Steven Kaufman, CPA, MsEDE, is a principal in Zeus Mortgage where he has coordinated over a billion dollars in real estate financing for companies like American Express, Hewlett Packard, and Exxon Mobil. Zeus Mortgage is the 37th fastest growing private financial service firms in the US according to Inc. Magazine. Steven is frequently interviewed by local and national news organizations like FOX, ABC, CBS, CNN, and Bloomberg on the current financial markets. Steven has personally acquired dozens of investment properties and has been involved in several commercial real estate projects. Steven completed the Strategic Marketing Management Program at Harvard Business School and has a Masters Degree in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship from the University of Houston. He currently pursuing his PHD in organizational leadership.  His unparalleled finance experience has made him the leading expert on mortgages and real estate financing. 

A 1999 inductee into the business honorary Beta Gamma Sigma. A 2002 inductee into Who’s Who in the United States, 2010 inductee into Who’s Who for Executives, a 2006 National Leadership Award recipient, and a 2006 Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Steven is a 2007 recipient of the Business Leader of the Year Award by the NRCC. He was an Ernst and Young Global Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist. Steven sat as an officer of The RICH Club (The Realty Investment Club of Houston) Board of Directors for 9 years, has been a Director for the Greater Houston Association of Mortgage Professionals, and sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the University of Houston School of Business. Steven recently accepted a board position with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). National Mortgage Professional Magazine recently ranked Steven as one of the “Top 40 Most Influential Mortgage Professionals in the United States” and the Houston Business Journal recently ranked him as one of the “Top 40 Under 40 in Houston". Steven is co-author of the nationally acclaimed bestselling book “Off the Coast of Zanzibar”, he is a 5 time state bench press record holder, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 World Bench Press Champion and 2013 Golden-Tiger powerlifting competitor in Ekaterinburg Russia. Steven is a co-founder and current President of The Fanatical Change Foundation, and he was recently the Houston Astros “Hometown Hero”.