Board

The Real Estate Trust Advisory Board consists of professionals with expertise in evaluating, marketing, and selling real estate. With their help, the Real Estate Trust handles the receipt and subsequent sale of your property and creates a charitable fund for you at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Advisory Board Biographies

Boyd Smith, RET co-chair
Partner, WSJ Properties

John Sobrato, RET co-chair
Chairman, Sobrato Development Companies

Phil Boyce
Investor, Boyce Associates

Dennis Brach
Director of Tax Operations, Brach, Neal, Daney & Spence, LLP

Eric Brandenburg
Brandenburg Properties

Carl Cilker
Sr. Vice President, Cilker Orchards

Jim Cortese
Division President, Stewart Title, Santa Clara County

Abe Darwish

Bob Hines
Chief Executive Officer, Tri-County Apartment Association

Larry Kuechler, C.P.A.
Principal, Downtown San Jose Office

C. Bradley Lyman
Executive Vice President, Cornish & Carey Commercial

Meg Masterson
Sales Associate, Coldwell Banker

Brad O’Brien
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich, & Rosati

Joe Parisi
President, Therma Corporation

Richard Pivnicka
Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic

Mark Ritchie
President, Ritchie Commercial, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Walnut Creek, Burlingame.

Girish Shah
Executive Consultant, IBM Corporation