W. Blake Baird
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Terreno Realty
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone (415) 655-4580
Property Types
Industrial
Markets
San Francisco
Bio
Prior to co-founding Terreno Realty Corporation, Blake was President and a Director of AMB Property Corporation and Chairman of its Investment Committee. Blake led a significant transformation of AMB, exiting the shopping center business to focus on industrial properties near major airports and seaports, internalizing property operations, expanding into 12 countries and building an in-house development function. Blake joined AMB in January 1999 as Chief Investment Officer, was named President in January 2000 and was elected to the Board in 2001.
Prior to joining AMB, Blake was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co., most recently as head of Real Estate Investment Banking for the western United States. Blake spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter, the last 11 focusing on real estate.
Blake is a Director of Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (NYSE:SHO), a lodging REIT. Blake was a Director of Matson, Inc. (NYSE:MATX) from 2012-2020 and a Director of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE:ALEX) from 2006-2012.
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