Roberto Contreras III

Roberto Contreras is Chief Executive Officer for St. Christopher Holdings, LLC. (SCH), a privately-owned holding company based in Houston, Texas. Since its founding in 2006, SCH has developed a strong portfolio of assets and companies with a market value of $400,000,000.

Mr. Contreras also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of DC Partners, a SCH real estate development company. DC Partners was formed in 2010 for development of luxury residential high-rise, mid-rise, mixed-use and suburban projects. Since 2012, DC Partners’ portfolio includes over $1 billion in high profile developments such as Astoria, Arabella, Marlowe high-rise residence towers, The Arts Residences at Thompson San Antonio hotel along the historic River Walk, and 4411 San Felipe, a class A office and retail building in Houston’s Uptown. DC Partner’s current construction project is The Allen, a six-acre mixed-use development featuring Thompson Houston hotel, Residences at The Allen, a retail and dining pavilion, with Phase II including multi-family and additional retail, all situated along Buffalo Bayou Park.

Before forming DC Partners and Houston EB5, Contreras begin his career in the stone and surfacing industry. At the early age of 23, he founded his first company, Super Marble, a custom marble fabrication shop in Houston working with many high-profile restaurants, custom home builders, and notable projects including the Holocaust Museum, Moody Gardens, and Houston International Airport. This began his trademark entrepreneurial spirit. In 1995, he and his father founded Technimar Industries, Inc, which later sold to the Davis family and became Cambria.

In 1998, Contreras turned his focus to his next venture, Cosentino USA. As the sole US distributor of Spain-based Cosentino products, they were the first to introduce Silestone to the US market. Cosentino USA became an industry leader with over $350 million in sales, which included national builders and retailers such as Lennar Homes and The Home Depot, and operated 17 large distribution warehouses and 11 company-owned fabrication shops, including Stone Systems. Contreras sold the company to Cosentino, S.A. of Spain in 2009, where he remained the CEO through 2010 transition.

At that time, he formed St. Christopher Holdings to include his various business ventures. One such venture included an investment in NRL Mortgage, an award-winning national residential mortgage company. As his interests in real estate development projects expanded, so did a return to his entrepreneurial vision for the stone and surfacing industry. Recognizing a need for high-quality fabrication and avant-garde materials, such as the large format porcelain, he formed Stonite Surface in San Marcos, Texas, and Moderno Porcelain Works, headquartered in Houston, Texas. Since 2019, Moderno Porcelain Works has expanded to thirteen locations nationwide.

St. Christopher Holdings and companies are dedicated supporters of various community and non-profit organizations. Among those, Contreras is an active member of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership Board, the City of Houston Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Foundation, the World Presidents’ Organization and has been a contributor of Lemonade Day Houston, Genesys Works, and Kipp Academy. Additionally, he was recently elected to serve on the Greater Houston Partnership Board of Directors.

In 2017, Contreras was awarded the “Arrival Award” by the University of Houston Law Center recognizing outstanding immigrant achievement. He has received national and international recognition for his business accomplishments, including Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002; Time Magazine’s award to Cosentino product Silestone as one of the Visions of Tomorrow in 2004; and in 2005 Cosentino was recognized by Inc. 500 as one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States. DC Partners developments Marlowe and Arabella were both finalists for the Houston Business Journal Awards in 2019, with Arabella wining Most Outstanding Multi-Family Development. In 2020, The Arts Residences at Thompson San Antonio won both Best Hospitality Project – Lodging and Best Multi-Use Project, recognized in San Antonio Business Journal’s Building San Antonio awards.

Contreras was born in Mexico and moved to the United States in 1984 as a student at the University of Houston and became a United States citizen in 2008. He and his wife, Claudia, reside in Houston, Texas.