Overview

A native Kansan, Steve Clark is a business school graduate of Wichita State University. He is
Chairman of Clark Investment Group, a real estate development and investment company based in
Wichita, Kansas.

In 1960, at age eighteen, Clark became the youngest licensed real estate salesperson in Kansas
and has since been active in real estate development and investments. He has worked as an
appraiser, licensed general contractor, property manager, consultant, and developer of office,
hospitality, retail, multifamily, industrial and self-storage properties. Notable development projects
include Team Ranch, a 600-acre master planned community in Fort Worth, Texas, and the
Waterfront, a 185-acre mixed-use project in Wichita, Kansas. He built over 2,000 apartment units
and has managed over 3,000 homes and multifamily units. His development portfolio includes over
7,000,000 square feet and 57,000 rental units. Although much of its focus is real estate, Clark
Investment Group has over 150 operating entities, including ethanol production facilities, express
car washes, bank holding companies, and other operating businesses in 23 states.
In the mid 1970s, Clark and a few friends formed a company to develop and operate Godfather’s
Pizza restaurants in the Southeast. With over 70 stores, the company became the largest franchisee
east of the Mississippi and was taken public in 1983.

Clark began building self-storage properties in 1979, ultimately becoming one of the top 10
operators in the nation. He currently owns and operates 71 facilities in 11 states with over 40,000
rental units.

Clark holds the professional designations of CRE (Counselor of Real Estate) given by the American
Society of Real Estate Counselors, and CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) by the
Realtors National Marketing Institute. These designations recognize his professional expertise as a
counselor for real estate, and as a certified specialist in commercial and investment real estate.
Throughout the 70’s and 80’s, he conducted seminars on the economics of real estate investing,
speaking before thousands at national conventions, colleges, civic groups and various trade
organizations in over 20 states and Canada. He served as an instructor on investments for the
Kansas Association of Realtors, and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. For over 5 years he
was also featured monthly as a syndicated real estate columnist for American City Business
Journals, published in 36 cities.

He is a past President of the Wichita Metropolitan Area Board of Realtors, and the Kansas Chapter
of Certified Commercial Investment Members (CCIM). In 1976, he was named the Wichita Realtor
of the Year. In 1983, the Kansas Association of Realtors presented him with a Distinguished Service
Award, and in 1985 named him Kansas Realtor of the Year. For over 10 years, he served as a
National Director for the National Association of Realtors, and on the Board of Directors of the
Kansas Association of Realtors.

In 1990, he was instrumental in completing funding for Wichita State University’s Chair of Real
Estate and Land Use Economics, now an endowed chair named the Stephen L. Clark Chair in Real
Estate and Land Use Economics. He also personally established a charitable annuity trust for
endowed real estate research at WSU, as well as the Layman L. Clark CCIM Scholarship, in honor of
his father, and the Judy Clark Delta Gamma Leadership Award at WSU, in memory of his late wife.