Market

John A. Sobrato

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Sobrato’s Cupertino-based development firm specializes in residential and commercial real estate. His company’s holdings include 7.6 million square feet of commercial office space, 7,500 apartments and 250 vacant acres in Silicon Valley. He is a philanthropist in the Bay area, and, together with his family, he created the Sobrato Family Foundation.

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Olivia Hsu Decker

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Wall Street Journal said, “If you have a very expensive home to sell, [Olivia’s] name comes to mind first before any others.” The San Francisco Chronicle called her “perhaps the nation’s best known realtor.” One of the leading luxury home specialist in the country, Olivia Hsu Decker and her company, Decker Bullock Sotheby’s International Realty, …

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Carl Berg

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Berg, chairman and CEO of Mission West Properties, bought the real estate investment trust in 1997, which now manages 8 million square feet across 100 properties. He unsuccessfully tried to sell in 2007 for $1.8 billion before the real estate market collapsed. He is also a venture capitalist, one of the billionaire principals of Berg …

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John Arrillaga

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

This Silicon Valley real estate mogul and his partner Richard Peery turned farmland into office spaces in the ‘60s, the current site of cities like Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Today, their firm oversees just less than 3 million square feet of office space, with high-powered tenants like Google. He is also one of his alma mater …

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