• Katy Thielke Straser, Founder and CEO, Straser Silicon Valley Team
• .intl | NorCal Division
• Compass Sports & Entertainment Division Member
• Compass | DRE # 01308970 Combined with competence in managing special events and organizing athletic and fitness programs, Katy’s skills match up perfectly with the needs of today’s dynamic and challenging real estate market. Katy is known for her fine attention to detail, while achieving the highest prices for her clients homes. Her extensive resources completes property to maximize its overall value. She routinely brings to all of her transactions not only keen negotiation, but integrity and tremendous work ethic. Born and raised in Los Altos, her consulting and employment connections read like a veritable “Who’s Who” of the technology industry including Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Becton Dickinson, Rockwell International and Lockheed Martin. Straser's local in-depth knowledge makes for a powerful network of connections that has provided her clients with great success. Katy received her Bachelor of Science in Recreation Management at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Her credits include a major European corporate event, several successful corporate fitness programs, national sales promotions, and managed 250 volunteers for the indoor volleyball venue of the 1986 Atlanta Olympic Games that was attended by President Bill Clinton. Katy has an expanse of talent, experience and people skills to put to work on behalf of her clients. She will quickly demonstrate the value of the dictum, actions speak louder than words. She has been helping clients reach their real estate goals since 2001 when she began, and still practices, her career at the Alain Pinel Realtors office in Menlo Park. Katy lives in Menlo Park with her husband, Erik, and their two children, Anna, age 14 and Alex, age 12. She is a volunteer for the Bing Nursery School at Stanford and Sacred Heart School in Atherton. Katy volunteers with her local community for several organizations that assist students from low income families to achieve academic success and college funding. In addition, she has been recently awarded the opportunity to serve as an Ambassador for Donna Karan in San Francisico
