About Mark S.

Mark joined the Avison Young San Francisco office in February 2021. Mark, an attorney and accountant, has over 30 years of real estate practice experience resulting in more than eight million square feet of leases in San Francisco, Oakland, and the Bay Area.

Mark has worked as the real estate provider in multi-market transactions for Delta Dental Insurance, Wells Fargo Bank, Keenan & Associates, Prosper Marketplace, Broadcom, Tanium, Gensler, and others.

Credentials

University of Southern California, J.D. (1988)
University of Southern California, BSc. in Accounting (1985)
Lecturer at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Spring 2020 - 2022)
Former President and Board Member of East Bay Regional Park Foundation
Former Board Member and Secretary of the Olympic Club
Current Board Member of San Francisco Food and Wine Society
Member of CoreNet and USC Marshall Partners
Affinity.co – Advisor 

Achievements

Avison Young’s U.S. Circle of Excellence in 2022 and 2023

Executive Committee member of C&W’s Tenant Rep Group: 2010 – 2018

C&W top producer in San Francisco in 2002, 2003, 2006 – 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2018 and ranked in the top 100 producers nationally in 2002 – 2018

Former Managing Director of C&W’s San Francisco Office

Mark has negotiated over 5 million square feet of leases for a wide range of corporations, professional services firms and high-growth technology companies including:

• Affinius
• Allen Matkins
• Bank of America
• BCCI
• Blackstone Group
• Chapman and Cutler LLP
• City National Bank
• Dechert
• Delta Dental Insurance
• Farella Braun + Martel LLP
• Foresite Capital
• Gensler
• GI Partners
• Jefferies
• Lazard
• Lend Lease
• McMorgan & Company
• Mistral AI
• NY Life
• O’Melveny & Myers
• Orbcomm
• Pac-12 Enterprises
• Paul Hastings
• Premier Workspaces
• Prosper Marketplace
• SmartBiz Loans
• Stifel
• Stoel Rives
• Tanium
• Wells Fargo Bank