Preferred Name: Joe

Last Name: Kirchofer

Degree String (Type, Year): ('03)

Job Title: Senior Vice President, Northern California Development Lead

Company Name: AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Bio: Joe Kirchofer serves as Senior Vice President of Development for AvalonBay, with responsibility for all of the company’s development activity in Northern California. The company is a leading developer, owner, and manager of multifamily and mixed-use developments in the region, and has completed major recent projects in San Francisco, the East Bay, and the South Bay. Mr. Kirchofer joined the company in 2013. Prior to joining AvalonBay, Mr. Kirchofer led complex residential and mixed-use projects for one of the Bay Area’s top nonprofit affordable housing developers, MidPen Housing. Mr. Kirchofer is a Bay Area Council board member, a former member of the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, and a member of the SPUR Housing Policy Board, the Fisher Center Policy Advisory Board, and ULISF. Mr. Kirchofer received a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University.