A small firm with consequential reach.
Our Story
Polaris began in the field. Since 2009, our founder has built and operated EarthTek Paving & Grading into one of the Bay Area's most trusted infrastructure contractors — Diamond Certified, NMSDC-certified MBE, California licensed (#995715), with more than 2,500 projects delivered for municipalities, corporate campuses, and community institutions across Silicon Valley and the Peninsula.
Polaris was founded on a quiet observation made over those seventeen years: the largest infrastructure decisions are too often made under the most time pressure, with the least independent counsel. Owners need an advisor who has actually stood in the cut, watched a base fail, and rebuilt it.
We built Polaris to be that advisor — a senior-led strategic practice that arrives early, stays through commissioning, and is measured not by deliverables filed but by assets that perform for the next forty years.
Strategy grounded in execution. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Our Values
Integrity
Counsel that holds up under federal audit, board scrutiny, and the front page.
Accountability
We sign our names to schedules, budgets, and outcomes — and we own them.
Excellence
Senior practitioners on every engagement. No exceptions, no substitutions.
Innovation
Modern decision frameworks applied to the most enduring problems in the built environment.
Leadership
Every Polaris engagement is led by a named principal who has personally delivered programs of comparable complexity. Seniority is not a marketing claim. It is the operating model.
James Reeves
30+ years across state DOTs, federal infrastructure programs, and Fortune 100 capital advisory.
Maya Castellanos
Former CFO of a regional transit authority overseeing a $4.2B capital program.
Elias Tanaka
Authored frameworks adopted by twelve state agencies for GASB-aligned asset reporting.
Adaeze Okafor
Independent oversight on over $6B in complex public-private infrastructure ventures.
Operating Heritage.
Polaris is the strategic practice of a 17-year operating company. We carry forward its credentials, its discipline, and its standard of accountability.
Sister company: EarthTek →Independently verified customer satisfaction — a standard met by only a fraction of California contractors.
Certified Minority Business Enterprise positioned for corporate supplier diversity and public-sector procurement.
California-registered contractor compliant with state public-works and prevailing-wage frameworks.
Active California contractor's license — fully bonded and insured.
"To be the North Star for infrastructure solutions and community advancement."
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