David Gazek

Biography: David Gazek Principal, Gazek Consulting Real Estate and Organizational Development San Francisco, CA David Gazek has over 20 years of experience in commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate for land development, redevelopment, corporate facilities, and the turnaround of distressed assets, involving mid- and high-rise, podium and garden construction. He’s an accomplished team leader, negotiator, creative problem solver and consensus builder, especially in the areas of strategic planning, public private partnerships, and development management, and has a strong client/customer focus. Mr. Gazek is currently a Real Estate and Organizational Development Consultant, serving as a real estate advisor and management consultant. Most recently, he was a Principal with AECOM, where he led the Real Estate Advisory Group in the Western United States. Prior to that he was SVP with Federal Development, where he managed the master planning, design, market and financial feasibility and entitlements for a 340-acre, mixed-use resort on the Monterey Peninsula in CA as part of the conversion of the former Fort Ord Army Base. David was also SVP with AIMCO, where he led the development and redevelopment of apartments in the Western US (conventional and affordable), consisting of 10,000+ units and a construction value of nearly $700 million. Prior to that he was a Corporate Real Estate and Workplace Consultant with Sun Microsystems, engaged in portfolio planning and change management for over 6 million square feet of office space. He was also a housing development consultant with the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he helped facilitate the successful implementation of a public private partnership to develop on-campus faculty housing. From 1996 to 2000, David was Director of Downtown Development for the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Jose, where he managed the division responsible for negotiating