Speakers

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  Congressman Scott Peters Congressman of California’s 50th Congressional District
  

  Congressman Scott Peters

  Congressman of California’s 50th Congressional District

  Congressman Scott Peters serves California’s 50th Congressional District, which includes the cities of Coronado, San Marcos, Escondido, and coastal San Diego. First elected in 2012, he currently serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the House Budget Committee, and the House Equality Caucus. He is also an active member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of Members of Congress who are working across party lines to shape policy and find solutions.

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  Anne Marbarger CEO of Curebound
  

  Anne Marbarger

  CEO of Curebound

  Anne Marbarger is the CEO of Curebound, a San Diego-based organization committed to accelerating cures for cancer by funding collaborative research among San Diego’s top cancer research centers. Curebound is well on its way to a bold goal of raising and investing $100 million in game-changing research projects that show promise of translating basic discoveries to clinical and commercial stages to cure cancer.

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  Dan Ryan Co-President & Regional Market Director – San Diego, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
  

  Dan Ryan

  Co-President & Regional Market Director – San Diego, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.

  Daniel J. Ryan is Co-President and Regional Market Director – San Diego of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and has served in this role since September 2023. Mr. Ryan previously served the company as Co-Chief Investment Officer from May 2018 to September 2023, Executive Vice President – Regional Market Director – San Diego from May 2012 to September 2023, and Senior Vice President – Regional Market Director – San Diego & Strategic Operations from August 2010 to May 2012. During his tenure with Alexandria, Mr. Ryan has been responsible for the growth and management of the San Diego region’s asset base and operations and been involved with developments, redevelopments, joint ventures, financing, leasing, and other strategic opportunities beyond the region.

  Prior to joining the company, Mr. Ryan was Chief Executive Officer of Veralliance, a commercial real estate development company 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, certain assets of which Alexandria acquired in June 2010. 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 multifamily transactions.

  Mr. Ryan is a board member of Curebound, a San Diego-based non-profit that raises and invests strategic funding in translational cancer research projects, and the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, a non-profit regional body that mobilizes business, government, and civic leaders to maximize economic growth. He is also a member of 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.