The SKB Team - Principals
SKB is led by five knowledgeable and experienced professionals — Bob Scanlan, Todd Gooding, Tom Bard, Peter Stott and Will Glasgow. The Principals bring an executive background in real estate from corporations such as CB Richard Ellis, Cushman & Wakefield, GE Capital, Stein and Company, Perkins Coie and PacifiCorp.
Robert D. Scanlan
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Principal
Mr. Scanlan has more than 34 years of regional and national commercial real estate experience. Prior to founding SKB, he worked for CB Commercial Inc. (CB Richard Ellis) for 18 years, where he held various senior management positions in Portland, Seattle, Denver, New York and Los Angeles, concluding as President of Capital Markets and a Director with responsibility for investment banking, mortgage banking, appraisal and consultation. Mr. Scanlan was one of the four senior officers that acquired CB Commercial, Inc. (CB Richard Ellis) from Sears Roebuck in an LBO together with The Carlyle Group in 1989. He led the team that placed the then-largest-ever single asset mortgage – $875 million on Sears Tower in 1988; acted as real estate advisor to The Anschutz Company in their 1986 acquisition of Southern Pacific Railroad; and managed with CB the subsequent liquidation of over $2 billion of Southern Pacific real estate. In 1974, Mr. Scanlan was the first-ever CB Commercial, Inc. broker to receive their National Rookie of the Year Award. Before joining CB Commercial, Inc., Mr. Scanlan served as Vice President & National Operations Manager for W.W. Grainger, Inc. (Grainger’s) in Chicago. He also headed PacifiCorp Financial Services Real Estate Investment Banking Group from 1991-1993 and currently sits on the Board of Directors of Opus Northwest, LLC – contractors and developers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also sits on the board of trustees as past President and Lifetime Trustee of Providence St. Vincent Medical Foundation, and President of Portland French School Board of Trustees. Mr. Scanlan has served as trustee of Reed College, Portland Art Museum, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland State University, Los Angeles Theatre Center and Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Scanlan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College, majoring in history.
Todd M. Gooding
President, Chief Investment Officer, Principal
Before joining SKB in 1996, Mr. Gooding served as Vice President of Acquisitions for G.E. Capital Investment Advisors and Senior Real Estate Analyst with CB Commercial, Inc. (CB Richard Ellis), both in San Francisco. In these capacities, he underwrote over $1 billion of commercial real estate investments for clients such as General Motors retirement funds, CalPERS and the AT&T Master Pension Trust. He started his career as a licensed commercial real estate appraiser in California. He has subsequently personally overseen the acquisition of over $2 billion, and the disposition of over $900 million, of commercial real estate with SKB. Mr. Gooding received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Oregon.
N. Thomson Bard, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, Principal
Mr. Bard brings more than 36 years in real estate development and asset management experience in six major U.S. commercial markets. At SKB, he is responsible for the entire portfolio, which has totaled some 18.4 million square feet and typically averages over 7 million square feet of retail, office and industrial space. Prior to co-founding SKB, Mr. Bard served as Regional Vice President of Cushman & Wakefield’s Southeast, Atlanta and Mid-Atlantic region where he was responsible for 18 million square feet of retail, office and industrial space. The most notable of these projects included the Chrysler Technology Center, Chrysler’s 3 million square foot state of the art new product development center in Auburn Hills, MI and the Georgia Pacific Headquarters (1.2 million SF) in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Bard also served as the development consultant and limited partner in the 30-story Pacwest Center office tower in downtown Portland, SKB’s headquarters since its founding. The equity investors in Pacwest Center were Mitsubishi Estate and Morgan Stanley. Before that, Mr. Bard was Senior Vice President of Stein & Company in Chicago – developers of the United Center, AT&T Corporate Center and Comiskey Park. While managing the Stein portfolio of over 6.5 million square feet, he opened and operated under budget a 500,000 square foot building for the General Services Administration of the Federal Government for whom Stein & Co had constructed and guaranteed operating costs for two years. Mr. Bard earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame in Electrical Engineering and his Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University. Mr. Bard also served as a Nautilus class submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.
William J. Glasgow
Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Principal
Mr. Glasgow brings over 30 years of senior management, investment and legal experience to SKB. Most recently he was a partner at Perkins Coie, LLP, the largest law firm in the Northwest – where he represented SKB, and earlier in his legal career, he was a partner at Stoel Rives, LLP – Oregon’s largest law firm; and the founding partner of Perkins Coie’s Portland office. During his legal career, Mr. Glasgow represented the developer in a joint venture with Morgan Stanley and Mitsubishi Estate, involving the development of the $85 million, 30-story Pacwest Center office tower in Portland, Oregon and represented Sequent Computer Systems (now IBM) in its 3-phase 120,000 square foot lease of a new campus. In the intervening years, Mr. Glasgow served as a business executive in various capacities. He was CEO of PacifiCorp Financial Services, a $2.4 billion company with extensive real estate holdings, and CFO of PacifiCorp, a Fortune 200 company. At PacificCorp, Mr. Glasgow oversaw Pacific Development and Pacific Harbor Capital which owned and managed 50 square blocks, including 1 million square feet of office space in Portland, Oregon and almost 3,000 affordable housing units around the country. He also structured and negotiated billions of dollars of financing on more than 100 projects, leveraged leases, M & A transactions and public and private financings. Mr. Glasgow was also President of NERCO, Inc., a NYSE natural resources company; CEO of BCN Data Systems, a Bechtel international joint venture, and a venture capitalist with Madrona Venture Group and Shaw, Glasgow Venture Partners. Mr. Glasgow received his Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and his Juris Doctorate degree magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
Peter W. Stott
Vice Chairman, Principal
Mr. Stott was an original financial sponsor of SKB at its founding in 1993. Since that time, he has been one of SKB’s most active high net worth investors. From 1988-2004, Mr. Stott was Co-Founder and former CEO of Crown Pacific, a large, publicly held forest products company. He was also the founder and CEO, and later, chairman emeritus of Market Transport, Ltd. (1969-2006), the largest “asset based” transportation and logistics services company headquartered in Oregon. Market transport, Ltd. was acquired in 2006 by UTI Worldwide, a NASDAQ traded transportation and logistic company. Mr. Stott is also on the Board of Directors for Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW) the nation’s third-largest less-than-truckload carrier with a market cap of $1.85 billion and revenue of $4.17 billion. Mr. Stott is a former member of the Board of Directors of Liberty Northwest Insurance Company. Mr. Stott attended Portland State University.