Steve Laver
Expertise
Mr. Laver has over 30 years of real estate development, operations, sales and investments for some of North America’s premier companies.
Career
He was a national Partner of Trammell Crow Company in the early 1990s, Chief Operating Officer of Brookfield Properties, and the first President of its facilities management business (now BrookfieldGIS). Mr. Laver was also Chief Operating Officer and a founding Partner of Bentall Capital (now BentallGreenOak). Since 2004, Mr. Laver has operated and led several companies in the lifestyle real estate sector. He was President of Intrawest's luxury residence club division, where he developed and sold successful resort projects in California, Colorado, and Canada. Mr. Laver was also President of the global sales and marketing firm Playground, where his teams sold over $4 billion of real estate in 15 countries. In 2009 he co-founded Forte International, a lifestyle real estate marketing/sales company that he continues to advise. In 2010 he became an owner of Sotheby's International Realty Canada, building it into the largest franchise for that brand prior to selling the business in 2014. Mr. Laver was educated at Principia College and Harvard Business School, and is an active participant and speaker at real estate industry associations in the US and Canada. Mr. Laver is registered with FINRA and holds the Series 63 and 79 licenses.
Montminy & Co. are the exclusive American partner of Mergers Alliance
