SF4BIZ plans, builds & implements transformative strategies.

Welcome to SF4

SF4BIZ provides business consulting services to detail, develop, and chart the plan of actions that unify the physical, human, and capital resources essential to meet business objectives.

Transformation is a journey in understanding and defining growth and its impacts on volume, people, technology, capacity, and infrastructure and combine to require increasing revenue, managing expenses and anticipating capital investments.

This is the SF4BIZ world, that of sorting complexities, integrating input, and formulating flexible and enduring business and facilities solutions.

Our collective accomplishments are breathtaking.

The SF4BIZ team combines business consulting and technical backgrounds as business owners, investors, and managers experienced in physical, business, and financial planning, design, engineering, and technology. Our engagements range from consulting global giants to emerging start-ups and encompasses operations and efficiencies, manufacturing and production, research and development, distribution and warehousing, administration, support, service and the related essential infrastructure. It also includes building smart partnerships with local and specialty resources to facilitate success.

Clients
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People
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Facilities
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Partnerships
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Our Services

Serving to create value.

Our Principles

Principles that drive performance.

Deploy Technology: Do more with less.
Build Partnerships: Leverage knowledge and resources to enhance value.
Work Smart: Combine collective experience, technology, and talent.
Accelerate Delivery: Use time as a competitive advantage.
Mitigate Risks: Protect people, place, and planet.
Engage our head and our heart.
Manage with transparency and access.

Our Approach

A smarter approach to solving complex challenges.

From deep discovery to long-term support, we combine insight, innovation, and execution to deliver solutions that are practical, scalable, and built to last.

Swipe

Discover

Engage and listen carefully to thought leaders on challenges and requirements.

Assimilate

and analyze to form strategies and options.

Integrate

innovation and technology.

Identify

options that satisfy capacity, function, flexibility, future, people, regulations, risk mitigation, and sustainability.

Apply

the lens of logistics to quantify complexity, time, and capital.

Deliver

comprehensive solutions with continued support and service.

Projects Portfolio

A portfolio of complex challenges turned into lasting value.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Gurabo, PR

Engaging 60 stakeholders in the Gurabo, PR Large and Small Molecules Site Master & Capital Plan process, the objectives were to increase capacity, improve infrastructure, and increase flexibility to add new products and increase manufacturing volume. A partnership with CRB or Puerto Rico, contributed critical site knowledge and engineering resources.

Salt River Project (SRP)

Tempe, AZ

For the Arizona based water and power utility company, the development of a phased 60-acre site master plan and 10-year capital plan to replace stay operational while replacing with a new 150,000 SF large metals manufacturing complex, a 30,000 SF utility fleet vehicle service center, a 30,000 SF warehouse, and renovation of a 100,000 SF administrative building.

PERA Conference & Training SMP

Tempe, AZ

PERA is a corporate and community center on a 40-acre site for corporate and community center site development program to expand technical training, large group meeting space, event area upgrades, and site dust containment, roadways, parking, pedestrian walkways, entries and locating a future expansion site.

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Redmond, home to Microsoft was comprised of 100 – 20 yr old plus buildings, with limited improvements. The Site Master Plan defining properties to optimize and upgrade and those at end of life and provided a10-year facilities capital plan to address aging infrastructure and future growth and launched the Redmond Campus development.

Nokia Bell Laboratories

New Jersey, Illinois, Holland, and Germany

Large scale portfolio repositioning of Bell Laboratories 8 global campuses totaling 20M SF and impacting 25,000 employees in response to evolving technologies and changing laboratory and workplace requirements.

BMW Manufacturing

Spartanburg, SC

At the more than 10 million square foot Manufacturing Campus in Spartanburg, SC plant employing 11,000 people planning and management responsibilities included the quality systems and Metrology organization planning and implementation, and the manufacturing process flow planning applying Lean methodologies.

Hawaii Medical Services Association

Honolulu, HI

The replanning of a 500,000 SF headquarter and parking garage structure to improve to workflow by creating connections and improving circulation, enhancing collaboration and the customer experiences, and upgrading building systems as included furniture, lighting, electrical, HVAC, network, wireless, elevators, glazing, and entries.

Tesla Assembly

Fremont, CA

Conversion of an existing Fremont, CA manufacturing site for the assembly and shipping of Tesla vehicles, responsibility included layouts of the Vehicle Testing and Track, the receiving area for receipt of the 10,500+ parts that combine to make a Tesla car. After the facility start up was completed responsibility shifted to management responsibility for the Tesla Supply Chain.

Clients Served

Transformations across industries and continents.

Accenture . Adobe . Aetna . Allergan . Airtel . Alaska Federal Credit . Amazon . American Airlines . American Express . American International Group (AIG) . Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . American Card Services . Applied Materials . AON . Astra Pharmaceuticals . Asurion . AT&T . Avaya Communications . Banobras . Bancomext . BASF . Baker McKenzie . Bank of America . Bank of Hawaii . Bed Bath & Beyond . Blue Cross/Blue Shield . Bridgestone Americas . Bristol Myers Squibb . Cadence Design Systems . Cagan Capital . Campbell’s . Cargill Financial . Cemex . Cisco . Citibank . City of Chicago, IL . City of Oakland, CA . City of Las Vegas, NV . City of Roxbury, MA . City of Cambridge, MA . Coca Cola . Cohn & Wolfe . Computer Sciences Corporation . Commonwealth Edison . County of Cook, IL . County of Alameda, CA . County of Contra Costa, CA . Cox Communication . CX Networks .

Accenture . Adobe . Aetna . Allergan . Airtel . Alaska Federal Credit . Amazon.com . American Airlines . American Express . American International Group (AIG) . Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . American Card Services . Applied Materials . AON . Astra Pharmaceuticals . Asurion . AT&T . Avaya Communications . Banobras . Bancomext . BASF . Baker McKenzie . Bank of America . Bank of Hawaii . Bed Bath & Beyond . Blue Cross/Blue Shield . Bridgestone Americas . Bristol Myers Squibb . Cadence Design Systems . Cagan Capital . Campbell’s . Cargill Financial . Cemex . Cisco . Citibank . City of Chicago, IL . City of Oakland, CA . City of Las Vegas, NV . City of Roxbury, MA . City of Cambridge, MA . Coca Cola . Cohn & Wolfe . Computer Sciences Corporation . Commonwealth Edison . County of Cook, IL . County of Alameda, CA . County of Contra Costa, CA . Cox Communication . CX Networks .

. DirecTV . Dow Chemical . DuPont Pharmaceutical . Ericsson . Extreme Networks . Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago . Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) . Freedom Financial . Ferragamo . Fleet Bank . Forte Software . Gartner . General Foods . General Services Administration . General Electric . Genentech . Grant Thorton . Grey Advertising . Grupo Modelo . Haagen Dazs . Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) . Haworth . Herman Miller . Hewlett Packard . Hines Associates . HSBC . Hyatt Hotels Corporation . Indeed.com . Infonavit . International Assets Advisory . IBM . Johnson & Johnson . Jones Day . Jones Lang LaSalle . Katten Muchin Rosenbaum . Keebler . KeyBank . Kirkland & Ellis . Kokuyo . Leo Burnett . Lucent Technologies . MABE . Marks & Spencer . Marriott International . McDermott Will & Emery . McKinsey & Company . McDonalds . McGraw Hill . Media One . Merrimac Corporate Securities . Merrill Lynch . Metropolitan Life . Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago . Microsoft . Mission Securities . Mitsubishi . Monsanto

. Nabisco . National Bank of Poland . National Investment Banking Association . Nestle, Americas . New York Life Insurance . Nokia . Norstreet Bancorp. Northwestern University . Novartis . Oracle . Ortho McNeil . Owens Corning . PacBell . Pacific Acquisitions Group . Parsons . Pillsbury . Pfizer . Post Holdings . Price Waterhouse Cooper . Prudential Financial . Prudential Securities . Qwest . Salt River Project (SRP) . Sears . Securities & Exchange Commission . Security Pacific National Bank . Selfridge . Sidley Austin . Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom . Sony . SPL World Group . Starbucks . Southern California Gas . Southwestern Bell Corp (SBC) . Sprint . Tamarack Resort . Telefonica . Travelers Companies . Tyco . Union Bank . United States Postal System . United Airlines . University of Chicago . University of Jerusalem . University of Wyoming . US Equities . Ventura Global . Verizon Wireless . Verizon . Vignette . Volkswagen . Warner Brothers . Weyerhaeuser . Wells Fargo . Winston Strawn . WPP New York . Wildlife Conservation Society . Young & Rubicam . Zurich Insurance Group

Leadership profile

Enhancing purpose and vitality to increase asset value on behalf of our clients.

Jean Bellas: Founder and Managing Partner

Responsible for transformation programs up to $1B in value with over 30 years of experience working with business to develop programs, portfolios and projects, establish the capital budgets, and manage the ongoing change process, that seriously advance operations and support long term growth. Employed by, founder, buyer, and seller of multiple companies, with valuations from $1M to $50M.

Licenses: Architect, Broker

Education: Harvard University, Master of Architecture and Urban Design; University of Illinois, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Architecture

Richard Simpkins: Business Consultant

Richard expanded innovations across various service and tech companies to include co-founding, investing, and acting CEO for his own disruptive electric truck company where he raised millions in seed capital to design and produce the company’s first vehicles sold to the United States Air Force, State of California, and Army. Richard developed a complex corporate eco-system composed of Tesla suppliers and corporate partners that participate in the investment, design, assembly, and distribution of their technology as a part of an innovative sustainable business plan.

Education: Harland College.

Educator: University of San Francisco School of Business (Malloy Group) and IT University San Jose