Preston Clark
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Preston Clark is a leader and trusted advisor in providing market-driven, analytically based, strategic management and planning for real estate developers and institutional investors. Preston has developed destination resorts, hotels and master planned communities for the world’s most notable brands and has in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in every stage of the development and construction process; he has designed and executed development strategies and lead launch operations for over 96 projects in 7 countries representing over $6 billion in sales and has led development teams responsible for launching projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients including Intrawest, Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Vail Resorts, East West Partners, JMB Realty, JMA Ventures, Montage Hotels & Resorts, Pendry Hotels & Resorts, Abercrombie & Kent and multiple boutique hotels and yacht clubs.
In addition to real estate development, Preston has experience building 3 high-growth companies as CEO or Executive Vice President. Prior to Jupiter and Galileo, Preston founded a company that set the standard in the modular building industry 10-years ago having built the largest container building company in the United States and the second largest in the world with over 300 employees and multiple factories; winning awards for sustainability and innovation having built over 4,300 units of affordable housing, schools, and luxury housing that serve over 30,000 people daily all over California with the City of Los Angeles being the longest customer. Prior to the real estate industry, Preston learned best practices in corporate development and strategic planning from Fortune 5 (IBM) and Global 200 technology companies (Alcatel) and was active in completing three acquisitions and IPOs.
Key Accomplishments
- Preston leads Galileo Development Company, where his work centers on deploying advanced real estate technology infrastructure across multiple cities and states, engaging at the highest municipal, state, and federal levels.
- More than 30 years of executive leadership experience in Public/Private Partnerships. Resort Destinations and Hotels, Master Planned & Lifestyle Oriented Communities, Multi-Family Mixed Use, Affordable/Senior/Supportive Housing, College/University, K-12 School and Community Development, International Emerging Markets, Urban High Rise, Disaster Relief and Public Works.
- Creator of the Jupiter D2D System® the world’s first standardized development-to-delivery technology platform that brings development, financing, regulations, production, and delivery together into one system and enables and accelerates city-wide planning and financial decisions to be based on the standardized and predicable output. By eliminating traditional inefficiencies in time, cost, and resource redundancy, projects that once required years can now be completed in weeks, delivering substantial cost savings and scalable, repeatable outcomes across markets.
