each year involves the efforts of a large portion of the Business Times’ staff, all sincerely appreciated . Three contributions, however, merit special mention: Events director Felicia Brown is putting together the Business of Pride celebration on June 11 at the Four Seasons Hotel . Visual journalist Todd Johnson’s photo and video contributions are on these pages and online at http://bizj .us/1pwdj9 . Finally, our banking and finance reporter Mark Calvey, who has been a leading light for Business of Pride since its inception in 2015, shares personal thoughts on pages 64-65 .

We hope you enjoy this year’s edition .— Jim Gardner, managing editor

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B U S I N E S S O F P R I D E

You can thank the opera for catapulting Paul Pendergast into his role as an LGBTQ business advocate.

Pendergast came to San Francisco in 1989 after studying music. He sang with the San Francisco Opera for three years before deciding he was good, but was never going to be great.

Instead, Pendergast turned his voice to advancing LGBTQ equality. His style of achieving change over the years suggests another thing he learned at the Opera House: Sometimes those working behind the scenes have just as much impact, or even more, than those in the limelight.

Pendergast has spent a quarter century advocating for LGBTQ businesses to get a seat at the table, and he’s landed one success after another along the way. He has opened up pathways for these businesses to compete for billions of dollars worth of public and private contracts throughout the state.

For his work advocating for greater inclusion of the LGBTQ business community, Pendergast is this year’s recipient of the Business Times’ fifth annual Selisse Ber-ry Legacy Leader award, given to an LGBTQ communi-ty leader whose work has had sustained positive social impact.

Pendergast was just 29 when he started a two-year tenure in 1992 as president of the Golden Gate Business Association, the country’s first LGBTQ chamber of com-merce. It was a devastating time, with the group losing one or two members every week to the AIDS epidemic, and it came as the city’s LGBTQ entrepreneurs remained largely ostracized from the rest of the business communi-ty. GGBA’s survival was in doubt, but under Pendergast’s leadership, it pulled through.

A change in attitude in the city’s business communi-ty also helped, Pendergast said. Leaders of big businesses realized if they were going to be successful advocates at city hall for business at large, they would need to make

sure that other groups were benefiting, too. Pendergast suddenly found himself courted to sit “next to these enor-mous business figures,” such as The Gap founder Don Fisher and then-BankAmerica Corp. CEO and Chairman Richard Rosenberg.

“Th t was a very major milestone, that the LGBT busi-ness community was invited to the table to address legit-imate business issues that weren’t community-specific,” Pendergast said.

Pendergast and other LGBTQ business owners began building bridges with leaders of the Bay Area business community, including Fisher and Rosenberg. Those efforts continue to have far-reaching effects on the region’s LGBTQ community today.

A bigger slice of the piePendergast went on to ensure more doors were opened to the LGBTQ business community with numerous initia-tives over the years. Many of them came via his 20 years as a delegate to the California Small Business Roundtable in the California Small Business Association.

Theaccomplishment he’s proudest of, he said, was the passage of Assembly Bill 1678. Signed into law by for-mer Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2014, it required the state’s public utilities to include certifi d LGBT-owned businesses in programs for minority-, women-, and dis-abled-veteran-owned businesses.

That legislation was “game-changing” for LGBT busi-nesses and has had national ripple effects, said Audry deLucia, president of the GGBA.

For LGBT-owned businesses to be recognized as an important part of the movement around diverse busi-nesses was a significa t milestone, deLucia said. Pend-ergast was “monumental” as a co-founder and “someone who really pushed that legislation through because he saw the importance of it.”

Getting a seat at the tablePaul Pendergast has spent a career helping LGBTQ businesses across California get a bigger share of its economic bounty

NEARLY 30 YEARS OF PULLING UP A CHAIRPendergast has advanced LGBTQ economic equality at both the local and state levels.

BY ALISHA [email protected]

S E L I S S E B E R R Y LEGACY LEADER

1992: Founds Pendergast Consulting Group in San Francisco

1992-1994: Pendergast serves as president of the Golden Gate Business Association, the nation’s first LGBTQ chamber of commerce.

1994: The GGBA holds an LGBT Business Expo, the first of its kind in the country. Some 500 people attend the showcase of more than 100 LGBTQ-owned businesses.

October 1995: Pendergast co-organizes the United Nations first international tribunal on “Human Rights Violations Against Sexual Minorities” to raise awareness about abuse that the LGBTQ community faces around the world.

1996-2018: Pendergast serves as delegate to the California Small Business Roundtable in the California Small Business Association.

September 2013: Pendergast, while serving as small business program manager for the Transbay Transit Center, helps convene the first public works outreach event for LGBTQ businesses in the country.

September 2014: Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1678, requiring the state’s public utilities to include certified LGBT-owned businesses in programs for minority-, women-, and disabled-veteran-owned businesses.

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November 2014: Following advocacy by Pendergast and others, the National Football League says for the first time that it will include LGBT businesses in its outreach about contracting opportunities leading up to Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara in February 2016.

July 2017: Brown signs Senate Bill 103 requiring, among other things, that Caltrans develop an outreach program around procurement opportunities for small businesses including LGBTQ-owned businesses. In early 2019, Caltrans releases its outreach plan for the bill, becoming the first state department of transportation to include LGBT businesses in its official small busin ss outreach plan, according to the GGBA.

2014-2019: Pendergast remains highly involved in GGBA, serving as public policy chair from 2014-2015, president in 2016, and public policy chair again from 2017 through April 2019.

May 2016: Equator Coffee is named 2016 National Small Business of the Year by the Small Business Administration. It is the first LGBT-certified business to receive the award. Pendergast helps drive a publicity campaign leading up to and following the award.

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‘Th t was a major milestone, that the LGBT business community was invited to the table to address legitimate business issues.’ PAUL PENDERGAST, LGBTQ business advocate



LGBT-owned businesses have been gaining an increasing share of public utilities procurement in recent years following the legislation, according to California Public Utilities Commis-sion data. In 2017, large utilities pro-cured $40.14 million from LGBT-owned businesses, a 35 percent increase from $29.65 million in 2016. Small utilities also pro-cured more from LGBT-owned businesses over those two years, with a 15 percent increase from $6.98 million in 2016 to $8.06 million in 2017.

That paved the way for LGBTQ businesses to compete for other large contracts.

When the National Football League said it would hold Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara in February 2016, Pendergast helped advocate for inclu-sion of LGBTQ businesses. Those busi-nesses had been “noticeably omit-ted” in contracts for previous Super Bowls, Pendergast said. In a first, the NFL announced in 2014 that it would include LGBT businesses in its outreach about contracting opportunities in the lead-up to Super Bowl 50.

The NFL ultimately awarded near-ly $750,000 worth of contracts to 19 LGBT-owned businesses through its Super Bowl 50 Business Connect pro-gram. The change in contracting out-reach has continued, with the NFL taking the same inclusive approach for Super Bowls since.

Circling EquatorPendergast landed another big win for LGBTQ businesses at a national level in 2016, when he spearheaded a campaign behind San Rafael-based Equator Cof-fees, culminating in its selection as the 2016 National Small Business of the Year by the Small Business Administration.

When Pendergast saw that Equa-tor won the Northern California Small

Business of the Year award, he immedi-ately asked what he could do to help get the LGBTQ company on the map, said Helen Russell, Equator co-founder and CEO. Pendergast got the word out, and Equator soon won the statewide award. Pendergast made introductions for Rus-sell and her co-founder Brooke McDon-nell to other key figures in the LGBTQ and small business communities.

“You just get pulled into his orbit,” Russell said.

Russell and McDon-nell never led with the fact that they are an LGBTQ-owned busi-ness initially, but Pen-dergast emphasized to them how import-ant it was to be visi-ble. “Our community needs to know about it,” Russell recalled him saying.

After Equator received the nation-

al title, Pendergast “built an enor-mous campaign” around the win, Rus-sell said, landing the coffee company founders speaking spots on panels, radio and TV.

“The man is relentless in terms of what he puts on the line to help other people,” she said.

Th re’s still work to be done. Pen-dergast’s hope is that the groups that have made so many advances on LGBTQ equality in the business world will start to combine forces for even more impact.

“People need to get out of their lane, and they need to start working togeth-er to look at what the economy means holistically,” Pendergast said.

LGBTQ businesses face the same challenges as their other business counterparts, he noted, and they want a voice in debates about other topics as well: From taxes and health insurance to the rising cost of doing business in the Bay Area. When LGBTQ businesses and other groups come together to be part of the fabric of economic conver-sations, Pendergast said, “You not only get invited to the table, you are wanted to be at the table.”

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‘You just get pulled into his orbit. The an is relentless.’ HELEN RUSSELL, CEO and co-founder, Equator Coffees (above)

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BY LAUREN HEPLER [email protected]

When Shannon Minter went through his gender transition two decades ago, he was on his own. The Cor-nell-educated civil rights lawyer

paid out of pocket with the help of low- or no-cost service providers in San Francisco, although his employer voluntarily chipped in on bills that totaled tens of thousands of dollars.

“When I transitioned, there was no require-ment for employers to provide transition-related care,” said Minter, the legal director of San Fran-cisco’s National Center for Lesbian Rights.

A series of legal rulings and policy shifts have since extended health insurance anti-discrimi-nation rules to transgender people in California. Th se changes are among many to state and fed-eral law that have not only expanded health insur-ance for LGBTQ workers and their families, but also made them eligible for pension benefits, fam-ily and sick leave. Meanwhile, corporate nondis-crimination policies for hiring, promotions and fi ing have proliferated. In March, the Human Rights Campaign estimated that 16.8 million

workers nationwide are now employed in positions covered by corporate policies barring discrimina-tion based on sexual orientation or gen-der identity.

Whether that number will contin-ue to grow, howev-er, depends not just on a labor market increasingly reliant on contract work and other jobs lack-ing corporate bene-fit , but also on an onslaught of threat-ened rollbacks to existing LGBTQ protections led by the administration of President Donald Trump.

Trump’s White House has moved to weaken nondiscrimination protections for transgender patients under fed-eral health law. It first proposed banning recruit-ment of transgender people into the military, later replacing this with regulations requiring service members to use uniforms, bathrooms and sleep-ing quarters that correspond with their biological sex. It has implemented “religious liberty” policies across various federal government operations that critics say are a pretext for LGBTQ discrimination.

“Th re is a misperception that all is well on

LGBTQ rights post-marriage,” said Thomas Gay-nor, a partner and co-leader of the mergers and acquisitions group at law firm Nixon Peabody. “You can still be fired in innumerable states for being gay.”

California’s protections: Not enough?It’s no secret that LGBTQ workers in California, and in particular Bay Area cities like San Francis-co, enjoy unusually strong safeguards. Thestate’s health care laws, for instance, would likely shield workers from the potential impact of a recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directive granting employers more leeway to tai-lor health care coverage to their religious beliefs.

But Minter said people everywhere should be wary of more fundamental challenges to equal rights. The Supreme Court said in early May it will take up three cases that test whether feder-al Title VII sex employment discrimination bans under the Civil Rights Act apply to gay or trans-gender workers.

The Trump administration is opposing this interpretation. If the court rules that LGBTQ workers are not covered, advocates warn that employers in states without additional anti-dis-crimination laws would be free to fire people based solely on their identity.

Those in states that have such protections would still be affected, advocates said.

“People in California should not think that they’re immune,” Minter said. One big change in such a scenario, he said, could be loss of rights for LGBTQ workers anywhere to bring federal lawsuits against employers accused of discrimination. “Those are the most powerful claims,” Minter said. “It would be a real loss.”

One antidote to federal equal rights reversals would be for Congress to pass a proposed “Equality Act,” which would explicitly add LGBTQ people to the 1960s-era Civil Rights Act. Bay Area companies including Google, Apple, Levi’s, Williams-Sonoma and Facebook have all supported the bill. The Equality Act has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. It remains uncertain if the Senate will consider the legislation, or if the president would sign it.

“The time has come in this country for full, federal equality for the LGBT community,” a cor-porate statement from Levi Strauss said. A state-ment from Apple said the company supports the federal law as “a matter of basic human dignity.”

The270-plus businesses that signed onto sup-port the Equality Act are the latest example of a broader shift among employers in tech, finance, advertising, law and other white-collar indus-tries to parlay LGBTQ-inclusive benefits into awards for corporate equality and fla hy pride

campaigns to attract and retain diverse workers. A total of 572 U.S. companies were awarded a 100 percent perfect score on the Human Rights Cam-paign’s annual corporate equality index this year.

Among the biggest changes the advocacy group identifi d is that, “Businesses have been decou-pling benefits from the legal definition of mar-riage,” allowing a wider range of spouses and domestic partners to access LGBTQ-inclusive health care and other forms of financial security.

An ‘anti-full-time bias’What’s less clear is how much the trend toward corporate pride will trickle down to smaller employers, or to the increasing legions of temp and freelance workers who often lack robust ben-efit . When it comes to contract workers, LGBTQ employees are one of many groups, including women or racial minorities, that could be dispro-portionately impacted by an overarching “anti-full-time employee bias,” Gaynor said.

Costs of living in the Bay Area that are hovering around record highs also compound instability. Newly arrived immigrants, LGBTQ or otherwise, often work multiple jobs as they get on their feet, and benefit can be patchwork.

“They’re usually underemployed,” said Eduar-do Morales, a psychologist and executive direc-tor of San Francisco nonprofit AGUILAS, the Bay Area’s largest service provider for gay and bisex-ual Latinos. “They’re trying to find several pieces of work so that they can make ends meet.”

For dozens of men from Central America, Bra-zil and other areas that AGUILAS has helped nav-igate the asylum system, more immediate chal-lenges like evictions and homelessness can take precedence over long-term job prospects.

Minter said that LGBTQ advocacy groups across the Bay Area are grappling with how to address increasingly glaring economic inequality, which could redefine “what issues count as LGBT Issues.” Gay and transgender youth, for instance, have disproportionately high rates of homeless-ness, but such issues will likely require a different legal and policy approach.

“Th re are miles to go before we sleep,” Gay-nor said.

New battle: Preserving gains, preventing lossesWith rollbacks of federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination provisions looming, even the Bay Area bubble could be punctured

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SUPREME THREATThe Supreme Court said in early May it will take up three cases that test whether bans on employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act apply to gay or transgender workers.Case 1: Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia. Man lost job after joining an LGBTQ sports league.Case 2: Altitude Express v. Zarda. Similar job-loss claims to Bostock.Case 3: G.R. and R.G. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. Woman fired after disclosing gender transition.

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‘People in California should not think they’re immune.’ SHANNON MINTER, Legal director, National Center for Lesbian Rights

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Progress toward full LGBTQ equality—in life and business—requires visible, inspirational leaders who can translate values into action. Our partner Thomas Gaynor is a tireless advocate for inclusive business communities, and we are thrilled to celebrate his selection as one of 2019’s OUTstanding Voices!

Thomas shares NP’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal industry—a philosophy he brings to his corporate clients around the world. He is also co-founder of the StartOut Growth Lab, a business incubator that nurtures early-stage startups founded by LGBTQ entrepreneurs. Through his efforts, NP donates the office space and free legal consultations, and teams with StartOut to offer mentorship and networking opportunities to companies in residence.

The investment in LGBTQ talent is paying off—since 2017, StartOut has graduated four cohorts totaling 25 companies who have raised a combined $30 million in funding and created over 140+ new jobs.

Congratulations Thomas for your many contributions which inspire us all!

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BY ALISHA GREEN [email protected]

Paul Woolford saw it early in his career some three decades ago: Th re was space in the architec-ture profession for LGBTQ people,

but there was also a limit on how far they could go.

“If you were an openly gay person, you weren’t going to rise above that ceiling, especially in large design practices,” Wool-ford said.

Woolford is himself a sign of how the world of construction, engineering and design has become more inclusive in the 30 years: He rose to become a senior prin-cipal and design principal at global design firm HOK.

Th se changes have been gradual rather than sudden. They’ve been spurred by more welcoming attitudes within the industry, but also policy action at the state level, and a tight labor market that has put a premi-um on qualifi d building professionals.

The “concrete ceiling” that excluded LGBTQ employees from leadership roles may not have always been explicit, but those employees knew it was there. At prominent firms Woolford declines to name, LGBTQ people who were well known in the design profession “were simply not made a part-ner or a principal.” Th se who put their foot down about either being allowed to advance or leaving were generally told, “good luck,” he said. Several of them went on to establish their own successful firms, Woolford said.

Thelimits on LGBTQ employees extend-ed to the areas they were allowed to work in. Woolford recalled that “even as a very young architect” he was steered toward interior design. He wanted to be an archi-tect who created complete building envi-ronments, though, and not be limited to interiors. He broke through those barri-ers by going to London from 1990-1994, where he said there was a more welcom-ing environment for LGBTQ people, before he came to the Bay Area to teach design at UC Berkeley from 1995-1996 and joining HOK in 1997.

Breaking a vicious cycle Interior design was the first area to become more inclusive of LGBTQ people, Woolford said. Architecture followed, then engineer-ing. “Construction was the very last,” he said.

The lag in construction might have been due in part to the stereotype of a “social machismo” associated with the construc-tion industry, Woolford said.

“Part of it, too, was people didn’t feel comfortable being out, and so they didn’t

Cracking the concrete ceilingTh y’ve long been resistant to change, but the building design industries are becoming more inclusive of LGBTQ workers — and leaders

CONSTRUCTION

TODD JOHNSON

TRACKING TOWARD PROGRESS The BART Board of Directors changed the Small Business Program in August 2017 to include certified LGBT businesses. Since then, there have been:

R 69 Small Business outreach events, four of them designated specifically for LGBTQ businesses R Creation of an LGBT business database with 165 certified LGBT businesses R One certified LGBT business has been awarded a BART contract totaling $95,000. R One LGBT business has received commitments on two professional services agreements with BART totaling $319,660.

SOURCE: BART

‘If you were an openly gay person, you weren’t going to rise above that ceiling.’ PAUL WOOLFORD, Senior principal and design principal, HOK

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come out,” he said. Other people com-ing into the industry didn’t feel com-fortable coming out if they didn’t see others like them.

Th re are signs of change, though. The Golden Gate Business Associ-ation, which was the nation’s first LGBTQ chamber of commerce, recent-ly joined the Caltrans Small Business Council. Caltrans also released a small business outreach plan this year that included LGBT-owned businesses fol-lowing legislation signed in 2017 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. It was the first state department of transportation to include LGBT businesses in its official small business outreach plan, accord-ing to the GGBA.

The move followed legislation Brown signed in 2017 that is expected to bring in more than $54 billion over 10 years for work on roads, freeways, bridges and more throughout the state. The work is ramping up quickly as a result of the funding: Th re could be a doubling or even tripling of the num-ber of work zones in the state, accord-ing to Dan McElhinney, district direc-tor for Caltrans District 10, which

covers the Stockton area. With all of this additional work, it

is “a very important time for all of us to help grow the indus-try and help bring on new firms that can support all this new workload,” he said. And the state wants to make sure every busi-ness — including those that are LGBTQ-owned — knows about the opportunities for work.

“I really believe this is a great time for LGBT firms to look to opportunities in trans-portation, particular-ly working with at the state level and at the local level,” he said.

Philip Anderson, founder and pres-ident at Berkeley-based design and build company HDR Remodeling, says

a tightening labor market has been a “godsend” for the LGBTQ communi-ty in the construction trades. Paired

with actions by Presi-dent Donald Trump’s administration that are limiting the num-ber of migrant workers, there’s a stronger need than ever for employ-ees, Anderson said. It means people don’t care what a person’s sexual orientation is — they just want to know if that person brings the right experience to get the job done.

Still, people’s expe-riences in construction — or any workplace — vary greatly depend-

ing on their immediate supervisors and team.

“If you look at construction, espe-

cially job site construction, and oth-er what are traditionally masculine environments … that may be magni-fied in that microcosm,” said Beck

Bailey, acting director of the Human Rights Campaign Foun-dation’s Work-place Equali-ty Program. Th foundation is a national advo-cate for LGBTQ civil rights.

Culture change in the construc-tion industry will take more than pol-icy changes and verbal commitments from the top to actually be more wel-coming of the kinds of workers that have been sidelined in the past.

“People talk about things, but action goes further,” Bailey said. “Every action is a signal. Every action says, ‘We really mean this.’”

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Laura Lange works two jobs at Genen-tech Inc.: Her day job and her gay job.

As a senior global project manag-er at the South San Francisco-based

biotech giant, she helps guide new drugs in late-stage clinical trials and beyond; as the co-chair of the company’s resource group for LGBTQ employees and allies, she helps to transform culture.

“As I learn more, people come out to me about being trans or bisexual — there are so many stories. It feeds me,” Lange said. “It blows my mind. It’s the thing I didn’t know that I was living for, and I get to do this, and great science.”

Lange’s dual roles illustrate how Genen-tech remains at the forefront of biotech — both in research that leads to breakthrough drugs, and in benefits that lead to an engaged workforce.

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ners in 1994, well before most of corporate America followed suit. Starting in 2013, it “grossed up” the pay of employees to cover federal taxes on same-sex partners’ medical benefits before marriage equality made that unnecessary. And it is updating its health care policies to conform with the latest cov-erage recommended by the World Profes-sional Association for Transgender Health.

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“I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved over the years, but I’m also very aware that we didn’t get to where we are today without continually questioning the status quo and evolving,” Genentech CEO Alexander Hardy said in an email.

Indeed, Genentech’s executive team — from the company’s start, into its cancer-fig ting heyday under CEO Art Levinson, through its takeover by Swiss drug-maker Roche and the introduc-tion of Hardy as CEO on March 1 — has seen diversity and inclu-sion as something that requires support from the top.

It was Levinson who famous-ly noted the lack of women in executive positions in 2007 and launched what would be a decade-long company to cre-ate a better pathway to gender diversity.

Genentech’s long view about its culture mirrors the years-long timeline required to discover, develop and market drugs.

“Our founders believed that anything was possible if you hire the best people, empower them and create a culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging,” Hardy said. “That’s a vital component of innovation and has been core to our cultural philosophy from the start.

“Th n when you’re purposeful about sustaining that

culture through policies and programs like these, and you see the powerful impact they have on your people, it’s validating and it spurs us to keep doing more of the same for all of our employees.”

Every employee resource group — or “DNA group,” as they are shorthanded — must have an executive sponsor. Often that person is an officer of the company.

“It’s not just a moral obligation but a business imperative,” said Nancy Vitale, who has spent near-ly 13 years at Genentech, the past six as chief human resources officer. “So there’s absolutely that top-down support, and I’ve felt that from the three CEOs that I’ve worked for.”

Executive involvementTh t’s empowering, said Lange, who joined Genentech in March 2017, after 17 years working at a handful of drug-development and life sciences companies.

Even in the biotech industry, where Genentech largely has created a template for other companies’ diversity and inclusion efforts, buy-in isn’t always universal.

Th re was, for example, the bathroom incident: A new employee at a biotech company, where Lange worked, thought she was a man entering the women’s bathroom and alerted HR. Th n there were the times when Lange would lead video meetings in which col-leagues at remote sites assumed by her appearance that she was a man until they heard her voice.

Lange’s previous employers were too small or too constrained by cash and time, she said, to set up something like the employee resource groups she had learned about at summits led by Out & Equal, the San Francisco-based nonprofit advocate for LGBTQ work-

place equality.So when Lange interviewed at Genentech, she

dressed like she wanted, her hair was cut as she liked it and she talked about her wife, who already worked there.

“It’s the first time I presented as my authentic self,” Lange said.

Within months of her hiring, Lange joined gPRIDE — Genentech People Respecting Individuals, Diversity & Everyone — the company group for LGBTQ employees and allies. It has about 880 members at three Genen-tech locations.

The gPRIDE work that gave her access to company executives and, she said, helped her land a new global project manager job in May.

“I’m not scared about being reported to HR and going to the bathroom anymore,” Lange said. “It helps me be able to be a bolder leader in my space. I get to practice leadership skills and interact with executives at the highest levels.”

Just last month, she was invited to a meeting with CEO Hardy.

“Th t’s a unique Genentech experience,” Lange said.Bottom line, said Vitale, who is leaving Genentech

this month to start a boutique HR consulting firm with her partner, is that diversity and inclusion carry with them better business results. Th t doesn’t mean just opening doors for LGBTQ employees, she said, but understanding that a single employee can identify with many groups that intersect at Genentech.

“It’s really this notion of ‘together,’” Vitale said. “We’re coming together to create an environment where we are all connected by our mission and our culture.”

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When James Nunemacher sojourned into San Fran-cisco’s real estate scene in the 1980s from Dayton, Ohio, the first thing he did was head to Macy’s and buy three suits and ties. Style and an eye for design was always core to his showmanship.

“Th y used to make fun of us as the group of young, good-looking gays,” said Nunemacher, the founder and CEO of Vanguard Properties. “But I’m not young anymore.”

Founded in 1987, Vanguard began as a sole out-post at the corner of Market and Castro Streets with only a handful of agents. Homes in the region went for south of $500,000. Beyond being the city’s LGBTQ hub, the neighborhood is central and close to transit, ideal for selling real estate, Nunemacher said.

“San Francisco’s always been an amazing place for people with ambition and willingness to work hard,” said Nunemacher. “I think that growth hap-pened naturally as we as a small company put our-selves on the map.”

Today, the luxury real estate firm has grown to 500 agents and 15 offices spanning San Francisco, Marin, Napa, Palm Springs and the East Bay, follow-ing its customer base which began eyeing second

— and even third — homes.Last year, Vanguard sold over $3 billion in

real estate and expects to exceed that in 2019 as it expands operations in the East Bay and on the Peninsula.

But Vanguard remains part of the neighborhood where it started, and they have risen together.

Records for the neighborhood show that the average single-family home price skyrocketed from $774,599 two decades ago to $3.33 million today; the average price per square foot tripled.

“It’s a hugely attractive neighborhod that has become even more attractive,” said Shane Ray, a real estate broker and co-owner of Domicile Prop-

Keeping itself in the Vanguarderties at Compass.

Domicile is another LGBTQ-owned business operating out of the Castro.

Vanguard has long benefitted from its close ties to the city’s prolific LGBTQ community — many of which are its clientele. Co-owner Frank Nolan is also gay, Nunemacher said, and in 2013, the com-pany acquired Herth Real Estate Company, another LGBTQ-owned firm.

“It was important to them that the company stayed gay-owned,” he added.

Being gay taught Nunemacher to be tough-skinned. He also learned to never judge a book by its cover, remembering one eventual client who walked into an open house scrappily clad over a decade ago.

“Th s guy turned out to be the CEO of a big tech company,” Nunemacher said. “He said everyone else ignored him that Sunday on open house tours. I was nice to him.” Since then, Vanguard has sold some 20 properties to him, his friends and people from his company.

Beyond its general brokerage work, the firm does real estate development for everything from single- family home renovations and new construction to 300-unit buildings. Nunemacher many times helps with the designs of the projects, adding his own personal touch.

‘Th y used to make fun of us as the group of young, good-

looking guys. But I’m not young anymore.’

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He believes that theater is prepar-ing them for the variety of circum-stances they could encounter in life. “You gain self confid nce and you’re learning to move your body through a space,” Ghanizadeh said.

Ghanizadeh was a profession-al dancer for the American Ballet Theatre in his previous career. He now owns Management Consult-ing Group, which ranked No. 16 on the LGBTQ-Owned Businesses List. He became involved with Pied Pip-er Productions when his own chil-dren joined the theater. And now that the founder is retiring, he and his co-manager Sonia Perozzi are taking over.

The theatre just concluded a pro-duction of Cabaret Kids, which had original choreography and incor-porated old tunes and modern hits. Ghanizadeh has always loved the feeling of being in a theater, partic-ularly a Broadway production. But he didn’t imagine working with kids until his children joined Pied Piper. His daughter, Emma, is still in Pied Piper, but will be heading to college this fall. But Ghanizadeh will be stay-ing on with Pied Piper after his kids have left.

“Working with these kids has been empowering,” Ghanizadeh said.

A lthough just outside of San Francisco, Christian Sullberg says Sonoma County is a dif-

ferent space for LGBTQ youth. Sull-berg is the president of Positive Imag-es, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that offers free youth services including mental health and peer support for LGBTQ youth pri-marily ages 12 to 24.

Christian Sullberg is co-owner of Moustache Baked Goods and Noble Folk Ice Cream & Pie Bar, a dessert spot in Healdsburg and No. 36 on the

LGBTQ-Owned Businesses list. He took over the nonprofi Positive Imag-es a few years ago when Jim Foster, its founder, stepped down. Since Sullberg took over, the nonprofit has begun offering adult support services as well, along with tutoring help for school-at-tending participants.

While some participants have many outlets for processing their journey, he says there’s something empowering for them to be in a room with people who are going through the same experience.

Most participants are from Sono-ma County, according to Sullberg, but some come from surrounding areas.

“It can feel isolating and like you’re on your own up here,” Sullberg not-ed about the LGBTQ spaces in Sono-ma county, refl cting on his own child-hood growing up in Healdsburg.

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$374MTotal revenue in �iscal year 2018 for the top 50 on the List combined

+9%Increase in revenue for the top 50 companies on this year’s List compared with the top 50 companies on last year’s List

MOST BAY AREA EMPLOYEESCatered Too Inc. 225

Equator Coff ees LLC 136

Got Light 130

Park Cafe Group 80

FineLine Construction 68

ABOUT THE LISTThis List includes companies that are at least 51 percent lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender owned, and headquartered in the Greater Bay Area, which is de�ined as Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma counties. In case of ties, companywide employees was used as secondary ranking criteria. Revenue �igures are rounded to the second decimal place.

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50 LGBTQ˜OWNED BUSINESSES IN THE BAY AREA °1˜25˛ RANKED BY 2018 REVENUE

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Business name/Prior rankWebsite

AddressPhone

Fiscal year2018

companywiderevenue

Bay Areaemployees

PercentLGBTQ-owned Business description

Yearfounded

Name(s) of companyowner(s)

11FineLineConstruction 1finelineconstruction.com

15 Brush Pl.San Francisco, CA 94103

415-512-7677$81.17million 68 100% General contractor 1980 Doree Friedman, CEO

Paolo Friedman, President

22VanguardProperties 2vanguardproperties.com

2501 Mission St.San Francisco, CA 94110

415-321-7000$76.13million 45 100%

Residential and commercial realestate sales, property leasing and

management1986 James Nunemacher, CEO

Frank Nolan, VP

33

AmericanMarketing SystemsInc. dba AMSI RealEstate Services 14amsires.com

2800 Van Ness Ave.San Francisco, CA 94109

415-447-2009$35.02million 25 51%

Real estate leasing, propertymanagement, sales, interim-

extended stay furnished housing1970

Robb Fleischer,Zoya Lee Smithton,Founders/Officers

44 Olivia Travel 3olivia.com

434 Brannan St. 3rd Fl.San Francisco, CA 94107

415-962-5700$23

million 25 100%Travel company for lesbians -

charter cruises, resorts, riverboatsand adventure vacations

1973Judy Dlugacz, Founder/

presidentRachel Wahba, Co-founder

55Equator CoffeesLLC 4equatorcoffees.com

275 Greenfield Ave.San Anselmo, CA 94960

415-485-2213$18.91million 136 61% Wholesale coffee roaster and retail

operator 1995Helen Russell, CEO

Brooke McDonnell, Co-founder

66Bateman GroupInc. 5bateman-group.com

1550 Bryant St. #450San Francisco, CA 94103

415-503-1818$14.5million 45 55%

Technology-focused publicrelations, corporate PR, contentdevelopment, social media and

digital marketing2004

Fred Bateman, CEOBill Bourdon, PartnerTyler Perry, Partner

Shannon Hutto, Partner

77 Catered Too Inc. 6cateredtoo.com

325 Demeter St.East Palo Alto, CA 94303

650-240-2300$14.02million 225 100% Caters corporate events of 100 to

20,000 1992 Greg Casella, Founder/CEO

88 Got Light 7got-light.com

211 Industrial St.San Francisco, CA 94124

415-863-4300$11.1million 130 100% Event design and production 2004

Jon Retsky, FounderRussell Holt, Owner/Lead

designer

99Laner ElectricSupply 8laner-electric.com

1310 S. 51st St.Richmond, CA 94804

510-215-5100$9.1

million 15 51% Wholesale electrical supplydistributor 1984 Sandra Escalante,

President/CEO

1010Schoenberg FamilyLaw Group PC 10sflg.com

575 Market St. #4000San Francisco, CA 94105

415-834-1120$7.27million 23 100% Family law firm 2009 Debra Schoenberg, Owner

1111Silverman & LightInc. 11silvermanlight.com

1201 Park Ave. #100Emeryville, CA 94608

510-655-1200$6.31million 25 67% Electrical engineering and lighting

design services 1976Joseph Bazzell, OwnerChris Silverman, Owner

Schulhoff Tam, VP

1212 Park Cafe Group 13parkcafelife.com

500 Precita Ave.San Francisco, CA 94110

415-647-7702$5.57million 80 100%

Local neighborhood bistros with afocus on community and a

seasonal organic menu1997 Rachel Herbert, Owner

1313AWG Private Chefs12

awgprivatechefs.com

1839 Ygnacio ValleyRd. #250

Walnut Creek, CA 94598877-753-2727

$5.4million 27 100% Private chef service & catering 2001 Sean Andrade, Chef/Owner

1144Brio FinancialGroup 15briofg.com

333 Bush St. #1400San Francisco, CA 94117

415-623-2450$4.28million 11 100% Financial planning services 1999 Jake Zalewski, Principal

Brandon Miller, Owner/CEO

1515Creative B'stro Inc.16

bstro.com

655 Montgomery St. 6th Fl.San Francisco, CA 94111

415-861-2222$3.5

million 23 100% Digital marketing agency 2004Jill Tracy, Founder/

President/Chief creativeofficer

1616ManagementConsulting Group(MCG) *mcgsf.net

1541 4th St. #ASan Rafael, CA 94901

415-721-1445$3.27million 50 100% Boutique staffing company 2001 Todd Ghanizadeh,

Managing director

1717 AsiaSF *asiasf.com

201 9th St.San Francisco, CA 94103

415-255-2742$3

million1 49 97%Restaurant, cabaret and nightclubfeaturing transgender performers,

"The Ladies of AsiaSF"1998 Aaron Nelson, CMO/Partner

1818HDR RemodelingInc. 26hdrremodeling.com

2952 Sacramento St.Berkeley, CA 94702

510-845-6100$2.7

million 13 90% Design/build residentialremodeling company 1987

Philip Anderson,Responsible managing

owner

1199Ripplemakers Inc.41

ripplemakersinc.com

433 Airport Blvd. #128Burlingame, CA 94010

650-763-0680$2.7

million 5 100% Video production company 2004 Carol Gancia, President/Executive director

2200 af&co. 28afandco.com


415-781-5700$2.63million 15 100%

Hospitality firm with expertise inPR, marketing, and concept

development2005 Andrew Freeman, Founder/

President

2121Cokas Diko HomeInc. 19cokasdiko.com

1125 W. Steele Ln.Santa Rosa, CA 95403

707-568-4044$2.58million 10 100% Furniture, window coverings and

design 1998 Patrick Mutt,Ramon Espinoza, Owners

2222Phase2 BuildersInc. 21phase2builders.com

1201 Mariposa St.San Francisco, CA 94114

415-613-4560$2.35million 5 100% Commercial and residential

construction and renovations 2004 Michael Miller, Principal

2323Gentle StarMedspa 23gentlestar.com

14 Mint Plz. #110San Francisco, CA 94103

415-618-0108$2.33million 9 100% Aesthetic medical spa 2005 Thomas Ellis, President/

Medical director

2244 Q.Digital Inc. 25q.digital

584 Castro St. #623San Francisco, CA 94114

415-871-1503$2.3

million 6 100%

Digital media company targetingLGBTQ community, reaching

consumers with three editorialsites: Queerty, GayCities and

LGBTQ Nation

2008Scott Gatz, Owner

Chris Bull, Owner/Editorialdirector

2525 Cliff Consulting 22cliffconsulting.net

1516 5th St.Berkeley, CA 94710

510-530-7751$2.25million 8 100% Consulting firm 1972 Kirsten Kuhlmann,

President/CEO

Company did not provide exact revenue number, but the estimated sales for 2018 are in the range of $3 to $5 million.1

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WE ASKED: Do you do any community service for the LGBTQ community?

“Yes I run a nonpro�it called Pied Piper Productions (aka Cabaret Kids) where we work with kids 6-18 to bring musical theater, acting and singing to the Bay Area. We also raise scholarship money for kids so no one is ever turned away.”— Todd Ghanizadeh, Management Consulting Group

“I run an LGBTQ nonpro�it called Positive Images in Santa Rosa. It’s a 501(c)(3) that serves LGBTQ youth and young adults 12-24 and off ers mental health support groups.”— Christian Sullberg, Moustache Baked Goods/Noble Folk

“I was the �irst LGBT chair of the Democratic Party in San Mateo County. I helped create the �irst LGBTQ County Commission in the state in San Mateo County.”— Jeff rey Adair, J Floral Art Inc.

“We have worked, pro bono or at deeply discounted rates, for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, StrutSF, and the Horizons Foundation.”— Jill Tracy, Creative B’stro Inc.

“We make a point as part of our mission to give back to the LGBTQ community and others. Every year we contribute to the Frameline Film Festival as a sponsor and cater events put on by the festival. We donate food and supplies to the Dyke March, the Trans March and we donate our catering services to the VIPs and volunteers at the main stage at SF Pride every year.”— Rachel Herbert, Park Cafe Group

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50 LGBTQ˜OWNED BUSINESSES IN THE BAY AREA °26˜50˛ RANKED BY 2018 REVENUE

Compiled by Ahalya Srikant415˜288˜4962, @AhalyaSrikant

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2266 Lookout 29lookoutsf.com


415-431-0306$2.24million 19 100% Bar and restaurant 2007

Chris Hastings,Lawrence Bennett,

Owners

2277 Demonstrate PR 27demonstratepr.com

3322 Steiner St. 2nd Fl.San Francisco, CA 94123

415-400-4214$2.15million 8 68% Boutique marketing and

communications agency 2015 Joey Hodges, CEO

2288 Oasis 34sfoasis.com


415-795-3180$2

million 60 100% Nightclub cabaretperformance venue 2015

Geoff Benjamin, CEOHeklina, PresidentD'Arcy Drollinger,Artistic director

2929The Scarlet SageHerb Co. 35scarletsage.com

1193 Valencia St.San Francisco, CA 94110

415-821-0997$1.93million 16 100% Herbal apothecary 1995 Laura Ash, Owner

3030FinancialConnections GroupInc. 31financialconnections.com

21 Tamal Vista Blvd. #105Corte Madera, CA 94925

415-924-1091$1.86million 7 81% Fee-only financial planning

and investment management 1994Jill Hollander,

PresidentBrian Pon, Partner

3311LandisCommunicationsInc. (LCI) 33landispr.com

1388 Sutter St. #901San Francisco, CA 94109

415-561-0888$1.74million 15 100%

Public relations, marketing,digital, social media, video,

media training1990 David Landis,

President/CEO

3232 DIAKADI Fitness 38diakadi.life

290 Division St. #200San Francisco, CA 94103

415-863-4922$1.65million 8 100% Personal training, physical

therapy and fitness facility 2004Billy Polson,

Mike Clausen, Owner/Co-founders

3333 Luscious Garage 37lusciousgarage.com


415-875-9030$1.5

million 8 100% Hybrid auto repair 2007 Carolyn Coquillette,Owner

3344Rockhead andQuarry LLC *rockheadandquarry.com

2214 Martin Luther King Jr.Way

Berkeley, CA 94704510-540-5734

$1.5million 4 100% Historic house moving,

restoration and rentals 1983 Tom White,Dmitri Belser, Owners

3535The Henne Group30

thehennegroup.com

425 2nd St. #400San Francisco, CA 94107

415-348-1700$1.41million 13 100%

Market research, studydesign, survey instrument

design, data collection,analysis

1986 Jeffrey Henne,President/CEO

3636Moustache BakedGoods/Noble Folk32

moustachebakedgoods.com

381 Healdsburg Ave.Healdsburg, CA 95448

707-536-3503$1.4

million 50 100%Bake shop and ice cream and

pie shop sourcing localingredients

2010Ozzy Jimenez,

Christian Sullberg,Chefs/Owners

3377 IDK Events LLC 39idkevents.com


415-294-4888$1.38million 2 95%

Festival and paradeproduction and support

including SF Pride2014

Scott Shuemake,Managing member

Jacob Dornan,Managing memberFrank Ciglar, CFO

3838 RevOne Design 36revonedesign.com

1649 Adrian Rd. #BBurlingame, CA 94010

650-468-2996$1.2

million 9 100% Graphic marketingcommunications services 2011 Natasha Lahlouh,

President

3939Canas Realty Inc.42

canasrealty.com

20 Park Rd. #HBurlingame, CA 94010

650-343-9059$1.1

million 3 100% Residential and investmentreal estate 2008 Alan Canas, Owner

4400Next PlayConsulting LLC *nextplayllc.com

6150 Stoneridge MallRd. #105

Pleasanton, CA 94588925-856-7432

$1.09million 8 100% Commercial property

management firm 2015Anne Sparks, Owner/

Chief experienceofficer

4411Canela Bistro &Wine Bar 44canelasf.com

2272 Market St.San Francisco, CA 94114

415-336-1161$1.01million 17 100%

Restaurant with Spanish andCalifornia cuisine and wine

bar2011 Mat Schuster, Chef/

Owner

4242Big Bottom Market43

bigbottommarket.com

16228 Main St.Guerneville, CA 95446

707-604-7295$1

million 10 100%Gourmet deli and

marketplace known for itsbiscuits

2011

Michael Volpatt,Partner

Donna Prowse,Operating partner/General manager

4343 Flowers by Edgar 48flowersbyedgar.com

410 Roberson Ln.San Jose, CA 95112

408-836-1605$982,000 10 100%

Event/floral design firm forweddings and corporate

events2014 Edgar Martinez, Owner

4444Wooden TableBaking Co. 50woodentablebaking.com

910 81st Ave. #19Oakland, CA 94621

415-218-1952$970,000 15 100%

Bakes alfajores fusingArgentinean and American

flavors2011

Andreas Ozzuna,Owner/CEO

Citabria Ozzuna,Owner

4545Jamber Wine Pub40

jambersf.com

858 Folsom St.San Francisco, CA 94107

415-273-9192$840,405 14 100%

Wine pub serving wine ontap, beer and local comfort

food2012 Jess Voss, Owner

4646In-Symmetry Spa45

insymmetry.com

650 Florida St. #DSan Francisco, CA 94110

415-531-8232$800,000 10 100% Spa that provides deep-tissue

massage 1999 Candace Combs, CEO

4477Barbary InsuranceBrokerage 49barbaryinsurance.com

230 California St. #700San Francisco, CA 94111

415-788-4700$796,187 4 75%

Commercial and personalproperty and casualty

insurance broker2007

Jerry Becerra,President

Michael Oddo,Secretary

4848 J Floral Art Inc. *jfloralart.com

3489 Edison WayMenlo Park, CA 94025

650-363-0313$750,000 5 100% Event florist on the S.F.

Peninsula 1990 Craig Kozlowski,Jeffrey Adair, Owners

4949 Azucar Lounge 47azucarsf.com


415-255-2982$670,000 12 100%

Mexican cocktail loungeoffering cocktails and

Mexican-inspired late-nightbites

2011 Jonathan Ojinaga,Owner

5500 The Queer Gym *thequeergym.com

1243 E. 12th St.Oakland, CA 94606

510-808-5057$506,000 8 100% Queer gym focused on

inclusivity 2010 Nathalie Huerta,Founder

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When did you come out at work? I came out when I was working at WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment) in Sacramento — one of my first jobs — mainly because I was working in social services, and there were a lot of lesbians.

There were other jobs I had where it was not OK to be out, like working for the courts. To some extent I could do that easily because of all the ways I carry visible privilege. As a white woman who “appears straight,” I could be out with less risk than folks who do not conform to society’s gender expectations. But it was definitely hard to have to put a part of myself back “in the closet” — such as being careful not to use pronouns when talking about my current or past relationships and being mindful folks didn’t see my truck (which had a rainbow sticker).

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? I was fortunate to work in an environment where there were other women, in particular, that were out.

How close do you feel your industry is to full LGBTQ equality? The nonprofit sector, especially in San Francisco, is mostly there. Whether the whole spectrum of LGBTQ identities are represented and included equally, especially transgender individuals, is probably the better question. Again, I am fortunate to be in an industry where it is by and large celebratory and super-accepted to be out, but we all need to do work around full acceptance for people who are transgender and bisexual, for example.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? I believe it is our responsibility as leaders to advance social justice issues and issues of racial and LGBTQ equity. One of the ways we do that at Larkin Street is continuing to raise awareness about the impact of homelessness on LGBTQ-identified youth as well as being in the larger movement to end homelessness for LGBTQ-identified youth and youth of color. We also work to support, mentor and create opportunities for all.

How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? I came out early in my career because others were out early at the workplace — visibility is key. We need to see others to know that we can do it too.

Amid rising inequality and our housing crisis, what is the trajectory on youth homelessness and poverty? Is the problem in San Francisco getting better or worse? Inequality and the housing crisis impacts all young people experiencing homelessness, but youth of color and LGBTQ-identified youth (and especially those with multiple identities) face additional challenges to becoming self-sustaining in the Bay Area.

While we are all working hard to reduce the numbers of young people experiencing homelessness, and those numbers have gone down, the pathway out of homelessness and into economic independence is harder in an environment with significant inequality and insufficient housing.

What’s the most effective thing the business community in San Francisco and the Bay Area can do to reduce youth homelessness? You can be a champion in the movement to end youth homelessness by directly supporting services that help young people move into self-sufficien y. You can be a visible advocate for the needs of LGBTQ-identified and youth of color. And you can say hello to someone you see on the street who may be having a hard day.

‘As a white woman who “appears straight,” I could be out with less risk than folks who do not conform to society’s gender expectations. But it was definitely hard to have to put a part of myself back in the closet.’

O U T S T A N D I N G V O I C E S BACKGROUNDFor more than 30 years, I have dedicated my career to the nonprofit sector, focusing on issues of child abuse and neglect, family violence, mental health, substance abuse and homelessness. The first member of my family to attend college (California State University, Sacramento), my early life was touched by many of these issues. This personal history is part of what drives me to be a catalyst for change in the lives of at-risk populations.

Serving as Larkin Street Youth Services’

executive director since 2003, I have led the

agency through significant growth, nearly tripling the number of housing beds, and putting Larkin Street at the vanguard of the field for its innovative multi-service model to resolve youth homelessness.

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How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? Follow Harvey Milk’s advice and come out. Think about the fact that approximately 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBTQ, and the terribly high rates of suicide among LGBTQ young people. Business leaders and all leaders have a responsibility to show these young people that they have a future. Even if their families don’t believe it. Even if they don’t believe it.

Rather than just managing the city/county’s money, you have used the treasurer’s office as a platform for combating poverty. What has been the success of those efforts? I mentioned one program I’m very proud of, which is Smart Money Coaching. Another is called Bank On San Francisco. It helps people find a safe, affordable bank account with no overdraft or hidden fees. Our Kindergarten to College Program automatically opens a college savings account for every child entering the city’s public schools with $50 and offers financial incentives for families to make deposits. Families have saved more than $4.3 million, and 50 percent of those savings are from low-income families.

The Financial Justice Project is also housed in my offic . Their work has led to a multitude of reforms to unnecessary government fines and fees, which disproportionately impact low-income communities of color.

BACKGROUNDI grew up in the Midwest and always knew I would go to college. I also grew up knowing I was gay, which meant I wanted to find a more welcoming place to live. And to me that meant moving to a big city. I applied to three or four colleges in Michigan because that’s what all kids from Michigan do, but I also applied to MIT because I read a news report saying it was the leading science and engineering school. I got into MIT and moved to Boston, enjoying for the first time an urban multi-cultural community and vibrant LGBT community.

When did you come out at work? My first job was at the largest bank in Boston where I entered their management training program. I was out to friends and some coworkers, but I wasn’t completely out. I think many LGBTQ folks can relate to that situation. Nobody asked and I wasn’t going out of my way to come out to everyone. After about six years I left for a job at Lotus. I was asked to serve on their diversity committee and I was completely out at work. In the early ‘90s, Lotus became the first publicly traded company to offer same-sex health benefits. They even beat Apple to it! I was proud that my work on the diversity committee played a major role in making that happen.

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? The city is a true leader in every sense of the word when it comes to LGBTQ rights. One example is that San Francisco has consistently set a high bar in terms of rights and safety for transgender people.

Having said that, I think nationally there is a lot of work ahead. We’ve seen a resurgence of discrimination against LGBTQ people. The more we can elect LGBTQ policymakers, the more inclusive our policies will be.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? The easy part is just being out and visible. Even today, when you’re an out elected official, you’re inevitably breaking down barriers. I served on the board of League of California Cities and eventually became the League’s first openly gay board president. It’s also important to lead by example within the LGBT community. That’s why I proudly attended the first Trans March in San Francisco and the first Trans Job Fair, I walked around the room and personally thanked all the employers who showed up. Beyond that, I’ve personally slowed city contracts because the vendors were not providing equal partner benefits. And it’s important to me that the programs run out of my office have San Francisco’s diverse community in mind. We have a program called Smart Money Coaching that provides free one-on-one financial coaching. It was gratifying to attend a Smart Money Coaching event specifically tailored for LGBTQ seniors.

‘Business leaders and all leaders have a responsibility to show (LGBTQ) young people that they have a future. Even if their families don’t believe it. Even if they don’t believe it.’


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When did you come out at work? I didn’t have a big coming out moment, because there were so many other ways I was already defying the norms in my profession. I wasn’t just gay — I had a GED, I was a woman in a male-dominated field, I was a microeconomist in a macroeconomic job. But it did take time for me to start bringing my whole self to the offic . I needed to grow as a person, and as a leader within my organization, so that I could be brave enough to fully be myself at home and at work.

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? The economics profession still has a way to go on diversity and inclusion issues. The only way to achieve full equality is to work together to create inclusive environments where every person’s voice and contributions matter. We’re committed to doing that at the San Francisco Fed, and I’m proud that we received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2019 Corporate Equality Index. We’re doing everything we can to advocate for diverse voices in the profession, and make sure we include them in our dialogues.

Have you encountered business situations within the last few years where you felt your LGBTQ status was still an issue? I’ve often traveled to our branch office in Salt Lake City. And it’s somewhere I’ve never felt entirely comfortable as a married gay woman. So when I started our new Zip Code Economies podcast, that was one of the first places I wanted to go. As I interviewed people who lived there, I learned that we shared so many of the same values, and that was able to transcend our different sexual orientations and religious beliefs. It reminded me we are all human.

How can this generation of LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? Finding allies is so important for young people’s development. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the mentor who encouraged me to get a GED and continue my education. So it’s important for LGBTQ business leaders to be mentors and allies for the generation coming up behind us — to show them the paths we took to get here, and to encourage them to blaze their own.

As an LGBTQ woman with a nontraditional academic background, do you have a different perspective from other economists? If our economy is going to work for as many people as possible, we must have true diversity of thought. We need as many different viewpoints as possible at our table if we’re going to look at the data and really understand what it’s telling us about how people are living and working in America today. We all look through our own lens — I’m no exception. Since I have an untraditional background, that means I have a different vantage point than a lot of other people. That’s one of my biggest strengths.

You’ve written and spoken about the need for more diversity in economics in general and the Fed in particular. What are you doing to help bring that about? Making the San Francisco Fed a more diverse and inclusive place to work is one of our top priorities because we know it’s going to make us a better organization. But it requires a lot of different initiatives at all levels. Sometimes it means going to speak at different venues about the culture we’re building, like a recent lunch I had with an LGBTQ group at the American Economic Association. Sometimes it means calling up every one of our prospective research assistants to tell them about the opportunities they’ll have working at the Fed, so that we can achieve a better gender balance in our research department. I’m so grateful that these efforts are paying off.

‘It’s important for LGBTQ business leaders to be mentors and allies for the generation coming up behind us — to show them the paths we took to get here, and to encourage them to blaze their own.’

BACKGROUNDAfter dropping out of high school in Ballwin, Missouri, at 15, I earned my GED and went on to receive a B.A. in economics and philosophy from the University of Missouri, Kansas City; a M.S. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; and a Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University. I’ve worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco since 1996 and became president and CEO in October 2018.


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At Bank of America, we know

that our diversity makes us

stronger. That’s why we are

resolute in our support for our

LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,

Transgender, plus) employees,

customers and clients, and the

LGBT+ communities that we live

and work in.

We join the San Francisco Business Times in congratulating our own Shelley Saraniti, an OUTstanding voice in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At pivotal points in society, San Francisco’s

LGBT+ community has needed friends –

and it’s been the unlikely ally of the private

sector and leading corporate brands that

have often been first movers and early

adopters of LGBT+ workplace protections.

In the early 1980s as the AIDS crisis was

unfolding and misunderstood, it was Bank of

America that established one of the earliest

known corporate workplace AIDS education

policies and employee benefits after its first

known employee contracted the virus. This

policy was later used by the new Clinton

Administration to help develop an HIV/AIDS

policy for federal employees in 1993/94. By

1990, Bank of America was on San Francisco

AIDS Foundation board.

Establishing a workplace environment

where every employee can bring their whole

selves to work has also been a priority for

Bank of America. Throughout the late 1980s

and early 1990s, bank employees across the

country formed “gay clubs” to discuss issues

and raise needs to management’s attention.

By 1994, these employee clubs created

dozens of patches that were sewn into the

bank’s official panel for the AIDS Memorial

Quilt, which was unveiled at its Concord,

California campus.

Four years later, in 1998, Bank of America

became the first financial institution to offer

same sex domestic partner benefits to all its

employees nationwide. In 2008, the bank

began offering health insurance coverage for

medically necessary procedures associated

with transgender needs.

Many of these actions may seem far in the

rearview mirror, but collectively they’re

hallmarks of how private sector companies

have progressed workplace protections,

fostering a culture of inclusivity and the

company itself serving as LGBT+ community

advocates.

Today’s Bank of America employees also

have flexible parental leave, adoption and

fertility reimbursement, as well as a Life

Event Services team to help teammates who

are transitioning in the workplace.

We also have a first-of-its-kind LGBT+

Executive Leadership Council comprised of

70 senior executives who are visibly Out-At-

Work who help guide corporate policy, and

wealth management advisors who specialize

in the laws impacting LGBT+ households’ tax

and legal challenges to financial planning.

Bank of America takes all these actions

because it’s both the right thing to do for our

employees and their families, as well as good

business for the diverse clients we serve.

To learn more, visit bankofamerica.com/sanfrancisco.

Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. © 2019 Bank of America Corporation. ARHMSJB3


When did you come out at work? I’ve always been out at work. I found ways to come out during the interview process. You’re usually asked a personal question like, “What do you like to do in your personal time?” or something like that. And I’d find a way to weave in Chloe. “My partner, Chloe, she’s a photographer, and we love to visit museums and galleries.” Or something like that.

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? It was never more important to be out at work than in 2008, during the Prop 8 campaign. It was a dark time — the Great Recession, so many families losing their homes and jobs. Obama brought us a lot of hope.

During the Prop 8 campaign, a group of employees created OutForce, the LGBTQ employee resource group at Salesforce. We went to Marc (Benioff) and asked him to speak out publicly against Prop 8 and he did. That still means a lot to me, that he was willing to risk his reputation in the name of equality. I’ve really been blessed to work with great CEOs: Jay Larson, Dan Siroker, Benioff, Craig Conway. They all respect and value my experience and perspective as a growth leader, a woman, an out lesbian, a champion of equality, a community activist and a philanthropist, who is 100 percent committed to creating a fun, fair and equitable workplace for everyone!

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? I’m very proud that at Optimizely all our offic s around the globe embrace diversity and inclusivity. I feel like tech companies in the Bay Area have become more inclusive; most have employee resource groups and understand that diverse teams are more innovative and produce better results. Once you leave the Bay Area though, things can get dicey.

Many in our global community still suffer in the workplace. Even something as basic as introducing one’s self can be extraordinarily difficult if your own gender identity doesn’t match what someone has “assigned” you. We are still fighting for equality in the workplace every day. The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed the Equality Act, but it’s certain to get killed by the Senate or a presidential veto. We are not done, people.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion at Optimizely is multifaceted. We support our diverse communities through employee resource groups — Out@Optimizely, OptimizeLadies, DIG (Diversity & Inclusion Group), Veterans@Optimizely, #parents, OptiMoms, etc.

At Optimizely, I’ve been very generously told by women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and other underrepresented minorities that they really appreciate that I am out and proud. It’s important to our employees that when our leadership team lines up at the front of the room, it’s a more diverse and inclusive team than what they’ve experienced at other companies.

How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? By creating psychological safety for all workers — no matter the role or industry — make it safe to be queer, to be a woman, to be a person of color, to come from a different background than you. Leaders need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable sometimes, and having the empathy and genuine curiosity to want to hear more diverse voices in the room.

You’ve been in recruiting and HR for more than 20 years. How has the climate for openly LGBTQ candidates changed during that time? I’m still close friends with the first lesbian candidate I recruited 20 years ago. She’s now a senior executive with the NFL. Back then, even those of us who were out at work felt like we were part of a secret club. Today we have Lesbians Who Tech, we have LGBTQ meet-ups at big conferences, and people put their queer activism on their LinkedIn profile.

‘Even something as basic as introducing one’s self can be extraordinarily diffi lt if your own gender identity doesn’t match what someone has “assigned” you. We are still fighting for equality in the workplace every day.’

BACKGROUNDI’m a proud New Englander, raised by the beautiful beaches of Massachusetts. I studied at UMass Amherst and moved to San Francisco the year after I graduated.My first big corporate job was with PeopleSoft, leading executive and corporate recruiting. When Oracle launched its hostile takeover bid, I left to join Salesforce as the VP of recruiting. I eventually led all of HR. I stayed for nearly a decade.

Now I’m with Optimizely as the chief people office . We are rapidly expanding and developing software that is having a huge impact on the digital experiences companies deliver!


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BACKGROUNDRichard: I’m a native Angeleno, born and raised in South Los Angeles. I attended California State University, Los Angeles. I started my career in Santa Ana. I moved to San Francisco to work at Mission Economic Development Agency, then joined the office of OaklandCity Council President Ignacio De La Fuente. After his final term, we traveled for two months in South America to figure out what was next and part of that vision was The Port Bar, but also helping nonprofits through a company we started called West End

Strategies. Then I was recruited to work at

BART, where I have been for almost six years.

Sean: I was born and raised in New York City. I went to St. Bonaventure University, worked at Covenant House in New York City, Washington, D.C., and then Oakland. I left to run the fundraising for No on 8-Equality California. In 2013, I started with Richard then ran West End Strategies before selling it last year. We launched The Port Bar in 2016. I recently joined Lakeside Investment Company as their investor relations and marketing strategist.

When did you each come out at work? We have both been out in the office for all of our professional careers. At this point, just like this wonderful recognition, we come as a couple to nearly everything, including our business endeavors, so there’s no “in.”

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? Richard: As people under 45, thank you very much, (Richard is 36) we’ve always believed that bringing our whole selves to work made us thrive in our careers in the non-profit arena, government definitely, and as we evolved into entrepreneurship and the private sector, we’re just a team, so it never crosses our mind not to be our full, authentic selves.Sean: I was bullied and physically assaulted for being perceived as gay throughout my entire education and I did worry that I was going to get hired out of college, have a homophobic boss and not be able to excel. I went to work for a Covenant House, and it was quite the opposite. I was respected for my talents, promoted and became a director by 25.

How does the Oakland LGBTQ community differ from San Francisco’s? Diversity. Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf says it’s our secret sauce and it’s true. We are the most diverse LGBTQ bar in the country because our staff reflects the community. We work hard to ensure everyone feels welcome at The Port Bar.

Where did the idea come for The Port Bar come from? Other than meeting each other 12 years ago, The Port Bar is the best thing that’s ever happened to us. Living in Oakland, we heard the desire, which we shared, for a 7 day a week LGBTQ space in downtown Oakland as an alternative to having to go to the Castro. We kept hearing it but no one was actually doing it. There’s a tremendous sense of pride in Oakland whether folks are third generation or living there 3 weeks! Everyone wants to celebrate Oakland’s working class roots and the port is the icon that does that best.

I don’t think either of you had a background in restaurants or barkeeping. Did that worry you?Sean: My mom actually ran an event service business so I learned to bartend through that. My friend, Derreck Johnson, allowed me to get back behind the bar in 2013 at Home of Chicken & Waffles to sharpen my craft. He then entered me in a Bay Area Best Bartender competition that summer and I came in third so after that, no, we had no worries.Richard: We always knew it would be a success because would be true to what the Oakland LGBTQ community wanted.

How much time do you spend at the bar vs. your “day” jobs? Richard: People think we live in the basement, we are there so much. I go there every day after work to handle finance and personnel matters.Sean: At least once a day I am there. I love it — our customers, our staff, the cute guy who does our books and HR, so I’m always happy to be there!

‘We have both been out in the office for all of our professional careers. We come as a couple to nearly everything, including business, so there’s no “in.”’


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BACKGROUNDI grew up a middle-class kid on a cul-de-sac in the Northeast section of Philadelphia in the ’70s and ‘80s, where being gay just wasn’t part of the viable life options in one’s consciousness.

I was thrown a lifeline when I was accepted to Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in the late 1980s. That was a watershed moment in education, amidst the AIDS crisis and my own coming out. I was incredibly lucky to come out in a city like Washington, D.C., and at a campus like Georgetown, and that turned out to be a tremendously affirming and positi e

life-altering experience for me. I came out my sophomore year, and celebrate 30 years of that experience this year. The friends I had then, thankfully I still have today, and we are growing older and grayer together.

When did you come out at work? I was out since 1989 and never looked back, though the journey wasn’t always smooth, of course. Work was not going to put me back in a closet, and I’ve been out from the day I made the declaration at Georgetown in fall 1989 and have made my choices in life, career and goals in line with the commitment to celebrate the gift I’ve been given, both in my own life, and in my shared one with Steven, my husband.

Have you encountered business situations within the last few years which you felt your LGBTQ status was still an issue? In 2004, I interviewed with a major AmLaw 25 law firm and received an enthusiastic same-day offer. That evening, I told the managing partner I had to check in with my partner about my start date. The expression on the managing partner’s face suddenly changed, and he said he hadn’t realized I had a “partner” and would put off any further discussions until the following week. The offer was rescinded the next day, and my recruiter told me inside HR folks had mentioned off the record that the managing partner was not comfortable with hiring me. My shock gave way to anger and then to relief that I’d dodged an awful place to work. I was lucky enough to move on to another firm, Morrison Foerster, where partner Keith Wetmore inspired me to push my career to ever greater heights and not give up on this profession.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? I have pushed boundaries and made strides as an open, out, corporate deal-making attorney within my firms and with my clients. I concentrate on being the best lawyer I can be, staying active in the community and making sure opportunities are there for others like me. I think that shows integrity and authenticity — traits clients would want in any counsel. As my career matured into management roles, I’ve been able to push those opportunities more broadly, and the creation of the StartOut Growth Lab is certainly the best example of how I am working to make sure economic opportunity and equality is an option for LGBTQ entrepreneurs. I aim to assist them in their endeavors and business goals so they are given a fair shot at contributing their talents to our society like anyone else.

What was the genus of the StartOut Growth Lab at Nixon Peabody? How many businesses has it incubated? The StartOut Growth Lab is the nation’s first ever startup accelerator aimed at advancing companies founded or cofounded by LGBTQ entrepreneurs, and the first diversity-oriented accelerator housed within a major law firm. The Growth Lab aims to level the playing field for LGBTQ entrepreneurs, who often can’t find equal access to capital or business partners. Launched in 2017, the Growth Lab has graduated 20 companies, which have collectively raised $23 million in funding and created 95 new jobs. We will graduate another six companies this summer. I originally mapped out the idea for the Growth Lab on the back of a napkin during a casual meeting with Andres Wydler, the executive director of StartOut, the largest nonprofit organization for entrepreneurs in the LGBTQ+ community. The firm had space for the Growth Lab in its San Francisco offic , and I was eager to make it happen. When I brought the idea to our firm’s leadership team, there was no hesitation. I had their support within minutes.

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When did you come out at work? I have not been in the closet since college. Consequently, I don’t hide my sexuality at work. The consequences of not being honest about who I was while trying to build trust with clients felt dishonest and so I made a conscious choice to be out. It didn’t always work out the way I would have preferred but I have not regretted my decision to always be out at work.

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? Nothing other than not wanting to live two lives and in constant fear of getting found out.

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? What still needs to happen to achieve it? I’ve been in the financial services industry for 33 years and in that time I’ve seen many more of my colleagues lead more open lives. For some time now most corporations have written mandates about equal treatment and nondiscrimination for LGBTQ employees but many of them don’t follow through in their actions.

Have you encountered business situations within the last few years which you felt your LGBTQ status was still an issue? Living in San Francisco and being at a company that is supportive, I can truthfully say I’m unaware if my status is an issue. I’ve witnessed more situations of gender discrimination and racial discrimination than discrimination for being a lesbian.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? I believe rising tides lift all boats so I do my part both in the LGBTQ community and outside. I work to bring LGBTQ awareness to the causes outside our community and similarly bring issues around immigration, class and race to LGBTQ mainstream organizations I support.

How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? We need to be constantly vigilant and keep the pressure on companies to continue to make the workplace even more inclusive by calling out bad behaviors and also make sure the inclusive policies written by companies are practiced and not just gathering dust on a shelf.

You have been a longtime activist, and a longtime financial adviser. Do you find the two roles overlap or are they separate? They absolutely overlap! My activism informs much of how I conduct myself at work. As a financial adviser, I bring much of my business expertise to my communities. Since there are very few LGBTQ women of color in my position in the industry, I feel a duty to share my knowledge with others so we can all be more informed and in control of our financial lives.

Is the Asian-American LGBTQ experience different from other parts of the LGBTQ community? I think so. We may be LGBTQ but our cultural heritage plays a big part in how we are treated in the community. Our experiences are different and we are often left out of the conversation in mainstream LGBTQ dialogues.

‘My activism informs how I conduct myself at work. Since there are very few LGBTQ women of color in my position in the industry, I feel a duty to share my knowledge with others.’

BACKGROUNDUntil 16, I grew up in Kolkata, India and moved to Detroit with my mum a month after I turned 17. I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where I studied South Asian history and language. I later got my B.S. in applied economics at the University of San Francisco. I have been in the financial service industry for 33 years. In my spare time I’m on the boards of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Horizons Foundation and EARN.


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BACKGROUNDI grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. My parents were spirited, tenacious refugees who spent their childhood years in North Korea, uprooting their lives several times before moving us there. I developed an inexorable sense of what it means to be simultaneously an insider and an outsider — and this is something I carry with me everywhere.Education: B.A., Princeton University; Master of Divinity, Harvard University; Honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology, Starr King for the Ministry

When did you come out at work? I’ve been “out” for all of my career. In fact, my current role at the Levi Strauss Foundation is my first and only not working for an LGBTQ-identified organization.

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? I came out at 20, and it was one of the hardest things I’ve done. I made a vow: if I survive this, I will commit my career to serving my community. I went to Harvard Divinity School — and rather than getting ordained as a minister, I was keen to get involved in social movements serving the LGBTQ community. This was the early ‘90s, and the AIDS epidemic was raging. It was little known that HIV was spreading faster among Asians and Pacific Islanders than any other ethnic group in the country; stigma and misinformation were rife. A group of us banded together to launch Massachusetts Asians + Pacific Islanders for Health, a nonprofit to take on the needs of our local communities.I moved to San Francisco after divinity school, somehow talking my way into a dream job: senior program officer for the Asia Pacific at a global LGBTQ human rights organization.

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? Trans communities receive a penny for every $100 awarded by foundations in the U.S., and LGBTQ communities receive 17 cents for every $100 awarded globally. The advocates and providers serving our most marginalized communities operate on shoestrings, yet still manage to do so much. This is a moment to give generously to groups like Horizons Foundation and Astraea Foundation; they are incredible gardeners to our grassroots communities.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? My time at Levi Strauss & Co. has been a master class in learning firsthand the “value of values” — in our case, originality, integrity, empathy and courage. Our foundation strives to be an advocate and ally for society’s most marginalized groups. The current environment is rife with disruptive change: Legal and policy changes are happening at a breakneck speed (including 600+ anti-LGBTQ bills at state and local levels since the 2015 marriage equality ruling) and rolling back decades of hard-fought gains. In early 2017, seeing many of the communities we’ve long cared about rendered highly vulnerable by our own administration’s policies, the Levi Strauss Foundation launched a $1 million fund to protect the rights of immigrants, refugees, ethnic and religious minorities and trans people across the U.S. and abroad.

How did LGBTQ equality and interests become a central theme of Levi Strauss’ philanthropy? In 1992, Levi Strauss & Co. became the first major corporation to provide domestic partner benefits to same-sex couples. In 2008, we were the only company to file a brief with the California Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage. It’s heartening that by 2015, we were joined by 378 other employers in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on the business case for allowing same-sex couples to wed. We’re honored to be at the leading edge.

You have said that in driving social change, “tension makes us stronger.” What did you mean by that? Let’s face it, social change — for better or worse — emerges from moments of tension and crisis. Throughout our 166-year history, we’ve been compelled to take stands on the important social issues of our time. Along the way, we’ve ruffledsome feathers. In 1992, Levi Strauss & Co. made the decision to prohibit matching gifts to the Boy Scouts of America owing to its discriminatory policies. This triggered a boycott campaign and spawned 130,000 letters and calls that were overwhelmingly negative. Led by Bob Haas, our CEO at the time, the company stood its ground. Tension is indeed clarifying — and builds character and strength. We take the long view: It’s all about standing on the right side of history.

‘I developed an inexorable sense of what it means to be simultaneously an insider and an outsider — and this is something I carry with me everywhere.’


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When did you come out at work? Was it in this job or a previous one, or have you always been out in your career? I’ve been out at work my entire career.

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? I figured I’ve already lost my religion and community – how much worse could it get if I was out? Incredibly naïve, in hindsight.

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? Let’s face it — the halls lack diversity. Financial services has a long way to go to achieve gender parity, let alone full LGBTQ equality. That said, I feel incredibly lucky to be a part of B|O|S, where key positions, such as co-managing principal and head of the Silicon Valley Office are women. I am the most senior leader at the firm who is out and I think that says a whole lot about who we are as a firm.

Have you encountered business situations within the last few years which you felt your LGBTQ status was still an issue? An issue? No. Situations where I am perceived as a stereotyped novelty? Absolutely.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? I’m always listening for an idea worth spreading. Many of these ideas worth spreading come from members of the LGBTQ community. I very much see it as my responsibility to give these ideas worth spreading the platform that is TED in my role as curator and licensee for TEDxSoMa.

This year TEDxSoMa put a drag queen Latina immigrant on the stage to discuss the hierarchy of language. Maybe this isn’t so out of ordinary in San Francisco, but to a young person in a small town watching this video on YouTube, it’s a sign to them that they are not alone. That they fit in somewhere. That people exist out there who will love them just as they are.

How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? I’m not the right person to ask about what others should do. I only know what I choose to do because of who I am and what my purpose is. In 1675, Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” I know I stand on the shoulders of our LGBTQ family members — those still among us and those who are no longer with us. They made it easier and better for me by coming out, by living their lives full of meaning and passion.

You have taken a sustained interest in protecting LGBTQ refugees around the world. What alerted you to this need? When I first arrived in San Francisco in 2012, I started as a volunteer of a local nonprofit that advocated for LGBTQ refugees around the world. That experience opened my eyes to the lack of protections that LGBTQ people suffer on a daily basis all around the world. LGBTQ people can be refugees too, and their lives at risk among other refugees. It was during that time at that nonprofit that we produced a short documentary film highlighting the stories of LGBTQ refugees in Uganda, South Africa and Mexico. This film was then used to assist the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) train those in field to help protect LGBTQ refugees.

‘I know I stand on the shoulders of our LGBTQ family members — those still among us and those who are no longer with us. Th y made it easier and better for me by coming out.’

BACKGROUNDI grew up in Oswego, New York, and attended Brigham Young University. Before graduating from Hofstra University I sold shoes and opened a new store for Nordstrom. My internship at a global law firm in NYC led to my first marketing role for their private client group. I had a mentor (straight — hey, we need allies) who challenged me to be the best version of myself. I started a marketing agency. I’ve run businesses doing social good in the world. Today I’m designing the wealth management firm of the future.


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BACKGROUNDI began my professional career at Merrill Lynch in Boca Raton, Florida, part time in May 1997. After college graduation I was fortunate enough to transfer to the Asheville, North Carolina, Merrill Lynch offic . I met my wife and we decided that Asheville was a bit too small for two activism-based twentysomethings and moved to Washington, D.C. Two years later, I was offered a promotion in either Philadelphia or San Francisco. My wife said San Francisco and I’m glad she did. We moved here in October of 2005.

When did you come out at work? When I started working at age 19, I was really struggling to come out to myself — much less anyone else. Over the next two years,I became comfortable in my own skin, coming out to myself, family and friends. This all coincided with my move to Asheville in 1999. I had decided that I didn’t want to hide anymore, I really wanted to just be me. While I never had a conversation with my boss or my colleagues about being gay, I never hid it.

How close do you feel your industry is to full LGBTQ equality? Working in wealth management and financial services for 22 years, I have seen tremendous changes in diversity and inclusion on all fronts. Unfortunately the financial services and wealth management industry has a historical perception of exclusivity, which can prevent LGBT+ individuals from entering the industry — an industry and career that can be extremely lucrative and rewarding!

Have you encountered business situations within the last few years which you felt your LGBTQ status was still an issue? I always knew that as an out lesbian I would be discriminated against but I never imagined that that would happen here in the Bay Area. When I was in San Jose in 2008, an employee openly used a slur against me. The organization took every action to ensure I was safe and supported, and ultimately terminated the employee.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? As co-chair of the LGBT+ Executive Leadership Council — Bank of America’s network of senior level executives who are all out at work — my visibility is key. It is amazing how much difference it can make to employees to know that a successful executive is out.

How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? Come out, come out, wherever you are. Truly — being visible has the ultimate impact. It is this generation’s responsibility to mentor and sponsor LGBT+ employees to help them achieve the next level of career success. There are several industries that LGBT+ individuals have shied away from due to the perception of exclusion and we are responsible for changing this perception.

Does BofA still encounter regional differences in attitudes toward LGBTQ equality across its national network? How do you manage them? We experience differences mainly globally due to different laws. For example until last year you couldn’t identify as out at work in India but you could identify as an ally. This wasn’t due to the attitude of the company, but to the previous laws. Locally, we offer different resources for our operations facilities and contact centers where you find people with limited exposure to those who identify as LGBT+. These resources are to help drive awareness, such as training and programs on Ally, Bisexual, Transgender, and “LGBT+ 101” courses, LGBT+ History and When Gender Doesn’t Fit in a Box.

‘Come out, come out, wherever you are. Being visible has the ultimate impact. It is this generation’s responsibility to help LGBT+ employees achieve the next level of career success.’


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When did you come out at work? The story of my coming out began February 11, 2004, three days before Valentine’s Day. At that time, parts of the country were promoting constitutional amendments to ban gay marriage. I was the deputy assessor recorder, when then Mayor Gavin Newsom, sworn into offic a month before, directed us to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. With the help of hundreds of volunteers, we went from our normal 15 couples per day to over 2,000 same-sex marriages in four days. My boss, Mabel Teng, the assessor recorder, held daily press conferences. During one, she introduced me as the key person behind the scenes making all this possible, and then introduced my girlfriend at the time. I was outed me on national TV! I totally freaked out as I had not yet come out to my parents. I got through it, and from that time on I swore I would always be OUT and PROUD!

How close do you feel your industry is to full LGBTQ equality? I feel very fortunate to be living in the Bay Area where being “out and proud” allows me to have conversations that otherwise may not be possible. For example, a union leader spoke to me about how his daughter was a lesbian. Our route drivers have talked to me about their own children, or sister, brother, niece or nephew, that are gay or questioning. I feel privileged to be a confidant of a high-ranking banking officialwho is still very closeted.

To achieve full LGBTQ equality not just in our industry, but all industries, requires a company leadership to believe in and embrace the value of a diverse workplace by providing opportunities for hiring and advancement.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? I choose to actively participate and support organizations that advance our rights. Unfortunately, during our current political climate, it can feel more like fighting to not lose the rights we have already earned.

I have served as a board member for NCLR, EQCA, Project Open Hand and Alice B. Toklas. I help support Horizon Foundations, Transgender Law, LGBT Center and HRC, along with many other worthwhile organizations. An issue that is near to my heart is aging LGBTQ seniors that face unique issues related to health care and housing.

How can this generation of out LGBTQ business leaders make it easier or better for future generations? By living an authentic and honest life, being out and proud. Nurturing and mentoring young LGBTQ and creating equal opportunities.

Being openly gay, we invited the Recology board and C-suite to our wedding. I would not be surprised if most of them had never attended a same-sex wedding. I can say they had a wonderful time and met some amazing people. That is how we break barriers, not just sharing a workplace, but celebrating life together.

You’re known as an advocate on employee ownership, economic development and poverty reduction, among other things. Do you see Recology as being far more than a waste and recycling collection company? Absolutely! Recology is 100% employee-owned, working to a common goal: to help San Francisco achieve Zero Waste. Recology leadership views our employees as our shareholders, so our obligation belongs to them, not Wall Street. We also believe in social justice and economic equality. Many of the jobs created over the last 20 years have been filled through a community hiring initiative that looks to the economically challenged neighborhoods in the southeast of the city. Today, we have employee-owners from those communities that own homes and have sent their children to some of the best public universities in California.

‘We invited the Recology board and C-suite to our wedding. Th t is how we break barriers, not just sharing a workplace, but celebrating life together.’

BACKGROUNDI was born and raised in Hong Kong before attending Whittier College in Southern California. I served as assistant controller of a regional bank, as deputy assessor recorder for the City and County of San Francisco, and as B2B marketing director with a leading technology company. Prior to joining Recology, my last position was with Bank of America as SVP for e-commerce and interactive banking.


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BACKGROUNDI grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and Newton, Massachusetts. I studied political science (with an emphasis on social movements) at Oberlin College in Ohio and later got my master of public administration at San Francisco State University.

I moved to San Francisco in 1996 with college friends. I co-founded City CarShare and the SF Housing Action Coalition. I was the first executive director of Urban Land Institute (ULI) Bay Area chapter, and in 2013 was tapped by Governor Brown to serve

as Deputy Secretary for Environmental

Policy and Housing Coordination at the California State Transportation Agency. I joined Arup at the beginning of this year as the S.F. office olicy Planning Leader.

When did you come out at work? It wasn’t one moment in time, but I was definitely fully out when I announced my marriage at my ULI San Francisco Board meeting in 2008. I met my (now) spouse Maureen when I was working at a small nonprofit Urban Ecology.

Was there a particular factor or event that convinced you to do so? The marriage equality movement made a tremendous positive impact in my personal and professional life, with the normalization of my relationship and greater acceptance among both my family and colleagues. Maureen and I were one of the 18,000 couples who were married in the 2008 window between California legalization and the passage of Prop. 8. It took until 2015 that the U.S. Supreme Court legalized it in all 50 states, and meanwhile I had held onto our marriage certificate for dear life. I feel incredibly lucky to fall in love right at the moment when marriage equality was being advanced.

How close do you feel your industry or profession is to full LGBTQ equality? City planning is becoming more diverse, though real estate and transportation are still quite straight-bro dominated. Nationally, women only make up 16% of architecture and engineering positions. I’m pleased to report that Arup is well beyond the market average, with 29.4% women in technical roles — but even this could be improved. For the last several years, Arup has produced an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion report, where they transparently track gender and minority performance at every level of the organization: recruitment, promotion and pay equity, development, and employee engagement and retention. All the trends are moving in the right direction.

Have you encountered business situations within the last few years which you felt your LGBTQ status was still an issue? I feel very lucky to be a professional in the Bay Area, and I have encountered little homophobia, but I also recognize the color of my skin and my gender presentation also grant me societal privileges not always enjoyed by lower-income, people of color and more gender-fluid individuals. Prejudice against transgender people in particular seems like the last frontier, and just the presence of transgender people still pushes straight people — and frankly also some gays and lesbians — out of their comfort zone.

How do you use your position and influence to advance LGBTQ equality? As one of the few out women in leadership positions in my field, I think it’s important to be a positive role model and mentor (formal or informal) to younger women, queers and people of color. Because of historic and institutional bias, executives need to recognize that not everyone is starting with a level playing field, so it’s essential to foster these individuals’ skills and empower them in the face of new professional challenges.

How was it that you came to be one of the main organizers of the global climate action summit in San Francisco? Serving in Governor Brown’s administration was the biggest honor of my life, and the Global Climate Action Summit was the capstone. It was deeply inspiring to connect with climate business leaders, public officials and nongovernmental organizations from around the world who came to the city with ambitious commitments to meet (or exceed) the Paris agreements. Only with these types of transformation of our economy, government and civil society, will humans be able to survive on this planet.

‘Prejudice against transgender people in particular seems like the last frontier. Just the presence of transgender people still pushes some straight people — and frankly some gays and lesbians — out of the comfort zone.’

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The following are outstanding LGBTQ leaders in the Bay Area who are out and making a difference in the business world.

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OUTSTANDING VOICESHALL OF FAME

2015ROBERTA ACHTENBERG

Bank of San Francisco

ROSIO ALVAREZ

Lawrence Berkeley

Laboratory

SCOTT BETH

Intuit

DOUGLAS CASE

Wells Fargo

CHIP CONLEY

Airbnb

MICHAEL COX

Walmart eCommerce

JOE D’ALESSANDRO

San Francisco Travel

HEATHER HILES

Pathbrite

KEN MCNEELY

AT&T

VIVIENNE MING

Socos

CHRIS SHEPLER

Bank of America

RICK WELTS

Golden State Warriors

2016DAREK DEFREECE

Wells Fargo

ARJAN DIJK

Google

PAUL HASTINGS

OncoMed

NADIR JOSHUA

Facebook

FEBRUARY KEENEY

Github

NANETTE LEE MILLER

Marcum LLP

KATHY LEVINSON

Positively Confidential

JOHN MARTIN

San Francisco

International Airport

EDITH PEREZ

Genentech

LEANNE PITTSFORD

Lesbians Who Tech

CHRISTIE SMITH

Deloitte

KEITH WETMORE

Morrison & Foerster

2017MERRI BALDWIN

Rogers Joseph O’Donnell

MICHAEL COLBRUNO

Port of Oakland

MIKE DILLON

PwC

CLAIR FARLEY

SF LGBT Center

RONI HEIGHT

SolarCity/Tesla

ELIZABETH HILLMAN

Mills College

PHIL HODGES

BlackRock

SUSAN LOWENBERG

Lowenberg Corporation

SHARON OLEXY

LendUp

GINO RAMOS

Salesforce

JANA RICH

Rich Talent Group

GREG SARRIS

Graton Rancheria

2018PETER ARVAI

Prezi

AMY BORSETTI

LinkedIn

RICHARD DAVIS-LOWELL

BNY Mellon Wealth

Management

MADELINE DEUTSCH

UC San Francisco

SEAN HOWELL

Hornet

MARK MADRID

Latino Business

Action Network

ALAN MASON

BlackRock

FELICIA MEDINA

Medina Orthwein LLP

ANTHONY NIEDWIECKI

Golden Gate University

REBECCA PROZAN

Google

REZA RAHAMAN

Clorox

PAUL WOOLFORD

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Last summer, the developer for a massive $460 million project at the Millbrae BART station started looking for a capital partner.

Millbrae Serra Station LLC had nabbed approvals in April 2018 for 272,749 square feet of office spac , 24,322 square feet of retail space and 444 housing units adjacent to the heavily-traffic ed station. Vincent Muzzi, whose family has long held the property, is spearheading the project.

But nine months later, no capital partner has materialized — which means delaying any potential groundbreaking as construction costs rise.

“We are still looking for someone,” said Sal Ariganello of CCMWest Consulting, the construction management consultant on the project. “It’s still on the table.”

The development team is talking with several potential partners, Ariganello said. He declined to share the number of interested parties. Muzzi could not immediately be reached for comment.

At one point this spring, a potential deal surfaced with Greystar, a prolific apartment developer and landlord, to take over the development through a ground lease, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. While Ariganello said that deal isn’t necessarily dead, a Greystar representative wrote via email that the company is “no longer involved” with the site.

Part of the difficulty in att acting investors, the sources said, comes down to the project’s design: Not only is it a complex mixed-use development, but plans include building out four levels of subterranean parking.

It’s an engineering challenge, and with every level, costs increase “exponentially,” Ariganello said. Now the team is considering redesigns of the parking structure and potentially removing a floor. The project also encompass two 10- and 11-story residential towers and a nine-story office building

“We still feel positive that the project’s going to go forward,” said Tom Williams, Millbrae’s city manager, who is working with the team on potential redesigns. “It’s an outstanding location on the BART and Caltrain line, with needed retail and housing.”

Despite the financing challenges, the developer will push to start demolition on two existing buildings at the site sometime this summer.

A YEAR LATER, THIS $460 MILLION BART PROJECT STILL NEEDS CASH

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The deal: Design and consulting firm IDEO is in talks for a 120,000-square-foot chunk of space at the historic Lion Building at 2525 16th St. in San Francisco, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. Inside the deal: A lease has not been signed, but a deal of that size would take up the majority of the 150,000-square-foot site, sources said. It’s not immediately clear whether a potential deal would mean consolidating space or an expansion. About the company: IDEO, founded in Palo Alto in 1991, already leases office spaceat the Pier 28 annex on the Embarcadero. Meanwhile another lease at 150 Forest Ave. in Palo Alto expires this year, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

IDEO now counts over 700 employees globally across nine offic s in total, according to its website. The company designs products ranging from wearable breast pumps to educational apps for children to a Levi’s “commuter” jacket that connects with the wearer’s phone. A representative declined to comment.About the building: The 95-year-old Lion building is zoned for production, design and repair space and for years housed a syrup factory. Last year, San Francisco developer Angus McCarthy bought the site for about $70 million. Another unnamed tenant signed a 30,000-square-foot lease at the building back in July, according to CoStar.

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The Lion Building at 2525 16th St. was built in 1924.

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Long a suburban enclave, Wal-nut Creek has traditionally been home to single-family hous-es and high-end shopping. But when it comes to a 190-acre chunk of land near the BART station, the city wants to shed that suburban image.

Walnut Creek officials are pushing ahead with a vision to “urbanize” the area, com-plete with walkable and bike-able streets, new retail and more than 1,000 new homes and 800,000 square feet of office space to boot.

The parcel is roughly bound-ed by downtown to the south, Parkside Drive to the north, the BART station to the west and the Iron Horse Trail to the east, with city’s main thoroughfare Ygna-cio Valley Road cutting through the center. Officials have stud-ied how to revamp the area since 2014.

Now, it remains car-centric, with surface parking lots front-ing many streets, said senior planner Jeanine Cavalli.

“At this point in time it’s not a very pedestrian-friendly envi-ronment,” Cavalli said. “We’re really looking at transforming the area to more of a mixed-use environment where people can walk and bike to downtown … and making it more simi-lar in nature to the traditional downtown.”

To make that happen, Wal-nut Creek envisions an arts district and “makers” row to draw pedestrians and visitors. The arts district would center around Giammona Plaza and allow for outdoor dining and concerts, plus provide space for an existing farmers’ mar-ket to expand into. Meanwhile, the makers’ row would con-sist of ceramicists, woodwork-ing groups and tech space, plus

potentially live-work units, along Pine Street. Although the city has strict regulations on height, the plan would also increase fl or area ratios and reduce setback requirements to ease development.

The plan comes in the midst of a development boom in Wal-nut Creek. Over the last two years, developers have fl cked to the suburb because of its access to East Bay and San Fran-cisco jobs, as well as its relative affordability compared to San Francisco.

This summer, developer Blake Griggs will break ground on its 600-unit master-planned development, known as the Walnut Creek Transit Village. The company also developed the 178-unit Vaya apartments at 1800 Lacassie Ave. across from the station.

“One of the things we’re trying to achieve is creating a ‘there’ there around the sta-tion,” said Lauren Seaver, vice president of development with Blake Griggs. “We’re excited to create more of a connection

between the BART station and the downtown.”

Home prices have felt the heat. Between January 2014 and 2019, the median sale price of Walnut Creek homes increased by about 33 percent, hitting $755,000 in January of this year. Neighboring areas in the East Bay like Concord and Lafayette saw similar jumps.

Still, while millennials sniff out the area for its lower pric-es and transit access, Walnut Creek still carries certain sub-urban stereotypes, said East Bay Redfin real estate agent Greg Mathers. Th t’s led some young-er homebuyers to seek out plac-es directly in downtown or atop BART.

“They can’t necessarily afford the city, but want to be really close to transportation to get to the city, and they also want to have some sort of a life still,” Mathers said.

The cultural pull of the arts district could also be a positive selling point, he said. “Th ir No. 1 concern is they’re going to give up their lives to come here.”

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SALESFORCE TRAINING HELPS TECH WANNABES DOUBLE THEIR SALARIES

CLOUD CAREERS

Salesforce’s TrailheaDX conference kicked off last eek, where attendees learned how to build apps and programs on the company’s cloud platform and dig deeper into its free training sessions on Salesforce Trailhead.

Trailblazers learned of various occupations, career paths and pay for the particular job they are interested in and matched it with the training modules and paths to take. More than 300,000 job postings seek candidates with Salesforce skills, according to job market analytics firm Burning Glass. Salesforce’s Sarah Franklin said roughly 15 percent of the roughly 1.4 million Trailblazers worldwide have paid $100 to $200 for a Salesforce certification test.

“On average, it takes three to six months to go from zero skills to being hired or promoted for the skills you have learned,” said Franklin, executive vice president and general manager of Trailhead and developer relations at Salesforce.

Damian O’Farrill, data science and data strategy manager at Autodesk in San Rafael, previously operated a Mexico City salsa dance studio. John Schaaf, a Salesforce support administrator for U.S. Bank’s Wealth Management, is a former bank office . And Jared Jones, implementation architect at Salesforce, previously worked as a hotel concierge. All three said they have doubled their income since undergoing the Trailhead training and changing occupations to a tech role.

R THE BIG NUMBER

Shares of cloud storage company Box Inc. plunged 14 percent at the opening bell June 4, after the company said it would likely make less money this year than expected. The Redwood City-based company later made up most of those losses, ending down just 4.2 percent at $17.18 per share.

Box now thinks it’ll end the year with somewhere between $688 million to $692 million in revenue — short of the $702 million analysts had expected. “While we are encouraged by the demand for these larger, more strategic deployments, these deals often have longer sales cycles,” CEO Aaron Levie said in a statement.

— Luke Stangel

Across the nation, student loan debt more than dou-bled in the past decade to nearly $1.5 trillion last year, becoming the second largest source of con-sumer debt, according to the Federal Reserve. In the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, $26.6 billion is collectively owed in student debt with the average balance hovering at $36,243, according to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

But a March survey of more than 5,000 tech workers across the nation, of which approximate-ly a fifth are based in the Bay Area, found nearly a third owed no money after graduation, according to Teamblind, a San Francisco startup that developed an anonymous community app for the workplace.

Among the seven categories for amount owed upon graduation, ranging from $5,000 or less to more than $100,000, the category of $25,000 to $50,000 had the highest percentage of employees owing that much. In the U.S., this group accounted for 18.6 percent of workers at tech companies and 17.4 percent for Bay Area tech businesses, accord-ing to the Teamblind survey.

Lyft, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google each saw their highest percentage of employees owing $5,000 or less upon graduation, while Salesforce, Airbnb, Adobe and Oracle found most of their employees owed $5,000 to $25,000, according to the survey.

One LinkedIn employee from a previous Team-blind survey said they paid off all of their stu-dent loans when their first slug of LinkedIn stock options vested. Some tech employees may use sign-ing bonuses to pay down their student loans, said Kyum Kim, co-founder of Teamblind.

“If the debt is under $5,000, over 90 percent will pay it off n five years,” Kim said.

Nearly a third of the more than 7,000 survey participants nationwide indicated it would take less than five years to pay off their student loans. According to the survey, 32.6 percent of respondents across the nation and also in the Bay Area expect-ed to pay off their student loans within a five-year period.

A third of Bay Area tech workers expect to pay off student debt within five years

EMPLOYEE SURVEY

SMASHING STUDENT DEBT

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FACEBOOK Menlo Park

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ADOBE San Jose

GOOGLE Mountain View

PAYPAL San Jose

CISCO San Jose

TESLA Palo Alto

UBER San Francisco

INTEL Santa Clara

LINKEDIN Sunnyvale

ORACLE Redwood City

APPLE Cupertino

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Hoping to produce “good” bacteria spotted in healthy people’s guts, a young San Francisco com-pany wants to hit store shelves in early 2020 with relatively lightly regulated products aimed at con-trolling — and possibly reversing — Type 2 diabetes.

Whole Biome Inc. emerged with a $35 million Series B round — bringing its total funding to $57 million — led by Sequoia Capital with participation from True Ventures, Khosla Ventures, the Mayo Clin-ic’s foundation, AME Cloud Ventures and others.

The company’s strategy plays off opaque feder-al regulation of the so-called microbiome space. It also faces skeptics who question the effi cy and science from a growing legion of microbiome com-panies and comes against the backdrop of alleged-ly improper billing practices at uBiome Inc., a San Francisco microbiome diagnostics company. But the money raised by Whole Biome is expected to pro-pel it through additional clinical trials of its exper-imental “medical foods” that its leaders see as a fix

for diabetes and other metabolic disorders.Whole Biome already has aroused interest in the

buzzy microbiome space where diagnostics compa-nies are trying to detect imbalances in the gut that cause diseases, and drug makers are seeking to find ways to modulate the delicate balance between good and bad bacteria in the gut.

The company believes its microbe-packed cap-sules boost the amount of specific “good” bacte-

ria found to be in low supply in Type 2 diabetes patients but prevalent in the guts of healthy people. In a study completed last year of 76 Type 2 diabetes patients also on the common diabetes drug met-formin, Whole Biome had some subjects take three capsules twice a day of one of two “medical foods” it has developed to control glucose and infla mation.

Medical food is a middle route between probi-otics — dietary supplements that aren’t required to demonstrate effi cy and aren’t regulated by the Food and Drug Administration — and tradition-al prescription drugs that can take upwards of 10 years and $1 billion to develop through the three-phase FDA approval process.

By calling its products medical foods, Whole Biome’s products would need to build a body of evi-dence showing efficacy but could hit store shelves more quickly.

“There are a ton of startup microbiome compa-nies — all these companies around the same time as us around pharmaceuticals,” said Whole Biome CEO Colleen Cutcliffe, part of a trio of co-founders who left Pacifi Biosciences of California Inc. to start the company six years ago. “We’re the only one on the medical food path.”

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TINY COMPANY TAKES ON BIG DISEASE

STARTUPS

There are some big, deep-pocketed Bay Area companies going after the fatty liver disease known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH — among them Gilead Sciences Inc. and NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc. — but tiny 89bio Ltd. is trying to make a dent.

The company, which last fall set up a Bay Area site in parallel with operations in Israel, late last month reported positive early data from an early-stage safety trial of its drug, called BIO89-100. That comes after a $60 million Series

A last year led by OrbiMed Israel and OrbiMed US and Longitude Capital (with participation by RA Capital Management and Pontifax) the hiring of Rohan Palekar, the former president and CEO of Avanir Pharmaceuticals and chief commercial officer at Medi ation Inc.

BIO89-100 — designed to last longer and have a longer time between dosing than the native version of a hormone known as fibroblast growth factor 21, or FGF21 — was developed using technology at Israel’s Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

FGF21 acts on the liver, pancreas and fatty tissue, which 89bio leaders believe makes it ideal for tackling the entire metabolic syndrome, rather than just fibrosis or inflammation. “It becomes an interesting target to go after,” Palekar says.

Ultimately, NASH likely will require some combination of drugs, Palekar says, but FGF21 could be a “backbone” of the disease. Still, some larger companies passed on the molecule; meanwhile, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has another FGF21 drug in a mid-stage study.

Palekar’s company isn’t disclosing its timeline, but it looks to grow its San Francisco workforce from five full-time employees to 10 to 15 by the end of the year. It has seven employees in Israel.

But why “89”? Turns out that was the address of Orbimed’s office inIsrael, Palekar says. “The investors were looking for a name. They looked at multiple names and didn’t like ‘Newco,’” he says. “They were getting frustrated and tired of finding a name everyone could align on.”

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HOSPITALITY & RETAIL Katie Burke covers hospitality, retail, food and wine

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GGRA STARTS SEARCH FOR NEW LEADER

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The Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s executive director has officially steppeddown, kicking off a national s arch to find a replacement to lead the local advocacy group.

Gwyneth Borden officially esigned last week and will pursue her own hospitality consultant business. She told the San Francisco Business Times it was a move she had been planning for about a year, and she’ll continue to maintain her longstanding stake in the local restaurant community.

Borden joined GGRA, the city’s largest nonprofit organization representing the

R DRIVE IN

Who: Petaluma-based Amy’s KitchenWhat: A new location for the food company’s Amy’s Drive-Thru, a healthier spin on fast foodWhere: A 2.3-acre site in Walnut Creek on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and North Main StreetWhy it matters: Four years after opening its first location in Rohnert Park, Amy’s is beginning to step on the gas. It is in the process

of opening new restaurants in Marin and at the San Francisco International Airport. Its new Walnut Creek plan — if approved by the city and local residents — will mean landlord Hall Equities finally secures a tenant after years of trying. Since it acquired the site in 2014, it has attempted to bring in In-N-Out, Starbucks, Home Depot, a service station and car wash tenant, a maintenance and repair shop, and an alcohol-serving hamburger chain.

AMY’S KITCHEN LANDS WALNUT CREEK SITE

The Petaluma-based food company is also opening spots in Marin and at SFO.

SFBT ARCHIVE

Instacart has been doing some shopping of its own, bagging up nearly 30,000 square feet more of prime downtown office space.

The San Francisco-based company is expanding its footprint at 50 Beale St. by adding another entire fl or to its current two-fl or expanse. Instacart confirmed the recent deal — it signed the lease last week — and expects to move into the space within the second half of 2020.

Including the new space, Instacart will be leasing approximately 90,000 square feet in the SoMa build-ing. CBRE brokered the deal on behalf of the delivery provider. JLL’s Chris Roeder represented the landlord, Paramount Group Inc.

Instacart is now one of the building’s largest tenants.The24-story, 660,000-square-foot tower has been a

magnet for recent leasing activity. Glassdoor confirmed plans to move its Mill Valley headquarters to 120,000 square feet across four fl ors. Software app PlanGrid is reportedly in talks to lease about 150,000 square feet.

Paramount purchased the SoMa tower in 2014 for a then record price of nearly $400 million. The deliv-ery service signed a lease for two fl ors — roughly

60,000 square feet of space — in the building shortly after the purchase, relocating its headquarters from a 13,000-square-foot warehouse near the ballpark to the tech-centric SoMa tower.

At the time, Instacart had about 500 employees. Instacart now has about 800 employees and a gig work-force exceeding 70,000 people. More than 450 people are based at its corporate headquarters in San Francis-co. Last year it doubled its technical team, and the com-pany plans to double that department again in 2019.

Instacart was one of the largest recipients of ven-ture capital last year. It raised more than $1.2 billion in 2018, boosting its total to $1.9 billion since it was founded in 2012.

While analysts speculated the beginning of the end for Instacart back when Amazon purchased Whole Foods Market — then one of the delivery company’s investors and largest clients — Instacart reported one of its strongest years to date in 2018. The company added more than 100 new retail partners last year, account-ing for one-third of its more than 300 partners to date.

The company also expanded its geographic reach. It is now available to more than 80 percent of households across the United States.

Instacart was one of the largest recipients of ven-ture capital last year. It raised more than $1.2 billion in 2018, boosting its total to $1.9 billion since it was founded in 2012.

Grocery delivery company uses some of that $1.2B raised in 2018 to expand footprint

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Instacart’s new lease at 50 Beale St. adds a third floor to its current headquarters.

‘I’ll still be around. Th s is just something new, and

I’m ready for it.’ GWYNETH BORDEN,

Former GGRA executive director

restaurant industry, back in February 2014. She was previously a manager of corporate citizenship and affairs at IBM, as well as the director of government relations for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and a legislative aide to then-Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.

She is credited with the creation of GGRA’s annual Industry Conference as well as the Saucy Awards, an industry-driven awards program.

While it looks for a replacement, the association will continue to provide services to help Bay Area restaurants navigate an industry riddled with labor shortages, increasing rent and food costs and rising competition.

“I’m not going anywhere and I’ll still be around,” Borden said. “This is just something new, and I’m ready for it.”

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BANKING & FINANCE Mark Calvey covers banking and finance

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TAX LAW FORCES ROBINHOOD TO CHANGE PRICING MODEL

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Robinhood dropped its subscription-based pricing model for its margin lending service called Robinhood Gold.

Chalk this up as a cool idea that just didn’t hit the mark. The company had priced margin lending at a set monthly fee, just like Netflix, Apple and others do for a variety of services.

The pricing model is designed to make it easier for everyone. Companies can depend on the steady flow of monthly revenue, while customers know that payments are so automatic that they often forget they’re paying the fees.

The Robinhood Gold monthly fee may have been a victim of federal tax law changes, which continue to make interest on margin loans for the purchase of stock and other securities a tax-deductible expense. But fees are not.

A Robinhood spokesman declined to comment on what spurred the changes.

Robinhood’s monthly subscription fee — based on tiers of available credit, whether tapped or not — was a last-minute decision in rolling out Robinhood Gold, co-CEO Baiju Bhatt said in a 2017 interview, in which he recalled that buried in the notes from user tests was a comment about offering margin as a monthly subscription service, much like Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. “At $10 a month, we could lend $2,000. It was brilliant. That has dramatically changed the course of the product. It was important to be at the same price point per month as other online consumer services.”

Robinhood isn’t saying much about the new pricing model for Robinhood Gold, which comes with a $5 fee that includes up to $1,000 in margin lending, which is the ability to borrow money from the brokerage to buy stocks or take out cash. Margin borrowing above $1,000 comes with a yearly interest rate of 5 percent, about half of what Charles Schwab and other brokerages charge for margin loans of up to $25,000. For some investors, Robinhood’s relatively low margin rate is a bigger draw than the commission-free stock trades on which the Menlo Park-based brokerage was built. Robinhood is now seeking regulatory approval to start a national bank.

Warren Buffett and the Glide Foundation are discuss-ing the future of the San Francisco-based nonprofit to ensure that its work con-tinues long after the annual lunch auction with the legendary inves-tor that has raised more than $30 million since 2000 becomes a memory.

Glide Foundation CEO Karen Hanrahan told the San Francisco Business Times that was the top-ic of conversation when she recently sat down with Buffett for about an hour at Berkshire Hathaway’s head-quarters in Omaha.

“We discussed how to place the Glide Foundation on solid financial footing for the next 50 years,” Hanrahan said of the non-profit that has spent the past half cen-tury providing meals, shelter and oth-er services to those in need. She and Glide’s co-founders, the Rev. Cecil Williams and his wife Janice Mirikitani, were invited to attend this year’s Berkshire annual meeting. Hanrahan and Mirikitani made the trip, which boosted Glide’s profile given the amount of media there covering the Berkshire con-fab that drew about 40,000 investors, including Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Th s year’s Buffett lunch fetched a record price of $4,567,888, with the winning bid placed by Justin Sun, CEO of San Francisco-based filing-sharing ser-vice BitTorrent.

“Th re’s a growing number of people familiar with our work,” Hanrahan said in discussing factors con-tributing to this year’s record lunch tab. She also said

Buffett has been discussing Glide’s work more often in the media over the past year, plus

the nonprofi has boosted its marketing efforts to get the word out on its

mission.Asked whether she took

advantage of the meeting to offer a gentle nudge to Buffett that he could take care of Glide’s finances for the next 50 years by sim-ply writing a check, Han-

rahan laughed and said, “No, I didn’t.”

But having Buffett in your corner would be the envy of any nonprofit. So how does Glide’s chief executive feel

about his involvement?“Just immense gratitude and a

sense of great fortune to have this rela-tionship with the smartest investor in the

world who’s sharing his wisdom with us and investing his time and personal resources in this auc-tion because he believes in the work. It’s hard to put it in words,” Hanrahan said.

Buffett’s commitment to Glide began when his late wife Susie Buffett, who was a San Franciscan, brought the nonprofit to his attention and urged him to join her in supporting it.

The ounder of BitTorrent set a record at the Glide Foundation charity auction to nosh with the Wizard of Omaha

CHARITY

and the

$4.5 million lunch

“I’m excited to talk to Warren Buffett about the promise of blockchain and to get valuable tips and insights from him about entrepreneurship and making bold bets on the future.” JUSTIN SUN, CEO of BitTorrent, who spent more than $4.5 million to have lunch with the legendary investor.

Baiju Bhatt, CEO of RobinhoodSFBT PHOTO 2017 / TODD JOHNSON


RRRR Federal Tax Liens

ALAMEDA COUNTYOrion Governance Inc., 4165 Amyx Ct., Hayward 94542, $18,443, (1120/941), document #2019-095528, 05/22/19.

One Stop Auto Reconditioning Inc., 8145 Enterprise Dr. #C, Newark 94560, $14,492, (940), document #2019-095529, 05/22/19.

Purple Frost Inc., 1300 Clay St. #600, Oakland 94612, $73,060, (1120), document #2019-095534, 05/22/19.

MARIN COUNTYProfessional Home Improvements Inc., 270 Cecilia Way, Tiburon 94920, $21,274, (1120/940/941), document #2019-16224, 05/14/19.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTYInstagis Inc., 218 9th St., San Francisco 94103, $31,373, (CIVP), document #K767333, 05/15/19.

Give Me Tap Inc., 36 Tingley St., San Francisco 94112, $70,021, (CIVP), document #K767335, 05/15/19.

Remix Media Inc., 2121 3rd St. #409, San Francisco 94107, $62,671, (940/CIVP), document #K767337, 05/15/19.

SAN MATEO COUNTYBoscacci Inc./AMP Electric, 3164 Rolison Rd., Redwood City 94063, $125,966, (1120/941), document #2019-34509, 05/09/19.

Apptrify Inc., 1900 S. Norfolk St. #350, San Mateo 94403, $40,019, (CIVP), document #2019-34536, 05/09/19.

Moulin Boulangerie, 1001 Bayhill Dr. #201, San Bruno 94066, $103,639, (941/CIVP), document #2019-35896, 05/14/19.

RRRR Releases of Federal Tax Liens

ALAMEDA COUNTYAjmani Group Investment Inc., 1008 University Ave., Berleley 94710, $11,610, (941), document #2019-095588, 05/22/19.

Sterling Home Health Care & Hospice, 1650 Sierra Ave. #202A, Yuba City 95993, $159,212, (6721/941), document #2019-095593, 05/22/19.

MARIN COUNTYMarin Custom Homes Inc., 98 Main St. #222, Tiburon 94920, $73,335, (941), document #2019-16247, 05/14/19.

SAN MATEO COUNTYWorld Channel Inc., 100 N. Hill Dr. #28, Brisbane 94005, $24,977, (940/941), document #2019-35970, 05/14/19.

RRRR State Tax Liens

ALAMEDA COUNTYSilvestre Vera Builders Inc., 6804 Snake Rd., Oakland 94611, $102,295, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095122, 05/22/19.

JL Janitorial LLC, 2826 Breaker Cir., Hayward 94545, $11,979, (franchise

tax board), document #2019-095123, 05/22/19.

Afghan Trade Center Inc., P.O. Box 2676, Union City 94587, $80,208, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095130, 05/22/19.

Hickenbotham Inc., 545 Pierce St. #2105, Albany 94706, $10,553, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095131, 05/22/19.

New Vision Optical, 2620 Eastman Ave., Oakland 94619, $43,364, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095132, 05/22/19.

Curio Design Inc., 3015 Adeline St. #106, Emeryville 94608, $32,407, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095133, 05/22/19.

Robert Lloyd Armstrong, 5277 Flagg Ln. #200, Livermore 94550, $37,685, (employment development dept), document #2019-095137, 05/22/19.

West Oakland Health Council Inc., 700 Adeline St., Oakland 94607, $13,851, (employment development dept), document #2019-095153, 05/22/19.

A.M.V. Building Maintenance Inc., P.O. Box 20993, Piedmont 94620, $110,888, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095189, 05/22/19.

Ezosa Inc., 1807 Santa Rita Rd. #D, Pleasanton 94566, $27,698, (franchise tax board), document #2019-095195, 05/22/19.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTYAutonomic Software Inc., 4185 Blackhawk Plaza Cir. #102, Danville 94506, $10,325, (employment development dept), document #2019-65985, 05/08/19.

LTP Carepro Inc./LTP Heritage LLC/LTP Landmarks LLC, 10 Indian Way, Alamo 94507, $70,483, (employment development dept), document #2019-65994, 05/08/19.

Titanium Falcon Inc., 3193 Garrity Way #226, San Pablo 94806, $44,659, (employment development dept), document #2019-65995, 05/08/19.

Carver Enterprises Inc., P.O. Box 367, Crockett 94525, $22,535, (franchise tax board), document #2019-66242, 05/10/19.

BCINET Inc., 628 St. George Rd., Danville 94526, $36,001, (franchise tax board), document #2019-67231, 05/10/19.

Stego Inc., 700 Stubbs Rd., Pleasant Hill 94523, $37,697, (franchise tax board), document #2019-67233, 05/10/19.

89Thai Inc., 1744 Lexington Ave., El Cerrito 94530, $31,689, (franchise tax board), document #2019-67234, 05/10/19.

Shields Nursing Centers Inc., 606 Alfred Nobel Dr., Hercules 94547, $31,729, (employment development dept), document #2019-67930, 05/10/19.

Sengso Enterprise Inc., 1223 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley 94706, $109,057, (CA dept of tax & fee admin), document #2019-67965, 05/10/19.

SAN MATEO COUNTYCarelink Home Health Agency LLC, 851 Burlway Rd. #608, Burlingame 94010, $35,633, (employment development dept), document #2019-34462, 05/09/19.

Calcare Home Care & Hospice Inc., 455 Hickey Blvd. #505, Daly City 94015, $14,185, (employment development dept), document #2019-34470, 05/09/19.

Indmax Inc., 901 Sneath Ln. #101, San Bruno 94066, $10,396, (employment development dept), document #2019-34959, 05/10/19.

Rigo’s Meat Market Inc., 142 N. B St., San Mateo 94401, $14,587, (employment development dept), document #2019-34962, 05/10/19.

Decorative Plant Service Inc., 290 Lawrence Ave., South San Francisco 94080, $12,283, (employment development dept), document #2019-35077, 05/10/19.

RRRR Releases of State Tax Liens

CONTRA COSTA COUNTYAisleFire Labs Inc., $44,441, (employment development dept), document #2019-65977, 05/08/19.

MARIN COUNTYAberi Enterprises LLC, $11,354, (franchise tax board), document #2019-14081, 04/29/19.

RRRR Mechanics’ Liens

ALAMEDA COUNTYClaimant: ACCO Engineered Systems Inc., Contractor: Turner Construction, $288,125, Owner: PG&E Co., on property at 4801 Oakport St., Oakland 94601, document #2019-091867, 05/17/19.

Claimant: Kevin Sullivan Heating & Air Inc., Contractor: Hawk Development, $75,301, Owner: Broadway Grand Retail Investors LLC, on property at 449 23rd Ave./2299 Broadway, Oakland, document #2019-097052, 05/23/19.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTYClaimant: Lassiter Excavating Inc., Contractor: Martinez Construction, $59,280, Owner: Shapell Deer Creek LLC, on property at 19005 Bollinger Canyon Rd., San Ramon, document #2019-68577, 05/13/19.

Claimant: Pebcor Corp. dba Big D Metalworks, Contractor: Plant Construction Co. LP, $518,437, Owner: Aeonian Partners LP, on property at 6000 Bollinger Canyon Rd., San Ramon 94583, document #2019-69668, 05/14/19.

Claimant: Freas Plastering Co. Inc., Contractor: Moorefield Construction Inc., $63,145, Owner: Concord Centercal LLC, on property at 2035 Diamond Blvd., Concord 94520, document #2019-69599, 05/14/19.

Claimant: MVP Construction LLC, Contractor: Raymond Reyes/Uncle Sharkii LLC, $111,403, Owner: Uncle Sharkii LLC, on property at 1 Sunvalley Shopping Center, Concord, document #2019-69667, 05/14/19.

Claimant: Roseville Carpet One, Contractor: Haggerty Construction Inc., $14,530, Owner: Algerine Clayton, on property at 4803 Silverhill Ct., Antioch 94531, document #2019-69372, 05/14/19.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTYClaimant: Giampolini & Co., Contractor: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., $130,317, Owner: 250 Fourth Development LP, on property at 250 4th St., San Francisco 94103, document #K765665, 05/10/19.

Claimant: Complete Fabrications Inc., Contractor: Hughes & Co. Construction, $30,597, Owner: Manvinder Saraon, on property at 3721 21st St., San Francisco 94114, document #K765812, 05/13/19.

Claimant: Roebbelen Contracting Inc., Contractor: Cushman & Wakefield, $88,442, Owner: PG&E Co., on property at 77 Beale St., San Francisco 94105, document #K766022, 05/13/19.

Claimant: IDEX Global Services Inc., Contractor: Riivos Inc., $95,770, Owner: Elm Property Venture LLC, on property at 101 California St., San Francisco 94111, document #K766248, 05/14/19.

Claimant: Segale Bros Wood Products Inc., Contractor: K2 Builders Inc., $34,791, Owner: 630 Natoma Street LLC, on property at 630 Natoma St., San Francisco 94103, document #K766912,

05/15/19.

SAN MATEO COUNTYClaimant: East Bay Restaurant Supply Inc., Contractor: DPR Construction, $49,363, Owner: Google Inc., on property at 1900 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City 94063, document #2019-35323, 05/10/19.

Claimant: East Bay Restaurant Supply Inc., Contractor: DPR Construction, $175,062, Owner: Google Inc., on property at 1300 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City 94063, document #2019-35321, 05/10/19.

Claimant: East Bay Restaurant Supply Inc., Contractor: DPR Construction, $337,726, Owner: Google Inc., on property at 1600 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City 94063, document #2019-35322, 05/10/19.

Claimant: Joseph J. Albanese Inc., Contractor: DPR Construction, $307,585, Owner: Google Inc., on property at 1900 Seaport Blvd., Redwood City 94063, document #2019-35994, 05/14/19.




RRRR Abstracts of Judgment

MARIN COUNTYLilianne G. Chaumont vs. Interbill Corp. (Foreign - Sonoma), 5810 Commerce Blvd., Rohnert Park 94928, $166,767, plaintiff, case #SCV 262053, 05/14/19.

SAN MATEO COUNTYBeacon Street Properties vs. Irvine Auto Towing Inc., 918 E. Vermont Ave., Anaheim 92805, $20,264, plaintiff, case

#19UDL00195, 05/09/19.

AIT Worldwide Logistics Inc. vs. Monster Inc., 601 Gateway Blvd. #900, South San Francisco 94080, $576,000, plaintiff, case #18CIV000541, 05/15/19.

RRRR Real Estate Transactions

ALAMEDA COUNTYB.J. Gem Investment Group to ZK Oakland Properties LLC, 750 Battery St. Fl. 5, San Francisco 94111; 9131 San Leandro St., Oakland 94603, ID 042-4310-008-02, $6,724,545.

Livermore Condor Fund LLC to SDLT Investments VII LLC, 22801 Ventura Blvd. #111, Woodland Hills 91364; Old Glory Dr./Triad Dr., Livermore 94550, ID 905-0010-004-03/006, $6,500,000.

Robert C. Scott and Karen R.A. Scott Trustee to Anthony J. and Nicole S. Guetersloh Trustee, 3651 E. Ruby Hill Dr., Pleasanton 94566, ID 950-0025-022, $3,664,545.

Gary L. and Barbara E. Timmons Trustees to Sage at Irvington LLC, 560 S. Mathilda Ave., Sunnyvale 94086; 41965 Osgood Rd., Fremont 94539, ID 525-0339-002-02, $3,500,000.

Gregory Burrell and Tsang Wai Tang to Hubert and Jenna Petersen Palan, 5773 Country Club Dr., Oakland 94618, ID 48A-7115-3, $2,220,000.

Anand Krishnan to Daniel Y. Kim and Bebe Chueh Kim, 5860 Buena Vista Ave., Oakland 94618, ID 048A-7210-013, $2,100,000.

Jonathan and Diana D. Stern Trustees to Robert James Steffes and Snehal Ashok Shah, 6041 Girvin Dr., Oakland 94611, ID 048D-7282-019/020, $2,100,000.

Ronald A. Wagner and Robin M. Strong and Jeanne A. Strong to Khalegh Hemmat and Roshanne Hemmat Trustees, 2420 San Pablo Ave., Oakland 94612; 1137/1117 International Blvd./1232 11th Ave., Oakland 94606, ID 020-0118-003/002/015, $2,084,545.

Laurie Balcerzak and Stephen S. Eakie Trustees to Guoling Han and Yinghong Huang Trustees, 46951 Zapotec Dr., Fremont 94539, ID 519-1611-022, $2,060,000.

Jodi Nishimura to Daniel Glaser, 2431 Spaulding Ave., Berkeley 94703, ID 055-1913-059, $2,000,000.

Xinxing Tao to Abhinav Mathur and Manny Saxena, 46270 Klamath St., Fremont 94539, ID 519-1590-017, $1,934,545.

Gary C. and Linda J. Roe Trustees to Jie Zhang, 1976 Nicosia Ct., Pleasanton 94566, ID 950-0019-028, $1,860,000.

Betsy Thompson and Robert Stroheker to Mary N. Naugle and Erin E. McTigue, 6004 Valley View Rd., Oakland 94611, ID 048G-7440-046, $1,800,000.

Alterre Partners LLC to Michael Carreno, 4490 Montgomery St., Oakland 94611, ID 013-1129-068, $1,794,545.

Philip A. Coveau Trustee to Chandrasekhar Gopal and Lakshmi Balasubramanian, 380 Apache Ct., Fremont 94539, ID 519-1455-039, $1,770,000.

Gerd G. Kochendoerfer and Maria Carrillo to Zhe Chen and Anthony Wong, 506 Boulevard Way, Piedmont 94610, ID 50-854-9, $1,670,000.

Raymond K. Meister and Mary Lynn Miller Trustee to Jon and Michelle Parise, 12700 Skyline Blvd., Oakland 94619, ID 85-104-38, $1,670,000.

Kevin Chan Trustee to Katherine Larkin Wong and Jonathan Wong, 5969 Zinn Dr., Oakland 94611, ID 048E-7339-032-02, $1,650,000.

John D. Adams Jr. to Thomas Simmons Lee and Golareh Mahdavi, 721 Trestle Glen Rd., Oakland 94610, ID 023-0434-004, $1,624,545.

Mary and Matthew Cronin et al. to Jessica Acock Carlisle and Daniel Chen, 1136 Portland Ave., Albany 94706, ID 066-2810-001, $1,610,000.

Joyce Marie Hsi and Sylvia Hsi Lim et al. to Sean M. and Heather Zadig, 2825 Palm Ct., Berkeley 94705, ID 053-1701-060, $1,600,000.

Leo F. Bautista to James W. and K Brooke K. McCurdy, 1752 NW Market St. #903, Seattle, Wash. 98107; 2361 Woolsey St., Berkeley 94705, ID 052-1558-006, $1,580,000.

Mahesh D. Yemmanuru and Raghavendra D. Yemmanuru to Vidhyashankar Venkatasubramanian and Priyadarshini Muralidharan, 48299 Purpleleaf St., Fremont 94539, ID 519-1202-008, $1,560,000.

Robson Homes LLC to Takamasa Kawai and Yenny Mortono, 208 Ladybug Terr., Fremont 94539, ID 525-1690-028, $1,550,909.

Justin and Amy Gurvitz Trustees to Inder Vir and Valvinder Kaur Dosanjh, 509 E. Vineyard Ave., Livermore 94550; 141 Ronada Ave., Piedmont 94611, ID 50-4523-9, $1,550,000.

Susan R. Gearhart and Dawn M. Berry Trustees to Chuanhu He and Xiaoyu Ding, 1225 Morrison Canyon Rd., Fremont 94536, ID 507-0781-013, $1,524,545.

Robson Homes LLC to Zhen Liu, 251 Firefly Terr., Fremont 94539, ID 525-

1690-019, $1,520,000.

Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder to Victor M. and Eileen Chieco, 4429 Webster St., Oakland 94609, ID 13-1099-2, $1,508,181.

Melissa J. Torok and Edward L. Greenebaum Trustees to Dina C. Frandsen, 5562 Griffin St., Oakland 94605, ID 037-2605-031-06, $1,450,000.

Gary and Colette Rodriguez Trustees to John Kyle Polack and Rachel Scheidt Polack, 3321 Caldeira Dr., Livermore 94550, ID 099-1363-027, $1,420,000.

Ruth Lum Martindale to Adam C. Schlosser and Lisa G. Atkins, 2501 Otis Dr., Alameda 94501, ID 070-0176-021, $1,400,000.

Francis Y. Liu and Chiahua C. Liu Trustees to Sridharan Rajamani and Nirupa Srinivasachari Venkatachari, 5746 Newfields Ln., Dublin 94568, ID 985-0024-031, $1,380,000.

Jeremy and Nicole Cleveland to Christopher J. and Connie K. Wang, 5947 Highwood Rd., Castro Valley 94552, ID 085-1605-013, $1,364,545.

Robert W. and Bobbette Grasty to Lee G. and Azucena Franklin, 4829 Eggers Dr., Fremont 94536, ID 501-0542-057, $1,360,000.

Ryan Raffin Trustee to Muzamil Huq and Nureed Saeed, 11 Hill Rd., Berkeley 94708, ID 063-3160-019, $1,350,000.

Piyush Sangani and Abhilasha Sangani to Jaskirat Sandhu and Iqbal Singh Sandhu et al., 28836 Bailey Ranch, Hayward 94542, ID 085A-6423-023, $1,314,545.

Sharad Ramachandran and Ambika Mago to Nimeshkumar Vadilal Patel and Nehaben Nimeshkumar Patel, 3644 Wyndham Dr., Fremont 94536, ID 543-0279-013, $1,310,909.

Youcef B. and Leila Bouhedda to Zhe Wang and Shou Zeng, 4700 Falstaff Ave., Fremont 94555, ID 543-0421-010, $1,300,000.

Frank W. and Deloris Davis Trustees to Puttaswamy Rahul Gowda and Bethany Gerdemann, 1334 Blake St., Berkeley 94702, ID 054-1790-025, $1,300,000.

Steven and Dianna Tibbetts to Madhukar Verma and Ruchi Tiwari, 42729 Mayfair Park Ave., Fremont 94538, ID 525-1319-009, $1,294,545.

James A. and Alane R. French to Aleksander and Megan Pawlowski, 7304 Limerick Ct., Dublin 94568; 153 Obsidian Way, Livermore 94550, ID 099-0283-039, $1,292,727.

Clifford G. Crain and Elizabeth I. Hannigan to Huan Liu and Haidong Li, 4326 Creekview Dr., Dublin 94568, ID 986-0024-010, $1,284,545.

Sea Palm LLC to Varun and Surabhi Bhambri, 4954 Forest Hill Dr., Pleasanton 94588, ID 941-1049-065, $1,264,545.

Gregory L. Beattie and Victoria A. Crebbin Trustees to Vitaly Kruglikov, 1509 Benton St., Alameda 94501, ID 072-0347-013, $1,260,000.

Lydia S. Lee Trustee to Carl Christian Asbury and Terry Lynn Asbury, 348 Acorn Place, Livermore

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94550, ID 099-1345-003, $1,254,545.

Benjamin C. Brackett Trustee to Melissa Nidevet, 668 Capell St., Oakland 94610, ID 023-0466-017, $1,254,545.

Gregory Todd Derr and Georgia Gates Derr to Ann Dekalb Frick Trustee, 348 Tideway Dr., Alameda 94501, ID 074-1312-023, $1,250,000.

Francis Maung and Vivian Pei Ying He to Saurav Lahiri and Sreye Chatterji, 33473 Bardolph Cir., Fremont 94555, ID 543-0435-146, $1,250,000.

Missionsky Investment LLC to Shakar Subrahmanian and Anusha P. Vanchy, 4640 Diaz Dr., Fremont 94536, ID 543-0387-077, $1,250,000.

Monica C. Villar and Michael P. Wlosek to Mariya and Patrick Chapman, 460 Camino Sobrante, Orinda 94563; 905 61st St., Oakland 94608, ID 015-1346-007-03, $1,250,000.

Sneh L. Sharma Trustee to Jonathan M. Kuchenreauther and Sharon L. Ostermann, 5529 Crimson Cir., Fremont 94538, ID 531-0242-012, $1,230,909.

Taylor Morrison of California LLC to Venkata Reddy Medapati and Gopi Priya Satti, 7308 Kenwood Rd., Dublin 94568, ID 986-0050-061, $1,230,000.

Ian Stokes and Johnine Majchrowicz Trustees to Diana Idell Kaitz and Spencer R. Kaitz et al., 8066 Shepherd Canyon Rd., Oakland 94611, ID 048D-7311-011, $1,224,545.

Shashin R. and Avani S. Mangrolia Trustees to Reza Kakoee, 5109 Ridgewood Dr., Fremont 94555, ID 543-0444-060/061, $1,217,272.

Qiming and Jianmei Xu Zhu Trustees to Satyanarayana Rao Ponnala and Archana Maddhi, 44966 Winding Ln., Fremont 94539, ID 519-1451-022, $1,200,000.

Jacqueline Gough to Alexander Michael T.L. Cheung and Nicole Bird Cheung, 1901 Canyon Breeze Rd., Wenatchee, Wash. 98801; 2710 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda 94501, ID 070-0154-002-01, $1,200,000.

Jared I. and Janet K. Fine Trustees to Barry Cowan and Celia Sanchez, 6991 Exeter Dr., Oakland 94611, ID 048D-7298-019, $1,200,000.

Mark S. Prichard and Diana Garcia Prichard to Chukwudi Yagazie Mbagu and Savreet Kaur, 341 Arrowhead Way, Hayward 94544, ID 078G-2652-030, $1,187,272.

Hong Ao and Danyu Wu to Pratap Yeragudipati and Sravanthi Kantepalli Venkata, 4368 Panorama Dr., Dublin 94568, ID 985-0113-039, $1,187,272.

Becky Yee Chiew to Phoebe H. Ng and Anita Ng et al., 1529 Webster St., Alameda 94501; 2421 Glenview St., Alameda 94501, ID 074-1360-032, $1,174,545.

Edward W. Po to Roger and Louise Toliver, 1032 63rd St., Oakland 94608; 3805 Maybelle Ave., Oakland 94619, ID 030-1929-021-02, $1,171,818.

Ling Zhang to Nikhilesh Chandrakant Jannu and Anjali Laxminarayan Vithalkar, 33853 Capulet Cir., Fremont 94555, ID 543-0435-093, $1,170,000.

Marjorie E. Neilson to Joanna and Nicholas Evans, 4722 McHenry Gate Way, Pleasanton 94566, ID 946-4549-009, $1,170,000.

Tri Pointe Homes Inc. to Gurinder S. Benipal and Jaskiran Kaur Benipal, 2179 Carbondale Cir., Dublin 94568, ID 985-0116-038, $1,160,000.

James R. Daly and Laura E. Fredrickson Daly to Ashley M. Moore and Mark H.D. Heslop, 185 Channel St. #720, San Francisco 94158; 930 Santa Clara Ave., Alameda 94501, ID 073-0391-059, $1,150,000.

Michael J. Evans and Martha A. Evans to Umesh Mangalsingh Gohil and Niketa Bharatsinh Jethwa, 2221 Via Espada, Pleasanton 94566, ID 946-3406-014, $1,140,000.

Earl G. and Elizabeth V. Ante to Kai Fung Lau, 34093 Gannon Terr., Fremont 94555, ID 543-0451-011, $1,137,272.

Raymond F. and Mary C. Anderson Trustees to Sathireddy Velagala and Sudha Deepika Mallidi, 6815 Corte Nuevo, Pleasanton 94566, ID 946-4563-046, $1,133,636.

Deborah L. Oetman Trustee to 370 Jackson Street LLC, 3100 Mowry Ave. #303, Fremont 94538; 352/360/370 Jackson St., Hayward 94544, ID 444-0012-033/032/031, $1,124,545.

Kristine C. Shoemaker to Gregory B. and Wenyi J. Christainsen, 6761 Graham Ave., Newark 94560, ID 092-0051-014-03, $1,124,545.

Larry Morris Larsen and Carole Ellen Larsen to Siju Kanakattu Varghese and Rinu Chirackal Varghese, 5983 Hansen Dr., Pleasanton 94566, ID 946-3407-004, $1,120,000.

Fremont State Street Center LLC to Zhanrui Liang, 3613 Carnival Terr., Fremont 94538, ID 501-1130-067, $1,114,545.

Ricardo N. and Anna Elliott Paras Trustees to Debra A. Cardella, 1152 Crellin Rd., Pleasanton 94566, ID 946-2553-054, $1,112,727.

Morgan S. and Elliott Kiger to Samuel and Diane S. Karp, 2837 San Jose Ave., Alameda 94501, ID 069-0133-027, $1,100,000.

Collin Yu and Yan Jun Zhu to Yinan Shao and Mohan Wang, 4921 Omar St., Fremont 94538, ID 525-0973-026, $1,100,000.

Diana Day Auguste and Jason Auguste et al. to Valerie Roxanne Edwards, 3625 Calafia Ave., Oakland 94605, ID 043A-4677-006, $1,087,272.

Alexander and Olga Alexeev Trustees to Shin S. and David S. Choi, 22578 Canyon Ridge Place, Castro Valley 94552, ID 417-0163-034, $1,080,000.

Siva Prasad Modala Venkata Ranga to Bharatkumar D. and Bhavika Patel, 5141 Brophy Dr., Fremont 94536, ID 531-0005-026, $1,074,545.

Gary Fujii and Eileen H. Fujii to Divya Polamarasetty and Venkata Praveen Kumar Malla, 4809 Kentfield Common, Fremont 94555, ID 543-0446-159, $1,060,000.

Alexander B. Lee and Melissa L. Lim to David K. Ho and Bernice O. Wan, 368 Hollister Ave., Alameda 94501, ID 074-1354-026, $1,050,909.

Douglas W. Lawrence and Tanya M. Lawrence to Eric

Michael Schultz and Laura Margaret Webb, 1248 Haskell St., Berkeley 94702, ID 052-1515-045/046, $1,050,000.

Patrick J. and Kelley A. Larsen to Roger Paul Hacker and Marisa Baron Giller, 1121 Grand St., Alameda 94501, ID 072-0314-002, $1,050,000.

Lennar Homes of California Inc. to Yiming Jiang and Ching Ki Kimmy Fung, 8501 Seawind Way, Newark 94560, ID 092-0260-093, $1,030,909.

Debra A. and Richard A. Maxfield Jr. to Asif Raja Sheik Azeez and Arshi Atique, 5536 Tyler Place, Fremont 94538, ID 531-19-39, $1,024,545.

Gonzaga M.J. Da Costa Trustee to Wilson Kaliyah Jacob and Soubi Wilson, 6169 Bridgestone Cir., Dublin 94568, ID 985-0019-030, $1,010,000.

CalAtlanctic Group Inc. to Arvind Loganathan and Vijayashree Ramakrishna, 5509 El Dorado Ln., Dublin 94568, ID 986-54-207, $1,005,454.

Shih Chun Wu and Huei Chu Wu to Tracy Fong, 459 36th St., Oakland 94609, ID 009-0745-040, $1,000,000.

Benjamin and Jessie Jin to Vi Nguyen and Nghia Lam, 21897-21891 Meekland Ave., Hayward 94541; 21897 Meekland Ave., Hayward 94541, ID 429-0064-012, $986,363.

Thomas D. and Donna M. Taylor to Courtney Herb, 766 Catalina Dr., Livermore 94550, ID 099-0316-091, $984,545.

Carol A. Dean Trustee to Taryn and Zachary Propersi, 806 Taylor Ave., Alameda 94501, ID 073-0404-024, $980,000.

Linda H. Wang to Yu Chi Li and Shou Nan Chiang, 42319 Blacow Rd., Fremont 94538; 39868 Sawyer Terr., Newark 94560, ID 901-0199-117, $980,000.

Albert K. Gandall III and Maxine J. Gandall Trustees to Sea Palm LLC, 2015 Valley Oak Rd., Pleasanton 94588; 22902 Grand St. #7, Hayward 94541, ID 431-0103-017, $974,545.

Timothy Tsz Kit Chan and Sarah Wing Man Chan to Videepkumar Rajendiran and Meghana Madbhavi, 3368 Giovanni Way, Dublin 94568, ID 985-0103-045, $974,545.

Howard H. Huang and Ann L. Maeoka to Robert P. and Stephanie Aileen Crisione, 495 Dowling Blvd., San Leandro 94577, ID 076-0287-007, $962,727.

Jeffrey P. Prince to Frederick D. and Mary E. Blume Trustees, 742 Wesley Way #1B, Oakland 94610, ID 023-0425-034, $954,545.

Community Fund LLC to Veronica Valerio Duncan and Daniel D. Duncan, 4001 Maybelle Ave., Oakland 94619, ID 030-1931-013-02, $950,000.

John and Marin Nakano to Ganesh Vijaya Bose and Sonobhi Kumar, 4929 Crow Canyon Rd., Castro Valley 94552, ID 085-5355-002-01, $940,000.

Felix M. Chin and Ma Thida Win to Srinivas Reddy Kancharla and Neelima Kancharia Trustees, 42828 Philadelphia Place, Fremont 94538, ID 525-1634-059, $936,363.

Andres and Silvia Barajas to Kedar V. Jayaram and Hema Gopala Iyer, 2403 Almaden Place, Union City 94587, ID 475-0155-053, $934,545.

Diana Lee Byrns to You Bo Li, 19483 Yuma St., Castro Valley 94546, ID 084B-0310-030, $930,000.

Charles Edward Heath III and Eva MacGillivray Heath Trustees to Lincoln Wood and Amy Kermott, 143 Beauforest Dr., Oakland 94611, ID 048G-7440-004, $930,000.

Shurea Wilson to Michael Nicholas Karim and Ann Amanda Karim, 1300 Parker St., San Leandro 94577, ID 077-0624-001, $930,000.

Kristine J. Vuncanon to Yan Ling Liang and Xiao Hua Kuang, 18353 Carlwyn Dr., Castro Valley 94546, ID 084D-1105-021, $927,272.

Kelly J. Franco to Hui Sun Lee and You Me Kim, 3586 Capoterra Way #57, Dublin 94568, ID 985-67-198, $920,000.

Jeff Murphy to Tyler J. and Stephanie E. Parker, 753 Wall St., Livermore 94550, ID 099-0308-092, $913,636.

Dorothy Brown to Godspeed Investment LLC, 133 Estudillo Ave., San Leandro 94577; 5734 MacCall St., Oakland 94609, ID 015-1278-026, $910,000.

Muhaiuddin and Seema Qarshi Trustees to Anurag Misra and Praveen Arya, 3007 Triumph Dr., Alameda 94501, ID 074-1340-041, $910,000.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTYSilvergate Investment Group to Lisa H. Morgan Trustee, P O Box 613, Diablo 94528; 1726 El Nido, Diablo 94528, (portion) Lots 353/354/356/370/371 Mount Diablo Estate Park ID 195-240-012, $5,150,000.

Clarksons California Properties to RCI - King Inc., c/o Rollins Inc. 2170 Piedmont Rd. NE, Atlanta, Ga. 30324; 4045 Nelson Ave., Concord 94520, (portion) Lots 8/9 Subd. 6559 ID 159-430-034, $4,790,000.

Jeffrey M. Suplica and Marjaneh Moini Trustees to Joshua Kenneth Rodenbush and Kristie Rose Rodenbush Trustees, 1123 Rahara Dr., Lafayette 94549, (portion) Lot 35 Happy Valley Estates ID 247-070-005, $2,800,000.

Seclusion Development Group LLC to Todd S. and Soo H. Masson, 205 Seclusion Valley Way, Lafayette 94549, Lot 21 Subd. 6844 ID 166-420-018-3, $2,363,636.

Davidon Homes to Omar and Naureen Seyal, 67 Tomcat Way, Orinda 94563, Lot 144 Subd. 9224 Wilder ID 273-380-008-6, $2,356,363.

The City of El Cerrito to HD Reliant Mayfair LLC, 1500 Park Ave. #100, Emeryville 94608; 11600 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito 94530, El Cerrito Municipal Services Corp. ID 502-062-032, $2,313,636.

Michael J. and Sandra K. Fraser to Vincent and Adrienne Castillo, 20 Glen Creek Ln., Walnut Creek 94595, ID 188-031-024, $2,200,000.

TLGWC LLC to Donald Oliver Neufeld and Mia Loira Blume, 325 Camino Sobrante, Orinda 94563, (portion) Lot 379 Haciendas Del Orinda ID 262-131-010, $2,200,000.

Hao Zhang and Fang Huang to Vinod Valloppillil and Alpana Soni, 8455 Buckingham Dr., El Cerrito 94530, Lots 83 84 Arlington Estates ID 505-181-024, $2,165,454.

Eric Andrew Christensen and Lisa Anne Christensen to Shelly Cropper and Jason Beau Cropper, 25 Meadow Grove Ct., Alamo 94507, Lot 7 Subd. 7062 ID 193-210-023, $2,150,000.

Jeffrey H. Winkel Trustee to David L. Huard and Anne Murphy Huard Trustees, 3286 Isola Ln., Lafayette 94549, Lot 2 Subd. 4977 ID 166-190-016, $2,020,000.

John H. Nash to Pravesh B. and Neeta J. Mistry, 3340 S. Lucille Ln., Lafayette 94549, Lot 244 Tract 2046 ID 237-152-005-3, $2,014,545.

David Matthew Anderman and Alison Stone Anderman Trustees to John T. and Lia M. Hanley, 4 El Paraiso Ct., Moraga 94556, Lot 6 Tract 2625 ID 255-202-011, $1,900,000.

Enrique Cano and Carey Langley Cano to Sreenivas K. Duvvuri and Mounika Madgula, 3019 Montbretia Way, San Ramon 94582, Lot 5 Subd. 8689 ID 222-600-005, $1,900,000.

Paul J. Hennessy and Lisa A. Hennessy to Ashruf and Lorie Edam, 44 N. Jackson Way, Alamo 94507, (portion) Rancho San Ramon ID 192-060-014, $1,874,545.

7 Stars Properties LLC to John Robert Panagulias and Sayuri Nagase, 3256 Withers Ave., Lafayette 94549, (portion) Lot 33 Subd. 1 Brookwood Acres ID 166-220-078, $1,850,000.

Jeffrey P. and Laura M. Ajer to Eric D. and Megan M. Johnson, 519 Messian Place, Danville 94526, Lot 4 Subd. 8283 ID 207-590-004, $1,850,000.

June Shore to Brian P. and Kristine A. Sosine, 52 Corte Encanto, Danville 94526, Lot 55 Rancho Del Amigo ID 199-231-015-9, $1,770,000.

Thomas J. Hobbs and Nancy J. Hobbs Trustees to Michael Gregory O’Keeffe and Meagan Ann Smith, 411 Crest Ave., Alamo 94507, (portion) Lot 4 Goold’s ID 188-281-006, $1,674,545.

Rory and Emily Clements to Kevin M. and Elizabeth C. Papay, 501 Bavarian Ct., Lafayette 94549, Lot 1 Subd. 3994 ID 237-171-036, $1,550,000.

Morteza Farr to Hong-Phuong Vo and Quy Cong Dinh, 23 Chapparal Ct., San Ramon 94583, Lot 5 Subd. 7961 ID 211-080-005, $1,500,000.

Ray T. Rockwell Trustee to Carey and Alexis James, 1618 Silver Dell Rd., Lafayette 94549, Lot 26 Tract 2652 ID 230-230-025, $1,500,000.

Nancy Wakeman Trustee to Manufacturers Equipment Corp., 1313 Sanderling Island, Richmond 94801, Lot 36 Subd. 3520 ID 560-410-027, $1,480,000.

Wenqian Niu and Mei Yu to Emmeline Chuang and Kevin Ivarsen, 3832 Via Granada, Moraga 94556, Lot 15 Subd. 3918 Ranchos Colorados ID 255-632-005, $1,450,000.

Dennis T. and Grayce Monday Trustees to Michael Killeen, 2200 Tice Valley Blvd., Walnut Creek 94595, (portion) Rancho San Ramon ID 188-031-017-0, $1,450,000.

Hugh Walpole and Leslie Horn to Phyllis Elizabeth Young, 3809 Happy Valley Rd., Lafayette 94549; 2157 Hadden Rd., Walnut Creek 94596, Lot 2 Hadden Acres ID 183-182-023-6, $1,445,454.

Chris and Lisa Parker to Kevin P. and Tracy Catherine McCarthy, 609 Ambience Way, Danville 94506, Lot 13 Subd. 8096 ID 203-171-056, $1,433,636.

Keonil Lee and Insook Oh to Dinesh Kumar and Pearl Joyce Dsouza Trustees, 2339 Avalon Way, San Ramon 94582, Lot 441 Subd. 8717 Windemere ID 223-340-054, $1,420,000.

Robert A. Giannini and Katherine Ka Lui Giannini Trustees to Jeffrey A. and Allison R. Ross, 292 Davey Crockett Ct., Alamo 94507, Lot 28 Subd. 4948 ID 187-442-001, $1,400,000.

Vincent and Adrienne L. Castillo to David L. Ripley, 1198 Larch Ave., Moraga 94556, Lot 31 Subd. 3375 ID 258-351-006, $1,350,000.

Ian C. Plount and Michelle Ledbetter-Plount to Charles and Denise Herrick, 4060 Dunbarton Cir., San Ramon 94583, Lot 13 Subd. 5520 ID 213-112-007, $1,348,181.

Laurie and Mario J. Blandini to Madhusudhan G. Muppagowni and Deanna S. Lau, 2976 Morgan Dr., San Ramon 94583, Lot 138 Subd. 5324 ID 209-632-002-9, $1,344,545.

Wendy Anne Breckon Trustee to Victoria and Jeffrey Rutsch, 2260 Loch Ln., Walnut Creek 94598, Lot 3 Subd. 3882 ID 142-252-032, $1,320,000.

Jose M. Martinez and Diana L. Covarrubias Trustees to Kunaljeet Tanwar and Sunita Tanwar, 1104 Bellingham Square, San Ramon 94582, Lot 121 Subd. 8149 ID 223-130-024, $1,284,545.

Lucien A. Sabella Trustee to Alexandra Valsamakis, 3143 The Oaks Rd., Ellicott City, Mo. 21043; 16 Live Oak Ln., Danville 94506, Lot 3 Subd. 5438 ID 203-551-003, $1,280,000.

Development Solutions RIV LLC to Wenli Rui, 1605 Riviera Ave. #608, Walnut Creek 94596; 1605 Riviera Ave., Walnut Creek 94596, Subd. 8877 ID 174-150-027, $1,270,000.

Faria Preserve LLC to Xueheng Pang, 231 Via Encanto, San Ramon 94583, Lot 127 Subd. 9443 ID 208-820-042-9, $1,240,000.

Arlyn Cox and Christopher V. Cox to Derek Skeet Mongold and Negar Sodeifi, 316 Dover Dr., Walnut Creek 94598, Lot 56 Subd. 3506 ID 142-251-002-2, $1,230,000.

Bruce H. and Gwen L. Colley to Brennan Nicholas Moultak, 903 Oak St., Lafayette 94549, ID 241-190-007, $1,224,545.

Bijan Nejadnik and Isabelle Descheemaeker Trustees to Wanlong Zhao and Ruiping Li, 4805 Blaydon Rd., Rocklin 95765; 1295 Ustilago Dr., San Ramon 94582, Lot 62 Subd. 8254 Crestbridge at Gale Ranch ID 222-200-026, $1,211,818.

Sheila S. Roberts Trustee to Amy Woy Garrigan and Robert Michael Garrigan Jr., 281 Montecillo Dr., Walnut Creek 94595, (portion) Rancho San Ramon ID 188-021-005, $1,200,000.

Theodore S. and Lida Urban Trustees to Owen C. and Aundra U. Tomlins, 38 La Campana Rd., Orinda 94563, Lot 538 Hacienda Del Orinda ID 262-191-018, $1,200,000.

Renee Lagorio French Trustee to Von Alexander Trompas and Lisa Rae Trompas, 810 Highbridge

Ln., Danville 94526, Lot 78 Subd. 4918 ID 196-550-005, $1,198,181.

Milton and Carolyn Smith to Kevin Christopher Jackson and Vanessa R. Jackson, 913 Piute Ct., Walnut Creek 94598, Lot 41 Subd. 3288 ID 139-222-008, $1,178,181.

Peter Thayer and Philip Thayer to Jennifer A. Warner and Adam C. Hall, 13 Estates Dr., Orinda 94563, Moraga Estates ID 269-021-003, $1,174,545.

Civic Pleasant Hill LLC to Maria Isabel Brady, 501 Tananger Heights Ct., Pleasant Hill 94523, Lot 1 Subd. 9403 Mercury at Taylor ID 152-070-029-3, $1,161,818.

Iva and Michael C. Yuan Trustees to Madeleine Kate Godfrey and Christopher Tyler Holston, 212 Lancaster Rd., Walnut Creek 94595, (portion) Lot 5 Webb Tract ID 184-392-044, $1,144,545.

John Damiano Jr. and Lynnette K. Damiano Trustees to Shuchi Sarkar and Devashish Sarkar, 71 Dos Rios Place, San Ramon 94583, Lot 82 Subd. 3856 Twin Creeks ID 209-212-018, $1,130,000.

David S. Hovey and Leslie A. Baxter Trustees to Douglas and Catherine Younce, 1743 St. Norbert Dr., Danville 94526, Lot 55 Subd. 474 ID 218-743-018, $1,124,545.

Mark J. O’Brien and Andrea O’Brien Trustees to Suby Thomas and Julie Joseph, 301 Mountain Ridge Dr., Danville 94506, Lot 7 Subd. 7133 ID 206-341-007, $1,124,545.

Marilyn E. Thomas Trustee to Jason Mitchell and Lisi Zhang, 219 Santa Fe Dr., Walnut Creek 94598, Lot 339 Tract 2512 San Miguel Rancho ID 140-283-012, $1,100,000.

Amanda S. and Patrick J. O’Connor Jr to Gary J. Borella and Gretchen M. Bladek, 10072 La Paz Ave., San Ramon 94583, Lot 47 Subd. 3845 ID 212-303-004, $1,088,181.

Allison Zhang and Qing Hu to Timothy and Lily Ip, 2614 Menorca Ct., San Ramon 94583, Lot 29 Subd. 4952 ID 209-412-026, $1,087,272.

Trilogy Vineyards LLC to Gary Max Leger and Kathleen Langford Leger Trustees, 2073 Solera St., Brentwood 94513, Lot 44 Subd. 8907 The Vineyards at Marsh Creek ID 007-740-005, $1,070,909.

Shareef and Julie Dajani to Kyle and Kori Ritola, 18 Kilgo Ct., Pleasant Hill 94523, Lot 37 Tract 2690 ID 152-201-003, $1,064,545.

Luong D. Nguyen and Vivient T. Lieu to Junaid Hamed Fatehi and Esther Kim Fatehi, 152 Castleton Ct., San Ramon 94583, Lot 14 Subd. 5360 ID 209-560-014, $1,054,545.

Donald J. and Jean M. Hayward to Douglas Gregg Miller and Ruby Sze Miller, 165 Valle Verde Ct., Danville 94526, Lot 13 Tract 2375 ID 195-111-010-3, $1,050,000.

Ben L. and Nicole B. Lesser to Adam and Gergana Pomerantz, 3113 Ramada Ct., Lafayette 94549, Lot 29 Subd. 3987 ID 169-060-017, $1,050,000.

The City of El Cerrito to Mayfair Affordable LLC, 10890 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito 94530, Richmond Junction 502-062-003-4/502-062-028-1/502-062-029-9, $1,036,363.

David A. and Catherine M. Durden Trustees to Lucy

and Anthony Giovannetti, 1274 N. Montecito Dr., Concord 94521, Lot 2 Subd. 8437 ID 135-390-002, $1,025,454.

Kamran Makki to Everett Salas and Liliana Avalos-Salas, 2846 Calais Dr., San Ramon 94583, Lot 135 Subd. 3265 ID 212-121-004, $1,024,545.

Kristofer and Deborah Johnson Trustees to Lei Wu and Xiaomin Li, 7563 Northland Ave., San Ramon 94582; 409 Eagle Creek Ct., San Ramon 94582, Lot 17 Subd. 7018 ID 210-762-013, $1,024,545.

Patricia Richards to Joseph A. Davi II and Jasmine Junge, 1930 Jeanette Dr., Pleasant Hill 94523, Lot 280 Gregory Gardens ID 150-063-011, $1,014,545.

Mark Stephen Kindhouse and Jennifer Willison Kindhouse to Yash and Bhavini Shah, 22 Shreve Ln., Lafayette 94549, Subd. 9318 Lafayette Townhomes ID 233-240-022, $1,010,000.

Owen C. and Aundra U. Tomlins to Theodore S. Urban and Lida Boer Urban Trustees, P.O. Box 2173, Orinda 94563; 871 Las Trampas Rd., Lafayette 94549, ID 234-180-015-5, $1,000,000.

L. Michael Tompkins and Pamela Tompkins Wyche Trustee to Ezatollah Saiidnia and Jani Tseng et al., 59 Bolero Ct., Danville 94526; 1394 Walden Rd., Walnut Creek 94597, (portion) Lots 44/45 Larkey Ranch ID 172-130-015/016, $1,000,000.

Allison H. Morris to Liana and Arturo B. Sapiandante, 915 Kane Cir., Walnut Creek 94598, Lot 90 Subd. 3318 ID 145-211-028, $994,545.

LaRue Shapland Trustee to Samuel A. Cappione Jr. and Nancy A. Cancilla-Cappione, 125 Blackstone Dr., Danville 94506, Lot 62 Subd. 7132 ID 206-283-009-2, $980,000.

Tiffany and Andrew Padilla to Anburaj Raju and Ambigai Shobanam Anburaj, 2047 Tarragon Rose Ct., San Ramon 94582, Lot 54 Subd. 9246 ID 222-580-054, $972,727.

James D. Davis and Barbara A. Davis Trustees to Michael J. Davenport and Samantha Sagers-Davenport Trustees, 1663 Chatham Place, Brentwood 94513, ID 019-740-013, $958,181.

Bruce L. and Mary E. Weissenberger to Eli and Ariel Spector, 205 Roberta Ave., Pleasant Hill 94523, Lot 188 Pleasant Acres ID 149-163-010, $957,272.

Donald S. Jacoby Trustee to Jan Erik Wallen and Lara Jaana Wallen, 110 Alta Mesa Ct., Moraga 94556, Lot 21 Subd. 4507 ID 258-570-021, $950,000.

Douglas Ann Adcock and Dorothy S. Harrison-Brown Trustees to Jin Yu and Ninh Quang, 1201 Brickyard Way #404, Richmond 94801, ID 560-520-057, $950,000.

Trilogy Vineyards LLC to Michael P. Ottinger Trustee, 1697 Provence Ln., Brentwood 94513, Lot 211 Subd. 8907 The Vineyards at Marsh Creek ID 007-730-065, $934,545.

Kathryn V. Alexander and Steven Spedlacci to Kevin T. and Naomi E. Hurley Trustees, 1703 Jeanne Cir., Martinez 94553, Lot 2 Subd. 5127 ID 155-441-002, $930,000.

Gary Dean Armstrong and Julie Winter Armstrong Trustees to Scott and Jessica Hill, 140 Glasgow

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Cir., Danville 94526, Lot 125 Subd. 6752 ID 202-301-014, $930,000.

Tao Zhang and Yuan Li to She-peng Weng and Cindy P. Yagi, 6239 Byron Ln., San Ramon 94582, Subd. 8779 Celamonte ID 223-620-052, $924,545.

Sophia Lim Trustee to Raymond Li and Lily Li, 815 Meadow View Dr., Richmond 94806, Lot 62 Subd. 8237 ID 405-630-014, $910,000.

Thomas R. White and Elizabeth White to James G. Ford and Kathleen A. Ford Trustees, 15 Mt. Whitney Ct., Clayton 94517, Lot 20 Subd. 4014 ID 119-382-009, $908,181.

Jacqueline Hartung to Srinivasa Rao Chennupati and Suneetha Nallure, 167 Lois Ct., Pleasant Hill 94523, Lot 986 Gregory Gardens ID 153-141-014, $900,000.

Karen L. Rosa to Leslee Specht, 493 Malaga Way, Pleasant Hill 94523, Lot 33 Tract 2099 ID 152-103-003, $900,000.

MARIN COUNTYHakan Bille and Mona Bille Trustees to Austin Ligon Trustee, 6615 Vaught Ranch St. #100, Austin, Texas 78730; 80 Alcatraz Ave., Belvedere Tiburon 94920, Lots 49/50/51 Corinthian Island ID 060-103-54, $7,200,000.

Karen Michelle Everest Mason and Cynthia Ann Everest et al. to Melvin Dagovitz and Angela Dagovitz Trustees, 1527 5th Ave., San Rafael 94901; 654/650/658 Irwin St., San Rafael 94901, ID 013-041-17/013-041-13/013-041-16, $5,700,000.

John F. Boneparth Trustee to Mark and Alison Weinzierl, 2614 King Arthur Blvd., Lewisville, Texas 75056; 31 Alcatraz Ave., Belvedere 94920, Lots 29/30 Corinthian Island ID 060-102-43, $5,100,000.

Joseph M. Keene and Susan E. Andrus to James R. Gillespie and Gretchen Bellena Wiker, 250 W. Baltimore Ave., Larkspur 94939, Lots 3/4 Baltimore Park ID 021-112-36, $4,100,000.

Julie and Kevin Roddy to Brent J. Goldman and Lauren E. Bence, 27 Evergreen Dr., Kentfield 94904, Lot 60 Kent Woodlands ID 075-092-07, $3,850,000.

Susan McAllister Moxon Trustee to John B. Moriarty Jr. and Elizabeth A. Moriarty Trustees, 155 Linden Ln., Mill Valley 94941; 208 Benson Cir., Mill Valley 94941, Lot 27 Scott Valley Meadows ID 033-210-04, $3,800,000.

Gertrude Wardlaw Coker Trustee to John P. and Kirsten Ferguson, 216 S. Ridgewood Rd., Kentfield 94904, Lot 345 Kent Woodlands ID 075-102-15, $3,724,545.

Timothy E. and Jane H. Watson to James G. Blaine Jr. and Emily Blaine, 22 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley 94941, Lot 279 Tamalpais Park ID 028-034-30, $3,510,000.

Jeffrey S. Greenberg Trustee to Nicholas and Jennifer Weiksner, 19 Tamal Vista Ln., Kentfield 94904; 15 Madrona Ave., Ross 94957, San Anselmo Valley ID 073-252-09, $3,507,272.

Catherine S. Stone Trustee

to Richard K. Robbins Trustee, 353 Summit Ave., Mill Valley 94941; 250 Tamalpais Ave., Mill Valley 94941, ID 027-144-16, $3,250,000.

Michael G. Morrison and Andrea L. Morrison to Kenneth and Kristin Sheppard, 10 Sagebrush Ct., San Rafael 94901, Lot 23 Peacock Gap ID 186-530-23, $3,200,000.

Steven A. and Keri C. Pardella Trustees to Elizabeth Herrick and Ian Sachs Trustees, 69 Walnut Ave., Corte Madera 94925, Lot 71 Palm Hill of Baltimore Park ID 024-101-04, $3,100,000.

Natasha and Jeremy Drucker to Benjamin and Mignon Parsons, 207 Hawthorne Ave., Larkspur 94939, ID 020-222-04, $2,740,000.

Kenneth J. Jenkins and Laura L. Jenkins Trustees to Shane Goelet, 181 Crest Rd., Novato 94945, ID 143-370-45, $2,514,545.

John K. and Gillian L. Freeman to Jason and Shannon Scutt, 5421 Lake Edge Dr., Holly Springs, N.C. 27540; 707 Forest Way, Mill Valley 94941, Little City Farms ID 049-112-19, $2,450,000.

Richard S. Miller and Christine R. Miller Trustees to Robert A. Monsour and Sandra E. Tasca Trustees, 104 Kristin Marie Ct., Novato 94945, Parcel 2 Jonsen Land Division ID 143-101-27, $2,450,000.

Patrick Bennett and Maria Bennett Trustees to Ann Montgomery and Aaron Mason, 130 Woodland Ave., San Anselmo 94960, (portion) Lot 170 Ross Valley Park Villa ID 007-

221-14, $2,400,000.

Jordan B. and Robyn M. Roberts to Andrew and Bethany Martin, 46 Tomahawk Dr., San Anselmo 94960, Lot 3 (portion) Rancho Canada De Herrera ID 177-220-68, $2,377,272.

Mark and Kristen Vasquez to Stephen and Kelly Henry Trustees, 36 Mercury Ave., Tiburon 94920, Lot 87 Belveron Gardens ID 034-262-05, $2,250,000.

James N. and Katina Puccinelli to Kim Schwarcz Trustee, 22 Seawolf Passage, Corte Madera 94925; 125 Sylvestris Dr., San Geronimo 94963, Lots 55-64 San Geronimo Rancho ID 169-341-02, $2,100,000.

Keith E. and Beth E. Forsman to Andrea Michelle Madden and Joshua Gershman, 14 Edgemar Way, Corte Madera 94925, Lot 3 Mariner Cove ID 026-081-03, $2,000,000.

Queenelle Minet Trustee to Diana L. Rudsten Trustee, P.O. Box 1073, Ross 94957; 51 Ridge Rd., Fairfax 94930, Lots 18/19/20/21/22 Block I Fairfax Manor ID 001-062-49, $1,900,000.

Matthew T. Franklin and Yvonne Y. Wang Trustees to Margaret Megan McKinley Trustee, 41 Windward Dr., Corte Madera 94925, Lot 93 Mariner Highlands ID 038-262-02, $1,900,000.

Katy A. Spence and Kerry Spence et al. to Stephen Eric White Jr. and Emily Agnes Polidan, 17 Grove St., Mill Valley 94941, Lot 15 Block 15 Lyon and Hoag’s ID 028-024-06, $1,850,000.

Ruth Levenstein McDaniels to Sarah Parker and Robert Parker Trustees, 30 Laurel Grove Ave., Kentfield 94904, (portion) Lots 17/18 Butler Tract ID 071-173-03, $1,830,000.

Alireza Samgiss to Brian P. and Elizabeth A. Levonius, 46 Laurel Grove Ave., Kentfield 94904; 22 Woodside Way #A, Ross 94957, Lots 17/18 Woodside Tract ID 073-231-16, $1,800,000.

Franklin C. Wheeler and Kathleen Mahoney to Christopher Noll and Laura Hare, 729 Heinz Ave. #7, Berkeley 94710; 38 Oak Knoll Ave., San Anselmo 94960, Lots 23-D/22-B Bush Tract ID 005-154-23, $1,800,000.

Laird W. Rogers and Kathleen Styles Rogers Co-Trustees to Malcolm Howard Gaustad and Grace Kan Gaustad, 64 Terrace Ave., Bolinas 94924, Lot 109 Canyon to The Granda Vista Tract ID 193-132-26, $1,790,000.

Yonghong Deng Trustee to Robert Singer Trustee, 6696 Via Valverde, La Jolla 92037; 200 Elm Rd., Bolinas 94924, Bolinas Beach ID 192-152-09, $1,700,000.

Douglas Cason to Jeffrey Michael Kaban and Molly Lee Kaban, 48 Kinross Dr., San Rafael 94901, Lot 38 Loch Lomond ID 016-152-19, $1,600,000.

Anne L. Knuut to Tracy L. Cameron, 14 Vista Ct., Corte Madera 94925, Lot 175 Marin Estates ID 026-142-12, $1,574,545.

Virginia A. Ritchey and Jed S. Ritchey Trustees to Adam and Nicole M. Wilczek, 9 Wildflower Ct., Corte Madera 94925, Lot 24

Madera Del Presidio ID 034-442-05, $1,514,545.

Shannon Turley to Janet O. Welton, 74 Mountain View Ave., San Anselmo 94960, Cordone Tract ID 005-212-07, $1,490,000.

Howard Evert Lee and Stacey Lee to Tarek A. Salaway, 764 Beechnut Ct., San Rafael 94903, Lot 855 Terra Linda ID 178-221-75, $1,450,000.

Michael W. Harris and Lissa D. Harris Trustees to Raymond Bradley Pahk and Gina Esther Pahk, 15 Luiz Ct., San Rafael 94903, Lot 84 Lucas Valley Estates ID 164-562-13, $1,434,545.

Dennis R. Molloy to Mark Douglas Wagner and AnnaMaria Dolores Lazzarini Trustees, 520 Atherton Ave., Novato 94945, Lot 3 Atherton Acres ID 143-481-03, $1,401,818.

John and Pamela Feather to Kris and Andrea Rudeegraap, 466 Bret Harte Rd., San Rafael 94901, ID 013-175-19, $1,400,000.

Dave Garbarino and Ray Garbarino et al. to James E. Cooney and Nadereh Degani Trustees, 111 Manderly Rd., San Rafael 94901, Loch Lomond Highlands ID 016-092-02, $1,390,000.

Srinivasa Venkataraman and Sudha Venkataraman Trustee to Edwin Taylor, 19577 Littlebrook Dr., Los Gatos 95030; 48 Skyview Terr., San Rafael 94903, Lot 1 Montevideo Terrace ID 165-230-01, $1,382,727.

William Joseph Ingram and Denise Ingram Quigley to Joe and Tina Gibson, 84

Berkeley Ave., San Anselmo 94960, Morningside Court ID 005-165-15, $1,350,000.

Barbara Graham Kreissler Trustee to Thomas P. O’Connor Jr. and Anka Paine, 279 Eliseo Dr., Greenbrae 94904, Lot 1626 Greenbrae ID 070-342-05, $1,348,181.

James S. and Deborah A. Vacek Trustees to Mario and Tamara Maturo, 26 Pacific Queen Passage, Corte Madera 94925, Lot 101 Mariner Cove ID 026-173-17, $1,334,545.

Theodore J. and Kimberly P. Hofmann to Yoav Y. and Keely B. Schlesinger, 31 Elkhorn Way, San Anselmo 94960, Lot 14 Indian Rock ID 177-264-13, $1,304,545.

Christopher E. Toffoli to Tom Price and Sherese Schlosser, 331 Linda Way, Mill Valley 94941, Lot 59 Kay Park ID 052-013-17, $1,300,000.

William H. and Beth C. Gibbs to Mark and Sheryl L. Stray Trustees, 23 Creekside Ct., Corte Madera 94925, Meadowcreek Station ID 026-290-32, $1,300,000.

Chad Geyer and Alicia Geyer Trustees to David and Danielle Garbarino, 21 Mosswood Ct., Novato 94947, Lot 3 Mosswood Court ID 132-311-36, $1,294,545.

John E. and Beverly A. Immendorf to Michael and Colleen Donaldson, 1083 W. California Ave., Mill Valley 94941, Lot 4 Block 305 Marin Terraces ID 050-

023-71, $1,250,000.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTYR&A Witbeck to SF Multifamily V Property Owner LLC, 49 Powell St. Fl. 4, San Francisco 94102; 291 Broderick St., San Francisco 94117, (portion) Western Block 524 ID 1219/001, $8,050,000.

Ella HT LLC to Paul and Laura Paradis Trustees, 1337 Pope St., San Francisco 94129; 1 Raycliff Terr., San Francisco 94115, Raycliff Terrace ID 0962/008B, $7,684,977.

Silvanus Osborn Erickson and Rina Alcalay Trustees to Andrew Paradise, 1400 Montgomery St., San Francisco 94133; 1404 Montgomery St., San Francisco 94133, ID 0085/056, $7,250,000.

Moris Herscowitz and Janet Herscowitz Trustees to SF Multifamily V Property Owner LLC, 49 Powell St. Fl. 4, San Francisco 94102; 750 14th St., San Francisco 94114, (part) Mission Block 99 ID 3537/025, $7,000,000.

Thomas Gerard Keegan and Krista Henry Keegan Trustees to Tompa LLC, 5214F Diamond Heights #657, San Francisco 94131; 1045 Church St., San Francisco 94114, (portion) Horner’s Block 6 ID 3629/031A, $5,394,977.

Alison M. Nichol and Michael J. Doherty Trustees to 752 27th Street LLC, 752 27th St., San Francisco 94131, (portion) Horner’s Block 224 ID 6583/010A, $4,200,000.

Kevin Singer to Holmes Last Chance LLC, c/o

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The 114th Annual Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Awards Luncheon.Celebrating the spirited businesses, nonprofits, and community members who

contribute to what makes The Town special.

With Keynote Speaker Lenny MendoncaChief Economic Advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2611:00AM – 12:00PM Reception | 12:00PM – 1:30PM Lunch

Oakland Marriott City Center

Registration/Information: oaklandchamber.com

Presenting Sponsor:


Kenneth M. Kaplan 361 Forest Ave. #204, Laguna Beach 92651; 4018 19th St., San Francisco 94114, (portion) Mission Block 115 ID 3583/018, $4,150,000.

Mike Fishman and Marika Fishman Trustees to Charles William Halladay and Christine Isaacs Halladay Co-Trustees, 1977 Jefferson St., San Francisco 94123; 162 22nd Ave., San Francisco 94121, (portion) Outside Land Block 92 ID 1381/024, $3,950,000.

Daniel Alexander Dias and Elizabeth Sarles Dias to Chester and Grace Ng, 254 20th Ave., San Francisco 94121, (portion) Outside Land Block 163 ID 1414/032, $3,300,000.

Rahmatolla Ramin Naimi-Akbar to Tuscan Steiner Street Investments LP, 2859 Steiner St., San Francisco 94123, (part)

Western Block 395 ID 0559/001, $3,250,000.

Keith M. Davehy Trustee to Craig S. Davey Trustee, 160-162 Buena Vista Terr., San Francisco 94117; 160 Buena Vista Terr., San Francisco 94117, (part) Block 7 Flint Tract ID 2608/029, $3,004,933.

Edwin B. Metcalf and Molly M. Pope to Steven Phillip Larson Jr. and Casey Eagan Larson, 230 11th Ave., San Francisco 94118, (portion) Outside Land Block 172 ID 1423/036, $2,904,933.

Moon Man Promo Corp. to Jennifer Ann Sager, 2811 22nd St., San Francisco 94110, (portion) Mission Block 140 ID 4149/035A, $2,900,000.

Doris A. Winters to Marty and Mickey Kao Foundation, 841 Bishop St. #1110, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813; 1100 Sacramento

St., San Francisco 94108, (part) 50 Vara Block 189 ID 0222/009, $2,800,000.

Jahanshah Goodarz Trustee to Ysbrant A. Marcelis and Natalie J. Engmann, 45 San Marcos Ave., San Francisco 94116, Forest Hill ID 2881/001, $2,800,000.

William Byerley Trustee to Ian A. Cox and Anthea Tjuanakis Cox, 1651 11th Ave., San Francisco 94122, (part) Outside Land Block 854 ID 1932/008, $2,754,933.

Vincent E. Yee Trustee to Angela Chen and Alvin Kai-Jun Sng, 533 8th Ave. #1, San Francisco 94118, ID 1551/007, $2,600,000.

K2-18 LLC to Yue An and Hanyu Zheng, 1918 18th St., San Francisco 94107, Condo ID 4008/022, $2,574,933.

Golden East Invesment Group Inc. to Gregory

McCord, 69 Duboce Ave., San Francisco 94103; 1238 43rd Ave., San Francisco 94122, (portion) Outside Land Block 631 ID 1708/036, $2,550,000.

401 Harrison Owner LLC to Jimmy Duan and Xiaoyun Xu Trustees, 1518 Hillview Dr., Los Altos 94024; 401 Harrison St. #31E, San Francisco 94105, Condo ID 3765/616, $2,522,000.

Todd Alan Constable to Betty and Jason Michaud, 1272 Rhode Island St. #20, San Francisco 94107; 1400 Noe St., San Francisco 94131, (portion) Horner’s Block 167 ID 6590/001, $2,420,000.

Evan Gary Hirsch Trustee to Ruth Shekinah Rayikanti and Ashirvadam Rayikanti et al., 167 Twin Peaks Blvd., San Francisco 94114, ID 2705/034, $2,400,000.

Zihan Zhang to Jiawen Zhang and Longxiang Cui,

201 Folsom St. #31C, San Francisco 94105, Condo ID 3746/613, $2,360,000.

Christopher N. Canton and Erica L. Jennings to Meredith Richardson Dearborn and Justin Morteza Lee, 943 Steiner St., San Francisco 94117, Condo ID 0778/024, $2,350,000.

1501 Cypress LLC to Michael C. and Ines Levy, 5606 California St. #201, San Francisco 94121, Condo ID 1378/039, $2,300,000.

Carl and Louise Fritjofsson to Robert J. Kellogg Trustee, 3470 17th St., San Francisco 94110, Condo ID 3568/076, $2,300,000.

Henry Jue Jr. and Giant Sun Group Corp. et al. to Teddy Tsao-Wu and Tzu Ting Hung et al., 4215 Geary Blvd., San Francisco 94118; 565 Filbert St., San Francisco 94133, (part) 50 Vara Block 106 ID

0103/021, $2,220,933.

Robert E. Conover and Kathleen D. Conover Trustees to Sajeevi Y. Gunasekera and Evelyn G. Yanez, 169 Grand Ave., San Francisco 94114; 301 Corbett Ave., San Francisco 94114, (part) Park Lane Tract ID 2659/056, $2,200,000.

Karen Natoli Maxwell to Benjamin S. Feuer, 3011 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco 94109, Condo ID 0474/064, $2,100,000.

Roderick D. Hill to Scott Pluta, 4300 17th St., San Francisco 94114, (portion) Horner’s Block 201 ID 2626/014A, $2,100,000.

MSMI Partners LLC to Raymond Christopher Morgan and Brittany Jean Morgan, 1343 31st Ave., San Francisco 94122, (portion) Outside Land Block 703 ID 1786/005A, $2,100,000.

LEADSScott M. Worsdell and Kirsten S. Aunapu Trustees to Michael E. Bascus and Caitlin G. Callaghan Trustees, 210 17th Ave., San Francisco 94121, Condo ID 1417/047, $2,100,000.

Robert A. Forth Trustee to Daniel Chang, 305 Liberty St., San Francisco 94114, (part) Mission Block 41 ID 3605/040, $1,994,933.

Christopher W. Rauen and Emily C. O’Brien to Micha Hershman and Elizabeth Marotte, 1600 Webster St. #204, San Francisco 94115; 72 Lippard Ave., San Francisco 94131, ID 6738/003, $1,960,000.

Sam Hsi Shink Hong and May Xiao Yun Wu to Sara Fleur Sultan and Brian Samuel Clayton Conlon, 1822 27th Ave., San Francisco 94122, (portion) Outside Land Block 931 ID 2063/042, $1,860,000.

Michael A. Thomas and Aric J. Olnes to Scott J. Goldman, 606 Sanchez St., San Francisco 94114, Condo ID 3601/100, $1,850,933.

Tom K Hua to Samuel Eli Pederson and Paige Thomas Pederson, 120 Marview Way, San Francisco 94131, Midtown Terrace ID 2785/019, $1,850,000.

Exchange Bank to Jari Pietila and Qian Pietila Trustees, 1222 Susan Way, Sunnyvale 94087; 688 Corbett Ave., San Francisco 94114, Corbett Avenue ID 2745/056, $1,830,000.

Jordan and Paul Ferney to Chris Van Pelt and Snezana Anicic-Van Pelt, 3523A 19th St., San Francisco 94110, Condo ID 3597/122, $1,805,466.

Kimberly Skidmore Trustee to Eugene Chi-Ruey Li and Stephanie Wong Li, 60 Prosper St., San Francisco 94114; 2078 32nd Ave., San Francisco 94116, (portion) Outside Land Block 1011 ID 2151/034, $1,800,000.

Anita Joke Yong Ip to Matthew Ka Leong Long and Annie Miao Chang Long, 38 Williar Ave., San Francisco 94112; 1391 23rd Ave., San Francisco 94122, (portion) Outside Land Block 695 ID 1778/017A, $1,700,000.

Mark Coughlin Trustee to Dean Ching and Carmen Yuen, 1617 Pacheco St., San Francisco 94116, (portion) Outside Land Block 1022 ID 2140/027, $1,694,933.

Jean Haritchabalet and Monique Haritchabalet Trustees to Bjoern Schwer and Negeen Darani, 179 Skyview Way, San Francisco 94131, Midtown Terrace ID 2796/009, $1,684,933.

Middle of the Hill Ventures LLC to Kendall R. Anderson and Brooke H. Anderson Trustees, 131 Missouri St. #202, San Francisco 94107, Condo ID 3985/042, $1,650,000.

Jolie M. Martin to Farid Vij and Laura Durrance Lugo, 105 Prospect Ave. #B, San Francisco 94110, Condo ID 5617/049, $1,600,000.

Deborah A. Churton to Keyvan J. Nouri, 2625 Alcatraz #511, Berkeley 94705; 200 Brannan St. #102, San Francisco 94107, (portion) 100 Vara Block 351 ID 3774/243, $1,594,933.

Richard Fong and Betty Ching to John William Tobin and Brittany Jean Baer et al., 1817 California St. #112, San Francisco 94109; 1258 Vermont St., San Francisco 94110, (portion) Potrero Nuevo Block 110 ID 4214/007A, $1,580,000.

Nicholas M. and Heta N. Fell to Michael Louis

Levine and Michelle Phreaner Levin, 104 Yukon St., San Francisco 94114; 3735 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco 94110, Condo ID 6577/049, $1,574,933.

WVN ASSO LLC to Yu Li, 1868 Van Ness Ave. #703, San Francisco 94109, Condo ID 0619/192, $1,570,000.

Nabeela Mahmood Rahman and Heward Kwan Jue Trustees to Kyuha Park and Myong Ko, 2686 23rd Ave., San Francisco 94116, (portion) Outside Land Block 1246 ID 2474/025, $1,550,000.

Lynn Egg Jakusovas and Eugene Edward Egg to Shahram Bijan, 17023 Summer Meadow Ln., Sonoma 95476; 224/228 Clara St., San Francisco 94107, (part) 100 Vara Block 192 ID 3753/062-063, $1,524,933.

Diego Martin Pontoriero to Katherine B. Skinner, 3365 20th St. #5, San Francisco 94110, Condo ID 3611/070, $1,514,933.

Simon W.L. Yim and Joan Divina Yim to Lai L. Yip and Barry Hyde, 1434 42nd Ave., San Francisco 94122, (portion) Outside Land Block 728 ID 1812/036, $1,500,933.

Nan Jiang and Daniel Michael Tsui to Harold Park and Judy Ou, 1 Hawthorne St. #5J, San Francisco 94105, Condo ID 3735A/035, $1,500,000.

East West Brothers Real Estate Development LLC to Joshua and Ashley Zibit, 43 Athens St., San Francisco 94112, Silver Heights ID 5946/036, $1,500,000.

Arik H. Kostanian and Tatiana A. Kostanian Trustees to Jinming He and Jianhua Wu, 1635 23rd Ave., San Francisco 94122; 1542 26th Ave., San Francisco 94122, (portion) Outside Land Block 193 ID 1871/016A, $1,500,000.

Pathway Investments LLC to Gordon G. Lee and Melissa Chung, 2 Brentwood Ave., San Francisco 94127, Westwood Highlands ID 3054/005, $1,474,933.

John Rhys Hughes Trustee to Alexander Kirschner and Alex Rodriguez, 4168A 17th St., San Francisco 94114, Condo ID 2623/219, $1,454,933.

Kevin R. Walsh and Jeri Countryman Trustees to Adrian Jones, 361 Nevada St., San Francisco 94110, ID 5699/022, $1,424,933.

Michael J. Sinclair and Carol Lee Paiva to Ann Tess Bendersky Atura Bushnell and Tyler Scott Atura Bushnell, 1011 Shotwell St., San Francisco 94110, (portion) Mission Block 172 ID 6520/033, $1,424,933.

U.P. Peter Eng and Anamari D. Eng Trustees to Hao Ji Wu and Chieh Lun Chen, 177 Townsend St. #525, San Francisco 94107, Condo ID 3794/138, $1,400,000.

James K. and Amber E. Leung to Peter A. Nichol and Makie K. Tam, 740 18th Ave., San Francisco 94121; 639 18th Ave., San Francisco 94121, (portion) Outside Land Block 363 ID 1626/003, $1,384,933.

Hung Le and Nhu Q. Le to Alan Pak Low, 589-595 16th Ave., San Francisco 94118; 589 16th Ave., San Francisco 94118, (part) Outside Land Block 299 ID 1559/019C, $1,370,000.

Barbara Jane Gaxiola and John Gaxiola to Christopher P. Dale and IIiyana B. Gesheva, 22 Robinson Dr., San Francisco 94112, Crocker Amazon

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Highlands ID 6434/002, $1,350,000.

Belrich Partners Rausch LLC to Ruslan and Elena Akhmetova, 99 Rausch St. #419, San Francisco 94103; 1140 Folsom St., San Francisco 94103, Condo ID 3730/379, $1,350,000.

SAN MATEO COUNTYDavid J. Hildebrandt Trustee to Mark and Maria Trefgarne, 423 Oak St., San Francisco 94102; 165 Josselyn Ln., Woodside 94062, Lot 28 Portola Park ID 072-052-200, $7,494,545.

Martin A. Wellington and Holly N. Fleming Trustees to Michael Neril and Victoria Beth Entine-Redler, 198 Toyon Rd., Atherton 94027, Lot 24 Ringwood ID 061-231-070, $5,824,545.

Daniel A. Gomez Trustee to Joseph Lawrence White and Wendy White, 1 Edge Rd., Atherton 94027, Lot 8 Oak Grove Estates ID 061-252-010, $5,000,000.

Ehikian & Co. Inc. and Bradley R. Ehikian et al. to Mortgage Investors XIII LLC, 300 Montgomery St. #1050, San Francisco 94104; 2915 El Camino Real, Redwood City 94061, Lot 2 Block 1 Dumbarton Park ID 060-271-110/060-271-070/060-271-080, $4,681,818.

Scott Duong and Leanne K. Duong to Benjamin J. Horwich and Amy C. Tovar Trustees, 1411 De Soto Ave., Burlingame 94010, Lot 10 Block 8 Burlinghome ID 027-165-050, $4,200,000.

Thomas A. Meade Trustee to 3122 Barney LLC, 405 El Camino Real #132, Menlo Park 94025; 3122 Barney Ave., Menlo Park 94025, (portion) Lots 1/2 Block 13 Menlo Heights ID 074-023-260/270, $4,200,000.

Goldsilverisland Properties LLC to Shawn Hardin and Sarah Russell, 240 Ringwood Ave., Menlo Park 94025, (portion) Lot 2 Block 2 Menlo Oaks ID 062-251-030, $4,000,000.

Michael Steven Hunter and Ana Molnar Hunter Trustees to Howard L. Bloom and Diane M. Bloom Trustees, 5 Coal Mine View, Portola Valley 94028, Lot 16 Block 2 Portola Valley Ranch ID 080-450-140, $3,900,000.

Patrick R. Gilson to Michael J. Filice Jr. and Leslie Fambrini Filice Trustees, 521 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame 94010, ID 029-254-010, $3,824,545.

Yonghua Wen and Ying Huang to Yu Zhang and Xiaohong Bao, 86 Madrona St., San Carlos 94070, (portion) Lot 7 San Carlos Park ID 050-011-360, $3,800,000.

David L. Marston and Fredericka H. Marston Trustees to Michael A. Eubanks and Carridine Say Eubanks, 1020 Galley Ln., Foster City 94404; 120 Emerald Estates Ct., Redwood City 94062, Lot 3 Emerald Hills Estates ID 068-221-650, $3,507,272.

Mohamad H. Makhzoumi and Katherine Makhzoumi Trustees to Dong Shin Kim and Hyejin Yoo, 2404 Hillside Dr., Burlingame 94010, Lot 4 Block 68 Easton ID 027-173-100, $3,324,545.

Todd and Jessica Zander Trustees to Sanket S. Dhruva and Pallavi Dhruva, 1961 Belle Ave., San Carlos 94070, Lot 20 Block 11 Howard Park ID 050-311-290, $3,250,000.

Bradley R. Ehikian et al. to Mortgage Investors XIII LLC, 300 Montgomery

St. #1050, San Francisco 94104; 2991/2963 El Camino Real, Redwood City 94061, Dumbarton Park ID 060-271-090/060-271-100, $2,957,272.

Margaret Wade Aubry and Lloyd W. Aubry Jr. et al. to Dimitrios J. Sogas, 1630 Balboa, Burlingame 94010; 329 Glendale Rd., Hillsborough 94010, Lot 21 Woodstock ID 031-183-110, $2,850,000.

Karrie Jon Lace Trustee to Tony Chung and Carrie Lee, 2828 San Juan Blvd., Belmont 94002, Lot 15 Block 80 Belmont Country Club Properties ID 043-321-160, $2,800,000.

Kurt J. Bilafer and Michele Rodman-Bilafer to Brian D. Campisi Sr. and Teresa M. Campisi Trustees, 265 Myrtle St., Redwood City 94062, Lot 22 Block 42 Redwood Highlands ID 052-173-170, $2,600,000.

Jeremy Thorpe and Dina Gabriel Trustees to Paivi Neuschwander Tetri Trustee, 140 Brighton Way, Clayton, Mo. 63105; 24 Homer Ln., Menlo Park 94025, Lots 6/7 Stanford Weekend Acres ID 074-303-120, $2,580,000.

Katharine Hughes to Michael F. Buckley and Jennifer Marston Carmichael Buckley Trustees, 531 W. Poplar Ave., San Mateo 94402, (portion) Lot 274 San Mateo Park ID 031-063-120, $2,530,909.

Marcio and Lisa Avillez to Marvin Christopher Loux and Tram Anh Tran Loux, 768 Acacia Ave., San Bruno 94066; 2505 Hale Dr., Burlingame 94010, (portion) Lots 5/6 Block 11 Burlinghome ID 027-174-230, $2,523,636.

Shelley E. Cerasaro to One Bad Harley LLC, 1321 S. Winchester Blvd. #200, San Jose 95128; 1903 El Camino Real, Redwood City 94063, (portion) Block 7 Hancock’s ID 053-197-020, $2,500,000.

Barry J. Valiasek to Abhishek Pandey and Khushboo Lohia, 2618 Ponce Ave., Belmont 94002, Lot 42 Block 56 Belmont Country Club Properties ID 044-253-080, $2,434,545.

Nikhil Shanbhag and Mona Kotecha Trustees to Sanjay Kakar and Shalini Sahai, 201 Thatcher Ln., Foster City 94404, Lot 12 Tract 112-85 ID 094-950-360, $2,401,818.

Alan Rappoport and Laurie Liberty Rappoport Trustees to Lauren Mikula Schneider and John J. Schneider III, 35 Jeter St., Redwood City 94062, Lot 8 Block 33 Redwood Highlands ID 052-133-160, $2,287,272.

Larry Frank Leon to Christopher Mark Bushman and Yelena Bushman Trustees, 2713 Brittan Ave., San Carlos 94070, Lot 3 San Carlos Estates ID 051-111-150-2, $2,260,000.

Nancy J. Smee to Aijiao Luo and Jinjian Chen, 167 Cypress Point Rd., Half Moon Bay 94019; 29 Snowden Ave., Atherton 94027, Lot 13 Block 1 Lloyden Park ID 060-291-040, $2,250,000.

Jay and Ginger Penn to Joshua R.M. and Emma B. Shak Trustees, 609 Lexington Way, Burlingame 94010, Lot 4 Block 16 Burlingables ID 029-182-070, $2,200,000.

Jean McClung Halloran to John Finbarr Moynihan, 988 Menlo Ave. #7, Menlo Park 94025, Condo ID 112-520-070, $2,194,545.

Marie P. McGarry and Richard Linsdall to

Yingmeng Wu and Tianna Tianying Jiang, 35 Granite Ct., San Carlos 94070, Acacia Knolls ID 051-072-060, $2,180,000.

Dennis Miller to Dean D. Chen and Ella S. Chen Trustees, 885 Lomita Ave., Millbrae 94030, Lot 68 Block 4 Millbrae Meadows ID 021-023-010, $2,150,000.

Sarah Groves Hobart and Rawson Groves Hobart to Christopher and Roda Sweis, 232 Villa Terr., San Mateo 94401, Lot 10 Block E San Mateo Heights ID 032-152-060, $2,100,000.

Rita Kaplan and Douglas Kaplan to Jared Desjardins Cottrell, 1333 Ashwood Ct., San Mateo 94402, Ashwood ID 034-334-290, $2,100,000.

Mary Steler Chernoff Trustee to Annetta McCarty et al., 162 Buckthorn Way, Menlo Park 94025; 154 Buckthorn Way, Menlo Park 94025, Park Forest ID 060-343-610, $2,100,000.

Christian De Conti and Jane Beylin to Kristina DeLevi, 243 Olympian Way, Pacifica 94044, Lots 59/60 Block 17 San Pedro Terrace ID 023-038-070, $2,100,000.

Alain Deminne to Sambasivam Valliappan, 22654 Oakcrest Ct., Cupertino 95014; 193 Redwood Ave., Redwood City 94061, Lot 33/34 Block 1 McGarvey’s ID 053-282-070, $2,074,545.

Yun Li and Zhaoyu Jin to Feng Gu, 972 De Soto Ln., Foster City 94404, Lot 52 Tract 23-73 Bayporte ID 094-142-410, $2,050,000.

Johanna Ravelo Trustee to Jacqueline Morgan Burciaga and Jeffrey Bryan Terry, 339 Cerrito Ave., Redwood City 94061, (portion) East Greenwood Tract ID 069-293-100, $2,050,000.

Gretchen Gary Eisenberg Trustee to Rajat Saxena and Khushboo Malik, 15 El Bonito Way, Millbrae 94030, Lot 13 Block 56 Millbrae Tract 519 ID 024-081-270, $2,024,545.

Daniel K. and Susan F. Ness to Jessica Richardson, 3100 Greenoak Ct., San Mateo 94403, Lot 15 Block 9 Hillsdale ID 039-243-240, $2,000,000.

James Encrantz and Nick Farwell Trustees to Adam D. Azarchs and Belle E. Philibosian, 3327 Oak Knoll Dr., Emerald Hills 94062, Lot 14 Emerald Lake Park ID 057-221-180, $1,998,181.

Steppingstone Assets Group LLC to Rundong Lyu and Ruobing Tang, 43 San Miguel Way, San Mateo 94403, Lot 19 Block 2 Glendale Village ID 040-062-060, $1,977,272.

Mike W. Linnell and Monica P. Linnell to Chenhui Zhu and Xu Wu, 539 Marlin Dr., Redwood City 94065, Lot 55 Block C Marlin ID 095-120-560, $1,952,727.

Farhad Farahani and Nazanin Davani to Bahador Shojapour and Sanaz T. Azad, 1041 Sonoma Ave., Menlo Park 94025, Lot 23 Block 8 Belle Haven City ID 062-033-120-7, $1,910,000.

Steve P. and Christine Reynolds Brochon to Samuel Webb and Melissa Primiano, 407 Quartz St., Redwood City 94062, New High School Acres ID 058-151-080, $1,852,727.

Raymond M. Raras and Winona C. Raras Trustees to Zhicheng Yan, 2744 Belmont Canyon Rd., Belmont 94002, Belmont Country Club Properties ID

043-104-330, $1,820,909.

Billy Kock-Wing Fu Trustee to Sanuj Basu and Namrata Jampani, 1245 Vernon Terr., San Mateo 94402, Lot 8 Block 3 Vernon Terrace ID 034-323-180-9, $1,820,000.

Neil Shroff and Bodie Bristol to Gary Clifford Bartlett and Siobhan Cathleen Pickett, 239 Oakhurst Place, Menlo Park 94025, Lot 21 Block 4 Suburban Park ID 055-302-420, $1,820,000.

Robin Marie Davis to Ian K. and Helen M. Rowbotham, 3440 Ramona St. #2, Palo Alto 94306; 1871 Maddux Dr., Redwood City 94061, Lot 25 Block 6 Sterling Highlands ID 069-211-020, $1,800,000.

Ronald E. Heiskell to Walter Mucun Huang and Jeannie JinYee Ruan, 30 Laurel Hill Ct., San Mateo 94402, Lot 12 Block A The Highlands ID 041-241-120, $1,800,000.

Cartus Financial Corp. to Sriram Gopalan and Madhuri Sesha Sarma, 259 Greenfield Ave., San Mateo 94403, Lot 3 Block 26 San Mateo Knolls ID 042-252-020, $1,764,545.

Bruce D. and Kathryn Vosburg to Paul Andrew DiPierro and Sharon Jean DiPierro, 303 28th Ave., San Mateo 94403, The Beresford Park Tract ID 039-322-100, $1,760,000.

Bassam Kadry to Shih Hao Ou, 657 Roble Ave., Menlo Park 94025, Condo ID 113-240-030, $1,730,000.

Kristin Nichole Belanger and Chris Drew to Bharath Narasimharao and Archana Sidalaghattanagaraja, 22 Mulryan Ct., San Mateo 94403, Lot 14 Mulryan Terrace ID 042-153-130, $1,700,909.

John and Linda Bartel to Zifu Yang and Zhijia Zhang, 1175 Nimitz Ln., Foster City 94404, Harborside ID 094-740-170, $1,700,000.

Brent E. and Jennifer J. Shedd to Stephen P. Wolf and Margo A. McGrath Trustees, 204 Shoreview Ave., Pacifica 94044, Ocean Park Manor ID 009-281-170, $1,700,000.

Bernard K. Wahle Trustee to Robert K. and Diane M. Criscuolo Trustees, 1132 Killarney Ln., Burlingame 94010, Lot 19 Block 9 Burlingame Village ID 025-232-720, $1,690,000.

Charles Keith Ray and Jane Elizabeth Ray to Patrick McLinden, 128 42nd Ave., San Mateo 94403, Lot 8 Block 21 San Mateo Knolls ID 042-237-250, $1,690,000.

Giuseppe and Carmelina Lucchese to Stephen E. and Aida M. Kraemer Trustees, 852 W. Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo 94403, Lot 14 Block 2 Hillsdale ID 039-200-110, $1,684,545.

Joseph P. O’Halloran to Dennis Wagner, 6527 E. Charappal Rd., Paradise Valley 95253; 2101 Valparaiso Ave., Menlo Park 94025, Alameda de las Pulgas ID 074-062-300, $1,630,000.

Katherine Zuckerman Trustee to Michael H. Sokolsky and Susan R. Blockstein Trustees, 734 N. Oregan Ave., San Mateo 94402; 245 Bonita Rd., Portola Valley 94028, ID 080-060-280, $1,600,000.

Trevor Properties LP to Taitten Bryan Cowan and Jasna Cowan, 1155 Fernandez Way, Pacifica 94044; 1265 Mission Rd., South San Francisco 94080, Southern Pacific Railroad Co. ID 010-430-060,

$1,600,000.

Karin E. Chandler and Kirby L. Wilkins et al. to Joy L. Shih, 2119 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park 94025, Lot 10 Lot 11 Block 2 University Park ID 074-105-370, $1,588,181.

Jacinta Arteaga to RC Spring LLC, P.O. Box 391737, Mountain View 94039; 3335 Spring St., Redwood City 94063, Lot 11 Block 6 Redwood Manor ID 055-101-160, $1,550,000.

Annie Hui Yan Wu and Allen Guo Lun Wu et al. to Norman Chu and Jacqueline Lai Wah Shek, 1775 17th Ave., San Francisco 94122; 1300 Millbrae Ave., Millbrae 94030, Millbrae Villa Tract ID 024-204-170, $1,500,000.

Steven W. and Donna L. Cloud to Andrea Christina Markey and Joseph Drew Markey, 1380 Madrid Ct., Pacifica 94044, Lot 21 Block 5 Tract 700 Linda Mar ID 023-323-210-7, $1,474,545.

Diana Wright Smith to Joshua Klaus Michel and Marybeth Anne Pysz, 466 Redwood Ave., San Bruno 94066, Lot 14 Block 44 Mills Park ID 020-223-340, $1,470,000.

Cesar Dongo and Angelica Baldovinos to Jones E. Castro and Megan Marie Andreano, 39 N. Rochester St., San Mateo 94401, Lot 13 Block 7 Shore View Tract ID 033-183-130, $1,454,545.

Barbara Ann Hutchinson and Edwin Vance Lawry to Zhenyang Zhong and Shuxiao Zhou, 72 Loyola Ave. #206, Menlo Park 94025, Condo ID 111-990-060-1, $1,450,000.

Sally M. Kinsell and Allison E. Kinsell Trustees to Chairina Breder and Pavel Breder, 769 Morningside Dr., Millbrae 94030; 2721 Clifford Ave., San Carlos 94070, (portion) Lots 5/6/7 Nelson Suburban Homes ID 051-160-470, $1,434,545.

William E. O’Leary Trustee to Laura Hobson Tack and Andrew Joseph Tack, 802 Guildford Ave., San Mateo 94402, Lot 33 Block 25 Sunnybrae ID 035-082-080, $1,433,636.

Terry and Patricia Fuqua Trustees to Gaganpreet S. Shah and Divya J. Kaur, 21 Lorelei Ln., Menlo Park 94025, Lot 41 Block 1 Lorelei Manor ID 061-011-210, $1,424,545.

Patricia M. Tabulinar and Delia M. Ho et al. to Angela Rakita, 227 Bonita Ln., Foster City 94404; 910 Lurline Dr., Foster City 94404, Lot 504 Tract 813 ID 094-100-140, $1,414,545.

Baldini Real Estate Inc. to Andrew Brian Ma and Yun Vivian Chen, 425 35th Ave., San Francisco 94121; 102 Cymbidium Cir., South San Francisco 94080, Lot 157 Promenade ID 010-454-470, $1,397,272.

Gary Getman Trustee to Siping Xu and Dong Liang, 222 8th Ave. #308, San Mateo 94401, Condo ID 123-540-270, $1,387,272.

Steven Elliot Kauder and Tracy Chia-Chien Kuo to Mark DeNino Trustee, 225 9th Ave. #307, San Mateo 94401, Condo ID 123-540-260, $1,324,545.

Ehikian & Co. Inc. and Bradley R. Ehikian et al. to Mortgage Investors XIII LLC, 300 Montgomery St. #1050, San Francisco 94104; 21 Markham Ave., Redwood City 94063, Dumbarton Park ID 060-271-060, $1,320,000.

Bingbai Hou and Guanhua Jiang to Marisa Sabrina

Jones and Richard Leslie Jones, 1043 Yates Way #5707, San Mateo 94403, Marble Bay ID 123-190-070, $1,310,000.

Yu Ping Lin and Yaojhen Lou to Thomas Kung-Yen Pan, 3448 Lochinvar Ave., Santa Clara 95051; 35 Montrose Ave., Daly City 94015, Lot 17 Block 93 Westlake ID 006-282-170, $1,288,181.

Richard R. Weber and Alane L. Weber Trustees to Charles and Jane Hsu, 42 Morton Way, Palo Alto 94303; 801 S. Grant St., San Mateo 94402, ID 033-296-070, $1,254,545.

Matthew M. and Susan M. Hanzlik Trustees to Yong Ryeong Sin and Hiromu Suzuki, 330 Reichling Ave., Pacifica 94044, Lot 7 Jama Highlands ID 018-071-430, $1,253,636.

Joseph Leung and Amy Mok et al. to Wen Yu Sun and Neelie T. Zacharias, 88 S. Broadway #3206, Millbrae 94030, Condo ID 104-520-170, $1,250,000.

Tami R Wilson Trustee to Jialiang Zhou, 196 Longview Dr., Daly City 94015, Lot 53 Block 184 Westlake ID 009-583-190, $1,250,000.

Heather Sue Wassarman and Kevin Charles Pecoraro to Mark Nelson and Michele Diaz, 2240 Valleywood Dr., San Bruno 94066, Lot 41 Block 29 Rollingwood ID 017-172-350, $1,250,000.

RRRR New Fictitious Names Registered

ALAMEDA COUNTYDeborah Elam, Debbie Talks A Lot, 5543 Haggin Oaks Ave., Livermore 94551.

Eric Williams, Street Olympians Media & Design, 6775 Golden Gate Dr. #254, Dublin 94568.

Kevin Adame, GN Carpet and Flooring, 26525 Gading Rd. #12, Hayward 94544.

Marco Mendoza, Elegant Floors, 2779 Patrick Ave., Hayward 94544.

Adrian Del Real, Fast Bay Pavers, 2148 Kelly St., Hayward 94541.

Arnel Rolloda, A Rolloda Installation, 27008 St. Francis Ave., Hayward 94544.

Brandon Coyle, Royal Blue Pool Co., 5311 Lenore Ave., Livermore 94550.

Samuel Sottile, Illuminate Electric, 14772 Saturn Dr., San Leandro 94578.

Daniel Marks, PAC3 Plumbing, 1781 Courtney Ave., Pleasanton 94588.

Humberto Santos, Gonzalez Painting, 1760 27th Ave., Oakland 94601.

Miguel Pieto, Miguel Pena Roofing, 1210 Fordham Ave., San Leandro 94579.

Jeffrey Jun, Ace Roofing East Bay, 2330 Blake St. #10, Berkeley 94704.

Rachel Sager, School of Rock Berkeley, 6237 Avenal Ave., Oakland 94605.

Nokyi Chan, Golden Nest Lending, 1172 Murphy Ave. #234, San Jose 95131.

Nicole Williams, The Stockman’s Club/Zero Room Inc., 1947 6th St., Livermore 94550.

Zhenjiang Tian, Tian Financial Services, 3909 Portola Common #6, Livermore 94551.

Katherine Meyers, GG Holdings, 10963 Moonlight Ct., Oakland 94603.

Marla Robinson, Kim and Rose Investment LLC, 2315

98th Ave. #3, Oakland 94603.

Jeff Shaddock, Solvex Building and Design Inc., 2704 Matthews St., Berkeley 94702.

Danny Li, L&W Precision Machining LLC, 4432 Enterprise St. #M, Fremont 94538.

Maureen Miller, Neo Afrikan Project, 834 Walker Ave. #3, Oakland 94510.

Joanna Cutrara, Lady Entrepreneur Collective, 2223 Roosevelt Ave. #A, Berkeley 94703.

Kevin Sierks, CB2, 1250 Techny Rd., Northbrook, Ill. 60062.

Gavin McClintock, Safe Harbor Ballena Isle, 14785 Preston Rd. #975, Dallas, Texas 75254.

Jerry Ashford, Impact Asia, 9 Spalding Square, Alameda 94501.

Claude Penn, Shack Shack Villa, 1058 53rd St., Oakland 94508.

Gurpreet Singh, Amar Logistics Inc., 5113 Everglades Park Dr., Fremont 94538.

Sayed Rohani, Farsales/Farsales.com, 428 Washington Blvd., Fremont 94539.

Syed Rizvi, Arish Enterprise, 2400 Catalpa Way, Hayward 94545.

Alma Sanchez, Luna’s Co., 2520 Capitol Ct., Hayward 94545.

David Alga, Selective Breed LLC, 3024 Castro Valley Blvd., Castro Valley 94546.

Ajmal Numan, Market One, 3633 Carrillo Dr., San Leandro 94548.

Brent Hanzal, Sunspur Design, 2731 Kellogg Loop, Livermore 94550.

Jessica Anderson, Synergy Rising, 436 Persimmon Common #1, Livermore 94551.

Ricardo Villarin, Syncocent, 37233 St. Mary St., Newark 94560.

Aaron Rodriguez, Money Fien, 535 Sunnyview Dr. #303, Pinole 94564.

Bryan Lewis, PVPI Monitoring Solutions, 3014 Calle De La Mesa, Pleasanton 94566.

Rusi Williams, Laab Place LLC, 90 Broadmoor Blvd., San Leandro 94577.

Charles Lowder, IOMoat, 570 Victoria Ct., San Leandro 94577.

Jacqueline Holt, Campus & Co. San Francisco, 19234 Lake Chabot Rd., Castro Valley 94577.

Qing Lan, A&Q Co., 15378 Inverness St., San Leandro 94579.

Alan Ladrillono, PinPoint Local SF Bay/PinPoint Local Tri City, 31386 Santa Elena Way, Union City 94587.

Lamberto Umlas, Polystar, 2800 Begonia St., Union City 94587.

David Allred, Spero CBD, 2418 Potter St., Oakland 94601.

Kurt Kaywood, Kurt Theodore Kaywood, 4077 Lincoln Ave., Oakland 94602.

Melbra Watts, Infinity’s Calling, 3101 Berlin Way, Oakland 94602.

Melbra Watts, Stellar Workforce, 3101 Berlin Way, Oakland 94602.

Adrienne Ard, Beautiful Dreams, 2506 65th Ave., Oakland 94605.

Rowena Luis, The Bliss Particle, 2764 Frazier Ave., Oakland 94605.

Angelica Garcia, A Fernando, 2275 Foothill Blvd., Oakland 94606.

Chris Wright, Nowheresville, 4237 Howe St., Oakland 94611.

Bangvu Luu, Slyders, 430 13th St., Oakland 94612.

Daniel Souweine, GetThru, 1330 Broadway Fl. 3, Oakland 94612.

Patty Chu, Bohm Environmental Solutions, 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plz. #390, Oakland 94612.

Dean Pichotto, DP1, 3908 Maybelle Ave., Oakland 94619.

Carlo Jackson, Superior Blends, 7833 Weld St., Oakland 94621.

Daniel Kim, Green Tribe Gold, 300 Pendleton Way #340, Oakland 94621.

Aleksey Vorobyev, CNCPLus, 1731 California St. #2, Berkeley 94703.

Bess Corey, The Biophilic Clinic, 2211 Carleton St. #32, Berkeley 94704.

Diva Robin, Gilman Corner, 1014 Kains Ave., Albany 94706.

Diva Robin, The Crow and the Witch, 1014 Rains Ave., Albany 94706.

Girma Tadesse, Medster Inc., 65 Seagull Dr., Richmond 94804.

Ryan Kunkel, Have a Heart Oakport, 3920 6th Ave. NW, Seattle, Wash. 98107.

Joan Chang, Eloquent Essays, 33156 McKeown Ct., Union City 94587.

Melbra Watts, Plum Nelly Press, 3101 Berlin Way, Oakland 94602.

Katherine Meyers, Luxe Management, 505 Alcatraz Ave. #8, Oakland 94609.

Sarah Robertson, Rapture Management, 1741 Eight St., Berkeley 94710.

Lynda Edner, Lynda Edner Consulting Services, 1636 Stannage Ave., Berkeley 94702.

Sayed Rohani, Forsales Marketing Services, 428 Washington Blvd., Fremont 94539.

Ashok Chatwani, Excellent Real Estate, 42082 Benbow Dr., Fremont 94539.

Marcus Jackson, Suede Homes, 764 1/2 22nd St., Oakland 94612.

Benny Rivera, Fif Coffee, 3577 Madison Common, Fremont 94538.

Happy Lamb Hot Pot/Hot Pot Geary LLC, 4068 Grafton St., Dublin 94568.

Wei Zhang, Happy Lamb Hot Pot/Hot Pot Union City Corp., 34396 Alvarado Niles Rd., Union City 94587.

Yalonda Madison, Go/Go’s Burger and More, 2753 Wallace St., Berkeley 94702.

Vikas Aggarwal, Good 2 Go Mart and Curry, 11161 Russell St. #3, Berkeley 94703.

Bikram Randhawa, Dad’s Sapna dba Wingstop Oakland, 5287 Coach Dr., El Sobrante 94803.

Ayman Moussa, San Leandro Hyundai Kia, 25601 Mission Blvd., Hayward 94544.

Bo Thang, Fortune Auto, 34913 Roberts St., Union City 94587.

Donna Layburn, East Gay Natural Grocers Inc., 1650 Park St., Alameda 94501.

Jasmine Stephens, Hella Baked, 2261 Regent Way, Castro Valley 94546.

Monique Henderson, Mo Baked, 8110 MacArthur Blvd. #18, Oakland 94605.

Tomeka Durling, Tidy.organizing & Design, 5730 Elizabeth St. #4, Oakland 94621.

Maxwell Critchfield, Vallejo Street Dahlias, 38039 Vallejo St., Fremont

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94536.

Abdulla Alghaithy, Oakland Tobacco Shop, 789 Wrin Ave., San Leandro 94577.

Stacey Steele, Opal & Onyx, 5327 Holland St., Oakland 94601.

Adrienne Ard, Rever Cosmetics, 2506 65th Ave., Oakland 94605.

Lights Off Candles, 2975 68th Ave., Oakland 94605.

Brittanica Richardson, Beyond Bougi Boutique, 1164 Ocean Ave., Oakland 94608.

Holly Andersen, MantisGear LLC, 264 Monte Vista Ave., Oakland 94611.

Nicole Gatson, Lucy’s Tree of Lyfe Elixirs, 4068 Allendale Ave. #4, Oakland 94619.

Essie Day, Creative World, 1007 87th Ave., Oakland 94621.

Rick Niemi, Valor Compounding Pharmacy, 2461 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley 94704.

Gregorio Ramirez, Rhodiom Intergrated Services, 18620 Sandy Rd., Castro Valley 94546.

Garrett Koch, Outdoor Environmental Services, 5537 Castello Ct., Dublin 94566.

Josephine Hui, Hong Services Center, 1600 Lakeshore Ave. #615, Oakland 94606.

Joshua Blank, East Bay Messenger and Attorney Service, 3909 Shafter Ave. #35, Oakland 94609.

Joshua Blank, To Serve with

Love, 3909 Shafter Ave. #35, Oakland 94609.

Guillermo Regalado, GRG Painting Cleaning and Services, 350 Vernon St. #107, Oakland 94610.

Ramone Armstrong, Armstrong Car Hauling Services, 3762 Magee Ave., Oakland 94619.

Angelica Garcia, D. Fernando’s Tire & Service, 1414 16th Ave., Oakland 94606.

Danny Wiliams, People Business Services, 26526 Flamingo Ave., Hayward 94544.

Bing Liang, San Yuan Cleaning Service, 36874 Ruschin Dr., Newark 94560.

Dale Ritter, Ritter Technologies, 2681 Driscoll Rd., Fremont 94539.

Steven Phillips, Cigarclips.com, 19160 Karris Ln., Castro Valley 94546.

George Bei, Bayley Technology Service, 26082 Forestwood Dr., Newark 94560.

Danny Williams, PBS Staffing, 26526 Flamingo Ave., Hayward 94544.

Carly Wertheim, Shruti Sounds, 2315 Acton St., Berkeley 94702.

Matthew Chimento, Soul Remedy Extracts, 948 Moscow St., San Francisco 94112.

Ajeet Pal, Ajeet Mundan & Barber Shop, 3843 Carol Ave. #101, Fremont 94538.

Amber Owen, Colada Beauty, 39401 Sundale Dr., Fremont 94538.

Rashana Robinson, Guidance Achieves Brilliance, 2473 St. Helena Dr. #5, Hayward 94542.

Wheeler Keeyawna, Silk Beauty Bar and Spa, 28850 Dixon St., Hayward 94544.

Dylan Pham, Anabella Salon, 278941 Emerson Ave., Hayward 94545.

Norman Hill Jr., Life Maximizer LLC, 26769 Wauchula Way, Hayward 94545.

Barbara Furtado, Is a Bella Salon, 3438 Pine St., Castro Valley 94546.

Janea Martin, Faced by Janea, 20089 Wisteria St., Castro Valley 94546.

Cameron Chien, EnsoLyfe, 1449 College Ave., Livermore 94550.

The State Coiffuer, 2219 1st St. Fl. 2, Livermore 94550.

Helen Macatangay, AIC Home Health Services, 4049 1st St. #229, Livermore 94551.

Christina Galdos, Natural Glow Skincare, 4422 2nd St., Pleasanton 94566.

Frank Garvin, Pepper Salon, 3620 Vineyard Ave., Pleasanton 94566.

Dominique King, CIAD Bella Bay Area Beauty Bar, 1088 10th St., Oakland 94607.

Ann Lefkovits, TheGracefulYogi, 1245 66th St., Emeryville 94608.

Madeline Hanson, TCB Bookkeeping, 529 41st St. #10, Oakland 94609.

Andrea Tivers, Bay Area Peace of Mind, 166 Santa

Clara Ave. #302, Oakland 94610.

Morgan McRae, The Integrated Body, 524 25th St. #4, Oakland 94612.

Chris Rapoport, Chris Rapoport LCSW, 2811 College Ave. #A, Berkeley 94705.

Samuel Cho, Retail Center Maintenance, 20889 Ashfield Ave., Castro Valley 94546.

That’s Clean, 5854 Bellflower Dr., Newark 94560.

Christine Charron, A Kid’s Village, 1023 Dublin Ave., Livermore 94550.

Behrooz Ahnadi, Cruisers Club, 1721 Marin Ave., Berkeley 94707.

Gabriel Avila, GA Trucking, 1200 30th Ave., Oakland 94001.

Juan Cruz, A&K Trucking, 36844 Capistrano Dr., Fremont 94536.

Fernandeo Suria, FS Transport, 25580 Franklin Ave. #2, Hayward 94544.

Baljinder Singh, B Rao Trucking, 2240 Partridge Way #2, Union City 94587.

Baljit Singh, JHB Trucking, 4113 Lunar Way, Union City 94587.

Jonathan Fleming, Move out Pros, 1111 Broadway #300, Oakland 94607.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTYStillwater Tile & Stone, 250 Center Ct., San Pablo 94806.

Ofer Bouskila, OSB

Installation Service, 2727 Cathedral Cir., Brentwood 94513.

BBP Demolition Inc., 2342 Almond Ave., Concord 94521.

Christiam Morales, Christiam Morales Installations, 2010 Crucero Ave., San Pablo 94806.

Cesar Valderrama, Picold Heating and Air, 1007 Mepham Dr., Pittsburg 94565.

Drywall Solutions Inc., 403 Camelback Rd., Pleasant Hill 94523.

Scott Hagen, S. Hagen Painting, 4213 Palomar Dr., Antioch 94531.

Mark Lawrence, Loretson Painting & Decorating, 1547 Palos Verdes Mall #110, Walnut Creek 94597.

A to Z Home Pro, 1925 Pleasant Hill Rd., Pleasant Hill 94523.

UFCW & Employers Trust LLC/Total Trust LLC, 1000 Burnett Ave., Concord 94520.

Michael Lyon, Haven Financial Services, 622 Los Robles Ct., Danville 94526.

MC Financial Partners, 1547 Palos Verdes Mall #166, Walnut Creek 94597.

Carla Hanson, JW Construction & Restoration, 1501 Discovery Bay Blvd., Discovery Bay 91505.

Anthony Chavez, East Bay Design Builders, 6575 Green Castle Cir., Discovery Bay 94505.

Elephant Sunrooms/Elephant Skyline/Elephant

General Contractor, 1170 Burnett Ave. #G, Concord 94520.

Shaun Rang, SR Construction, 861 Ruth Dr., Pleasant Hill 94523.

Justin Nicklaw, Built Top Notch Construction, 2279 Eastport Dr., Oakley 94561.

Marlin Hernandez, MBH Construction, 724 26th St., Richmond 94804.

Manual M. Dizon Chiropractic APC dba Sycamore Chiropractic, 1500 Sycamore Ave. #B14, Hercules 94547.

Victoria Baiocchi, Villa Speranza, 1191 Vista Ridge Ct., Concord 94518.

Kyle Degoey, Kyle Degoey dba Goosehead Insurance, 2121 N. California Blvd. #290, Walnut Creek 94596.

Francisco Valencia, Valencia’s Landscaping, 1018 Jasmine Way, El Sobrante 94803.

Lean Digital Agency, 50 Elmwood Dr., San Ramon 94583.

Linda Hofmeister, Hofssi Chocolates, 430 Fernwood Dr., Moraga 94556.

Lighthouse Church/Casa De Luz/Antioch Hispanic 2 Foursquare Church, 3907 Folsom Dr., Antioch 94531.

Discovery Home Solutions LLC, 3345 Bixler Rd., Discovery Bay 94505.

Remo Mattei, Italy1, 310 Oberland Ct., Danville 94506.

Fariba Sasson, Wrap In Lace, 3049 Oakraider Dr., Alamo 94507.

Dominick Viceral, Lumis Vanity, 1216 Putnam St., Antioch 94509.

Emily Bernardi, Bernardi Solutions, 3708 Brant Way, Antioch 94509.

Tannell Hawkins, Cute Working Mom, 125 Baird Cir., Brentwood 94513.

Raymond Smith, R&A Associates, 1650 Detroit Ave. #101, Concord 94520.

Tiffani Xaysana, Angelic Serene, 1500 Lacey Ct. #5, Concord 94520.

AS IS, 1541 Harlan Dr., Danville 94526.

ZOMSA, 10558 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito 94530.

Alyce Aird, Sabina Strings, 7003 Potrero Ave., El Cerrito 94530.

Foad Nemayandehkar, SHAFO, 2262 Putter Ct., Antioch 94531.

Foad Nemayandehkar, CLT Group, 2262 Putter Ct., Antioch 94531.

Janaya Jeanpierre, Shadow Solutions, 2105 Main St., Oakley 94561.

NGAT Inc./Nextgenat Inc., 100 Meadow View Rd., Orinda 94563.

Christina Lopez, M.C. Delights, 529 Burdick Dr., Bay Point 94565.

Ironhorse Registry, 111 El Molino Place, San Ramon 94583.

Heather Manful, Nana Faye Knows, 85 Terra Bella Dr., Walnut Creek 94596.

Ed Renfro, Ed Renfro, 7000 Sunne Ln., Walnut Creek 94597.

Keremian Kegham, KP Enterprises, 51 N. Gate Rd., Walnut Creek 94598.

Herman Covarrobias, KDM Enterprises, 120 Garrard Blvd., Richmond 94801.

It Takes a Village Resource Center, 323 Brookside Dr., Richmond 94801.

Silver Ocean, 3340 San Pablo Dam Rd. #F, San Pablo 94803.

Olga Dixit, Read and Write Well, 560 Glasgow Cir., Danville 94526.

Common Interest Management, 315 Diablo Rd., Danville 94526.

Logan Happel, Logan Happel Consultants, 225 Coggins Dr. #250, Pleasant Hill 94523.

Diablo Valley Consulting Services, 252 Valley Creek Ln. #A, Danville 94526.

Kirk Lewis Jr., Kirk Lewis Consulting, 332 Rose Ann Ave., Pittsburg 94565.

TPS/Total Property Solutions, 171 Mayhew Way #220, Pleasant Hill 94523.

Mellie Sami, Her Cal Realty, 154 Maple Ct., Hercules 94547.

Angela Coffer, DBN Properties, 2603 Camino Ramon #200, San Ramon 94583.

Denis Guerrero, Denis Property Repairs, 546 S. 29th St., Richmond 94804.

Taqueria Corral, 2715 Contra Loma Blvd., Antioch 94509.

Han’s Bistro, 1912 Contra Costa Blvd., Pleasant Hill 94523.

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Salesforce.com, Inc. has the following jobs available in San Francisco, CA:Senior Director, Software Engineering (Req.# 16-4335): Direct, mentor & grow team of Sftwr Engineers, specializing in Public Cloud Infrastructure, while providing expertise in design, implementation & operation of scalable, distributed systms. Req’s: BS(or equiv.)+3 yrs. exp. Employer will accept 2 yrs. of work exp. in fld of sftwr engineering or job offered in lieu of Bachelor’s degree req.Senior Manager, Infrastructure Operations (Req.# 15-3499): Dvlp short term tactical plans to address issues & problems & collaborate on long term visions & roadmaps. Manage global team of SRE Engineers. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+3 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Employer is willing to accept 3 or 4-yr. Bachelor’s degree.Product Marketing Manager (Req.# 18-3998): Build production-scale infrastructure to support demo environments. Capture customer tech. req’s through sales calls & customer advisory boards. Req’s: BS(or equiv.)+4 yrs. exp.Lead Software Engineer (Req.# 18-5766): Work directly w/ scrum teams in writing automation test cases in testing quality & functionality of features. Req’s: BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Employer will accept 3 yrs. of university level study & 2 yrs. of related work exp. in meeting Bachelor’s degree req.Senior Systems Specialist (Req.# 15-3945): Lead multiple functional areas & cross functional engagement w/in IT organization. Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to Saleforce’s San Francisco office is required. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Systems Engineering Lead (Req.# 18-4989): Help deliver overall Problem Mgmt service, ensuring effective planning, tracking, reporting, mgmt & achievement of contractual key performance indicators & measures. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+7 yrs. exp. Employer will accept 3 or 4-yr. Bachelor’s degree.Senior CCE Engineer (Req.# 18-1511): Document detailed resolution description & provide tech. support. Identify performance & functional bugs. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Senior Product Manager (Req.# 17-6776): As part of Salesforce Mrktng Cloud, Salesforce DMP enables modern marketer to light up every cross-functional customer touch point w/ personalized interactions. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Senior Business Systems Analyst (Req.# 18-4294): Analyze & evaluate existing and/or proposed systms & devices to process data & optimize dataflows to Einstein platform. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+3 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Corporate Marketing Senior Analyst (Req.# 15-5156): Assist in providing mrktng deep-dive analytics, trending & forecast models & mrktng research as requested. Dvlp & maintain analytical models to provide new insights. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Program Architect (Req.# 18-4083): Liaise w/ client-facing Enterprise Architects & Biz Stakeholders to dvlp best practices for enterprise architecture functions such as Security, Performance, Dvlpmnt Process & App. Governance. Telecommuting is an option. Requires travel up to 50%. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Data Engineer (Req.# 17-6189): Define KPIs that allow us to better understand Security Trends & landscape. Dvlp & improve sftwr systms. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.

Please mail resume w/ ref. to: (include Req. No.) at: Salesforce.com HQ, Rincon Post Office PO Box #192244, San Francisco, CA 94105. Salesforce.com is an Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Employer. Education, experience & criminal background checks will be conducted.

target first-class candidatesContact Kathy Biddick

[email protected]

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Credible Labs, Inc. seeks Sr. Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA: Responsible for influencing technology & architectural decisions. Dvlp & deploy solutions. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+3 yrs. exp. OR BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Telecommuting is an option. Some travel to Credible’s San Francisco office may be require. Submit resume w/ refs. to: Req.#: 18-4530 at: ATTN: Jereme Albin, VP of Ops., Credible Labs, 22 4th St., FL. 8, San Francisco, CA 94103. Education, experience & criminal background checks will be conducted.

Square, Inc. has the following jobs available in San Francisco, CA:

Product Analyst - Payments (Req.# 18-4877): Leverage knowledge of using data analytics to provide impactful insights in payment, product, mrkting & other biz roles. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.Corporate Development Deal Lead (Req.# 19-1812): Work closely w/ senior executives & product leads to dvlp strategies & identify acquisition opportunities that accelerate Square’s mission. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp.

Submit resume w/ ref. to: (include Req. No.) at: ATTN: Veronica Raygoza, Global Immigration Manager, Square, Inc., 1455 Market St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94103.

Square International Services, Inc. seeks Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA: Participate in embedded sftwr platform dvlpmnt in computer languages includ. C, Java & Python via schematics assessment of electrical devices. Req’s: MS(or equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Submit resume w/ ref. to: Req.# 18-4720 at: ATTN: Veronica Raygoza, Global Immigration Manager, Square International Services, Inc., 1455 Market St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94103.

Software Engineers (Multiple Positions)Pinterest, Inc. has career opportunities in San Francisco for Engineers including: Software, QA, Web Development, Software Developers, Database and Data Warehouse. Positions include: junior, senior, and management positions. Positions require BA/BS, MA/MS, MBA or PhD. Multiple positions/openings. Submit resume w/ ref. (including the type of engineering role(s) you are applying for) to: Req: #SWE100PIN at: ATTN: Amy Jennison, Pinterest, Inc., 651 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94107.

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Sultan Rahimi, Crockett Pizza and Pasta, 628 2nd Ave., Crockett 94525.

Burger IM, 2300 El Portal Dr. #D, San Pablo 94806.

Sushi Tokohama, 558 San Ramon Valley Blvd., Danville 95426.

Ramon Waugh, Saucy Socks, 154 S. 20th St., Richmond 94804.

Kho Cheusieng, KW Quality Used Cars, 457 23rd St., Richmond 94804.

Shar Organics, 4464 Lone Tree Way, Antioch 94531.

Luay Issa, Pristine Arts & Designs/Creative Window Treatments, 1038 Veterans Ct., Martinez 94553.

Iran Villa, Five Star Windows, 710 11th St., Richmond 94805.

California Bike and Snowboard, 1483 Danville Blvd., Alamo 94507.

Tiffany Calderon, Marvella Collection, 1838 Manzanita Dr., Concord 94519.

Poet Pillows, 130 Mason Cir. #K, Concord 94520.

Thomas Pullum, Everythingblue.store, 4464 Lone Tree Way #103, Antioch 94531.

Sincerely Charm’s/Charm’s Holistic Healings, 1588 Fitzgerald Dr. #151, Pinole 94564.

Keyona Williams, Endless Kreations, 46 Atherton Ave., Pittsburg 94565.

Fabiola Vargas, Fab Glam Cosmetics, 1632 California Ave., San Pablo 94806.

Robert King, Kings Handyman Services, 120 Fig Tree Ln., Martinez 94553.

Nicole Porter, Notary by NYK, 1005 Bay View Farm Rd. #101, Pinole 94564.

Luisa Colmenares, D&L Towing, 2900 N. Francisco Way, Antioch 94509.

Caliber Collision Centers, 600 Harvest Park Dr., Brentwood 94513.

R. Jose Parra, Parra’s Auto Mobil Detail, 1880 Gilly Ln., Concord 94518.

Caliber Collision Centers, 1260 Diamond Way, Concord 94520.

Dadesh Zadeh, H Smog, 2111 Fremont St. #C, Concord 94520.

Melvin Nisthal, MN Star Smog, 2094 Market St., Concord 94520.

Brennan Cofresi, Garage Service Guys, 4300 Thornhill Way, Pittsburg 94565.

Caliber Collision Centers, 2700 Hooper Dr., San Ramon 94583.

Caliber Collision Centers, 1414 Pine St., Walnut Creek 94596.

Caliber Collision Centers, 2659 N. Main St., Walnut Creek 94597.

April Green, Spygreen Investigations, 2382 Tamalpais Ave., Brentwood 94513.

Gloria Rodriguez, Elizabeth’s Business Legacy, 353 S. 24th St., Richmond 94804.

Gildete Massena, Jill’s Cleaning Service, 1396 Kubicek Way, Brentwood 94513.

Ana Soto, Bay Area Cleaning Services, 1240 Monument Blvd. #J6, Concord 94520.

Eddy Carrasco, Fresh Cleaning Service, 1261 Linden Dr., Concord 94520.

Danzel Cohen, Truclarity Window & Janitorial Services, 4425C Treat Blvd. #208, Concord 94521.

Jone Palacios, Jone’s Cleaning Services, 30 Delta Dr., Bay Point 94565.

Labor Max Staffing, 1200

Contra Costa Blvd., Concord 94523.

Title Boxing Club, 200 Alamo Plz. #190F, Alamo 94507.

Winn Performance Partners LLC, 3153 Via Larga, Alamo 94507.

Frank Acosta Jr., Synergy Studios, 1696 Sargent Rd., Concord 94518.

BDPA/BD Performing Arts/BD Entertainment, 4065 Nelson Ave., Concord 94520.

Blue Devils Performing Arts/Blue Devils Parent Association/Blue Devils C Corp., 4065 Nelson Ave., Concord 94520.

Cory Elmore, Bounce Kingz, 1700 Water Stone Place #1726, San Ramon 94582.

Sandra Miric, Studio Nova, 7000 Sunne Ln., Walnut Creek 94597.

Alysha Tolliver, Power Boxing & Athletic Club, 2235 McDonald Ave., Richmond 94801.

Lien Nguyen, Miss and Mrs. Asia International SF USA, 3004 Sheldon Dr., El Sobrante 94803.

Project Entertainment LLC, 2513 Barrett Ave., Richmond 94804.

Cameron Cheda, Cheetah Productions/Cheetah Beats/Cam Cheetah, 1885 Eagle Peak Ave., Clayton 94517.

Frederick Orantes, Double O Productions, 1357 Shakespeare Dr., Concord 94521.

Keri Miles, Undeniably Fabulous, 309 Brighton Ct., Discovery Bay 94505.

Viet Truon, Forum Nail Salon, 2659 Summerville Rd., Antioch 94509.

Jean Nguyen, Golden Hair & Nail Salon, 3670 Lone Tree Way, Antioch 94509.

Brittnee Mora, Meraki Weave, 2151 Salvio St., Concord 94520.

Maureen Linder, Mo’s Foundational Health, 4402 Shellbark Ct., Concord 94521.

Jade Life Fitness LLC dba Club Pilates Pleasant Hill, 20 Crescent Dr., Pleasant Hill 94523.

Jennifer Phan, Naturally Nails, 1200 Contra Costa Blvd. #J, Pleasant Hill 94523.

Monireh Saatchi, House of Beauty, 408 Sycamore Valley Rd., Danville 94526.

Duke Van, Ygnacio Valley Physical Therapy, 530 La Gonda Way #C, Danville 94526.

Social Bird, 3593 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette 94549.

Carine Camara, Pelvis Wellness, 936 Dewing Ave. #B, Lafayette 94549.

In UR Face, 2022 Lyle Ct., Martinez 94553.

Bryce Sechler, Un-Stripped Lash & Brow Bar, 825 Main St., Martinez 94553.

Marquez Bura, Reform US, 3239 Colusa St., Pinole 94564.

Quaniah Hill, Shape’d by QT, 733 Wedgewood Dr., Pittsburg 94565.

Andrew Alatorre, Alatorre Tax Services, 2940 Camino Diablo, Walnut Creek 94597.

Christopher Stein, Ludachris Hair, 7000 Sunne Ln. #106, Walnut Creek 94597.

Jeffrey Does My Hair, 7000 Sunne Ln., Walnut Creek 94597.

Over the Top Aerial Imaging, 5141 Pioneer Way, Antioch 94531.

Xinlei Du, Bespoke Photography, 2484 Sky Rd., Walnut Creek 94597.

Valdivia’s Cleaning, 1580

3rd Ave., Walnut Creek 94597.

Geraldine Jewell, GG’s Caregiving & Referrals, 912 Kirkcrest Rd., Alamo 94507.

CTR Care Agency, 2233 Daffodil Dr., Pittsburg 94565.

Anders Johanson, Swedish Marine, 1150 Brickyard Cove Rd. #B6, Richmond 94801.

Diana Garcia, Abner’s Boat Maintenance, 2100 Stanton Ave. #E, San Pablo 94806.

Inder Singh, SUKH Trucking, 231 W. Buchanan Rd. #77, Pittsburg 94565.

David Hartfield, Hartfield/Minix Trucking, 2907 Gomer Dr., Richmond 94806.

Jose Flores, Flores Trucking, 6217 Clark Rd., Dixon 95620.

Linda Taber, Woodland Travel Services, 1909 Woodland Dr., Antioch 94509.

Salim Hasanzadia, Red Carpet Movers, 2950 Buskirk Ave. #300, Walnut Creek 94597.

Diego Perez, Zumo Wine, 1404 Marina Way S., Richmond 94804.

MARIN COUNTYDouglas Fairclough, Mill Valley Bees, 3 Greenwood Way, Mill Valley 94941.

Xavier Guerra, Pure Wood Floors, 1041 1st St., Novato 94945.

Gregory Wilcox, Wilcox Lending/Northbay Home Loans, 1610 Tiburon Blvd. #102, Tiburon 94920.

Patrick Dodson, Consolidated Marine Construction Co., 1307 2nd St., San Rafael 94901.

Bon Air Dentistry, 1321 S. Eliseo Dr., Greenbrae 94907.

Richard Rubenstein MD, 110 Baltimore Ave., Larkspur 94939.

David Faibisch, Large Format CNC, 318 C St., San Rafael 94901.

Dustin Musser, Social Kid, 61 Laderman Ln., Greenbrae 94904.

Stoev Design Group, 30 Caledonia St. #4, Sausalito 94965.

Angelique Berry, Angel Animal Care, 1070 Cresta Way #4, San Rafael 94901.

Shirley Parks, Smart Cookie Horse Treats, 6 Lula Way, Mill Valley 94941.

Kirsten Rames, Firewater Consulting, 208 Miller Ave., Mill Valley 94941.

Levan Lanchava, M3L Consulting, 415 Sherwood Dr. #308, Sausalito 94965.

Frantz Felix, Caribbean Spices Restaurant, 819 4th St., San Rafael 94901.

David Rodas, Gloria Jean’s Coffee, 5800 Northgate Mall #35, San Rafael 94901.

Yardpods, 265 Summit Ave., San Rafael 94901.

Cellular Recharges & Accessories, 50 Belvedere St., San Rafael 94901.

Leland Lazarus, M.S. Botanicals, 342 N. Ferndale Ave., Mill Valley 94941.

Nick Ferguson, Nick of Time Mobile Notary, 645 Olive Ave., Novato 94945.

Daniella Gonzaga, Sausalito Towing, 428 Sherwood Dr. #101, Sausalito 94965.

Michelle Wagner, M&M Investigative Solutions, 13 Roosevelt Ave., San Rafael 94903.

Communitas Health Retreat, 451 Mesa Rd., Bolinas 94924.

Cassandra O’Connor, Heart Space Studios, 12 School St. #12-D1, Fairfax 94930.

Mariana Duarte, Learn and Play Daycare, 65 Rancho Dr.,

Tiburon 94920.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTYElaine Clark, Voice One, 414 Jackson #202, San Francisco 94111.

Vivas Banners & Signs, 2231 Newcomb Ave., San Francisco 94124.

Thair Hamtini, Adaptive Tutoring, 537 Jones St. #3552, San Francisco 94102.

Bodhi Panya Institute, 38 Bryant St. #2, San Francisco 94105.

Pacific Prime Financial, 101 California St. #2710, San Francisco 94111.

Ivan Rivera, Trillum General Contractor, 564 C St., Colma 94014.

Yue Huang, YRC Construction, 20 John Glenn Cir., Daly City 94015.

Rong Li, RL Construction, 3428 Fulton St., San Francisco 94118.

SF Town Builders, 3450 Sacramento St. #157, San Francisco 94118.

Stephanie Kim Wong D.O. Inc., 341 Chestnut St., San Francisco 94133.

Sunnyside Hotel, 135 6th St., San Francisco 94103.

Chris Barton, 108-114 Divisadero HOA, 112 Divisadero St., San Francisco 94117.

El Prado Apartments, 101 Pt. Lobos Ave., San Francisco 94121.

Matias Drago, Eleven Eleven Suites, 1111 Kearny St., San Francisco 94133.

WCC Insurance Services, 1328 Mission St. #6, San Francisco 94103.

Andrea Sozzi, Giardino Landscaping Design, 2309 Noriega St. #504, San Francisco 94122.

Jacquline Cerullo, Fate Accompli, 131 Duboce Ave., San Francisco 94103.

Khanh Mong, Mission K, 77 Bluxome St. #112, San Francisco 94107.

Compuforce, 140 Geary St. Fl. 4, San Francisco 94108.

Didem Ekici, DM Dissertation Drs., 1224 Sacramento St. #1, San Francisco 94108.

Marc Pomerleau, Mapomodo Experience, 1170 Chestnut St., San Francisco 94109.

Althea Kippes, A.T. Kippes, 1208 Jones St., San Francisco 94109.

Dwaep, 1408 California St. #209, San Francisco 94109.

Ora, 1519 Polk St., San Francisco 94109.

Jessy Manuel, Halenia, 2948 Folsom St., San Francisco 94110.

La Espiga De Oro, 2916 24th St., San Francisco 94110.

Pan Lido Salvadoreno, 3147 22nd St., San Francisco 94110.

Elias Rodriguez, Ruthworks SF, 601 Alabama St. #308, San Francisco 94110.

Boom Planning, 847 Sansome St. Fl. 4, San Francisco 94111.

Gentilly, 4826 Mission St., San Francisco 94112.

Meaningful Beginnings LLC, 633 Taraval St. #102, San Francisco 94116.

Yiwen Liang, Yiwen Design, 300 Laguna Honda Blvd. #205, San Francisco 94116.

Audrey Dombroski, Erbose, 190 22nd Ave., San Francisco 94121.

Thanh Phan, 1343 21st Ave., San Francisco 94122.

Tony Phan, 1343 21st Ave., San Francisco 94122.

Mise En Place, 2190 Bay St.

#204, San Francisco 94123.

Thuy Diep, Chez Bobo, 1545 Greenwich St. #5, San Francisco 94123.

Ripen Co., 1750 Cesar Chavez #3, San Francisco 94124.

Thomalyn Virden, Raw Co., 1566 Jerrold Ave., San Francisco 94124.

Matias Drago, DNE, 1111 Kearny St. #300, San Francisco 94133.

Matias Drago, Drago Nano Enterprises, 222 Columbus Ave. #414, San Francisco 94133.

Jose Navarro, All About SF Dogs/On the Go Pet Care, 1222 Harrison St. #5207, San Francisco 94103.

Jennifer Lu, Tin Shing Printing Co., 117 Waverly Place, San Francisco 94108.

Post Script, 2413 California St., San Francisco 94115.

Serena Man, Mau Sustainability Consulting, 400 Beale St. #702, San Francisco 94105.

Alt 230 Consulting, 1150 Sacramento St. #102, San Francisco 94108.

On Call Counsel, 140 Geary St. Fl. 4, San Francisco 94108.

Expansive Therapy a Professional Clinical Counselor, 4076 17th St. #E, San Francisco 94114.

Ann Rieger-Matthews, Rieger Matthews Consulting, 96 Sotelo Ave., San Francisco 94116.

Warren Donian, Ignition Point Advisors, 2158 27th Ave., San Francisco 94116.

Boutique Real Estate, 466 Brannan St., San Francisco 94107.

Boutique Realty, 466 Brannan St., San Francisco 94107.

Raoul Isaac, Transbay Real Estate, 524 30th Ave. #405, San Francisco 94121.

Thomas Ward, Dining Connections, 414 Mason St. #602, San Francisco 94102.

Mehfil Indian Cuisine, 88 2nd St., San Francisco 94105.

The Irish Bank Bar & Restaurant, 10 Mark Ln., San Francisco 94108.

Mission Curry House, 2434 Mission St., San Francisco 94110.

El Tomate Restaurant, 2904 24th St., San Francisco 94110.

Hey Girl Catering, 4826 Mission St., San Francisco 94112.

Maya Kono, Roots and Craft Tea Roasters, 1489 Webster St. #710, San Francisco 94115.

William Telfer, Hungry Human, 2744 Sacramento St. #301, San Francisco 94115.

Harajuki Sushi at 1920 Bar, 1812 Clement St., San Francisco 94121.

Teacup & Sandwiches, 3516 Balboa St., San Francisco 94121.

Holy Gelato, 1392 9th Ave., San Francisco 94122.

F-Q Accessories, 2718 Taylor St., San Francisco 94133.

Bente’s Bakery, 333 Beale St. #8H, San Francisco 94105.

Thy Pham, Kim Danh Jewelry & Gift Shop, 875 O’Farrell St. #A, San Francisco 94109.

Ana Diaz, Perfumes Margoth Diaz, 4995 Mission St., San Francisco 94112.

Edgardo Sanchez, Edgarsanservice, 2596 San Jose Ave., San Francisco 94112.

Dario Sarat-Guzman, Maz

Auto Glass, 1880 Evans Ave., San Francisco 94124.

Moises Galeano, Castro Cleaning Services, 328 Susie Way #4, South San Francisco 94080.

Marcus West, Worthy One Cleaning Service, 550 Somerset St., San Francisco 94134.

Robert Adler, Pixtransfer, 33 Ellert St., San Francisco 94110.

Studio Banaa, 165 N. 11th St. S., San Francisco 94103.

Martina Wong, Yes U Can Dance, 1647 Taraval St., San Francisco 94116.

S.F. Institute of Music, 1929 23rd Ave., San Francisco 94116.

Nicolas Benavides, Guerrilla Composers Guild, 160 Blake St. #1, San Francisco 94118.

Sarah Jutras, Huzzah Studio, 778 30th Ave., San Francisco 94121.

Artistic Image LLC, 4224 California St. #104, San Francisco 94118.

Christopher Jones, Kind Earth Productions, 139 Corbett Ave., San Francisco 94114.

Ming Cheng, JC Productions, 890 29th Ave., San Francisco 94121.

Guo Wan, Wan Acupuncture, 160 Waverly Place #203, San Francisco 94108.

Grant Thomas, Oddball Fitness, 1404 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco 94115.

The Avenue Spa, 3929 California St., San Francisco 94118.

H&B Day Spa, 4115 Judah St., San Francisco 94122.

Ashley Lentz, Ash’s Lashes, 1728 Union St. #107, San Francisco 94123.

Thomalyn Virden, TVirden Tax Services, 1566 Jerrold Ave., San Francisco 94124.

Matias Drago, Drago Photo & Design, 222 Columbus Ave. #414, San Francisco 94133.

Lucky Cab, 1407 Irving St., San Francisco 94122.

Maurice Wysinger, Big M Trucking, 96 Elsie St., San Francisco 94110.

Byron Fuentes, GNE Trucking, 705 Shotwell St., San Francisco 94110.

Sooteenie Strickland, Bay International Travel, 870 Market St. #859, San Francisco 94102.

Zhi He, Focus Travel Service, 1539 21st Ave., San Francisco 94122.

SAN MATEO COUNTYTricia Heald, Glasswing Media, 160 Sausal Dr., Portola Valley 94028.

Mark Figari, M.F. Electric Co., 517 E. Santa Inez Ave., San Mateo 94401.

Green Painting Co., 561 9th Ave., Menlo Park 94025.

Kumon Math and Reading Center of Redwood City, 1060 El Camino Real, Redwood City 94061.

Geraldine Palmiery, Palm School, 18 S. Fremont St. #C, San Mateo 94401.

Enrique Marchetti, AB West Construction, 522 N. Claremont St., San Mateo 94401.

The Miramar Inn & Suites, 3020 N. Cabrillo Hwy., Half Moon Bay 94019.

Gary Verbin, Gary Verbin Insurance Services, 384 Sunfish Ct., Foster City 94404.

Aguayo Hernandez, Aguayo’s Gardening, 131 Oak Ave., Redwood City 94061.

Messias Waldenberg, WMC, 125 Coronado Ave. #320, Daly City 94015.

Margarita Madrigal, Tamalena Las 3 Tomasa’s, 411 5th Ave., Redwood City 94025.

M and F Enterprises Group, 180 El Camino Real #9, Millbrae 94030.

Thomas Myers, TYS Enterpriss, 1170 Junipero Ave., Redwood City 94061.

Marjorie Haimelin, U.S. Outreach, 804 Canyon Rd., Redwood City 94062.

Asylgul Ismanova, Fix Bee, 1150 El Camino Real #5500, San Bruno 94066.

Frank Sityar, Roar Enterprises, 2031 Pinecrest Dr., San Bruno 94066.

Kazue Vedder, Heisei Sha, 179 Kelton Ave., San Carlos 94070.

Hussein Aleghoul, Royal Exotics, 510 Myrtle Ave. #209, South San Francisco 94080.

Francesca Alonzo, The Gypsy Effect Dog Training, 1140 Hiller St., Belmont 94002.

Kai-Hua Cheng, Noodle Pixels and Press, 290 Winwood Ave., Pacifica 94044.

Hubert Carroll, Carroll Credit Union Consulting, 40 Laurel Hill Ct., San Mateo 94402.

Frank Manocchio, Land Escapes, 1080 Varian St., San Carlos 94070.

Graciela Granados, Tacos Bahia 89, 155 Francisco St., El Granada 94018.

Verrazzano Pizza, 20 Stone Pine Rd. #D, Half Moon Bay 94019.

3 Pigs BBQ, 1754 Laurel St., San Carlos 94070.

Towada Sushi, 112 S. B St., San Mateo 94401.

Raphael Cruz, Rafael Dela Cruz Catering, 616 Alhambra Rd., San Mateo 94402.

Larry Fiane, Been Hustling Clothing, 1293 Hillside Blvd. #2, Daly City 94014.

Raul Quintana Jr., R&R Auto, 2847B Middlefield Rd., Redwood City 94063.

Vinod Bansal, AARTI Petroleum, 503 Whipple Ave., Redwood City 94063.

William Hoy, West Coast Bun Depot, 2 Lloyden Dr., Atherton 94027.

Loretta Hicks, Sweet Lil’lo’s Cookes, 37 Maple Way, San Carlos 94070.

Newport Fish Co., 457 S. Canal St., South San Francisco 94080.

Let Me Organize It/LMOI, 3957 Pasadena Dr., San Mateo 94062.

Young Pak, Flowers by Soei, 2200 Lake Rd. #102, Belmont 94002.

Rajesh Lalji, Lalji Jewelers, 609 San Mateo Ave., San Bruno 94066.

George Uibel, TheOpenFrame, 866 Knoll Dr., San Carlos 94070.

Paulo Marques, ABC Hauling Junk and Cleanup Services, 63 Bovet Rd. #339, San Mateo 94402.

Nergui Batsuuri, S.S. Servicing, 1701 Eisenhower St., San Mateo 94403.

ThePit Stop Automotive/The Pit Stop Automotive/Virage Racing, 340 Industrial Way, Brisbane 94005.

Juan Narrea, Auto Plus Body Shop & Paint, 1051 Montgomery Ave., San Bruno 94066.

Maricela Munoz, Maricela’s Janitorial Services, 1360 Henderson Ave., Menlo Park 94025.

Isaac Espana, 2Success IT Techs/2Success Networks and IT Solution/2Success Web Designs/Bayarea IT Solutions, 1335 Old County

Rd., Belmont 94002.

Cheng Yu, Yu Technology, 3957 Pasadena Dr., San Mateo 94403.

Pivoting Aspects Healthcare Staffing/Pivoting Home Care, 318 Westlake Center #202, Daly City 94015.

Ava Studios/Campus Unlimited, 501 S. Hummingbird Ln., San Mateo 94402.

Miao Xu, Brisbane Super Laundromat & Dry Cleaner, 160 Old County Rd., Brisbane 94005.

Mainfreight San Francisco, 50 Tanforan Ave., South San Francisco 94080.

Asylgul Ismanova, Best Phone Repair, 1150 El Camino Real #5500, San Bruno 94066.

Marjorie Casison, KMC Focus, 63 Weston Dr., Daly City 94015.

Vo Bichba, Image Beauty Salon, 46 Cabrillo Hwy. N., Half Moon Bay 94019.

Corcept/Corcept Therapeutics, 149 Commonwealth Dr., Menlo Park 94025.

Sophia Nail Spa, 352 Woodside Plz., Redwood City 94061.

Reviv Med Spa, 31 S. El Camino Real, Millbrae 94080.

Braulio Baltazar, Optimal Carpet Cleaning & Janitorial Services, 6 Hope St., Redwood City 94061.

Maid Brigade Peninsula, 1474 Oddstad Dr., Redwood City 94063.

Careful Clean, 1914 Spring St., Redwood City 94063.

Guadalupe Monzon, Apex Cleaning and Janitorial, 1301 Beacon Ave., San Mateo 94401.

Pronto Charters/Pronto Transit/Pronto Transportation/Prontoshuttles, 951-2 Old County Rd. #217, Belmont 94002.

Vesalar Transportation/YoPronto, 951-2 Old County Rd. #217, Belmont 94002.

Richard Castello, Pineapple Express Taxi, 1221 Chess Dr., Foster City 94404.

Christian Bucio, Bucio Trucking, 909 Tinsley St. #E110, East Palo Alto 94303.

Rustam Kholov, Long Distance Moving Expert, 3104 E. Laurel Creek, Belmont 94002.

Rustam Kholov, Peninsula Movers, 3549 Hastings Dr., Belmont 94002.

Zachary Farris, PMC Long Distance Movers, 389 Oyster Point Blvd., South San Francisco 94080.

Nilima Ragavan, Valencia Wineries, 45 Valencia Ct., Portola Valley 94028.

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Th s year marks the five-year anni-versary of our annual Business of Pride special edition, offering a time to refl ct.

Business of Pride, showcasing Bay Area LGBTQ executives and leaders, requires much eff rt.

And in my case, a lot of emotional energy. After all, we’re ask-ing our OUTstanding Voices and other honorees to speak from the heart in sharing their journey, both per-sonally and professional-ly. When they do, I’m often moved by their words.

Their stories often have a familiar ring to those of us in the LGBTQ community. Some may have struggled to come out — first to oneself and later friends, family and possibly co-work-ers. Or remember how good it feels to finally have marriage as an option, or even better, to actually get married.

Some of those stories stick with me, such as former Charles Schwab

executive Kathy Levinson, among our 2016 OUTstanding Voices. In dis-cussing a workplace issue, Levinson said, “I was pulled into the head of the human resources department office and he said to me, ‘Kathy, you can’t work in the the same department with your partner. So we opened up

the human resources man-ual and, sure enough, there it says married couples can’t work in the same depart-ment. I turned to him and I said, ‘But I’m not married.’ He said, ‘Well, you under-stand what the spirit of the law is.’ I said, ‘Well, if you’re going to look at the spirit of the law as opposed to the policy let’s flip over to the

health insurance page, where it says spouses get health insurance.’”

Charles Schwab was among the first to offer domestic partner benefits in the 1980s. Many others followed.

Her words reminded me of a con-versation with my own employer of

the early 1990s. A straight colleague — we call them “allies” today — asked the CEO at an employee meeting why gays and lesbians were cut off from the company’s health insurance by not offering domestic partner bene-fits. He responded: “We don’t cut off gay and lesbian employees from our health plan. Th y just have to marry someone of the opposite sex.”

No surprise that the company’s top diversity executive at the time told me his efforts didn’t include gays and lesbians.

In this same era, I organized the journalism industry’s first job fair for LGBT employees for the 1993 Nation-al Lesbian and Gay Journalists Asso-ciation, which attracted most major media companies. After the job fair, I had a conversation with one recruit-er about a debate within their HR department: Were gays and lesbians a disadvantaged minority?

I couldn’t miss the irony: I’d just been told by my own employer that I can only access the company bene-

fits if I deny who I am, and that the company’s aim to achieve a more diverse workforce doesn’t include me. But it still wasn’t clear if I had been disadvantaged?

Th t company — and most oth-ers — have moved on considerably since then. Still, our work on Business of Pride each year always raises the question of just how far we’ve come, and how much work is left to do.

I’ve had Bay Area business leaders tell me that they’re not sure whether they have LGBTQ employees in their large, hourly workforce.

A tech CEO, asked about LGBTQ initatives in the workplace, told me he’s not concerned what employees do in their personal lives.

I recently asked the CEO of a major Bay Area employer, in a discussion on the company’s commitment to diver-sity and inclusion, whether they have a council of senior LGBTQ executives, as Bank of America does.

“We’re not doing anything as exot-ic as BofA,” he said. Today’s exotic,

As nondiscrimination policies and employee resource groups proliferate, there are still reminders that the business world hasn’t come as far on LGBTQ equality as it likes to think

PRIDE: WHERE ARE WE ON THE JOURNEY?

Mark Calvey


Th s was supposed to be the year we saw the California legislature in action

on housing. Instead, we mostly saw another year of inaction on housing.

Given ample opportuni-ties boldly to address our rampaging housing short-age and inaffordability cri-

sis, our elected representatives instead opted for timidity. Two hundred bills

concerning housing were submitted last year and this. As the legislative clock winds down, a few mostly incre-mental measures have been approved. The most potentially influential have been almost uniformly been forcibly pushed to the wayside.

Headlines have centered on the shockingly underhanded maneuver by a single Southern California legislator to sideline the boldest of them all — SB

50, Th t focus obscures the fact that SB 50 had plenty of company; in Sac-ramento this year, collective cowardice was not the exception but the rule.

Other bills aiming to make housing production easier got similarly delayed or defanged. Our elected leaders greeted a crop of proposed tenant-pro-tection measures with much the same disregard. In the process they forcibly collapsed a supposed “grand bargain”

that had been agreed by parties from across the housing spectrum. Pulling the threads on a few caused support for the rest to unravel.

Th re’s plenty of discredit to go around. Start with suburban and rural legislators who, by and large, demonstrated that they still consid-er the housing crisis to be somebody else’s problem, to be solved with-out noticeable inconvenience to their constituents.

Th re is our governor, who rode to office last year pledging urgent and

IN SACRAMENTO, COURAGE CAN BE CONTAGIOUS, BUT SO CAN COWARDICE

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tomorrow’s best practices. Or at least I can hope.

Four years after marriage equal-ity, we’re still struggling to under-stand what full equality looks like for LGBTQ people.

Does equality extend to the workplace, where a gay or lesbian Ameri-can can get married on Sunday and be legal-ly fired on Monday in too many states simply for being LGBTQ? Will signs stating “LGBTQ not served here” be allowed to become a common sight on Main Streets?

Maybe it’s no wonder that some LGBTQ exec-utives hesitate to partici-pate in Business of Pride and related coverage, not wanting to come out in the news?

For whatever reason, every year some of those requests are met with “no, thank you”, “no comment” or simply no response. Still.

My hopes that Apple CEO Tim Cook coming out paved the way for others were dashed when a Bay Area executive touted in a press release her extensive work in the LGBTQ com-munity, then declined to say wheth-er she’s a member of that community for a news story on her hiring.

Th s year I received a rapidly

revised corporate bio on a new exec-utive, removing any reference to her wife. With that, I had to check my watch. Yes, it’s 2019.

I was disappointed. But then I quickly reminded myself that com-

ing out is a very personal decision.

I recall what it’s like to be LGBTQ and new to an organization. One of the key questions we ask ourselves: “Am I com-fortable here?” Or in my case: “What have I gotten myself into?”

Soon after joining the Business Times in 1996, this newspaper published an editori-al criticizing a new San Francisco law requiring companies doing busi-ness with the city to offer domestic partner bene-fits, calling it “social engi-neering.” The aper later published a follow-up

editorial titled: “We were wrong.”When an opponent changes its

position, it’s progress. When an oppo-nent becomes a vocal supporter of LGBTQ equality, it’s powerful. And yes, it’s emotional — especially when it’s your employer.

Mark Calvey covers banking and finance for the San Francisco Business Times.

This year I received a rapidly revised

corporate bio on a new

executive, removing any reference to

her wife. With that, I had

to check my watch.

Yes, it’s 2019.

sustained action to jumpstart hous-ing. When strong leadership was most required, Gavin Newsom went missing in action. He declined to state a posi-tion on SB 50 or put his political cap-ital on the line for it — but made sure to publicly lament its demise, as if he was a mere bystander.

One might look as well to the sev-en San Francisco supervisors behind the city’s official opposition to SB 50. By standing with the Palo Altos, Lafay-ettes, Marin Counties and other hous-ing-averse areas, they gave those bad

actors’ elected mouthpieces all the cover they needed.

While partisan gridlock lies beneath much of the political dys-function of our modern age, it isn’t an issue here. Last year’s elections gave California a Democratic governor, a clean sweep of state offices and super-majorities in the legislature. They get to call all the shots.

With all that power comes simi-lar responsibility. On housing, it’s a test California’s Democrats are not yet coming close to passing.

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THE ROUTINE

EARLY RISERWakes up around 5 a.m., drinks coffee, reads the news and does some work.

STAYING FITHeads to the gym before going to work.

OFFICE TIMEAt the office y 9 a.m. Often eats lunch at Tile.

DAY’S ENDUsually picks up one of his daughters from an after-school event on the way home.

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

PERSONALFirst paying job: GreenskeeperFavorite book: “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” by Bill BrowderFavorite restaurant: Lutticken’s in Menlo ParkHobbies: Mountain biking, kite surfing, fishing, and scuba diving

THE INTERVIEW

in ways we never thought of. We may do some research around it to see if there is a a broader use case.

How would you describe your management style? One of the first things I did was have the management team and I develop a list of values, which we rolled out in December. The values include trust and transparency. This is needed to have a highly functioning team and one that collaborates. Another value is “bring

What changes are coming to Tile? We are shifting Tiles from not only finding lost things but to also preventing loss. Th se are “smart alerts.” If you leave something at home, you will get a notice after you step outside of the geofenced area.

What is in Tile’s future for 2020 and beyond? Our goal is to have a Tile enabled in everything you care about. Our users give us ideas sometimes for new use cases. They email us with their testimonials of how they used Tile and sometimes it’s

it.” I want people to be passionate and energetic and bring that to the company.

“Build what matters” is another value. I want our team to build what matters to customers. I also played team sports and it shaped my thinking. Another value is we are “better together than trying it solo.” Our last value is “power what’s next.” We want to be focused on innovations that will power what is next in our industry. I believe that if you hire great leaders, you should empower them to execute. I learned early on in my career that if you have high-performing people and give them more responsibility, it helped their development and let them test the limits.

What would you say makes you unique among CEOs? I am a fair and caring person and can make decisions that some people may not like. But I do it in a respectful way. I find it can be managed well and done in an empathetic and caring way. It’s making the hard decisions that can move a business forward.

— Dawn Kawamoto

TILEHQ: San MateoBay Area employees: 90Founded: 2012What it does: Sells tracking devices2016 revenue: $100 million

A career at video games giant Electronic Arts and action camera maker GoPro has

prepared Charles Prober for … tracking tiles?

Tile sells tiny plastic squares that affix to physical items, which users can locate via

Bluetooth when lost. More than 22 million Tiles have been sold across the world since the

company was founded in 2012.

For Prober, who joined the San Mateo-based company roughly eight months ago from

GoPro where he served as its chief operating officer and now is in his first CEO role, the

first leg of his new journey has been about instilling new values in the company.

Tile recently expanded to Canada, opening an office in Vancouver in late May to house

more back-end engineers.

To read the full interview, go to http://bizj.us/1pukniQ

THE GIST R Prober’s prior experience is an executive at GoPro and Electronic Arts.

R Prober has tried to instill a new set of values at Tile.

R He wants to introduce “smart alerts” to Tile products.

CJPROBERCEO, Tile


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