Stanford Alumni Real Estate Council (SREC)
Emerging Leaders (EL)
Our SREC EL Members are the future.
Emerging leaders in the industry, they come together with their like-minded peers and fellow alums to accelerate their careers. They network, learn together, exchange ideas, and build year-round and lifetime connections.
Found in all aspects of real estate and the built environment, their ideas and actions are changing the industry.
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Preferred Name: Will
Last Name: Sternlicht
Degree String (e.g. MBA '25): ('17)
Job Title: Co-Founder
Company Name: Comfi Living
Bio: Will is passionate about tackling housing shortages through business, technology, and policy innovation. Before founding Comfi Living, a tech-enabled residential development and operating platform, he worked on living-sector projects at Crosstree Real Estate Partners. Earlier, he helped speed up building permits at Pulley, scaled temporary dignified housing with Pallet Shelter, and underwrote public housing opportunities for Miami-Dade County. He began his career investing in tech at Social Capital and later merged his interests in startups and the built world by launching a glamping brand with SH Hotels & Resorts. Continuing his entrepreneurial path, Will founded HBSBuilds, Harvard Business School’s largest founder community, and is an active angel investor in PropTech and GovTech startups. He sits on the board of Impact Residential Development, a national LIHTC developer, and holds an MBA (with distinction) and MPP from Harvard, and a BS in Engineering from Stanford.