About Us
Vladimir Bosanac | Publisher
Vladimir Bosanac is a co-founder and publisher of The Registry, the Bay Area real estate magazine. In it’s fifth year of operation, The Registry has positioned itself as the premier source of Bay Area industry and business news about real estate and the sectors that serve it.
Prior to helping start the magazine, Vladimir worked in a number of industries, primarily focused around financial services. It was his drive to start a business and the infectious entrepreneurial spirit of the Bay Area that led him and his family to the region. Since his arrival, he has held several business development and strategy roles in technology companies in Silicon Valley.
Vladimir holds a bachelor of science degree in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he was a four-year scholarship athlete on the basketball team, and a MBA from Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois.
Heather Bosanac | President
Heather Bosanac is a co-founder and president of The Registry magazine. She is a serial entrepreneur who ran a successful stationery and design business in Monterey, California before moving to the Bay Area with her family in 2006.
Heather’s professional career spanned across the country in a number of sales management roles in technology, on-line and broadcast media. Earlier in her professional life, Heather taught English as second language to immigrant children in Belle Glade, Florida.
Heather holds a bachelor of arts degree in Education and Spanish from Texas Christian University in Forth Worth, Texas.
Sharon Simonson | Editor-In-Chief
Sharon Simonson has been a working journalist for more than 20 years and has spent the last decade as a business specialist covering commercial and residential real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As the editor-in-chief, Simonson oversees editorial content across all Mighty Dot properties and is responsible for the accuracy and quality of all news coverage. In addition to conceiving and managing the editorial content for the magazine and website, Simonson prepares breaking news reports for the website and in-depth stories for the magazine. She is a minority owner of Mighty Dot Media, joining the company in October 2008.
Simonson has worked for some of the largest and most well-known media companies in the United States, including Hearst Corp., where she won an Eagle Award for her outstanding reporting of official corruption in the Webb County, Texas, sheriff’s office, and the Gannett Co., which owns 82 daily newspapers including USA Today, one of the most widely circulated newspapers in the country. Most recently, she spent nearly eight years at American City Business Journals, a unit of Advance Publications Inc., which also operates Conde Nast Magazines including The New Yorker, Vogue and Architectural Digest.
She began her career as a daily newspaper reporter in Denton, Texas, covering Denton City Hall, including city negotiations with companies such as Waste Management Inc. After two years, she moved to the newspaper's business beat and has covered the world of commerce ever since. She has reported and lived in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, Laredo and El Paso, Texas, metropolitan markets.
While working for Gannett in El Paso, she was promoted to senior reporter covering New Mexico and while there interviewed former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who has subsequently run for U.S. president. She moved to the Bay Area in 2000 and began covering real estate shortly thereafter. Among her interview subjects have been real estate mogul Sam Zell; Hamid Mogadam, co-chief executive of Prologis Inc.; Carl Berg, founder of Mission West Properties and one of the most successful and influential Silicon Valley developers; John A. and John M. Sobrato, chairman and chief executive, respectively, for The Sobrato Organization., one of Silicon Valley’s most successful real estate companies; and Michael Foust, chief executive of Digital Realty Trust.
Simonson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Spanish from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She also attended graduate school at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, the nation's first journalism school and one of the country's most-respected.
In 2005, she won first place from the National Association of Real Estate Editors for a package of three stories on the residential real estate industry in the South Bay.
