Meet Our Team

Joel S. Marcus, JD, CPA, is Executive Chairman and Founder of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE:ARE), the urban office REIT that pioneered life science real estate from a specialty niche to a core asset class and today is the preeminent and longest-tenured owner, operator, and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, agtech, and technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations. Prior to serving as the company's full-time Executive Chairman, Mr. Marcus served as Chief Executive Officer from March 1997 to April 2018 and as Chairman from May 2007 to April 2018. Since co-founding the company in 1994 as a garage startup with $19 million in Series A capital, he led Alexandria to its inclusion as an S&P 500 company, which has a total market capitalization of $36.3 billion and a total shareholder return exceeding 2,000% as of June 30, 2021. Mr. Marcus continues to guide the company and be responsible for its outstanding reputation in the real estate and life science industries. Alexandria was named the NAIOP 2019 Developer of the Year and is the six-time and current recipient of the Nareit Gold Investor CARE (Communications and Reporting Excellence) Award.

Under Mr. Marcus's leadership and through Alexandria's critical role at the vanguard and heart of the life science and agtech ecosystems, the mission-driven company is building the future of life-changing innovation and driving positive change for the benefit of society. Mr. Marcus has steered Alexandria's extraordinary growth through the tremendous execution of its visionary cluster campus strategy as informed by Harvard Business Professor Michael Porter's cluster theory. Utilizing this theory as the basis for its proven cluster model that identified and brings together the four critical components necessary for life science companies to thrive — location, innovation, talent, and capital — Mr. Marcus led pivotal shifts from single assets to amenitized cluster campuses to today's mega campuses consisting of more than 1 million RSF in urban and suburban locations. Extending the company's impact beyond its essential Labspace® real estate, Mr. Marcus established three additional and complementary vertical platforms to enhance its holistic business model encompassing real estate, venture investments, thought leadership, and corporate responsibility. Through the company's differentiated cluster-building approach, which leverages these cohesive platforms and its mega campus strategy, Alexandria catalyzes the vibrant life science ecosystems it has created and cultivated in key locations, including Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, San Diego, Seattle, Maryland, and Research Triangle, to accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into new treatments and cures.

During Mr. Marcus's 27 years at Alexandria as a pioneer, entrepreneur, executive, and venture capitalist, he has helped form, build, and nurture a broad range of life science and agtech companies. Mr. Marcus founded and continues to lead Alexandria Venture Investments, the company's strategic venture capital platform. Since its inception in 1996, it has invested in promising seed-, early-, and growth-stage companies and been an integral component of the company's multifaceted business model. As a testament to Alexandria's position at the cutting edge of innovation at the earliest stages, Alexandria Venture Investments has been recognized by Silicon Valley Bank as the #1 most active biopharma corporate investor by new deal volume for four consecutive years and by AgFunder as one of the five most active U.S. agrifoodtech investors in 2020. With approximately $2 billion under management, Alexandria Venture Investments continues to invest in many of the most transformative companies accelerating breakthroughs in immunology, neuroscience, cell and gene therapies, single-cell genomics, epigenetics, synthetic biology, in silico drug discovery, precision farming, crop protection, and other cutting-edge areas. Mr. Marcus represents Alexandria on the boards of the publicly traded Applied Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:APLT), Frequency Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:FREQ), Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITCI), and MeiraGTx Holdings plc (NASDAQ:MGTX).

A trusted and collaborative partner within the life science industry, Mr. Marcus was one of the principal architects of Kirin-Amgen, Inc., the trailblazing biotech joint venture established in 1984 to fund the global development and commercialization of EPO (Epogen), and later G-CSF (Neupogen) — two blockbuster recombinant DNA products that have meaningfully benefited countless chronic kidney disease and cancer patients. Mr. Marcus introduced Alexandria's thought leadership vertical in 2011 when he co-founded the Alexandria Summit®. Established to serve as a highly collaborative, neutral platform, the Alexandria Summit convenes a diverse group of visionary stakeholders to explore critical fields in healthcare and the crucial role of medical innovation in the advancement of human health and leverages its powerful collective voice to foster impactful collaborations and shape policy. Over the last decade, the Alexandria Summit has helped stimulate novel approaches to disease that improve patient outcomes, drive the discovery and development of novel and cost-effective therapies, impact policy to advance innovation that saves lives and manages and cures disease, and address the urgent need to transform our healthcare system.

Mr. Marcus also leads Alexandria's far-reaching social responsibility platform, which aim to develop and implement disruptive and scalable solutions to society's most urgent challenges, including disease and other challenges to human health, hunger and food insecurity, deficiencies in support services for the military, the opioid epidemic, educational disparities, and the homelessness crisis. To reverse the trajectory of the opioid epidemic, Mr. Marcus and Alexandria partnered with Verily to pioneer OneFifteen, an innovative, non-profit data-driven recovery ecosystem providing the full continuum of evidence-based care to help people live healthy, addiction-free lives. This meaningful endeavor was featured as the cover story in the January/February 2021 issue of REIT Magazine. He has also been deeply engaged with a number of highly impactful local and national non-profit organizations for many years, including serving on the board of directors of the Emily Krzyzewski Center, which paves a path to long-term success in higher education and beyond for academically focused, low-income K–12 students, and the Navy SEAL Foundation, which provides vital support and care for the Naval Special Warfare community and their families. Mr. Marcus also serves on the boards of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), the National Medal of Honor Museum, the Navy SEAL Foundation, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. His significant philanthropic contributions have been widely recognized, and in March 2020, Mr. Marcus and Alexandria received the prestigious Navy SEAL Foundation Patriot Award for their tireless dedication to, and embodiment of, the values that epitomize the SEAL community.

Mr. Marcus was named one of Real Estate Forum's 2017 Best Bosses in commercial real estate and was a recipient of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award (Los Angeles – Real Estate). He earned his undergraduate and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Stephen A. Richardson is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and has served in this role since April 2018. A 21-year Alexandria veteran, Mr. Richardson jointly leads the company with a long-term focus on strategic planning and revenue growth.

Mr. Richardson previously served as Chief Operating Officer from October 2011 to April 2018, and he held positions of increasing responsibility prior to that. He served as Regional Market Director of the San Francisco Bay Area from July 2005 to April 2018, during which time he led the management and growth of all aspects of the region's asset base and operations. From February 2000 to July 2005, Mr. Richardson was Vice President of Portfolio Services.

Prior to joining the company, he served as a Director of CellNet Data Systems from 1993 to 2000, where he was responsible for negotiating large-scale technology transactions and aggregating a national footprint of wireless spectrum. From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Richardson served as a Director of Marketing and Leasing for Paragon Group, a national real estate development company, and as a real estate broker with Schneider Commercial Real Estate, serving the Greater Silicon Valley market.

Mr. Richardson currently serves on the boards of the California Life Sciences, the state's most influential organization whose mission is to advance California's world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state, and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses; and the Gladstone Foundation, a not-for-profit organization supporting the Gladstone Institutes, an independent state-of-the-art biomedical research institution.

Mr. Richardson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Literature from Claremont McKenna College and his Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.

Peter M. Moglia is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. He has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer since April 2018 and Co-Chief Investment Officer since May 2018. Mr. Moglia served as Chief Investment Officer from January 2009 through April 2018. A 23-year Alexandria veteran, Mr. Moglia is a respected leader with extensive industry and market knowledge.

He jointly leads the company in his role as Co-CEO, and jointly oversees the company’s strategic growth as Co-CIO through a focus on acquisitions and dispositions, development and redevelopment, leasing, and joint ventures. Concurrently, he leads Alexandria’s Real Estate Finance team, which provides critical support across a range of underwriting, due diligence, and financing activities.

Since joining Alexandria in 1998, Mr. Moglia has served in many important capacities of increasing scope and responsibility, including managing the company’s Seattle asset base and operations from April 2003 through December 2008, during which time the region doubled its revenue.

Prior to Alexandria, Mr. Moglia served as an analyst at Lennar Partners, Inc., a diversified real estate company, where his responsibilities included underwriting and structuring direct and joint venture real estate investments. Mr. Moglia began his real estate career in the Management Advisory Services group within the Kenneth Leventhal & Co. Real Estate Group, where he spent six years providing valuation, feasibility, financial modeling, and other analytical services to real estate developers, financial institutions, pension funds, and government agencies.

Mr. Moglia received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dean A. Shigenaga is President and Chief Financial Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. With more than 25 years of accounting and real experience, including 20 years with Alexandria, Mr. Shigenaga is committed to maximizing long-term asset value and total shareholder return, continuing to strengthen the company's credit profile and balance sheet, and maintaining the best-in-class transparency and quality of disclosures and reporting for which Alexandria is known. He led Alexandria's issuance of $1.9 billion of green bonds over the last three years.

During his tenure at Alexandria, he served as Executive Vice President from May 2012 to April 2018; Treasurer from March 2008 to April 2018, where he was responsible for the company's corporate treasury function, including liquidity, financial planning, credit enhancement, and risk management related to financial activities; and has served as Chief Financial Officer since December 2004, effectively leading the company's financial, accounting, and treasury functions. Mr. Shigenaga also served in range of capacities of increasing responsibility from December 2000 to December 2004.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Shigenaga was an Assurance and Advisory Business Services Manager in Ernst & Young LLP's real estate practice. In his role at Ernst & Young, from 1993 through 2000, Mr. Shigenaga provided assurance and advisory services to several publicly traded real estate investment trusts, over a dozen private real estate companies, and many other public and private companies. In addition to providing audit and attestation services, he assisted clients with services related to initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, debt offerings, and technical research.

Mr. Shigenaga is currently a member of Nareit's Corporate Governance Council and has served as a member of Nareit's ESG Task Force. He is a certified public accountant in the state of California and a member of the American Institute of CPAs. Mr. Shigenaga received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California.

Daniel J. Ryan is Co-Chief Investment Officer and Regional Market Director of San Diego at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. In these roles, Mr. Ryan focuses on the company's strategic growth and leads its San Diego asset base and operations. He has been the Regional Market Director of San Diego in capacities of increasing responsibility since June 2010, when Alexandria acquired certain assets of Mr. Ryan's company, Veralliance Properties, Inc. With over 30 years of commercial real estate experience and almost two decades of life science real estate experience, Mr. Ryan is known as an industry veteran and a creative and forward thinker.

During his tenure at Alexandria, Mr. Ryan has led the growth and transformation of the San Diego region to more than 6.5 million RSF of state-of-the-art office and laboratory campuses. In addition to leading the San Diego region, Mr. Ryan has been involved with developments, redevelopments, joint ventures, financing, leasing, and other strategic opportunities across the company's North American asset base, including Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Greater Boston, New York City, Maryland, and Research Triangle.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Ryan was Chief Executive Officer of Veralliance, a commercial real estate development company, which he founded in 2002. Veralliance owned, managed, developed, and leased an approximately $1 billion portfolio primarily consisting of life science assets in the greater San Diego region. Veralliance had significant institutional equity partners, including a REIT, Prudential Real Estate Investors, and UBS. Prior to 2002, Mr. Ryan worked in the commercial real estate industry in Southern California. He was a founding principal of Pacific Management Services, Inc., a commercial developer focused on value-added transactions in the greater San Diego area, including life science, office, industrial, and multifamily transactions.

Mr. Ryan is a board member of Biocom, a Southern California trade organization; the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, a not-for-profit regional body comprising business, government, and civic leaders committed to maximizing economic growth; and the Policy Advisory Board of the University of San Diego – School of Real. He is also a member of the NAIOP and the Urban Land Institute, both public policy organizations focused on public advocacy of the built environment.

Mr. Ryan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was admitted to Omicron Delta Epsilon, the honor society for excellence in achievement in the study of economics.

Lawrence J. Diamond is Co-Chief Operating Officer and Regional Market Director of Maryland at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. In these roles, Mr. Diamond oversees the company’s real estate property operations and leads its Maryland asset base and operations. He is also a key member of the company’s COVID-19 Task Force. Mr. Diamond has more than 35 years of experience in the real estate industry and expertise in all phases of property management, accounting, leasing, and construction services.

Since joining the company in 1998 to open Alexandria's regional office in the Maryland life science cluster, Mr. Diamond has led the region's strategic growth to more than 3 million RSF of office/laboratory space. He has also been responsible for Alexandria’s properties in Canada and Pennsylvania.

From January 1994 to November 1998, Mr. Diamond served as Director of Facility Services for Manor Care, Inc., where he was responsible for management of corporate real estate. From 1980 to 1994, Mr. Diamond’s real estate career was focused on regional Maryland management firms starting with B.F. Saul Company.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting / Business Administration from Frostburg State University.

Joseph Hakman is Co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategic Transactions Officer at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. In these roles, Mr. Hakman oversees property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence activities, financial underwriting, and secured debt placement, contributes to the development of the strategy and business plan for each asset. He has over 25 years of experience in real estate, including more than 14 years with Alexandria.

Before joining the company, Mr. Hakman was part of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Group at Colliers International. In this capacity, he was responsible for financial and project feasibility analyses, investment sales activities, and commercial real estate transaction structuring. Previously, Mr. Hakman was a Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), where he headed a team that was responsible for performing due diligence with respect to the acquisition of commercial property and the securitization of loan portfolios. Prior to PwC, he worked in the asset management division at American Realty Advisors, where he was responsible for the asset management of office, industrial, and land assets nationally.

Mr. Hakman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.

Vincent R. Ciruzzi is Chief Development Officer for Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Mr. Ciruzzi previously served as a Senior Vice President, Construction and Development, from June 2000 to October 2015, Vice President from September 1996 to June 2000, and was an active participant in the company's initial public offering (IPO) in May of 1997. Since Alexandria's IPO, Mr. Ciruzzi has been responsible for the company's domestic and international construction and development operations and services platform. Working with a team of highly skilled professionals, Mr. Ciruzzi has overseen the management of entitlements, design, permits, development, construction, and completion of the company's collaborative life science, agtech, and technology campuses in the company's urban innovation clusters. Mr. Ciruzzi is also deeply involved in the company's sustainability efforts, construction risk management, capital planning, and project budgeting. In 1993, Mr. Ciruzzi founded a real estate development and consulting business, which provided consulting services to Alexandria from September 1995 until his appointment as Vice President. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Ciruzzi served as Project Manager for Home Capital Development Group, a real estate development company, where he specialized in project management of master planned communities, including the management of a 2,600-acre mixed-use community, as well as other real estate development opportunities. Mr. Ciruzzi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Southern California. Mr. Ciruzzi is a key team advocate of Environmental, Social, and Governance, and other sustainability initiatives for the company.

Hunter L. Kass is Executive Vice President – Regional Market Director at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and has served in this role since January 2021. With over 15 years of commercial real estate experience, Mr. Kass is focused on the company's strategic growth through his leadership of the Greater Boston development team and acquisitions and transactions within the Greater Boston region. Since joining Alexandria in 2018 to focus on leading acquisitions and strategic transactions in Greater Boston, Mr. Kass has held positions of increasing responsibility. He previously served as Senior Vice President – Strategic Market Director – Greater Boston from October 2019 to December 2020 and as Vice President – Greater Boston from February 2018 to October 2019.

Prior to Alexandria, Mr. Kass worked at MIT's Endowment (MITIMCo) as a Senior Investment Associate, then a Senior Real Estate Officer, and ultimately an Associate Director in the Transaction Group of the Direct Real Estate Team. During his six-year tenure at MITIMCo, Mr. Kass was a leader in the team that executed over 1 million square feet of leasing, completed multiple transactions that in total exceeded $2 billion, and supported the entitlement and permitting of several million square feet in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mr. Kass received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, a Master of Business Administration from Babson College, and a Master of Science degree from the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John H. Cunningham is the Executive Vice President – Regional Market Director of the New York City cluster at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Mr. Cunningham has more than 30 years of experience in real estate operations, leasing, and development, and has completed over 4.5 million square feet of development projects, including numerous complex life science and specialized high-tech projects, large build-to-suits, and strategic properties. Prior to joining Alexandria, Mr. Cunningham was at Cambridge Property Group in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area since 1987, where he became the President of the Development Group in 1995. While at Cambridge, Mr. Cunningham worked closely with Alexandria from 1997 to 2007, acting as a third-party developer on projects in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. In addition to operations, leasing, and development, Mr. Cunningham has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate. Prior to Cambridge, Mr. Cunningham was the editor-in chief of The Pro Review magazine, a publication for professional photographers. He also served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Loudoun Country Day School for six years, and has published eight novels. Mr. Cunningham received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Maryland.

Terezia C. Nemeth is Executive Vice President – Regional Market Director – San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Nemeth has more than 30 years of experience in real estate development and operations, including 14 years with Alexandria. She previously served as the company's San Francisco Bay Area-based Senior Vice President – Real Estate Development & Community Relations from March 2018 to March 2020 and as Vice President – Development & Community Relations from July 2015 to March 2018. Ms. Nemeth was also with the Company as Vice President, Development from February 2005 to July 2013.

During her career, Ms. Nemeth has completed 5 million square feet of commercial development projects, including several complex life science multi-phase campus projects in the Bay Area, as well as managed the operations of the Alexandria’s Mission Bay assets between 2009 and 2013. Ms. Nemeth has worked on the Mission Bay project in San Francisco since its inception in 1998. She has led the design, entitlement, and project management for all commercial development at Mission Bay for the Company as well as previously for Catellus Development Corporation. Ms. Nemeth has also served as a Special Assistant – Development to SF Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr., and as Long Range Planning Director for the City of Oakland.

Ms. Nemeth serves as Chair of the Mission Bay Community Advisory Committee, as well as a member of the Board of the Mission Bay Transportation Management Association and the Mission Bay Commercial Maintenance Corporation, and previously served on the Board of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation. Ms. Nemeth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture degree and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley as well as a Master of Science degree from the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marc E. Binda is Executive Vice President – Finance and Treasurer at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. With over 20 years of diversified financial experience and deep knowledge of the REIT industry, Mr. Binda is a trusted member of Alexandria's executive management team. Since joining the company in 2005, Mr. Binda has served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility within the finance and accounting functions. He oversees the company's treasury strategies and risk management, financial projections, capital planning, debt financing, and other capital market transactions and provides business and technical advice on unique and complex real estate, joint venture, and leasing transactions. Prior to joining the company, he was a Financial Reporting Manager at a privately held retail REIT, where he was responsible for accounting, finance, and treasury matters, REIT compliance, debt compliance, and U.S. and Australian GAAP reporting. Mr. Binda began his career in Ernst & Young LLP's Real Estate Advisory Business Services group, where he served three publicly traded REITs and other public and private companies. Mr. Binda is a certified public accountant in the State of California and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from California Lutheran University.

Andres R. Gavinet has served as Chief Accounting Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. since June 2012. Mr. Gavinet oversees the Company’s accounting and financial reporting functions and the execution of capital market transactions. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Gavinet was the Chief Accounting Officer at Ares Management, a global alternative asset manager.

Previously, Mr. Gavinet served in senior finance and accounting positions in private and public real estate companies, including as Chief Financial Officer at Younan Properties, as Executive Vice President of Finance at Douglas Emmett, Inc., and as Chief Accounting Officer at Arden Realty, Inc. Mr. Gavinet began his career in the Assurance and Advisory Services group within the EY Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group, where he spent five years practicing as a certified public accountant and assisting clients with audit and attestation services related to REIT initial public offerings and debt and joint venture compliance.

Mr. Gavinet received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from California State University, Northridge.

Jackie Clem is General Counsel and Secretary at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Since joining Alexandria in 2006, Ms. Clem has overseen a vast array of complex domestic and international transactions; helped to develop and implement protocols and initiatives within the Legal department; managed the department's leasing and transactions groups; and is a key member of the company's COVID-19 Task Force. Ms. Clem has over 20 years of commercial real estate and related legal experience. Ms. Clem previously practiced law in the real estate department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in Los Angeles, where she specialized in acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development, and other commercial real estate transactions and represented a variety of REITs, regional and national developers, retailers, and institutional investors. Ms. Clem received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is also a member of the California Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Throughout her career, Ms. Clem has been actively involved in a number of community organizations. She helped found the Pasadena Education Network, a non-profit organization promoting family participation in public education in Pasadena, California, and previously served on the board of the Pasadena Educational Foundation.

Gary D. Dean is Executive Vice President – Real Estate Legal Affairs at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Since joining Alexandria in 2004, Mr. Dean has been responsible for real estate legal issues related to acquisitions, dispositions, leases, and operational matters. In addition, as FCPA and OFAC compliance officer, he oversees Alexandria's compliance program and reviews and evaluates compliance issues/concerns within the organization. Mr. Dean manages Alexandria's vendor contracting process and is a key legal advisor to the Real Estate Development legal department. He has over 20 years of commercial real estate and related experience and also previously practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in its Los Angeles and Tokyo offices. While at Skadden, he represented several publicly traded REITs and other institutional clients with investments in hotel, retail, office, residential, and mixed-use projects. Mr. Dean earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, magna cum laude, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.