Luis Belmonte

Biography: Luis Belmonte Executive Vice President AMB Property Corporation (http://www.amb.com/) San Francisco, CA Luis A. Belmonte is a principal of Seven Hills Properties, developers of retail, multi-family and industrial real estate in California, Oregon and Nevada. Previously, he was an Executive Vice President of, and one of the founders of, AMB Property Corporation, where he ran their development program ($250 million per year) and supervised management of assets (50 million sf) in the Western U.S. During his tenure at AMB, he spearheaded its effort to enter the Mexican market and developed its headquarters building on the San Francisco waterfront. Prior to his tenure at AMB, Luis was a partner with Lincoln Property Company, responsible for industrial development projects in Northern California. Over the course of 16 years, he developed in excess of 18 million square feet of industrial buildings. His responsibilities included site selection, financing, construction management, leasing and property management. Luis spent three years on active duty with the U.S. Navy, during which time he rode a destroyer escort on coastal patrol in Vietnam and spent 13 months as the Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer, Fire Support Coordinator and forward observer with the First Marine Regiment. He graduated from the University of Santa Clara with a Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) and did graduate studies in Political Science at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, where he chairs one of the Industrial and Office Park Councils. He is a past president of the San Francisco chapter of NAIOP. He is a board member of Boys Hope Girls Hope San Francisco and Edgewood Center For Children, where he serves as Finance Chair. (2008)