Clay Sikes – CEO, President

Clay Sikes has a rich heritage in Coastal Georgia, spending most of his childhood and young adult years on Colonel’s Island in Liberty County and St. Simons Island in Glynn County. He has spent the entirety of his adult life working in and residing on the Georgia Coast. He was graduated from Bradwell Institute High School in 1966, playing on a state championship football team coached by high school football legend Hokey Jackson; and later graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1971, entering the real estate business soon thereafter. As the son of former Liberty County Sheriff, Bobby Sikes, and Grandson of another Liberty County Sheriff, Paul Sikes (tenure of nearly 50 years), he developed a deep love of the region and the people within it. Clay has been in the real estate business on the Georgia Coast for more than 35 years. During this period he has owned, operated, and invested in many aspects of the industry – including insurance, apartments, restaurants, newspaper, brokerage, development, residential and commercial construction, marketing, storage, shopping center and timberland investments.

Clay currently maintains homes on St. Simons Island and Hinesville, Georgia with his wife Tracy and daughter Ali. Clay also has two grown sons, Slade and Brett Sikes, who build homes in company developments near Ft. Stewart, Georgia. Current development projects include a 2,700 acre master planned community, Independence (www.independence-community.com) that abuts Ft. Stewart Georgia – permitted for 10,800 residential housing units and two million square feet of retail; Peninsula (www.peninsula-goldenisles.com), a beautiful master planned water front community in Glynn County, as well as large property inventories in Long, Bulloch, and Liberty Counties. Additionally, Clay co-owns shopping centers in Hinesville and Savannah comprising 320,000 square feet of retail, much of which is national retail tenants.

Clay has been involved in the coastal community in both private and public service, including twelve years as a board member of the Liberty County Hospital Authority; and most recently, joining forces with area businessmen and banks in creating a private local entity, Friends of Liberty and Ft. Stewart (www.folandfs.com), a civic organization designed to support Ft. Stewart-Hunter AAF, and the many military familes (active and retired) who live in our region.

Throughout his lengthy career, Clay has participated in the development of over 5000 building lots, construction of hundreds of homes and apartments, and a number of commercial buildings. He has brokered, purchased, and sold many key coastal real estate properties ranging from historic properties in downtown Savannah to large rural timber tracts in McIntosh County. He has worked extensively in all six of Georgia’s coastal counties, giving him a unique perspective of it diversity and eclectic mix of opportunity.