Darius Anderson

Mr. Anderson serves as CEO of Kenwood Investments, LLC, a California Real Estate Development and Opportunity Fund he founded to develop extraordinary projects throughout the state that augment the cultural fabric of the California community. He has been responsible for that company’s participation in developments on San Francisco’s Treasure Island, acquiring the land for the Sacramento Kings arena, and various projects in Sonoma’s wine country that preserve and advance the character of the region. 

Mr. Anderson is also the Founder and Chairman of Platinum Advisors, one of the five largest full-service government affairs firms in the state. With offices in Sacramento, Orange County and San Francisco, as well as Washington, DC, Platinum Advisors provides advocacy, strategic advice, government relations, project development, procurement, public affairs and strategic consulting to local and regional governments and agencies, trade associations, corporations, entrepreneurs, and non-profit groups. 

His bold strategic thinking has enabled him to become a trusted advisor to many of California’s highest-ranking political and business leaders for the past 25 years, as well as a 2010 appointment to California’s Political Reform Act Task Force. 

Mr. Anderson is the Founder and Managing Member of Sonoma Media Investments, LLC, the owner and publisher of the award-winning Santa Rosa Press Democrat, one of the state’s leading regional daily newspapers, and the Sonoma Index-Tribune. The Press Democrat won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the wildfires in the region.

 As a philanthropist, he founded the Rebuild North Bay Foundation to provide vital and desperately needed assistance to those affected by the 2017 fire disasters in Northern California. 

As a civic leader, Darius has served on a wide range of boards and councils, including as Chair of the National Advisory Council for the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley. He also has held a seat on the Board of UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. He currently serves on the board of Californians Building Bridges and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. 

In 2018, Darius was appointed by then Governor Jerry Brown to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Anderson served as Chief of Staff for The Yucaipa Companies and as Vice President of External Affairs for Ralphs Grocery Stores, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. During that time, he was responsible for business development for The Yucaipa Companies, including property acquisition and development, and for government affairs, community relations, external corporate communications and public relations for Ralphs Grocery Stores. He also served as the Executive Director for the Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation.