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Brandenburg Properties finds itself in the unusually fortunate position of having founders still involved in the business and a second generation of leadership firmly in place. This succession of management has been achieved by creation of an environment that rewards and encourages staff retention. The result is stability of people and purpose, significant institutional memory and experienced team players exemplifying ingenuity and integrity. As Lee Brandenburg puts it, “My partners, our support staff and I dedicate ourselves to the principles of integrity, honesty and perseverance, every day.”
Lee H. Brandenburg, the founding partner of Brandenburg Properties, has been an icon in the real estate industry for more than 5 decades. After graduation from San Jose State University and two tours of duty for the United States Army, both as an enlisted man and an officer, he began his career in the mid 1950s. Lee began as a real estate sales person, then started to entitle and develop many custom home and multifamily subdivisions. He expanded into commercial, retail and office building development, and, through the partnership Brandenburg, Staedler & Moore, entitled and developed 17, 5-star mobilehome communities, consisting of nearly 5000 units. Fourteen of them remain in BS&M ownership. (www.bsmcommunities.com). Commencing in the mid-1970s and continuing today, Lee concentrates his efforts on golf course entitlement and construction. These projects comprise large-scale residential golf and resort communities in Northern and Southern California, the southeastern United States and British Columbia, as well as other residential and commercial developments in California, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas. Lee has builder partners, Palm Springs Modern Homes and Joseph Nicholas Homes, who are active in the home building industry in Palm Springs and elsewhere in Southern California. In addition to his real estate holdings, Lee is an author and movie producer. He is an avid golfer and enjoys traveling. Together with his wife, Diane, and family, he formed the Brandenburg Family Foundation, which provides millions of dollars for worthy non-profit organizations in the areas that Brandenburg Properties conducts its business. Over the years, Lee has served on many boards of civic and charitable organizations, and both he and Diane have received numerous recognitions and awards. This recognition includes being named Silicon Valley’s Outstanding Philanthropists, listing among the Top 100 Most Influential Leaders in both Philanthropy and Real Estate and being named Most Outstanding Community Volunteers. Lee and Diane have four grown children and four grandchildren.
Eric Brandenburg is a partner who joined his father, Lee, in 1978. Eric Brandenburg is involved with all aspects of the real estate investment business. His primary focus is the acquisition and entitlement of the land investments. In addition to negotiating acquisitions, Eric identifies income property investments to add to Brandenburg Properties portfolio. Eric enjoys his work in the non-profit community, where he has helped raise millions of dollars for operations and capital campaigns for numerous worthy organizations, such as the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford, American Heart Association, Walden West Outdoor School Education Foundation, Just for Youth, KTEH Public Television and the Emergency Housing Consortium. Eric serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Land Conservancy, an organization dedicated to acquiring lands to be protected as natural open space in perpetuity. As well, he has served on many non-profit boards and has received numerous awards and recognition for his efforts, including the “Ronnie Award” for Outstanding Community Volunteer from the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. Eric was recognized as the Outstanding Fund Raiser of the Year by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. Eric’s proudest accomplishment is his family, his wife and his twin daughter and son.
Chuck is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Prior to 1981, he was the managing partner of the real estate law group at a prominent San Jose law firm. He left the practice of law in 1981 to co-found Renco Investment Company, where he was the managing general partner. Renco Investment Company developed numerous industrial properties, including Bayside Technology Park in Fremont, which was then the largest industrial park in Silicon Valley. He joined Lee Brandenburg in late 1985. In addition to his development activities, Chuck has served on a number of city-sponsored advisory groups and is currently a member of the Mayor’s Coyote Valley Task Force that is planning the development of 7,000 acres in South San Jose. He currently serves as a part-time consultant to Brandenburg Properties.
Since 1983, Bill has been engaged with the company in all aspects of real estate acquisitions, dispositions, entitlement, financing and development. He oversees daily operations of the company while specifically managing certain projects located in Northern and Southern California, Georgia, South Carolina and British Columbia. Bill is a graduate of San Jose State University and a fourth-generation San Josean. He actively serves his community as a member of the Rotary Club of San Jose, board member and past board chair of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, Trustee of COMPAC, the Chamber’s Political Action Committee, board member of the Stroke Awareness Foundation, board member of the Baron Student Leadership Award at San Jose State University, board member of Baseball San Jose, member of the Sainte Claire Club and member of the American Heart Association Monopoly Night gala. Bill is the recipient of numerous distinctions, including: the National Society of Fund Raising Executives Distinguished Volunteer Award in 1998, the Volunteer of the Year Award given by the American Heart Association for 1997-1998 and 2001, a Laureate distinction given by Junior Achievement 2006, and the Small Business Advocate of the Year given by the California Chamber of Commerce 2006. He also served on San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s 2007 Transition Team. Bill is married and has two children. He enjoys golf, travel and cooking.
Ron obtained his California CPA certificate in May of 1985 and worked primarily with real estate, golf course and hospitality industry clients while at a prominent Silicon Valley based CPA firm. In 1990, Ron became the controller for Brandenburg Properties, and in 1998, he broadened his role by concentrating on real estate investment and development projects, including entity formation, financial forecasts, tax planning, acquisitions, dispositions, financing, entitlement and development. Ron is responsible for managing real estate projects located in Northern and Southern California, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana. Ron is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Southern California and attended graduate school courses in taxation at San Jose State University. He was commissioned by the California Society of CPAs to author and teach an eight-hour CPE seminar in restaurant accounting and financial systems, which he taught in California, New Mexico and Washington. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has served on the Members in Industry Committee of the California CPA Society’s Silicon Valley Chapter and is a former member of the Construction Financial Management Association. Ron and his wife have two children. He enjoys music, golf, aikido and motorcycle riding.
Joe has been the controller for the Company since 1998. Mr. Di Leo manages all accounting functions, including financial reporting and tax compliance. Joe is a graduate of San Jose State University where he earned a Master of Business Administration Degree. He earned his license to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in 1994 and is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Joe is a native of San Jose and enjoys attending sports events and is active in youth sports. He currently serves as a finance committee member of St. Thomas of Canterbury Church. Joe is married and has two children.
Hector Gonzalez joined the Brandenburg Properties team in early 2007. As Property & Acquisition Coordinator, Hector provides the preliminary evaluation and analysis of portfolio additions including market research, rent roll and financial analysis. In addition, Hector also assists our Partners on projects and tasks related to property management and raw land acquisition & entitlement. Prior to joining Brandenburg Properties, Hector worked as a litigation paralegal at Covington & Burling, LLP in San Francisco. Hector graduated from Boston College in 2002 with a degree in sociology and economics. Like other members of the Brandenburg Properties team, Hector has been heavily involved in community development projects, both at home and abroad. He has volunteered as a teacher in the underprivileged school districts of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, as well as helped build affordable housing in Kingston, Jamaica, and in the rural Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. When not at his desk, Hector can be found scuba diving, on the fairway or on the soccer field.
Jacqueline joined the Company in 2006 with a broad base of experience in real estate sales, entity formation and technical writing. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from San Jose State University and is a licensed Real Estate Broker. As a member of the development team, Jacqueline manages the purchase and sale escrows and exchanges. She is also involved with the management of commercial properties in California and a multi-unit residential property in South Carolina. Jacqueline is a volunteer tutor in the Partners-in-Reading program with the San Jose Public Library, a program focused on promoting adult literacy. She is a world traveler and also enjoys photography, creative writing, water sports and hiking.
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