Dave Sabey
Chairman & President
Dave Sabey
Chairman & President
For over 50 years, Dave Sabey has tirelessly built a network of people whose fresh perspectives, inspired visions, and relentless senses of purpose propel the world forward.
Exchanging ideas with fellow visionaries, Dave grew and coached a world-class team that built platforms to support innovative industries of worldwide importance. Boeing, Starbucks, ADP, McCaw Cellular and Exodus Communications all broke new ground in first-of-their-kind critical facilities built by Sabey Corporation.
Dave’s passion for promoting ideas that positively change the world continues today through real estate investment, development and management in innovative sectors such as data centers, healthcare and life science research. Dave’s tenants are building technology platforms dedicated to solving some of the hardest problems facing our world, from healthcare to energy.
Dave’s vision for the future has led him to found organizations like the Seattle Science Foundation, which leverages technology to foster global collaboration between top medical professionals, enhancing and propagating the most sophisticated medical and surgical techniques. Optispan, a recent venture, leverages large data sets, AI processing, and personalized coaching to lead people away from the “disease care” convention toward the freedom of a proactive, optimized healthspan.
Even now, Dave continues to forge ahead, trailblazing a path for his team into an AI-dominated future. Sabey Corporation, Sabey Data Centers, and his other ventures are pioneering in AI adoption and lining up partnerships to ensure that AI is developed and harnessed in a way that brings light and happiness to humanity.
John Sabey
Business Director
As CEO of Sabey Corporation (Sabey), John Sabey heads up a company of 150 driven people in the acquisition and development of a commercial real estate portfolio comprising primarily office and medical technology space. The portfolio consists of approximately 5.4 million square feet developed, owned and managed by Sabey.
Sabey has long developed specialty technology properties for the medical/life sciences, communications, government, and military sectors. As Big Data emerges as an essential component of hyper-scaled products and services, the company’s leadership has been quick to realize their critical reliance on robust, highly reliable data centers. As Executive Director of Sabey Data Centers, one of the world’s largest, privately-owned designer/builder/operator data center companies, Mr. Sabey has helped to assemble an enviable customer portfolio that includes globally-known enterprises in financial services, content delivery, life science research, entertainment, technology innovation and health care.
In 1995, after a successful career in Chicago with Prudential Real Estate Investors, Mr. Sabey joined the family business. He holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Patty Sewell
Chief Financial Officer
Patty Sewell joined Sabey in 1996 as Controller, bringing more than ten years of accounting and administrative management experience. Appointed to her present position in 2003, Ms. Sewell is primarily responsible for corporate and mortgage financing, risk management, corporate operations, financial reporting and management of accounting operations.
Ms. Sewell is not only active in helping Sabey obtain its financial objectives, she is passionate about upholding the company’s core values. Diligent in setting the internal performance bar high, she aspires to put the Company’s best foot forward at all times. Ms. Sewell and her staff are committed to bringing the highest level of integrity and client service to Sabey’s business relationships.
Mikel Hansen
Chief Operating Officer
Mikel Hansen’s experience with large, complex properties was established prior to joining Sabey, when he spent nearly 20 years managing some of the nation’s largest shopping malls. He eventually returned to his home in the Northwest to manage Southcenter Mall, the largest mall in Washington.
For the past seventeen years he has led the Sabey Property Management Team and is responsible for the management and operations of Sabey’s over four million-square-foot diverse portfolio including commercial, office, medical, warehouse and data center uses. As part of Sabey’s Development group, Mr. Hansen has taken the lead in executing complex entitlement efforts, negotiating land acquisitions, property sales and re-zonings. He leads Sabey’s improvement initiatives such as utility installations and transportation support improvements.
Mr. Hansen serves as Sabey’s representative to a variety of municipalities and agencies. His energy and commitment to the community is exemplary. He works closely with local jurisdictions and with social initiatives that contribute to the growth and well-being of the communities with which Sabey partners.