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PETER L. DWARES
President
Dwares Group Inc.
331 Filbert Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
Work: (415) 986-5885 * Fax: (415) 986-5893
Present Business Interests:
CEO Dwares Group Inc., a company that develops, owns and manages its commercial real estate.
Properties presently owned by LLC’s owned by us include:
110 Alta Street, San Francisco, CA
Bridgeview Apartments, Napa, CA
Capitola Mercantile Shopping Center., Capitola, CA
Centennial Shopping Center, Springfield, OR
Choctaw Plaza Shopping Center, Chocktaw, OK
East Alisal Shopping Center, Salinas, CA
Harrison Business Park, Oklahoma City
High Lakes Apartment Complex , Klamath Falls, OR
Oakdale Shopping Center, Oakdale, CA
Riverside Shopping Center, Red Bluff, CA
Riviera Shopping Center, Eugene, OR
S. Kress Building, Aberdeen, WA
Soquel Commercial Building, Soquel, CA
Soscol Commercial Building, Napa, CA
Stockton St. Commercial, Capitola, CA
Sunset Shopping Center, Pueblo, CO
Channelview Mini Storage, Channelview, TX
Petaluma Apartments, Petaluma, CA
Santa Rosa Apartments, Santa Rosa, CA
Sonora Shopping Center, Sonora, CA
Professional Experience:
United States Air Force Reserve – 1969-1975
Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporate Finance, Washington, DC – December
1969 to December 1971
Orrick, Herrington, San Francisco, CA- January 1972 to December 1973
Dwares Law Offices, a law firm emphasizing private placement financing, real estate investments and
venture capital January 1973 to December 1985.
Dwares Group Inc., a Real Estate Investment Company. 1974 – Present
Avocations:
Fundraising Chairman, Campus Chest University of Pennsylvania, 1965
Founder, Children’s Medi Fund, 1973
Director, International Relations Chairman, American Jewish Congress, 1973-1976
Past President of Board of Directors 1993-1996 of Adopt A Special Kid (AASK), a national adoption
agency, Director 1976-1996.
Sponsor Capitola Uncle Nathan’s Day 1980- present.
Instructor of Business Law, University of California at Berkeley Extension, 1974-1992
Member of World Affairs Council 1980 – present
Member of Commonwealth Club 1990 – present
Advisor, From the Heart, 1997-1999
Founder/Chairman, Pathways For Kids a 501 (c) (3) Mentoring Program for Inner City Youth, 1998 –
present, 14,000 youth mentored
Member, International Diplomacy Council 1996-1997
Dean’s Circle Advisors, Washington College of Law, American University 2001 – present
Member, World Trade Club 1999 – 2006
San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce Advisor 2001
Governor’s Appointee to State Area Board of Developmental Disabilities 2003 – 2006
Recipient of Jefferson Award 2007
Education:
B.S. Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1966
J.D., Washington College of Law at American University, Editor of Law Review, May 1969
John Sherman Myers Award For Torts Scholarship
Member of Jessup Cub Appellate Argument Team
LLM, Taxation, Georgetown Law Center, December 1971
Publications:
“White Men’s Highways Through Black Men’s Bedrooms”
21 Res Ispa Loquitur 14 [1968], a Georgetown Law Center Publication
“District of Columbia Corporate Franchise Tax-Source of Income”
17 American Law Review 358 [1968]
“From Securities Lore to Securities Law”
11 Dusquesne Law Review, 1[1972]
Bar Association Memberships:
Rhode Island, District of Columbia, and California Bars, American Bar Associates