Steve Dostart

Steve is the President and Founder of the Dostart Development Company, LLC (DDC). Prior to founding DDC, he was a Partner at the Mozart Development Company. Steve is a leader in Transit-Oriented Design and in utilizing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for efficient and sustainable design. He has overseen the development of significant campus and single-building projects totaling approximately two million square feet in Palo Alto, Mountain View and Sunnyvale working collaboratively with notable international firms such as Hewlett Packard, Goldman Sachs & Co., TDK USA, KPMG, AOL Netscape, Morgan Stanley, Norwest Bank and Network Appliance.

Earlier in his career, Steve worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in New York and for the Trammell Crow family at the Trammell Crow Company in Dallas.

Steve currently is the President Elect of NAIOP Silicon Valley, a trade association for the real estate industry, and is a board member of Reading Partners, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering students through literacy and investing community members in underserved public schools. He previously served on the Management Board at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College.