Meet Our Team

Joel S. Marcus is Executive Chairman and Founder of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE:ARE), an urban office REIT that pioneered the life science real estate niche in 1994 and remains the longest-tenured owner, operator, and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, technology, and agtech campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations. Mr. Marcus co-founded Alexandria as a garage startup with $19 million in Series A capital and, as its Chief Executive Officer for 20 years from March 1997 to April 2018, led its growth into an S&P 500 company with a total market capitalization of over $18 billion and a total shareholder return of approximately 1,350% from the company’s May 1997 IPO to December 31, 2017. Alexandria reached its 20th anniversary as an NYSE listed REIT in May 2017. As of September 30, 2019, the company has a total market capitalization exceeding $24 billion and a total shareholder return of over 1,600%. Alexandria was named the NAIOP 2019 Developer of the Year and is a four-time Gold winner of the Nareit Investor CARE (Communications and Reporting Excellence) Award.

From first mover to leader in developing life science, technology, and agtech clusters, Alexandria has uniquely and successfully utilized Harvard Business Professor Michael Porter’s cluster theory as the foundation for its own proven cluster model, for which Alexandria identified four critical components for innovative companies to thrive: location, innovation, talent, and capital. To foster innovation and collaboration, Alexandria made the crucial decision to pursue its urban cluster campus strategy in Mission Bay (2004), New York City (2005), and Cambridge (2006). This strategic course, fueled by the company’s mission to create clusters that accelerate the world’s leading innovators in their pursuit of advancing human health by curing disease and improving nutrition, has helped shape Alexandria’s unique business model, which Mr. Marcus has built around four business verticals: real estate, venture investments, thought leadership, and corporate responsibility.

Mr. Marcus was named one of Real Estate Forum’s 2017 Best Bosses in commercial real estate and was previously a recipient of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award (Los Angeles – Real Estate). Mr. Marcus earned his undergraduate and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Stephen A. Richardson is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and has served in this role since April 2018. A 19-year Alexandria veteran, Mr. Richardson jointly leads the company with a long-term focus on strategic planning and revenue growth.

Most recently at Alexandria, Mr. Richardson served as Chief Operating Officer from October 2011 to April 2018, and he held positions of increasing responsibility prior to that. He served as Regional Market Director of San Francisco from July 2005 to April 2018, during which time he led the management and growth of all aspects of the region’s asset base and operations. From February 2000 to July 2005, Mr. Richardson was Vice President of Portfolio Services.

Prior to joining the company, he served as a Director of CellNet Data Systems from 1993 to 2000 and was responsible for negotiating large-scale technology transactions and aggregating a national wireless spectrum footprint . From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Richardson served as a Director of Marketing and Leasing at Paragon Group, a national real estate development company, and as a real estate broker with Schneider Commercial Real Estate, where he served the Greater Silicon Valley market.

Mr. Richardson currently serves on the boards of the California Life Sciences Association, the state’s most influential organization whose mission is to advance California’s world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state, and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses; and the Gladstone Foundation, a not-for-profit organization supporting the Gladstone Institutes, an independent state-of-the-art biomedical research institution.

Mr. Richardson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Literature from Claremont McKenna College and his Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.

Peter M. Moglia is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. He has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer since April 2018 and Chief Investment Officer since January 2009. A 21-year Alexandria veteran, Mr. Moglia is a respected leader with extensive industry and market knowledge.

Mr. Moglia jointly leads the company in his role as Co-CEO, and jointly oversees the company’s strategic growth as Co-CIO through a focus on acquisitions and dispositions, development and redevelopment, leasing, and joint ventures. He also concurrently leads Alexandria’s Real Estate Finance team, which provides critical support across a range of underwriting, due diligence, and financing activities.

Since joining Alexandria in 1998, Mr. Moglia has served in many important capacities of increasing scope and responsibility, including managing the company’s Seattle asset base and operations from April 2003 through December 2008, during which time the region doubled its revenue.

Prior to Alexandria, Mr. Moglia served as an analyst at Lennar Partners, Inc., a diversified real estate company, where his responsibilities included underwriting and structuring direct and joint venture real estate investments. Mr. Moglia began his real estate career in the Management Advisory Services group within the Kenneth Leventhal & Co. Real Estate Group, a subsidiary of Ernst & Young LLP, where he spent six years providing valuation, feasibility, financial modeling, and other analytical services to real estate developers, financial institutions, pension funds, and government agencies.

Mr. Moglia received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dean A. Shigenaga is Co-President and Chief Financial Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. With more than 25 years of accounting and real estate experience, including 18 years with Alexandria, Mr. Shigenaga is committed to maximizing long-term asset value and total shareholder return, continuing to strengthen the company’s credit profile and balance sheet, and maintaining the best-in-class transparency, quality, and efficiency of disclosures and reporting for which Alexandria is known.

During his tenure at Alexandria, Mr. Shigenaga has effectively led the company’s financial, accounting, and treasury functions as Chief Financial Officer since December 2004. He previously served as Treasurer from March 2008 to April 2018, when he was responsible for the company's corporate treasury function, including liquidity, financial planning, credit enhancement, and risk management related to financial activities, and as Executive Vice President from May 2012 to April 2018. Mr. Shigenaga also served in capacities of increasing responsibility from December 2000 to December 2004.

Prior to Alexandria, Mr. Shigenaga was an Assurance and Advisory Business Services Manager in Ernst & Young LLP’s Real Estate practice, where, from 1993 to 2000, he provided assurance and advisory services to several publicly traded REITs, over a dozen private real estate companies, and many other public and private companies. In addition to providing audit and attestation services, he assisted clients with services related to initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, debt offerings, and technical research.

Mr. Shigenaga is a certified public accountant in the State of California and a member of the American Institute of CPAs. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California.

Thomas J. Andrews is Co-President and Regional Market Director of Greater Boston at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. In these roles, Mr. Andrews focuses on the company’s overall strategic operations and leads its Greater Boston asset base and operations. He has been Regional Market Director of Greater Boston, with increasing responsibility related to the role, since joining Alexandria in 1999.

With 30 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry, he has a proven track record and leading reputation within the real estate, life science, and technology communities. During his 19-year tenure at Alexandria, Mr. Andrews has steered the transformative growth of Greater Boston into the company’s largest region, which is home to three of Alexandria’s most prominent life science and technology campuses—Alexandria Technology Square, Alexandria Center at Kendall Square, and Alexandria Center at One Kendall Square—in the heart of Cambridge. As Regional Market Director of Greater Boston, Mr. Andrews has led the strategic acquisition of multiple value-added properties; diligently managed on-time, on-budget development projects; and cultivated and maintained key tenant relationships. He has also built and continues to guide with operational excellence a highly skilled team across a range of disciplines.

Prior to Alexandria, Mr. Andrews worked at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1988 to 1999, serving first as Assistant Director and later as Executive Director. The Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Park is believed to be the first purpose-built biotechnology research park in the country.

Mr. Andrews serves on the boards of the Massachusetts chapter of NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association and the Kendall Square Association and is a member of the Economic Development Advisory Group of Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio).

He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Real Estate Development degree from the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Daniel J. Ryan is Co-Chief Investment Officer and Regional Market Director of San Diego at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. In these roles, Mr. Ryan focuses on the company’s strategic growth and leads its San Diego asset base and operations. He has been the Regional Market Director of San Diego in capacities of increasing responsibility since June 2010, when Alexandria acquired certain assets of Mr. Ryan’s company, Veralliance Properties, Inc. With over 30 years of commercial real estate experience and almost two decades of life science real estate experience, Mr. Ryan is known as an industry veteran and a creative and forward thinker.

During his tenure at Alexandria, Mr. Ryan has led the growth and transformation of the San Diego region to nearly 5 million rentable square feet of state-of-the-art office and laboratory campuses, including Campus Pointe by Alexandria, the Illumina headquarters campus, and The Spectrum Collection. In addition to leading the San Diego region, Mr. Ryan has also been involved with developments, redevelopments, ventures, financing, leasing, and other strategic opportunities across the company’s North American asset base, including Greater Boston, Seattle, Maryland, and Research Triangle.

Prior to joining the company, Mr. Ryan was Chief Executive Officer of Veralliance, a commercial real estate developer, which he founded in 2002. Veralliance owned, managed, developed, and leased an approximately $1 billion portfolio primarily consisting of life science assets in the greater San Diego region. Veralliance had significant institutional equity partners, including a REIT, Prudential Real Estate Investors, and UBS. Prior to 2002, Mr. Ryan worked in the commercial real estate industry in Southern California. He was a founding principal of Pacific Management Services, Inc., a commercial developer focused on value-added transactions in the greater San Diego area, including life science, office, industrial, and multi-family transactions.

Mr. Ryan is a board member of Biocom, a Southern California trade organization; the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, a not-for-profit regional body comprising business, government, and civic leaders committed to maximizing economic growth. He is also a member of the NAIOP and the Urban Land Institute, both public policy organizations focused on public advocacy of the built environment.

Mr. Ryan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was admitted to Omicron Delta Epsilon, the honor society for excellence in achievement in the study of economics.

Jennifer J. Banks is Co-Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. As Co-Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Banks oversees the company’s risk management operations. She joined Alexandria in 2002 and has served as the company’s General Counsel since 2008. In her role as General Counsel, Ms. Banks and leads a team that advises the company on a range of legal matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, construction and development, litigation, investment, compliance, intellectual property, leasing, property management, and joint ventures. Ms. Banks has over 20 years of commercial real estate and related legal experience.

She previously practiced law in the real estate departments of Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where she specialized in acquisition, complex leasing, joint venture, lending, and other finance transactions and represented a variety of REITs, private developers, and institutional investors.

Ms. Banks is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), serves on the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Executive Committee of the Corporate Law Departments Section, and is the former Vice Chair of the ABA’s Green and Sustainable Transactions Committee. She also serves on the City of Hope’s Los Angeles Real Estate & Construction Industries Council’s Executive Committee.

In 2018, Ms. Banks was named a winner public small company in-house counsel of the year in the Los Angeles Business Journal Leaders in the Law Awards. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School.

Lawrence J. Diamond is Co-Chief Operating Officer and Regional Market Director of Maryland of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. In these roles, Mr. Diamond oversees the company’s real estate property operations and also leads its Maryland asset base and operations. He has more than 35 years of experience in the real estate industry and expertise in all phases of property management, leasing, construction, and development.

Since joining the company in 1998 to open Alexandria’s regional office in the Maryland life science cluster, Mr. Diamond, has led the region’s strategic growth to more than 2 million rentable square feet of office/laboratory space. He has also been responsible for Alexandria’s properties in Canada and Pennsylvania.

From January 1994 to November 1998, Mr. Diamond served as Director of Facility Services for Manor Care, Inc., where he was responsible for management of corporate real estate. From 1980 to 1994, Mr. Diamond’s real estate career was focused on regional Maryland management firms starting with B.F. Saul Company.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting / Business Administration from Frostburg State University.

Vincent R. Ciruzzi is Chief Development Officer for Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Mr. Ciruzzi previously served as a Senior Vice President, Construction and Development, from June 2000 to October 2015, Vice President from September 1996 to June 2000, and was an active participant in the Company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) in May of 1997. Since Alexandria’s IPO, Mr. Ciruzzi has been responsible for the Company’s domestic and international construction and development operations and services platform. Working with a team of highly skilled professionals, Mr. Ciruzzi has overseen the management of entitlements, design, permits, development, construction, and completion of the Company’s collaborative life science and technology campuses in our urban innovation clusters. Mr. Ciruzzi is also deeply involved in the Company’s sustainability efforts, construction risk management, capital planning, and project budgeting.

In 1993, Mr. Ciruzzi founded a real estate development and consulting business, which provided consulting services to Alexandria from September 1995 until his appointment as Vice President. From 1986 to 1993, Mr. Ciruzzi served as Project Manager for Home Capital Development Group, a real estate development company, where he specialized in project management of master planned communities, including the management of a 2,600 acre mixed use community, as well as other real estate development opportunities.

Mr. Ciruzzi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Southern California. Mr. Ciruzzi is a key team advocate with the USGBC on LEED® building certification and other sustainability initiatives for the Company.

John H. Cunningham is the Executive Vice President – Regional Market Director of the New York City cluster at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Mr. Cunningham has more than 30 years of experience in real estate operations, leasing and development, and has completed over 4.5 million square feet of development projects, including numerous complex life science and specialized high-tech projects, large build-to-suits, and strategic properties.

Prior to joining Alexandria, Mr. Cunningham was at Cambridge Property Group in the Washington, DC metropolitan area since 1987, where he became the President of the Development Group in 1995. While at Cambridge, Mr. Cunningham worked closely with Alexandria from 1997 to 2007, acting as a third-party developer on projects in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. In addition to operations, leasing, and development, Mr. Cunningham has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate. Prior to Cambridge, Mr. Cunningham was the editor-in-chief of The Pro Review magazine, a publication for professional photographers. He also served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Loudoun Country Day School for six years, and has published seven novels.

Mr. Cunningham received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Maryland.