Steve Dostart 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. Earlier in his career, Steve worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in New York, for the Trammell Crow family at the Trammell Crow Company in Dallas and for the Centre City Development Corporation in San Diego. Steve currently is the President of NAIOP Silicon Valley, a trade association for the real estate industry, Vice Chairman of Reading Partners, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering students through literacy and investing community members in underserved public schools, and a member of the Grand Boulevard Initiative and the Town Center Task Force in Atherton, CA. 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.