Angela Aman Backs Matt Mahan for Governor

Kilroy Realty CEO Angela Aman joined the Los Angeles real estate crew backing Matt Mahan, the NorCal mayor and California governor hopeful.

Aman donated $10,000 to Mahan in late March, campaign finance data revealed. A Kilroy representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

There are no prior records indicating that the head of the publicly traded outfit has donated to a California candidate before — though she’s only recently become a West Coaster.

As The Real Deal previously reported, Aman isn’t the only person in the corner office, let alone that of an L.A. real estate investment trust, to bet on Mahan.

Victor Coleman’s Hudson Pacific Properties, an office and studio REIT, maxed out its individual contributions at $78,400. Office and apartment owner Douglas Emmett’s CEO Jordan Kaplan gave the same to Mahan’s campaign for governor. Mahan also counts billionaire mall magnate Rick Caruso, who donated the max and has endorsed him, and Related California’s chairman emeritus Bill Witte, who gave $10,000, as backers.

More recently, Richard Ziman, who was chair of Rexford Industrial Realty’s board of directors, donated $1,000 to Mahan. Ziman stepped down last summer, and Tyler Rose, who was an executive at Kilroy, took his place. Ziman could not be immediately reached.

Mahan has raised $11.6 million via his Mahan for Governor 2026 campaign, more than any other candidate apart from billionaire Tom Steyer, though his donations are mostly self-funded. Still, Mahan is polling around three percent. Republican candidates Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, who has developer Geoff Palmer’s money, are tied for the lead in very-blue California.

The San Jose mayor during a downtown Los Angeles town hall said if elected his approach would involve leaning on the private sector to spur development and getting people off the streets — two things the industry loves to hear.

Aman, when asked what she would do if she were mayor of Los Angeles in an interview with TRD last year, said she would focus on “quality-of-life issues.” That meant addressing homelessness, for one, which she said would make residents and businesses feel good about making long-term decisions. She mentioned San Francisco and how “things feel better” there in the Daniel Lurie era.