Fifty years of Northeast Florida land, and the people running the firm today.

Chester is one of Northeast Florida’s most accomplished real estate developers, with a career that now spans more than six decades. Since founding his development practice in 1973 he has led the acquisition, entitlement and development of more than 100 projects across the Southeast, including five golf-course communities.

His landmark developments include Marsh Landing in Ponte Vedra Beach, a gated golf community of more than 1,100 homes around an Arnold Palmer-designed course, along with Deercreek Country Club, Samara Lakes in St. Augustine, Talavera, and Destination Resorts at Amelia Island.

He has been named Builder of the Year by the Northeast Florida Builders Association and served as Chairman of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, where he championed the sales-tax referendum that took the tolls off Jacksonville’s roads.

• Chairman, Stokes Land Group, LLLP
• NEFBA Builder of the Year
• Former Chairman, Jacksonville Transportation Authority
• JAGA Award Honoree, 2021
• Georgia Institute of Technology

Adam has been Chester’s CFO for more than 13 years and brings operational and financial expertise to every part of the organization. Over that time he has personally overseen more than 100 acquisitions spanning personal, corporate and real estate transactions, and he leads accounting and financial reporting for the firm.

That range of deal experience, from land acquisitions and entity structuring to complex corporate transactions, has given him an unusually wide network in the industry and a working understanding of how capital actually moves through the Southeast real estate market.

Trey handles business development, operations and portfolio management, and he builds the firm’s technology and data tools.

A contrarian by temperament, he was an early adopter of digital assets starting in 2013, well before institutions took an interest. He holds a BBA in Finance from the University of North Florida and passed CFA Level I before moving full time into alternative investment strategies.

Alex leads fundraising, investor relations and business development. He began his career in institutional financial services, managing employee-benefit programs for dozens of large employers and overseeing plan design, marketing and implementation for thousands of participants.

Like Trey, he was an early adopter of digital assets starting in 2013 and has spent years working with blockchain infrastructure.

Jesse is General Counsel to Stokes Capital Management, advising on entity formation, securities compliance, deal counsel and transaction structuring. His practice covers regulatory matters and the legal framework around the firm’s investment activities.