STEVE JELLICORSE
Steve has extensive executive and entrepreneurial experience in a broad range of development and construction industries from land development and commercial development to homebuilding. Steve started his career as a project manager, developing master planned golf course communities for the largest developer in the United States. Later he began his homebuilding career in master planned upscale communities. After several years as a senior executive in commercial office and industrial real estate development, Steve returned to homebuilding and land development eventually starting his own company.
One company, MorningStar Builders started in 1999, is the predecessor to MorningStar Homes. Steve has served in a number of roles including regional and divisional president for large merchant homebuilding companies. Excellence is a hallmark of Steve’s career often gathering industry awards from his peers for the communities and homes he has built and the organizations he has run.
Steve has undergraduate background in engineering and an MBA from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is an instrument rated pilot and loves backpacking. He and Brenda, his wife of 30 years, have 4 children and 3 grandchildren. They are also actively involved in relief and faith-based missions in Africa, S. America and among Native Americans.