That’s A Wrap for the Mentor Match

CREATE Careers Committee wrapped up its annual Mentor Match on May 7. Mentors, mentees, members of the CREATE Careers Committee and the CREATE Board celebrated a successful mentoring season which provided participating students increased awareness of the CRE industry while building their network of industry professionals.

Congratulations to the 2025 Mentor of the Year, Tatiana Regnart, Kilroy Realty Corporation and 2025 Mentee of the Year, Chris Caro, a CREATE Fellow from the San Francisco State University program. With the introduction this year of CREATE Fellows Online, we doubled the number of mentees who could participate. Pictured from left to right are CREATE Careers Committee Vice Chair Brian Lu, JLL, a CREATE Alum (SFSU), Mentee of the Year Chris Caro, Mentor of the Year Tatiana Regnart, and CREATE Careers Committee Chair Tiffany Yeh, Kilroy Realty Corporation, also a CREATE Alum (SFSU).

Thank you to all the mentors for contributing their time and enthusiasm to this results-driven career development opportunity. Their participation makes a difference in the lives of so many students. Best of luck to the mentees, some of whom will graduate this month, and some who will graduate at year-end or spring 2025. Historically, over 50% of participants in this program have secured entry-level positions in the industry within the following 1-9 months depending on date of graduation.

Thanks to Rockhill Management, L.L.C. for use of their meeting center at 275 Battery Street.

If you are interested in future mentoring opportunities and participating in this results-driven program, contact Tory Brubaker at info@createworkforce.org.

Keep on looking to CREATE for a talent pipeline because that right there brings so much value to your company.
Christine Mann, Rockhill Management

CREATE's commercial real estate fellows classes support our industry’s growing employment needs.
Tawni Sullivan, Board Chair, Consultant, JNT Solutions

How much have we contributed to the companies that we've worked with? A little donation is trivial compared to what we contribute to these companies.
Cameron Maharaj, CREATE CRE Certificate Holder, JLL

The CREATE program prepared me for the job and then also through their job board I was able to find a job.
Jered Baker, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2020, employed by Swift Real Estate Partners

CREATE completely surpassed all of my expectations. Everything I was able to learn in CREATE I'm actually able to put to work everyday. It's not just property management, its leasing, its design and more.
Alexis Escaranio, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by Resource Commercial Real Estate

We’re not only training a CRE workforce through our partnership with CREATE; we’re highlighting commercial real estate as a career alternative in a highly complex, technology focused Bay Area.
Sandra Boyle, Cushman & Wakefield

If you're not involved in this you are missing a great opportunity. Get involved, participate, contribute.
Glenn Good, Glenn Good Group

The best way to get an employee that's eager and hungry to learn more is definitely through the CREATE program.
Amy La, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, Employed by JLL

The CREATE program gave me that framework to understand how a building operates that I wouldn't have been able to learn without time in the industry.
Marco McCartney, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

I’ve been so impressed with the quality of interns our company has sourced through CREATE's training program; we’ve now hired several of them as full-time employees!
Rick Buziak, Swift Real Estate Partners

It's hard to come up with something that would make CREATE better. I truly believe they give you everything you need to get the most out of the program.
Cameron Newcomb, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2021, employed by JLL

The amount of success I've had through CREATE has been incredible. The network that I built through the CREATE program created the pathway to my new position.
Kaitlyn Klinger, CREATE Fellows Graduate 2020