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Mr. Roach has developed, owned and operated numerous commercial and residential properties in California, including 11 self storage facilities, for over 30 years. He is a graduate of Williams College and has a law degree from the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law.
Justin M. Roach III is co-founder and general partner of Merritt Partners LP, a commercial real estate development firm in Oakland, California. Mr. Roach has developed and currently owns and manages in partnership over 1,000,000 square feet of self storage facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his role at SKS, Mr. Roach is founder and president of JMR Properties, Inc., a property management and consulting company.
Mr. Roach is a graduate of Stanford University and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He has served on the regional board of the Self Storage Association and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of California. Mr. Roach has numerous charitable and community affiliations, and most recently served as a trustee of The First Tee of the East Bay.
Ms. Maxam has worked with Meno Enterprises and SKS Management since 1997. She developed the 3 Southern California Saf Keeps, one of which won Best Facility of 2001 by the Self Storage Messenger. She is a key member of the management team providing direction on marketing and operations strategy. Ms. Maxam is a graduate of Scripps College and has a MFA in Film Studies from University of Southern California. Before joining SKS, Ms. Maxam was a coordinating producer on several feature films with Trimark Films.
Ms. Ochi has over 30 years of property management experience, with 25 years in the self-storage industry including 17 years with SKS. Ms. Ochi assumed the position of President and CEO of SKS on January 1, 2016. She is a graduate of Stanford University and has an MBA from National University. Ms. Ochi was the past Chairperson of the Board of Directors for the California Self Storage Association and continues to serve as the CSSA’s Chairperson of the Education Committee.
Mr. Grossberg held senior and executive level positions in the California banking industry over a 25 year career before joining SKS in 1998. Mr. Grossberg served as President and CEO of SKS from 1998 through 2015. He now focuses on third party management relationships and developing new management contracts for SKS. He is a graduate of Williams College and also received a certificate from the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Stanford University. Mr. Grossberg is a past Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of the California Self Storage Association.
Ms. Baker has worked for SKS Management since 1992. She started her career as an office assistant at Saf Keep Storage in Redwood City and was promoted to the position of Facility Manager at Saf Keep Storage in Hayward, a 1,075 unit property, in 1994. Ms. Baker oversaw this property for 8 years before being promoted to the position of Senior Operations Manager of SKS Management, a position she continues to hold. Her SKS responsibilities range from overseeing the company’s mystery shop program, providing operations support to all the property managers and conducting operational variance reviews monthly for all of SKS’ properties. In the latter role, Ms. Baker monitors and verifies variances including all deleted transactions for legitimacy, discounting, fee waivers and any unusual activity that is outside normal operating procedures. In addition, Ms. Baker directly oversees 2 SKS managed properties.
Ms. Palomino has 18 years of self storage property management experience, having worked for SKS Management and its affiliated companies since 1995. Prior to joining SKS she worked in sales and office administration for a full line printing company. After receiving training as an office associate at Saf Keep Storage Redwood City Ms. Palomino was promoted in 1996 to the position of Facility Manager at the new Saf Keep Storage in Oakland, a 1,124 unit property which was consistently recognized as a top performing property. In 2001 Ms. Palomino was promoted to assume the responsibility of supervising other SKS properties. She currently oversees 5 facilities.
Mr. Bauer has 27 years of property management experience. Since joining the storage industry in 1998, he worked for Shurgard Storage for 5 years as a facility manager and training manager. Mr. Bauer joined SKS in 2003 as a manager of one of our properties. In 2008 he became a District Manager, eventually overseeing four properties. In 2012, along with his District Manager duties, he became the manager of Saf Keep Storage Redwood City, the company's largest facility with 1,785 units. In 2017 he was promoted to Vice President of SKS Management. He is a graduate of San Diego State University.
Mr. Doget has 8 years of property management experience, including 5 years with SKS and over 23 years of retail management experience. Prior to joining SKS he worked 3 years for Shurgard Storage as a facility manager and training manager. At SKS Mr. Doget started as a facility manager before being promoted to district manager with the additional responsibility of overseeing the company’s revenue management program including internet market analysis for pricing recommendations for all properties and for assisting with operational variance reports. He is a graduate of Chaffey College.
