Gregg Domanico
Managing Partner, Co-Branch Manager
650.769.3600 / greggd@gvakm.com

Career Highlights

Gregg Domanico offers clients a comprehensive background in representing life science companies with an emphasis on developing alternative real estate and facilities strategies. As an industrial engineer his expertise includes analyzing space utilization, hazardous materials usage/use restrictions, facilities growth studies, building/site evaluation, and raising capital for specialized leasehold improvements (research laboratories and cGMP facilities). Over the last 24 months, Gregg has leased over 788,278 square feet on 33 different life science projects.

He joined GVA Kidder Mathews in December 2007.  Prior to that he was the Managing Partner of the Palo Alto office and led the Life Sciences Division for NAI BT Commercial.  Prior to NAI BT Commercial, he was the Director of the Life Science Real Estate Consulting Group for Ernst & Young, LLP, where his responsibilities included facilities/operations consulting, site selection, and transaction management for Life Science clients nationwide.  Before Ernst & Young, LLP, Gregg was the National Director of the Biosciences Group of the CB Commercial Real Estate Group, where he directed the activities of 25 professionals nationwide and was responsible for over 2.5 million square feet of biotech projects annually.

Before focusing his efforts exclusively on corporate real estate, Mr. Domanico spent over ten years in industry where his experience ranged from program manager of new product development to manufacturing engineering manager and operations manager for Spectra Physics, Finnigan Corporation, Rolm Corporation, and Adaptec, Inc.

Industry Involvement

Mr. Domanico is a member, Board of Directors, International Biotechnology Suppliers Association and member in the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Mr. Domanico has spoken and led panel discussions on issues facing life science companies at several national conferences and seminars.

Education

Bachelor of Sciences, Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Representative Transactions

Recent Lease Transactions

Project Size

Nekta

401,000 SF

Advanced Medicine

110,000 SF

Genomic Health

96,700 SF

Abaxis

92,000 SF

Cytokinetics

86,000 SF

Aviron

68,000 SF

Layton Biosciences

58,000 SF

BioMed Realty / MacroFlux

55,588 SF

Genelabs

48,000 SF

BioMed Realty / Expression Diagnostics

46,034 SF

DepoMed

45,600 SF

Axys Pharmaceuticals

44,000 SF

Cytokinetics

31,000 SF

Quantum Dot

31,000 SF

Signature Biosciences

28,000 SF

Pherin Pharmaceuticals

28,000 SF

Xenogen

24,000 SF

BioMed Realty / AstraZeneca International

17,933 SF