John Stewart was formerly an officer of a TRW-owned subsidiary which developed public and HUD-assisted and insured housing. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Low- and Moderate-Income Housing to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner in Washington, D.C. and in 1988 received a Presidential appointment to the Board of Directors of the National Cooperative Bank. He has served as Chairman of the National Cooperative Bank – Development Corporation, which makes focused loans to low-income housing, medical, and agricultural cooperatives. Mr. Stewart has also been a member of an advisory task force reporting to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for HUD. He currently serves as Director on the Boards of the Low Income Housing Fund of San Francisco and the National Housing Conference of Washington, D.C. Mr. Stewart is a graduate of Stanford University.