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SDBJ.COM SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL Vol. 40, No. 50 THE COMMUNITY OF BUSINESS™ December 16 – 22 , 2019 • $3.00 SPECIAL EDITION • THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN SAN DIEGO DECEMBER 16, 2019 REAL ESTATE | 53 GARY ACOSTA BEN BADIEE CO-FOUNDER & CEO, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CEO AND PRESIDENT, BADIEE DEVELOPMENT HISPANIC REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS Ben Badiee is the founder and CEO of BDI for 30 years. Gary Acosta is the co-founder and CEO of the National Badiee and his frm have developed millions of square Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, which feet of Class A real estate industrial projects. BDI is is the nation’s largest Hispanic business organization with expanding in Las Vegas and other Western states. Badiee over 30,000 members and 75 local chapters. As CEO, he has founded more than 10 successful ventures in sofware, created the Hispanic Wealth Project, a non-proft with agricultural, manufacturing and online banking. Badiee a strategic plan to triple Hispanic household wealth by also is chairman/ambassador of San Diego’s Singularity 2024. Acosta has also founded or co-founded several University, which ofers executive educational programs mortgage, real estate and technology companies and is a business incubator. He is also involved in a variety of mentorship programs. JAY ALEXANDER ROGER BALL MANAGING DIRECTOR, JONES LANG LASALLE PRESIDENT AND CEO, RICK ENGINEERING CO. Jay Alexander has led the San Diego ofce of the na- Roger Ball has been president and CEO of Rick tional commercial real estate brokerage JLL since 2010, Engineering since 2006 and is responsible for overseeing overseeing a team of more than 30 and operations fom the frm’s operations, providing multidisciplined marketing and planning to tenant representation, cor- planning, design, engineering and surveying services porate services and dealing with capital markets. He has fom seven ofces, including locations in Arizona, San been involved in some of the market’s biggest transac- Luis Obispo, Sacramento and San Diego. Ball joined tions, including the $39.5 million sale of the San Diego Rick Engineering in 1974 as a drafsman. Ball is active Tech Center, a 192K SF lease with Sony Entertainment in professional groups, including the American Society and a $256 million transaction. of Civil Engineers, and in civic groups. DONALD ANKENY PAUL BARNES PRESIDENT AND CEO, WESTCORE PROPERTIES DIVISION PRESIDENT, SHEA HOMES SAN DIEGO Donald Ankeny has been with Westcore Properties Paul Barnes was named division president of Shea since 2005 and presides over the company’s domestic Homes San Diego in 2004 and is responsible for the portfolio of ofce and industrial properties, which proftability of the division and oversees strategic totals more than 20 million square feet valued at more and tactical decisions. Shea Homes has projects in than $1.5 billion. He also has a key role growing the Encinitas, Carlsbad, Escondido, Chula Vista and at company’s investment and operating platform with his Civita in Mission Valley. Barnes serves on many civic experience in capital markets. Ankeny has overseen and nonproft boards, including Habitat for Humanity the acquisition and management more than $4 billion and the San Diego Building Industry Association. in industrial and ofce assets totaling more than 35 million square feet. BRIAN ARRINGTON JASON BARRY FOUNDING PARTNER AND CHAIRMAN, LUXURY REALTOR, BARRY ESTATES PACIFIC SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY The Jason Barry Team has sold over $3.5 billion and Brian Arrington has built Pacifc Sotheby’s Interna- continues to represent more high end sales than any other tional Realty into market leader for sales volume. The San Diego agent or team. In 2019 YTD, there have been 20 frm acquired 12 Sotheby’s International Realty ofc- sales over $8,000,000 and Barry Estates has represented es in Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties. The 10 of those sales. Jason has facilitated some of the most new entity covers fom Long Beach to the Mexican expensive homes to have sold in San Diego’s luxury border and is one of the largest Sotheby’s fanchises communities: Rancho Santa Fe, La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana with more 30 ofces, more than 900 agents and sales Beach, Carlsbad, Downtown San Diego and Point Loma volume exceeding $6 billion. Arrington began his real Due to his expertise in the luxury real estate market, estate career in 1991. GUY ASARO LAURA BARRY PRESIDENT AND CEO, MERIDIAN DEVELOPMENT LUXURY REALTOR, BARRY ESTATES Guy Asaro founded Meridian Development in 2014 Ranked the number one volume producing agent for afer seven years as president of McMillin Homes, a over a decade in San Diego, Laura Barry is a real estate division of the Corky McMillin Cos. Asaro and Meridian titan who yields unparalleled results. Laura has teamed are leading the management of the massive 210-acre up with former hedge fun, private banking, and fnance Millenia master planned development in Chula Vista expert, Jim Graves, to ofer clients an unprecedented that will eventually have 3,000 homes, 2 million personalized experience. They have fnished 2019 strong square feet of ofce space, 1.5 million square feet of with over $250+ million in closed transactions and have retail, hotels and parks. He has served on the board of represented more homes sold than any other agent for $5 the Building Industry Associations of San Diego and million or greater in all San Diego. California. MICHAEL ASARO MARTEN BARRY PRINCIPAL, DELAWIE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, NAI SAN DIEGO Mike Asaro joined Delawie in 1992 and was named a Marten Barry founded NAI San Diego, a commercial frm principal in 2003. His knowledge and expertise real estate and property management company, in have grown with his involvement on a wide variety 1997. He specializes in ofce, industrial and investment of projects including space for advanced technology, transactions as a tenant and owner representative, with corporate ofce, manufacturing, hospitality and an emphasis in central San Diego. He has executed education. He and has served as principal-in-charge on more than 2,000 leases and 300 sales, totaling over one many of the frm’s commissions for Qualcomm Inc., billion dollars in consideration. Barry also oversees the as well as designing the Veterans Village Transitional property management side of the business – including Housing, Enlisted Quarters for the Navy and Marines, his own commercial and multifamily investments. and a dozen projects for Qualcomm. 54 | REAL ESTATE DECEMBER 16, 2019 WOLF BIELAS BRETT COMBS MANAGING PARTNER, DOWNTOWN WORKS COWORKING BROKER ASSOCIATE / PRESIDENT, Wolf Bielas is co-founder and managing partner at COMPASS / P.S. PLATINUM Downtown Works Coworking, a facilities services Brett Combs sold his real estate brokerage frm, P.S. company that touts inspiring, fexible coworking space. Platinum, to Compass, a New York-based real estate The company was launched in 2016 on B Street in technology company. Combs continues to operate the downtown San Diego. It is not Bielas’ only business local fanchise, which he founded in his hometown of venture. Among several other things, he also serves as Del Mar in 2001 and grew to 40 agents with ofces in managing partner of Wolfpack Ventures, an investment La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana Beach and La Costa and a sales company involved in the real estate, technology, volume of more than $300 million. Combs has worked hospitality and entertainment sectors. Bielas is also a in marketing and business development. board member for Aquai. MARY LEE BLAYLOCK DENNIS CRUZAN PRESIDENT AND CEO, BERKSHIRE FOUNDING PARTNER, CRUZAN HATHAWAY HOMESERVICES CALIFORNIA PROPERTIES Dennis Cruzan continues to be associated with some Beginning her career in 1993 as a REALTOR® in of the region’s biggest deals. Cruzan and investment Minneapolis, Mary Lee successfully managed various partner Cigna sold the DiamondView ofce tower in real estate ofces before being promoted to Vice downtown San Diego’s East Village for $207 million. President of the relocation division of Edina Realty. Cruzan acquired the property in 2012 for $121 million. From 2004 – 2014 Mary Lee was honored to start and Cruzan and pension fund TIAA-CREF sold a two- serve as President of the national and international building Del Mar Heights ofce property for $86.5 company, HomeServices Relocation, LLC. In 2016 she million. Over the years, Cruzan held executive positions was promoted to President and CEO. with JMI Realty, Burnham Real Estate (now Cushman & Wakekfeld) and OliverMcMillan. LESLIE BORGES STEPHEN CUSHMAN PRESIDENT, SPECTRUM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FOUNDER, CUSH ENTERPRISES Since 2006, Leslie Borges has worked for Spectrum Steve Cushman is a fourth-generation San Diegan Property Management, the largest privately owned whose career includes real estate development, auto commercial property management frm in San Diego. dealers and being key advisor to mayors, councils and Spectrum ofers clients a full range of services, managing commissions. He served as a commissioner for the San 12-million-plus square feet of retail, ofce, medical and Diego Unifed Port District fom 1998 to 2010. He has industrial space throughout Southern California. It is served on more than 70 boards. His family owns the 100 percent women owned and operated, including Grossmont Center retail property in La Mesa, and the Borges, who worked her way up fom Chief Financial Cushman Foundation has donated millions to local Ofcer to President. She spent six years in the CFO seat causes, including the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego before becoming president in 2015. Food Bank. RITA BRANDIN NATALIE DAHL SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, MANAGING DIRECTOR, CBRE NEWLAND COMMUNITIES Natalie Dahl is CBRE’s managing director for investor Rita Brandin has more than 30 years experience in real services in the San Diego region, comprised of more estate operations and development. She is responsible for than 250 real estate professionals in Carlsbad and UTC.