Speaker Info
Kevin Bates
President, SHARP Development Company
Kevin graduated from Stanford University and has 37 years of experience in commercial real estate finance and development. He has owned Sharp Development Company for the past 26 years. He handles all aspects of the development process, and has personally completed more than 50 buildings totaling over 2.5 million square feet of space.
More recently, Kevin has concentrated on retrofitting older generation buildings that are operationally carbon neutral, have a net zero energy bill, and a strong emphasis on the health and wellness of the interior environment for its occupants. The driver for Kevin is to demonstrate that this way of repurposing existing building stock can be done in a manner that is quantifiably, significantly more profitable for the ownership than the less expensive way of building to meet minimum code. He has completed six ZNE buildings of this nature, and has 2 others currently under design development in Silicon Valley.