Brad Blake is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blake Hunt Ventures, a private commercial real estate development and services company based in Danville, California. Blake Hunt Ventures has developed over $750 million of retail projects since its inception and is currently developing over $300 million of retail and mixed-use, retail-residential projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California and Utah.

Mr. Blake was the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Western Properties Trust from February, 1998 to November, 2000. Western was a publicly-traded real estate investment trust that merged with Pan Pacific Retail Properties in November of 2000. Western owned and operated 55 properties, mostly grocery-anchored shopping centers, encompassing 5.5 million square feet in California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada.

Mr. Blake was also formerly Managing Director of Pacific Retail Trust and President of PRT Development Corp. (1996-98), Senior Vice President of Spieker Properties (1993-96), Partner with Spieker Partners (1988-93), and a Project Director with Trammell Crow Company (1985-87). Prior to that he worked for IBM and McKinsey and Company.

Mr. Blake holds a B.A. from Stanford University (1980) and a M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1985).

Mr. Blake is a board member of Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation, a director of Bailard's REIT's, a former member of the Young Presidents Organization, a former Trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers and a member of the Urban Land Institute.

He is the founder and president of the "College is Real" program (www.collegeisreal.com) at Richmond High School, which helps members of the school's soccer program with academic and life skills so they can qualify for college. He has coached youth soccer for fifteen years and participates in a variety of sports.

Jerry Hunt - Co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer

Jerry Hunt is the co-founder and President of Blake Hunt Ventures. Mr. Hunt was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Western Properties Trust from February 1998 to November 2000.

Prior to joining Western, from December 1996 to January 1998, Mr. Hunt was Vice President of Northern California operations for Pacific Retail Trust (subsequently acquired by Regency Realty in 1999). From January 1994 to December 1996, Mr. Hunt was a Project Director with Spieker Properties in its retail division acquiring, developing, leasing and managing shopping center projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Hunt began his real estate career in August 1988 as a retail specialist with CB Commercial Real Estate in San Jose. Mr. Hunt is a graduate of the University of Pacific (B.A. in 1988). He is the Northern California State Director of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is also an Executive Director of the Belden Real Estate Club in San Francisco. He is active in coaching girl’s softball and in contributing to other community service organizations.

Jim Wright - Senior Vice President

Jim Wright is Senior Vice President for Blake Hunt Ventures. Mr. Wright was most recently Senior Development Manager of Western Properties Trust from 1991 to November 2000. He also held property management and leasing positions with Western. Prior to joining Western, Mr. Wright was a development manager for a large Sacramento-based retail developer. He holds a Certified Shopping Center Manager (CSM) designation from ICSC and is a licensed real estate agent.

Since November 2000 when Blake Hunt Ventures was formed, Mr. Wright has been responsible for the day-to-day entitlements, design, construction and leasing of two high-density retail centers in downtown Walnut Creek, California. The projects, Plaza Escuela and Olympia Place, have a combined gross leasable area of just under 300,000 square feet and opened in spring of 2002 and spring of 2003, respectively. During his career, Mr. Wright has overseen the entitlements, construction, leasing and management of over 1,000,000 square feet of commercial and retail projects.

Rajiv Parikh - Senior Vice President

Rajiv Parikh is Senior Vice President for Blake Hunt Ventures. He was most recently CEO and President of KAS Properties. Prior to launching KAS Properties, Mr. Parikh was Vice President of SIMEON Commercial Properties, a full-service real estate firm that develops and acquires retail, office, R&D and mixed-use properties in strategic in-fill locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His primary responsibilities included entitlement processing, leasing, project management and asset management.

Prior to joining SIMEON in January 2003, Mr. Parikh was Senior Vice President of Syufy Enterprises, a privately owned developer and parent company of Century Theatres, where his responsibilities included entitlement processing, leasing and project/construction oversight. Prior to joining Syufy Enterprises, Mr. Parikh was an attorney with the law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, as well as a deputy city attorney for the City and County of San Francisco, focusing on land use, environmental and real estate matters.

Mr. Parikh received his B.A. from the University of California - Berkeley in 1989 and his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1993. He is the Chair of the Program Committee for the Northern California section of ICSC and has spoken at numerous seminars on behalf of ICSC and other organizations regarding commercial real estate matters.

John A. Reynolds - Vice President

John A. Reynolds is Vice President for Blake Hunt Ventures. Mr. Reynolds joined Blake Hunt Ventures in February 2002. Since then, he has been responsible for various stages of entitlements, leasing, construction, and management for many of Blake Hunt Ventures’ projects.

Mr. Reynolds is a graduate of Michigan State University (B.A. in 2000). He is on the Northern California International Council of Shopping Centers Next Generation Program Committee and is a member of the Urban Land Institute. He is also a licensed real estate agent.