S. Shepherd Heery, President

Shepherd Heery is President and Chief Executive Officer of Brookwood Group and is responsible for Brookwood’s operations in the Western United States and internationally. His experience as a professional architect and construction program manager for private and public sector owners spans more than 25 years. He has extensive management, leadership and marketing experience, especially in the realms of high-rise office and residential developments, encompassing all aspects of the development process.

From 2002 through early 2009, Shep served as Senior Vice President of Myers Development Company in San Francisco where he had overall responsibility for implementing the firm's development and construction activities.

From 2000-2001, Shep was employed with Tishman Speyer Properties as the Director of Development in San Francisco where he and his colleagues secured planning and zoning approvals to develop the recently completed the 33-story, 650,000sf office tower at 555 Mission. He also initiated the environmental review process for several residential towers that are now under construction in downtown San Francisco.

As co-founder of Satulah Group (the original name of Brookwood Group), Shep guided the growth of the firm from 1989-1997 and, in late 1997, he negotiated the sale of Satulah's corporate facilities project management business to LaSalle Partners, predecessor to Jones Lang LaSalle. In conjunction with the sale of that business unit, he joined Jones Lang LaSalle where he worked for two years in a multi-disciplinary marketing capacity. At the time of the sale to LaSalle, the Company's name was changed to Brookwood Group.

From 1982-1989, Shep was a Project Manager with Gerald D. Hines Interests, responsible for the development of several high-rise projects in Oakland and San Francisco. Prior to Shep’s experience at Hines, he was a practicing architect and construction program manager in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Aspen, Colorado.

Shep also serves on the Brookwood Group Board of Directors.

Shepherd holds the professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his undergraduate years he attended University College at Oxford for a half year and traveled in Europe in the study of architectural history.