Meet Bruce Bean

Specialties: Investment Sales Broker

Markets: San Francisco

Property Types: Office, Industrial, Retail, Multi-Family, Health Care, Specialty, Land

Relevant Experience

Commercial Real Estate

• ​​​​​​​Founder and Sole Owner of The Trafton Group, San Mateo CA
• Previously with TRI and Cushman & Wakefield, San Mateo CA
• Directing, managing, marketing, selling, leasing, and property management for commercial real estate. 

Architectural Design President:

• Beavers, Bean and Hale Associates
• Boulder CO Merged with Oz Architecture
• Directing, managing design and planning for financial institutions, corporations and non-profits.

Prior Board Membership

• San Mateo Rotary Club - Previous Board Member
• Board President Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA

HIP Housing

• HIP Housing San Mateo, CA​​​​​​​
• Previous Board Member and Board President 2010 to 2017 Head of Housing Committee: Managing HIP’s property purchases.

Affordable Housing Ventures

• Founder
• Purchasing naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH) non-profit housing developers.

Education

• LEED Courses Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Boston MA Graduate Studies in Urban and Regional Planning University of Colorado
• Boulder CO Bachelor of Arts
• East Asian Studies Foreign Studies: World Campus Afloat, Chapman College Foreign studies: Art and Religion, Kyoto, Japan

References

• Kate Comfort Harr, ED HIP Housing, San Mateo CA (650)348 - 6660 x 307
• James Wagstaffe, Kerr & Wagstaffe, San Francisco CA (415) 357 - 8901
• Amy Richards, Retired Head, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA (917) 748 - 5169