Our People

Nicholas Phipps White
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, (Acting) Sovereign Towers Managing Director, The Hollywood Land Development Company, LLC
Beverly Hills, CA
Mr. White is the 100% owner of the privately owned Hollywood Land Development Company “Sovereign Towers” luxury project. Sovereign Tower I, featuring an 800-room Marriott dual-branded Ritz-Carlton-St. Regis luxury hotel, and Sovereign Tower II, featuring a class-A commercial space, were sold to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Public Investment Fund (PIF).
Mr. White, born in New Haven, CT on February 14, 1969, is the great-great-grandson of prominent industrialist and philanthropist U.S. Senator Lawrence C. Phipps of Colorado, Treasurer of Carnegie Steel, who architected U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar company in the world. Mr. White is the grandson of Brigadier General Nicholas Allen USAF, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Judge Advocate General.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Commonwealth of Virginia Governor and Attorney General James S. Gilmore III Esquire., founder of Gilmore Global Group LLC of Washington, D.C., has served as Mr. White’s advisor and general counsel since the company’s inception in 2015.

Mirga “Mary” Phipps White MBA
Chief Operating Officer, The Hollywood Land Development Company, LLC
Beverly Hills, CA
Ms. White, wife of Mr. Nicholas Phipps White, is the Chief Financial Officer of the privately owned Hollywood Land Development Company. She has previously served in senior proposal management, marketing, and government relations consulting roles at major Fortune 500 firms, including Computer Sciences Corporation, SAIC, Accenture, and DynCorp, serving major Federal IT customers. Ms. White has held high-level DEA sensitive and U.S. DOJ clearances while providing services to the U.S. government. She was born on July 2, 1970, in New London, Connecticut, and is the daughter of Dr. Michael Peter Pakstys of San Francisco, CA, a former senior executive at General Dynamics for the U.S. Defense Department.
Ms. White received her B.A. in Communications and MBA in finance from Marymount University, with post-graduate executive management certification from Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC. She had previously been a member of the Beverly Hills Women’s Club, in Beverly Hills, CA 90210, and has resided in California since 2017 with her husband, Mr. Nicholas Phipps White, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Hollywood Land Development Company, a descendant of Carnegie Steel’s U.S. Senator Lawrence C. Phipps.
Steven Craig Harris
Chief Financial Officer
Austin, TX
Mr. Harris serves as the Chief Financial Officer. He has extensive financial, managerial, project management, network operations, and product service experience at Intel Corporation in senior business and technology leadership positions. Additionally, Mr. Harris has served as the CFO and CEO of a U.S.-based fleet management system and GPS tracking services professional company serving the U.S. Marines Corps at Ft. A.P. Hill and Ft. LeJeune facilities.
Mr. Harris received his B.S. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Richmond, Robins School of Business, with MBA graduate studies at the University of Maryland and advanced-level Microsoft and CISCO certifications.
