Yayu Lin
President, Commercial Division
Sares Regis Group of Northern California
Panelist: Groundbreaking Green Innovations
Since joining Sares Regis Group of Northern California (SRGNC) in 2005, Yayu Lin has managed commercial and residential development and construction projects on behalf of the company and its clients, working on everything from due diligence, entitlement, and design to financing and construction. Lin is responsible for the strategy, management and operations of the Commercial division. She oversees over $6 billion of highly sustainable and complex ground-up office and infrastructure development projects for confidential clients in the Bay Area. Lin collaborates with innovative experts to deliver built environments that meet the dynamic needs of future generations and advance the industry. Lin was the lead development manager on the Google Bay View campus, which was awarded Engineering News-Record’s Global Best Project in 2022.
Lin has also completed over $500 million for-sale homes in the Bay Area ranging from single-family, detached houses to condominiums, including over 200 units of faculty housing for Stanford University. She previously worked at Ernst & Young Real Estate Advisory Services, where she consulted on M&A valuations and construction litigation, and at Parsons Brinkerhoff, where she was an owner’s representative on Caltrans’s San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span project.
Lin was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2022, an honoree of Bisnow’s 2022 Women Leading Real Estate, a Bay Area Power Woman by Bisnow in 2021, an honoree of the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 2016 class of 40 under 40 and a winner of the Northern California Real Estate Women of Influence Rising Star Award in 2013. She is regularly a guest lecturer and panel speaker at Stanford University and contributes to her community through her service in the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program, which connects those in the business, civic, and nonprofit sectors with community leaders.
Lin holds an MS in construction engineering and management from Stanford University and a BS in civil and environmental engineering from U.C. Berkeley.