About Us

Matthew founded Black Point Press in 1997 after working in the housing industry and San Francisco politics for several years. He writes a regular column on demographic trends in the real-estate industry.

A long-time resident of San Francisco, Matthew enjoys many of the charms the city offers, while working towards solutions for the myriad problems facing San Francisco. He served on the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury from 2001-2002 investigating and reporting on local government, and for many years he served as an officer and board member of the Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club. When he isn’t swimming and rowing in the bay, Matthew can be caught down by China Basin watching the San Francisco Giants and spending time with his family.

Emily Landes is the editor of SF Apartment Magazine and served as the managing editor at Black Point Press since 2006. She is the driving force behind a majority of the copy in the magazines, and particularly enjoys interviewing rental housing industry professionals and writing profiles about their businesses and buildings. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 with a dual major in professional and creative writing and a minor in film and media studies. Prior to her position at BPP, she worked as a reporter for The San Mateo Daily Journal and Silicon Valley lifestyle magazine The Wave. Originally from New York, for the last eight years she has lived in San Francisco, where she is very happy that she is not a landlord.

Simon is the editor of Rental Housing Magazine and brings 12 years of editorial experience to Black Point Press. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a masters in History, his first job was reporting for an international IT business newswire. For six years, he wrote about movies for Sky TV in London. Alongside his work for Black Point Press, he writes freelance for World Trade Press, Education.com, Salon, and Glance Magazine about travel, business, education, parenting, arts, sports and the Bay Area. Originally from the UK, Simon moved to Northern California with his family in 2006. He enjoys baseball, barbecue, and San Francisco summers.

Jéna is a seasoned art director and graphic designer who brings over 15 years of experience to Black Point Press, encompassing the fields of publishing, corporate, higher education and advertising.

Her client list in the publishing field includes Boston Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Houghton Mifflin and Little Brown. Other clients include Staples Corporate Advertising Division, Cellular One, Gillette Corporation, American Express Travel, Key3 Media Group, Mosby Consumer Health, Deloitte & Touche, M.I.T., as well as Bernard Hodes Advertising, Baldwin & Stone Advertising, and McKay Fried & Partners.

After earning a BFA in Visual Communications from Northern Illinois University, Art Director and former Chicagoan Tonya Weiland Sutfin paid her dues at a multitude of publishing houses. She designed editorial for the Chicago Tribune, Wells Fargo, the International Interior Design Association among others, earning recognition from Folio Magazine, WPA and SNAP. An impromptu move to California landed her in San Diego where she designed custom publications for San Diego Magazine. Ultimately an opportunity at California Home & Design Magazine brought her to San Francisco. In 2007, she launched a freelance career and her client base includes Stanford University, Sunset Magazine, the California Travel and Tourism Commission and most recently, Black Point Press. She lives in Oakland with her husband, an illustrator, and their feline posse of two. In between assignments, they toil over renovating their 1922 bungalow and like to brag about the East Bay sunshine.