David Madway is Counsel to Telesis West and helps direct its activities in San Francisco and Oakland. He was recently General Counsel to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency during a ten year period that included Yerba Buena Gardens, Giants Ballpark, Mission Bay, and the acquisition of the 600 acre Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Madway was a partner in the law firm Madway, Blumberg, Farber, and Smith in Berkeley; served as the Executive Director of the National Housing Law Project; and, as a consultant to the United States Agency for International Development and the World Bank. He is now a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton, one of the largest law firms in California. He holds a law degree from the University of Chicago.