Ben Paul
Ben Paul
Executive Managing Director, Cushman and Wakefield
Ben is a Vice Chairman and Market Lead for the northern San Francisco Peninsula office for Cushman & Wakefield. Focusing on tech office, life science and land development, Ben has consistently been a top-performing broker in the Northwest Region. Ben has the leading market share of exclusive listing assignments in both life science and Class A trophy office projects between San Francisco and Mountain View. His listings are currently in excess of 7 million SF including over 3.5 million SF of new development life science and TOD office sites.
Trophy exclusive listing assignments include Stanford University, in Stanford Research Park, Phase 3 for 600,000sf of state-of-the-art new construction life science/lab, IQHQ for 1.1 mil SF plus of start-of-the art life science/lab at South San Francisco CalTrain, The iconic 600,000sf ELCO Yards and Dostart Development’s new 175,000sf 220 Park in downtown Burlingame.
Built projects include the immensely successful Redwood Life (1 mil SF), Hudson Pacific and at Metro Center (.7mil SF). Ben is highly regarded for structuring many of the peninsula’s largest and most complex leasing and development project sales and leases.
Over the last decade, Ben has received numerous company awards for top production, leadership, and sourcing multi-market transactions. Ben was recognized statewide and awarded Person of the Year for the City of Redwood City in 2014. Ben and his four children and lives in West Menlo Park.