DAVE MASON

1122 Westmoreland Circle, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Phone: (925) 482-7078 Email: davemason2003@comcast.net

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

� Multi-skilled Real Estate Professional with additional government relations and lobbying skills

� Knowledge of negotiating strategies to acquire and maintain control of real estate properties

� Experience preparing valuations for potential acquisitions and evaluating post-transaction options

� Expertise managing efforts to identify, analyze and obtain control of properties for potential

investment and acquisition

� Strong understanding of the governmental process for entitling development projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Valued Places, LLC, Walnut Creek, CA, 2007-2010

Governmental Affairs Director/Project Manager

Worked with real estate community and banks to find vacant land, redevelopment opportunities,

distressed assets and value-add properties. Helped secured control of various properties for

clients and associated opportunity fund White Knight Holdings, LLC. Performed formal due

diligence on controlled properties. Packaged properties with updated business plans for

marketing to potential investors and acquisition entities. Helped build a team of partner investors

for the final acquisitions of controlled properties.

� Successfully led efforts to identify properties for acquisition and initiated negotiations.

Developed and implemented negotiating strategies.

� Identified options for repositioning, stabilizing and marketing controlled properties. Options

included, equity infusion, restructuring of debt, improved property management and lease

administration, commercial use reconfiguration, capital improvements, and enhanced

development plans.

� Worked with elected officials and government agencies to verify the existing development

entitlements for acquisition properties and to determine the viability for increasing

entitlements through the public approvals process. Mapped out options for increasing

entitlements to determine the costs and timetables for achieving respective options. Created

business plans for increasing entitlements and assembled teams of consultants to achieved

business plan goals.

� Created highly persuasive and dynamic Keynote/PowerPoint presentations for meetings with

clients, investors, elected officials and government agencies. Also, created Investor Packages

for marketing controlled properties.

� Communicated directly with clients and investors to update them on acquisition progress and

potential issues. Developed regular presentations, reports and summaries.

Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento, CA, 2005-2007

Regional Policy & External Relations Manager

Worked with Sacramento Metro Chamber’s public policy team to advance public policy priorities

on behalf of the Sacramento region’s business community. Successfully advocated pro-business

legislation and opposed anti-business legislation, while also promoting common sense policy

alternatives that would achieve legislative goals without hurting businesses or impacting jobs.

� Acted as primary liaison to local, state and federal governmental agencies on regional public

policy issues. Represented chamber before governmental agencies and at public meetings.

� Served as lead staff on land use, natural resources, transportation, flood protection, water

resources, air quality and urban redevelopment issues.

DAVE MASON

1122 Westmoreland Circle, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Phone: (925) 482-7078 Email: davemason2003@comcast.net

� Became go-to policy writer for advocacy letters, membership alerts, public testimony, press

releases, policy memos and position papers.

� Coordinated and managed components of annual lobbying programs and events including

State of the City, State of the Counties, State Advocacy Day, and federal Cap-to-Cap advocacy

trip to Washington, DC. Successfully increased Cap-to-Cap advocacy trip attendance from 280

to 400 attendees over three years and help create State Advocacy Day to lobby policy

priorities at the state level.

� Developed and executed advocacy strategies including coalition building, lobbying

appointments, media outreach, membership letter writing campaigns, and coordinated

attendance for public hearings.

Lew Edwards Group, Oakland, CA, 2003-2004

Account Executive/Associate

Managed two successful school bond measure campaigns in Orange County. Also managed a

parcel tax measure campaign to fund education programs in eastern Los Angeles County.

Oversaw campaign budgets, directed fundraising activities and managed campaign expenditures.

Kaufman Campaign Consultants, Sacramento, CA, 2001 & 2002-2003

Campaign Coordinator

Coordinated campaign activity for multiple clients, including Senator Jack O’Connell for State

Superintendent of Public Instruction, two independent expenditures and an Assembly candidate.

Organized “Tour of the State” for Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Senator Jack

O’Connell. Tour included “Sidewalk Office Hours” press events and editorial board outreach.

EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001

Bachelor of Arts

� Philosophy – Major, Ethics and Public Policy Emphasis

� Law and Society – Major

� Political Science – Minor