As the Development Partner at Menlo Equities, Ms. Vaughan is responsible for all aspects of development of the company’s major projects. Some of Ms. Vaughan’s notable projects include the construction of a four-building, 325,000‑square‑foot project in the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego, which is substantially leased to Broadcom and Sony; a mixed-use office and residential project in Palo Alto at 260 Homer; and a five-story, 166,000‑square‑foot R&D building at 525 Almanor in Sunnyvale. Previously, she coordinated the entitlement and construction of a 107-unit, for-sale, multifamily, residential project in Cupertino; the entitlement of a 10-building, 2.4‑million‑square‑foot office campus on 80 acres for Juniper Networks in Sunnyvale; the development of the adjacent three-building, 425,000‑square‑foot Juniper Networks headquarters; the construction of a two-building, 171,000‑square‑foot build-to-suit for Yahoo! Inc. in Sunnyvale; the construction of a 604,870‑square‑foot, eight-building campus in North San Jose; and the construction of Junction Business Park, a 150,000‑square‑foot, four-story office building also in North San Jose.
Prior to joining Menlo Equities, Ms. Vaughan was a Vice President and Development Partner with the Koll Company in San Jose. At Koll, she developed over 500,000 square feet of R&D, office, and retail space in Silicon Valley, and she coordinated the land planning and entitlements for a multi-acre industrial park. Prior to the Koll Company, Ms. Vaughan was at Wells Fargo Bank as a Vice President of the commercial real estate group in Silicon Valley.
Ms. Vaughan holds an MBA with honors from Northwestern University in Finance and Accounting. She is a structural engineer with a master’s degree with honors from the University of Maryland and an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Ohio State University. Ms. Vaughan is a member and former board member of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) and an Urban Land Institute (ULI) member.