About Ryland ("Rye") Kelley

Windy Hill Property

60 years of residential and commercial real estate development experience, with projects on the San Francisco peninsula including:
Palo Alto Office Center (525 University Avenue); several buildings in Stanford Research Park; and many other office buildings in Palo Alto; 620-acre Moffett Park, for the high-tech market (Sunnyvale); and neighborhoods such as Lindenwood (Atherton); Ladera (Portola Valley); Ladera Swim & Tennis Club; and Hidden Valley Farm (Portola Valley); as well as Pajaro Dunes resort (alongside Monterey Bay). Ryland and his partnership donated over 500 acres to POST (Peninsula Open Space Trust), which is the iconic landmark known as "Windy Hill" in Portola Valley. He was a 40-year member and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation; and a ten-year member of the Board of Directors of the Djerassi Residence Artist Retreat in Woodside. He is a Palo Alto native, attended Palo Alto High, and graduated from Stanford University (class of 1949). He married classmate Shirley Sneath, of Hillsborough, and they have three grown sons: Rich (Stanford), Tom (UC Berkeley), and Bruce (Princeton). Rye and Shirley were 50-year residents of Ladera, and now live in Woodside.