Alexander Mehran

Biographie : Alex Mehran was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Mehran grew up in Diablo and attended local elementary and high schools. He graduated from Harvard College with honors and continued his higher education at Cambridge University in England where he earned a Law Degree, also with honors. After completing his formal education, Mr. Mehran joined J. P. Morgan of New York where, for three years, he managed real estate companies and assets owned by the Bank. Mr. Mehran returned to California in 1977 to join Sunset Development Company, a diversified real estate organization founded by his father, Masud Mehran, in 1951. Sunset Development Company is the developer of Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, located in southern Contra Costa County. Bishop Ranch is a 585-acre, fully integrated business community with nine and one-half million square feet of office, hotel, shopping, medical and research facilities providing employment for approximately 30,000 people working in over 550 companies. Sunset also is the developer of Sunset-Town in Livermore, a planned community of over 4,000 homes, 500 apartments and some one-half million square feet of leasable space built by Sunset. Mr. Mehran is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunset Development Company. Mr. Mehran is a member of the Board of Directors of the Presidio Trust, a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a Trustee of the San Francisco Ballet and Chairman of the Contra Costa Economic Partnership. He is also a Past Chairman and Current Executive Committee member of The Bay Area Council; Member of the Chancellor’s Associates of UCSF; Former Trustee of the Urban Land Institute; Former Trustee of St. Mary’s College; Former Trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of California; Former Trustee of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Former Director of The United Way of the Bay Area.