Bryant sparkman, Principal

Bryant Sparkman is the founder of Century | Urban, a leading real estate investment, advisory and asset management firm headquartered in San Francisco. Bryant provides strategic real estate investment and advisory services to third-party clients, including economic analysis, transaction structuring, establishment of public-private-partnerships, and acquisition-related services to enhance and preserve long-term generational value for Century | Urban clients.

Bryant has more than 20 years of real estate investment, advisory, development, and institutional asset management experience that encompasses a wide range of property types, including office buildings, market-rate apartments and affordable housing, full-service hotels, and large-scale mixed-use projects such as the landmark Hotel and Residences at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. Bryant has provided advisory services on over $5 billion of real estate projects in San Francisco and has significant expertise in the successful consummation of public-private-partnerships such as the Mission Rock mixed-used project with the San Francisco Giants and Tishman Speyer in San Francisco.

Leo Ma, PRINCIPAL

As a principal of Century | Urban, Leo leads real estate advisory engagements with public and private clients, such as the Port of San Francisco and the City and County of San Francisco with regard to the 3-million-square-foot Pier 70 Waterfront Site development project in San Francisco.

Leo Ma has over 21 years of real estate experience, during which he has been involved in acquiring, developing, and managing billions of dollars in properties.  Prior to Century | Urban, Leo served as Chief Financial Officer for Waypoint Homes, a leader in the emerging industry of single-family rental housing that invested over $400 million in acquiring, renovating, leasing and managing more than 2,500 homes in Arizona, California, Georgia, and Illinois during his tenure with the firm.

Griselda blackburn, Senior VICE President

Griselda Blackburn has over 10 years of experience in providing real estate, financial, and economic advisory services to municipal and institutional clients.  She previously served as Vice President and Assistant Portfolio Manager for BlackRock, Inc. where she assisted in launching the firm’s first land development fund. Her responsibilities included conducting an economic feasibility study, developing the fund’s investment strategy, authoring the private placement memorandum and performing the initial underwriting for several high profile investment opportunities to seed the new fund. Furthermore, Griselda was responsible for directing portfolio operations for two real estate multifamily funds including strategic direction, property operations, and acquisition and disposition opportunities. 

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Jessica Rose Murphy, SENIOR ASSET & Property Manager

Jessica Murphy is responsible for performing asset and property management functions for commercial properties located in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.  Jessica’s direct responsibilities include working with private family clients, managing third party tenant relationships, overseeing design professionals and general contractors, along with facilitating the successful operation of the properties and asset level reporting. This includes coordination of contract bidding, negotiation and selection as well as maintaining vendor relationships. Jessica also plays a role with accounting and finance operations including preparation of annual budgets, preparing monthly accounting reports, and coordinating the accounts receivable and accounts payable processes.

Cameron sardi, financial analyst, advisory & Asset Management

Cameron Sardi is responsible for performing analytical, asset management and advisory functions for Century | Urban. Cameron’s primary responsibilities include providing analytical support to the firm’s advisory clients, financial underwriting and conducting market research to evaluate a project’s economic feasibility. Cameron is responsible for performing acquisition underwriting on new office, industrial, residential, hotel and mixed-use assets in the surrounding Bay Area and Western United States. This includes conducting asset level due diligence, conducting market research to determine risk-adjusted returns, validation of market rents, operating expenses and development budgets, along with preparing annual cash flow statements and joint venture return sensitivity analysis.

Jake Kraft, Special Projects advisor

At Century Urban, Jake Kraft works on a variety of real estate advisory and consulting matters including valuation, asset and portfolio strategy, capital markets, financial analysis, asset management and development analysis. Jake was previously a Senior Vice President with Bristol Group, Inc., a national real estate investment and development firm. At Bristol, Jake ran the apartment, self-storage, and gas station businesses and co-ran the industrial business in New Jersey and Seattle. Jake has directly managed over $445 million in assets and acquired or lent on projects totaling $145 million in cost. He has been involved in raising over $1 billion of equity for real estate investments and co-mingled funds.