Drew Corbett

Principal, DKG Consultants

Drew Corbett

Drew is the Principal of DKG Consultants, a firm he started in 2023 upon retirement after nearly 20 years in local government. Drew started his municipal government career in Sunnyvale in 2005 as a budget analyst, and later became the budget manager/assistant finance director. In 2013, Drew was hired by the city of Menlo Park to be its finance director, and in 2015, Drew left Menlo Park to join the city of San Mateo as its finance director. In 2016, Drew retained his title of finance director while adding the title of assistant city manager. In his new capacity, Drew took on oversight of the information technology department and managed special projects on behalf of the city manager.

In late 2018, the San Mateo City Council appointed Drew as the city manager, where he served through June 2023. In this role, Drew led the operations of a full-service city with over 600 full-time equivalent employees and over 105,000 residents. During his time as city manager, Drew also served as the chief administrative officer of the San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department, a Joint Powers Authority that provides fire protection and prevention services to the cities of San Mateo, Belmont, and Foster City.

Drew earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of the South. Prior to entering the public sector, Drew spent two years as an elementary school teacher in Compton, CA as part of the Teach For America program, and five years as a senior analyst/project manager with the Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA.

Drew has served on the Board of Directors for the California Society of Municipal Finance Directors and was the organization’s President in 2017.