Meet the Team
Brian Bokman
In the past 30+ years Brian has successfully created dozens of creative and unique retail destinations through effective leasing and placemaking around choosing the best tenants for each location. Some examples include: Town & Country Village, Palo Alto; The Pruneyard, Campbell and Downtown Centre, San Luis Obispo.
Additionally he has facilitated the roll out of several retail and restaurant concepts on both a regional and national level. Some of our tenant representation work has involved: Gap brands, Office Depot, Blockbuster Video, Specialty’s Café & Bakery and Sprint.
By strategically limiting the number of clients we agree to work with we are able to provide a boutique level of service and expertise that is seldom seen. Our clients know what we are doing for them every day. In addition to traditional brokerage services we serve as a resource to link to other service providers including General Contractors, Bankers, Financial Advisors, Architects and many other specialties.
Brian has the unique perspective of having occupied every position in a negotiation first-hand:
Tenant: owned and operated 3 restaurants from 2005-2012. Worked in-house for a large e-commerce company and completed over 6M square feet of transactions in a 3-year period, all across the country.
Developer: have successfully developed for these entities: Walgreen’s, Blockbuster Video and Starbuck’s Coffee.
Landlord: Have owned and operated a number of buildings of all disciplines including retail, office and industrial.
Broker: Have completed hundreds of transactions in every major metro in the US and many in Canada and Mexico. Have assisted dozens of companies in successfully completing lease workouts with all sorts of Landlords including REITS, large international entities and local mom & pop owners.
The empathy for each position in a negotiation brings a unique perspective and creative attitude towards getting deals done in the most challenging environments.
David Rock
David is one of the co-founders of Bokman Rock Commercial Real Estate. He brings over 40 years of diverse business experience in the real estate and food and beverage industries, both as an entrepreneur and a broker. David specializes in retail, restaurant and office landlord and tenant representation, and in lease consulting. He has executed rollout strategies and site negotiations for regional and national restaurant chains, such as Armadillo Willy’s, Straw Hat Pizza and The Melting Pot. David is currently the master broker for Straw Hat Pizza. He also did retail store leasing throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area for retailers such as Border’s Books.
Earlier in his business career, David co-owned and operated Midwest Natural Foods Distributors, the nation’s then sixth largest health food distributor, and “And Chili’s” a Bay area 7-unit restaurant chain. He was also a co-founder of Webvan, where he co-developed its delivery concept and handled all major contract negotiations, and under his direction as VP of Real Estate, David’s team leased 4.5 million square feet of real estate throughout the U.S., executing 110 warehouse and office leases. He also spent 11 years as a Board Member of the Diamond Phoenix Company, an automated material handling and logistics systems company, and was the President of the Mid-Atlantic Health Organization from 1978-1980.
For the past 25 years, David has also been on the Board of Directors of Los Altos/ Los Altos Hills Little League, including serving three years as its President. David also has been on the Advisory Board of UNAFF, as well as a Jury Chair for their documentary film festival, for the past seven years. David received a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan.
