KASSIE SMITH
Kassie Smith is an award-winning globally recognized real estate development leader, with over 27 years of experience delivered iconic destinations throughout the globe. As a recognized entrepreneur and sophisticated leader, she founded two notable development companies, building sizable operations teams, driving business growth and financial success, while balancing project master planning, vision and executing sophisticated platforms for notable large-scale projects; luxury resort, mixed-use development and master planned lifestyle communities.
Smith is a C-suite strategist and board advisor renowned for building the entire high-capacity development strategy quickly after identifying a simple piece of land. Overseeing budgets of over $3B, Smith has aligned herself with the worlds most prominent stakeholders as MGM International, Howard Hughes Corp and PGA West. She serves as a trusted advisor to investment stakeholders, boards, and joint-venture partners, creating high-barrier strategies and concepts, sophisticated joint venture structures and raising over $4B in capital.
A celebrated career, Kassie’s expertise spans every stage of the development lifecycle; the precision of architecture and design, evolving into general contracting logistics, complex land acquisitions, joint-venture structuring, and institutional capital raising. As a pioneering entrepreneur, Kassie launched the first development services firm in Las Vegas to partner directly with landowners and developers. She rapidly scaled the platform into four integrated subsidiary enterprises across luxury hospitality and residential development, retail operations, international import and procurement, and brokerage services. Managing large-scale development teams, her firms delivered up to 45 projects annually with budgets exceeding $2 Billion across luxury resorts, government facilities, master-planned residential communities, and urban mixed-use assets, while serving on local boards. Today, Kassie leads her own strategic growth initiatives as an overall sophisticated practice leader, having procured over $4.3 Billion in funding to date. She consults for landowners, private equity funds, and investment firms to envision master plans, optimize "best-in-class" market positioning, and scale platform business structures into new markets. Kassie sits on international boards, actively speaks as an industry keynote, and champions women’s leadership initiatives. Her achievements have been featured in prominent industry publications throughout her distinguished career.