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.
Interested in becoming an SREC EL member? Inquire Here.
Preferred Name: Chou
Last Name: Hoytt
Degree String (e.g. MBA '25): (MBA '19)
Job Title: President
Company Name: Hoytt Enterprises
Bio: Chou Hoytt is based in Brooklyn and currently repositioning his family’s California real estate portfolio. He is selling some assets, redeveloping others, and reinvesting into new strategies, including LP commitments. He is also building a platform to support small-scale housing developers with earliest-stage capital and centralized ops and tech. The goal is to help family offices and other capital partners gain programmatic access to sub-institutional infill multifamily deals - bringing scale, consistency, and oversight to a fragmented space. Chou was previously Co-founder and CEO of Watson, a VC-backed fintech and proptech startup. Earlier in his career, he worked across real estate private equity, affordable housing finance, management consulting, and tech investment banking. He now advises and invests in emerging development teams, early-stage proptech startups, and select funds. Chou is passionate about scalable solutions that unlock infill housing and modernize legacy portfolios.