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EAST BAY PARTNER BOOK OF LISTS 2021 DECEMBER 11, 2020 2 SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES EAST BAY BOOK OF LISTS DECEMBER 11, 2020 3 4 SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS TIMES EAST BAY BOOK OF LISTS FROM THE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR ABOUT THE EAST BAY BOOK OF LISTS elcome to the East Bay Book of Book of Lists covering the wider Bay Area — by Lists, an informative resource visiting www.sanfranciscobusinesstimes.com. that complements our annual Bay As a subscriber to the Business Times, every Area Book of Lists, published each week you will receive an edition packed with WDecember. timely Bay Area business news, profi les and In addition to the East Bay business lists market data that will help you succeed and grow published in the Business Times in 2020, we have your business. And you will have access to all the included a business resource directory and an Business Times’ premium content online off erings economic overview of the East Bay. is content that are reserved exclusively for subscribers. was provided to us courtesy of the East Bay For daily news on Bay Area businesses, be sure Economic Development Alliance. Many thanks to subscribe to our free daily email news alerts: to the East Bay EDA executive director, Stephen e Lists in the Book were produced by the the Morning Edition and the Afternoon Edition. 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If you are not yet a subscriber the original date of publication in the Business to the Business Times, you can subscribe — and Mary Huss, Market President and Publisher Times. reserve both this publication and the Bay Area Douglas Fruehling, Editor-in-Chief INDEX ABOUT THE COVER Contents People ......................................................................38 Organizations ...........................................................39 ABOUT Lists Fastest-growing private companies, THE COVER East Bay ................................................................1415 Best Places to Work, East Bay .................................. 16 Law irms, East Bay ...................................................17 “AscenDance” is an enormous mural created Private companies, East Bay ................................1819 in 2020 on Oakland’s 14th Street by artists Public companies, East Bay .....................................20 Desi Mundo, Marina Perez-Wong, Elaine Chu, Commercial real estate brokerages, Priya Handa and Lisa Max. According to the East Bay .....................................................................21 artists: “AscenDance is a refl ection on the Construction projects, East Bay ..............................22 community’s desire to grow beyond resilience Construction projects, Oakland ..............................24 into maximizing our human potential. While the Insurance brokerages, East Bay ..............................25 piece acknowledges the struggles faced by the Accounting irms, East Bay ......................................26 community, its focus is on transcending those Hospitals, East Bay ................................................... 27 obstacles through our relationship to nature, Banks, East Bay ........................................................28 movement, our ancestors and our own inner Hotels, East Bay ....................................................... 30 peace. AscenDance connects the pragmatic UC Berkeley contributors ......................................... 31 with the potential – the daily work to overcome Women-owned businesses, East Bay ......................32 historic injustice with the vision for a brighter Employers, East Bay .................................................33 future for our descendants.” Employers, Oakland .................................................34 O ice leases, Oakland .............................................35 Photo by Visual Journalist Todd Johnson Tech employers, East Bay ........................................36 Whether you’re a business owner or their advisor, these are unprecedented times. As the leaders in online business valuation, BizEquity is here to help. To download our free Small Business Survival Guide or join an upcoming webinar Visit BizEquity.com/Together DECEMBER 11, 2020 5 Carlos Chavez Lorraine Sue SVP/Commercial Loan Team Manager VP/Commercial Loan Officer Local lending power. 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Providing and updating this extensive listing of incredible resources in our region n March 2020, the East Bay Economic create new approaches that help promote and sustain our economic Development Alliance (East Bay EDA) was success is helpful, but it is only a start. in the middle of editing and reviewing and networks to close Indeed, we are called upon to create new our annual economic outlook report approaches and networks to help ensure that Iwhen shelter-in-place orders prompted by the some of the widening we close some of the widening gaps exposed by coronavirus pandemic brought most activities in the pandemic. This begins by understanding our region to a screeching halt. This public health gaps exposed the many available assets and resources crisis quickly morphed into an economic one, thinking about new ways to connect them with nearly 170,000 East Bay jobs disappearing by the pandemic” around our common needs and priorities. during the month of April alone. At last count, Given that the East Bay is at the epicenter of roughly 40% of those jobs had come back, leaving businesses, its impact on our region’s families the development of disruptive innovations and us a long way from a full recovery. Our region’s and residents has highlighted stark inequities in technologies, can we apply our same creative economy, which had seen continuous growth for our economy and society that cut across racial energy to rebuild and revitalize the regional nearly a decade, suddenly was very vulnerable: a and socioeconomic lines. Outsized job losses economy? It is imperative that we come together recent analysis that we did of East Bay businesses in low-wage occupations and industry sectors now to have these important conversations showed that almost 5,500 establishments have disproportionately impacted Black and about how to help all our region’s residents had closed temporarily or permanently Latinx individuals who make up the majority become more resilient to challenges so that during the first six months of COVID-19. of the workforce in many of these segments. we can overcome this moment and more fully The impacts of the pandemic are both These workers can least absorb the impacts of harness the opportunities that lie ahead. widespread and very unequal. Small businesses becoming unemployed and have become more are disproportionately represented among those economically vulnerable than ever. At the same that have closed, particularly bars, restaurants, time, Black, Latinx, and other people of color Stephen Baiter Is the Executive Director local-serving retail, personal services, and – especially women - are also more likely to for East Bay Economic Development tourism-related businesses. Conversely, some work in jobs considered essential, requiring Alliance (East Bay EDA). companies and industries have been able them to physically work in environments that For more information about our work, to weather the storm relatively well, with increase their risk of contracting COVID-19. visit us at www.eastbayeda.org. sectors such as logistics, pharmaceuticals, In this way, our public health crisis has and technology remaining strong and even become inseparable from our economic growing in some areas. The businesses that crisis, with no easy near-term solutions. have managed to hang on and continue to Now more than ever, the public and private ABOUT THE EAST BAY ECONOMIC operate have had to substantially modify sectors must work together even more closely DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE their operations and processes to comply with to ensure that we align efforts and strategies Stephen Baiter, Executive Director public health orders while ensuring they can to do more than simply help support economic 1221 Oak