Steve Kahn has served as Chief Financial Officer of Douglas Development Corporation since January 2026. In this role, Steve is focused on modernizing financial operations, strengthening cross-functional collaboration, and implementing institutional-quality financial processes that enhance reporting, operational efficiency, governance, and strategic decision-making across a large-scale real estate operating and development organization. In previous Chief Financial Officer positions, Steve provided enterprise-wide leadership across corporate finance, treasury, capital markets, SEC reporting, investor relations, tax strategy, financial planning and analysis, enterprise risk management, and governance. Steve’s experience spans diversified real estate portfolios, including multifamily, office, retail, mixed-use, and development assets, with extensive expertise in joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and complex financing structures.
Most recently, as Chief Financial Officer of Trinity Place Holdings, Steve led the company’s financial strategy, capital markets activities, treasury, reporting, governance, and property operations. Steve also successfully executed nearly $900 million in financing transactions, led complex debt restructurings and recapitalizations, and provided strategic oversight of development, property management, information technology, insurance, and human resources. Additionally, Steve worked closely with the Board of Directors, audit committees, institutional lenders, investors, external auditors, and legal advisors to support strategic decision-making and enterprise governance.
Previously, as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of United Realty Trust and during more than a decade in senior finance leadership at SL Green Realty Corp., Steve directed SEC reporting, tax strategy, financial governance, and the financial integration of multi-billion-dollar acquisitions and dispositions. Steve led large finance organizations, managed sophisticated joint venture reporting structures, strengthened internal controls, and played an integral role in capital allocation, liquidity management, and investor communications across multiple economic cycles.
Steve Kahn is a Certified Public Accountant and maintains active membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA).