Life Science Experts Highlight Bay Area Real Estate Hires

Commercial brokerage JLL announced it has hired Allison Hoffmann to bolster its life science division in the Bay Area.

She will act as executive vice president at the Silicon Valley office specializing in tenant representation for companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. Hoffmann joins the team of Scott Miller, Grant Dettmer, Cole Smith and Grant Yeatman, who have been involved in 43 percent of all life science leasing deals in the Bay Area, according to JLL.

Hoffmann is a member of the Board of Advisors at industry organization Life Science Cares Bay Area. Prior to joining JLL, Hoffmann spent three years at San Francisco-based advisory firm T3 Advisors, a Savills Company, where she spent the last year acting as managing director.

➤Colliers International has brought on board a pair of executive vice presidents to the San Francisco Office.

Jacob Becher specializes as a self-storage expert and will work alongside Executive Vice President Tom De Jong in representing buyers and sellers through the sale, disposition and development of self-storage assets across the United States.

Prior to joining Colliers, Becher served as senior vice president of investments and director of national self-storage group for Marcus & Millichap in Calabasas, where he worked for nine years. At M&M, he oversaw 100 transactions valued at more than $850 million.

Colliers also has brought aboard Rico Cheung with an expertise in the medical device and life science sector. Cheung and his team will be responsible for maintaining and growing Colliers life science presence in the Bay Area.

Before joining Colliers, Cheung spent more than 14 years as executive vice president at Kidder Mathews, expanding the brokerage’s life science portfolio.

➤Ali McEvoy has joined San-Francisco based real estate firm Maven Commercial as a partner and will focus on retail leasing in Union Square, the Financial District and other neighborhoods.

Prior to joining Maven, McEvoy worked at mall developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, where she handled direct leasing at San Francisco Centre and Galleria at Roseville and secured deals with Vinfast, See’s Candies, Ghiradelli and Pendleton Woolen Mills. Before that, she spent 12 years at Colliers where she was vice president for eight of them.

➤Oakland-based developer TMG Partners announced that Britt Wenzler will join the company as a partner. She will work with the development team to complete execution of The Quad and the 350 Ellis properties on the Peninsula.

Previously, Wenzler worked in Seattle and New York, as well as the Bay Area. Prior to joining TMG Partners, she spent five years as director at San-Francisco based Carmel Partners. Before that, Wenzler was a development manager for MacFarlane Partners for six years.