ULI San Francisco is pleased to announce Boardroom After Dark: a series of intimate dinner gatherings that will bring a small group of lucky ULI members together with some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most dynamic and engaging real estate leaders.

This will be a unique opportunity to get up-close-and-personal with some of the area’s top real estate professionals who are making things happen and have a personal career path they are willing to share.

Boardroom After Dark kicks off in March with Marijke Smit of Project Frog. We have three additional dinners lined up that will be led by Lydia Tan of Bentall Kennedy, Lynn Tolin and Cathy Greenwold of TMG Partners, and Lynn Sedway of Sedway Consulting. Stay tuned for announcements about upcoming dinners!

March 3: Marijke Smit, Vice President, Education, Project Frog (SOLD OUT)
March 25: Lydia Tan, Senior Vice President, Bentall Kennedy (SOLD OUT)
May 7: Lynn Tolin, Executive Vice President, TMG Partners & Cathy Greenwold, Vice Chair, Capital Markets, TMG Partners (SOLD OUT)
June 17: Lynn Sedway, Sedway Consulting (SOLD OUT)

We will explore how industry leaders are changing the way developers raise capital, gain public approval, and creatively adapt existing spaces. Dinners will be from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. and will generally be held in or near the San Francisco Financial District.

Interested in attending?  We’re looking for ULI members with:

• A creative and entrepreneurial spirit;
• Interest in sharing ideas, food & drink; and
• A desire to connect with industry leaders

Selection Process:
A maximum of 10 ULI members will be selected to attend each Boardroom event, and an application is required. Kindly rank your top three dinner choices, so that we may better assure each registrant has the opportunity to attend an event. If we are unable to accommodate you for the first round, we will attempt to provide you with top consideration for future dinners.

Payment:
Payment is due at the time a member is selected to register for an event. Failure to attend your assigned dinner will affect future dinner event opportunities. Dinner & drinks will be pre-arranged, and will be unique to each event.

ULI Members only: $110 (includes dinner/drinks/tips/service charges)

Questions? Please contact:

Corie A. Edwards                     
WLI Committee Co-Chair
Vogl Meredith Burke LLP
(415) 398-0200
[email protected]

Jordan McCarthy
WLI Committee Co-Chair
Woodruff Sawyer & Co.
(415) 399-6452
[email protected]

March 3, 2015
Marijke Smit, Project Frog
Vice President, Education

Marijke is responsible for defining, expanding, and shepherding Project Frog’s component building solutions in the education sector both nationally and in the Bay Area. Marijke has focused her career around the nexus between people and place, working with leading K-12, university, and civic organizations to help optimize the potential of their built environments. Trained in history and urban planning at Columbia University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Marijke’s career has been influenced by a complex array of assignments, both large and small, in the U.S. and Asia. Her work is framed by a deep commitment to creating healthy, vibrant, and sustainable places and her success as a leader and innovator in her field landed her on Building Design + Construction Magazines’ 2008 “40 Under 40” list. Marijke comes to Project Frog from the innovative consulting firm MKThink, where she was Director of Planning and from Perkins Eastman in NYC, where she was Director of the firm’s Strategy Group. She is a devoted urbanist, runner, dancer and proud mother of two.

March 25, 2015
Lydia Tan, Bentall Kennedy
Senior Vice President, Development, West Region

With more than 30 years experience in the real estate and building industry, Lydia Tan is Senior Vice President, Western Region at Bentall Kennedy, where she focuses on real estate development opportunities in high density urban locations.  Prior to joining Bentall Kennedy, Ms. Tan was Executive Vice President of Related California, where she opened the Northern California office and was the company’s lead on several mixed use, mixed income and affordable developments in the region.   Prior to joining Related, Ms. Tan was Executive Vice President at BRIDGE Housing Corporation, where she oversaw real estate development and finance operations that resulted in the addition of 7,900 homes and $2.4 billion to BRIDGE’s asset base over a 13 year period, and management of a $500 million portfolio on behalf of a partnership between BRIDGE and CalPERS.

May 7, 2015
Lynn Tolin, TMG Partners
Executive Vice President, Director of Asset and Property Management

Lynn Tolin, Executive Vice President, is Director of Asset and Property Management at TMG Partners. She joined TMG in 1988 and has over 31 years of real estate experience in the Bay Area. In her current function, she coordinates the management of approximately five million square feet of various property types valued in excess of over $1 billion.

Before joining TMG, Ms. Tolin was with Cornish & Carey’s San Mateo office, specializing in office leasing. She also spent time at Hare Brewer & Kelley in Palo Alto serving as Senior Property Manager, specializing in commercial and residential condominiums.

Ms. Tolin received her Bachelor’s degree and MBA from St. Mary’s College of California.

May 7, 2015 (Cathy and Lynn will be co-hosting)
Cathy Greenwold, TMG Partners
Vice Chair, Capital Markets

Cathy Greenwold, Vice Chair, joined TMG in 1992. Ms. Greenwold has been responsible for expanding the company’s portfolio through strategic acquisition of projects with particular emphasis on development opportunities and value enhancement. Ms. Greenwold has managed over $2.7 billion in project financing and development activity for TMG. She has over 36 years of real estate and finance experience, and is a member of the TMG’s Investment Committee.

Ms. Greenwold has an extensive background in real estate development, including 12 years as Vice President for Calprop Corporation.

Mrs. Greenwold holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California Los Angeles. She was also a Sloan Fellow at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she earned a Master’s of Science degree in Business.

June 17, 2015
Lynn Sedway, Sedway Consulting
President and Principal

Ms. Sedway is recognized throughout the San Francisco Real Estate industry as one of the premier experts in urban and real estate economics. Her extensive experience includes public private partnerships, market analysis, development and redevelopment analysis, acquisition and disposition strategies of large land holdings, economic and fiscal impact analysis, corporate real estate, and public policy issues related to real estate. Ms. Sedway’s clients number in the hundreds, including University of California at San Francisco, Stanford University, and Forest City Enterprises, Inc. to name a few.

Lynn is very active in the community and has served on many corporate boards. She has been on the San Francisco Business Times’ list of 100 Powerful Women for several years and is now on the Forever Influential list. Corporate and non-profit boards on which she has served include AMB Property Corporation, the Swig Company, Alexander & Baldwin, and HG Capital. She served on the board of BRIDGE Housing, the Mayor’s Fiscal Advisory Committee, JVS, and the New Israel Fund. She is very active in the Urban Land Institute, having served as a trustee, a Council chair and the local ULI Executive Committee. She is on the Board of Trustees and past president of Congregation Sherith Israel, as well as serving on the board of the American Jewish Committee and numerous Jewish Community Federation committees. Lynn won the Judith Chapman Award for leadership in 2013.

Lynn holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (now the Haas School of Business.)