Leadership

A Co-Founder of Foremost Pacific Group (FPG), Steve Cameron leads the firm’s development activities in the rental housing sector. Working with FPG’s senior staff, Steve oversees land search, community planning, and project execution for Foremost Pacific Group FPG, and also serves as Co-Chairman of FPG’s Investment Committee. Cameron has served as Founder and President of Foremost Companies, a leading California land planning and development firm, and is also a Principal of FPG’s homebuilding affiliate, Woodbridge Pacific Group (WPG). Steve has led the planning, development, sales and marketing of major masterplan communities throughout the Southern California region.

Cameron has more than 25 years of experience in California real estate development and has been closely involved in every aspect of the residential real estate industry from financing and acquisition, to planning and development, and to the sales and marketing of newly built housing communities. Prior to establishing the Foremost Companies, Cameron was Chief Operating Officer for Fieldstone Communities, a leading private homebuilding company which has constructed and sold more than 20,000 homes in California. Cameron served as a senior executive of The Fieldstone Group of Companies beginning in 1990 and held various leadership roles over his 17 years with the firm. Before Fieldstone, he worked at Continental Bank in Chicago in the bank’s real estate capital markets group.

Cameron is well known and respected within the California residential real estate development industry, where he has developed a strong reputation for integrity and community involvement. He is a past president of the Orange County Chapter of the Building Industry Association and has served on the board of directors for several non-profit organizations. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and a Master of Business Administration at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Cameron lives in San Juan Capistrano with his wife, Suzanne, and their five children.

Carl Neuss is Co-Founder of Foremost Pacific Group (FPG) and serves as Co-Chairman of the FPG Investment Committee. Carl also is Co-Founder of Woodbridge Pacific Group, a leading California homebuilding firm which is one of the state’s leading privately-owned residential real estate development companies.. In 2011, Carl and Todd Cunningham, teamed to establish WPG and together have built the firm into one of the leading privately owned residential development companies in California. WPG & FPG’s top management has a long professional history working as a team. Neuss began working in business partnership with FPG Co-Founder Steve Cameron in the latter 1990s, teaming on several housing development joint venture projects during his tenure at IHP Capital Partners.

Before founding FPG and WPG, Carl was a senior executive at leading California housing investment and development companies including IHP Capital Partners and The Buie Corporation. From 1994 to 2005, Carl was employed at IHP Capital Partners where he was Co-Owner & Principal and served on the Executive Committee and Investment Committee for the firm’s $1.0+ Billion portfolio of IHP Funds. At IHP, Carl oversaw and managed scores of equity investments in major housing and land development projects throughout California. Carl also oversaw a team of professionals responsible for both housing project investment & underwriting as well as for the market strategy and research efforts which supported IHP’s overall investment activities. Prior to  IHP, Carl served as a senior executive and Project Manager at The Buie Corporation, a major Southern California housing and land development firm. Earlier in his career, Carl, a Registered Professional Civil Engineer, served as Vice President and Principal Engineer for J.G. Bouwkamp & Associates, Consulting Civil Engineers (Oakland, CA).

Carl has broad background in real estate development, real estate investment, property acquisition, project management, and market / economic assessment. He created and directed the development of the proprietary Market Expert System, which has been recognized as the one of the housing and land development industry's most sophisticated market assessment tool.

Carl holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University, a Master of Engineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He completed the Professional Program in Real Estate Development at UC San Diego and has completed the Registered Investment Advisor certification. A former Board Member of the Harvard Center for Housing Studies, Carl currently serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University’s Baker Graduate Program in Real Estate and is a member of the Cornell Real Estate Council. Over the past twenty-five years, Carl has authored several articles and studies on the behavior of California's housing market and regional economies. Carl and his wife Elaine have three grown children and have been married for thirty-seven years. They live in Laguna Hills, CA.