Leadership team Highlights

Steve Brown - Managing Member

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working successfully in the construction industry, specifically developing multi-family, senior living, and single family homes. Skilled in oversight of remote teams, land development, and construction. Prior to J3C Group, Steve spent 5 plus years as CEO of a $200+ million organization focused on multi-family, senior living communities, and single family homes. In addition, Steve has been a senior executive responsible for profitably growing several regional subcontractors to a point where they were recognized as the largest subcontractor, by revenue, in their specific trades. Steve received a Bachelor of Science (BS) focused on Business Communication from Columbia College and an MBA focused on Finance and Organizational Behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University,

gordon stankowski - Operating Advisor

With over 40 years of experience in the local construction industry Gordon is a known entity in Northern California. From 1994 through 2009, Gordon was President and Co-Owner of Vacaville’s Hearn-Nolan Construction—a mid size general contractor widely known in California for superior performance in building Hotels, Senior Housing, Multi-family, Winery and Retail Construction. Prior to this experience Gordon had worked his way up to Project Executive at Dillingham Construction where, among many other projects, he served as the Project Executive/Director for a large $120M (late 1980’s $$), mixed use project in San Francisco consisting of 1,111 apartments, ground floor retail, and extensive underground parking.

Rob Remington - V.P. Development & Construction

Rob is a licensed General Contractor and designated Design Builder (through Design Build Institute of America) with 30 years in the industry. Beginning as an apprentice carpenter gradually rising to carpentry contractor, and all the way through various front office roles including the founding of three separate commercial building companies, spending three years working as an Architect, and running an international sourcing company based out of Hong Kong.

melissa du toit - controller/ Vice-president

Steve and Melissa ("Mel") have been working together since 2010. Mel spent the last 12 years at Blue Mountain Enterprises (“BME”) overseeing the accounting and payroll departments. Mel has been an integral part of several software conversions. Each conversion providing improved communication between the field and office, faster end of month closing and more detailed transaction reporting. Having been involved in construction accounting from an entry level position to controller, Melissa understands the construction process, the importance of accuracy and the need for constant review of what has happened, as well as what is contracted to happen in the future.

With a degree in accounting, Melissa has a proven track record of working well with the accounting teams from subcontractors, banks and equity partners.

jennifer goddard - office manager