Tom Scripps: President and Founder

Canyon Pacific Management and Canyon Pacific Maintenance. Tom's experience includes real estate management, single family and commercial real estate development, and multifamily property ownership since 1975. He is a problem solver and creative in finding ways to manage, maintain, and profit from real estate ownership.

Brian Cook: Property Manager

Brian has extensive experience in property management in San Francisco and started with us in 2005. Prior to joining us he managed San Francisco downtown apartment buildings and a residential hotel since 2002. He is certified as a High Rise Fire Safety Director by the State of California and is our guru of building safety systems. He has managed several fire safety system repairs and upgrades in our managed properties, performs annual fire drills in our larger properties, and assures annual compliance with the San Francisco Fire Department.

Paulo Serna: Property Manager

Paulo started as a summer intern with us in 2001 and worked in the field for our maintenance department under our senior maintenance man, Terry Waterman. We loved his work ethic and asked him to keep coming back. True to form, he came back each summer while earning a degree in General Engineering at Santa Clara University which he completed in 2005. As part of his curriculum, he spent time in Mexico as a team leader for the construction of low income housing in Tiajuana. Since completing his degree, he’s managed a 26 unit luxury apartment building which had all its units and common areas gutted and completely renovated, and has specialized in condominium management for us. His background has helped him become the kind of hands on professional we seek in an employee. His dedication to detail, and to servicing clients is extraordinary.

Joel Russo: Property Manager

Joel has varied experience working with San Francisco apartment building owners and Homeowner’s Associations. He’s a people person. If there is a hot spot, he can cool it down. Nothing get’s left behind under Joel’s watchful eye.

John Fischer: Director of Renovations, Canyon Pacific Maintenance

When a tenant moves out, John moves in. John has extensive and varied construction experience which allows him to quickly asses what is needed to get a vacant apartment renovated quickly and ready for the next tenant moving in. He's been a carpenter building custom homes since 1991, he's done full foundation installations and seismic upgrades. He's selected and managed subcontractors for years. Nothing gets by him, and he has an eye for quality at a good price. As such our renovations crew looks to him for guidance on how to get a job done efficiently, and yet still provide the quality our tenants and owners demand.

Kenny Kovacevich: Director of Maintenance, Canyon Pacific Maintenance

When an apartment needs some TLC or some repair needs the right hands, Kenny knows just who to send to make things right. He keeps a list of all our HOA garage door model numbers and entry systems codes. Kenny has a disciplined background honed for years in the Navy, helping him to ask the right questions and get to the bottom of the issue and dispatch exactly the right person to finish the job in a timely manner. If you need to get someone out to help you out, he's the right guy to call.

Lin Zhou : Accounting Manager

Lin started with Canyon Pacific in 2004 in Accounts Payable. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, English Literature, Shang Hai International Studies University. Now, she runs our accounting department smoothly and efficiently to produce our client’s monthly reports, HOA and Apartment operating budgets, and specialized reports our clients occasionally need at tax time.