Marjorie A. Knitter, the inspirational and hard-driving president of The Moote Group, a full service land management firm that assists developers, builders and lenders in all aspects of land development management and infrastructure programs from entitlement through finished lots. She is well know in the Southern California construction industry, with more than 23 years of experience in providing land management services. She is engaged in numerous related industry associations and holds leadership roles in most.

Marji oversees all aspects of business planning, development and management for the firm's nearly 50 employees. She is active in many of the company's services such as developing feasibility studies, constructability analysis, offsite cost estimates; administering bid packages and contracts; and negotiating construction reimbursement agreements for public improvements performed through private development. Marji personally performs the associated work and leads the development project team providing pro forma development and costing, whether the developer is buying, selling, borrowing, budgeting or building out the project.

Since assuming leadership of The Moote Group during the economic recession in 1990, she has grown the family business from seven employees to nearly 50 and expanded the firm's expertise from civil engineering and construction management to include bid administration for private and public works, contract administration, dry utility consulting and coordination, program management services, construction reimbursement support and forensic estimating and litigation support services. Under Marji's leadership, diversification helped The Moote Group not only survive, but to thrive during all business cycles in the real estate and construction industry.

When it comes to general engineering contracting, construction management or expert witness services, Steve Murow is someone you want on your team from beginning to end. He joined The Moote Group in 2000 after a successful 22-year career in the general engineering contracting industry, during which he served as a principal in two leading contracting firms. Since joining Moote he has provided grading analysis and developed pro forma's for many of the major developers in Southern California, acted as the senior program/project manager on several residential, commercial and industrial projects; and, has been an expert witness in both public and private engineering contracting and building contract disputes. He is an invaluable member of The Moote Group team, managing complex projects such as the 717-acre master planned community of Sycamore Creek near Corona, the 1.097 acre project (formerly Howard Hughes aircraft facility) in Los Angeles/Culver City known as Playa Vista and the Pacific Gateway project by Boeing in Seal Beach.  Steve is an expert in claims analysis and has provided litigation support and expert witness services – as well as facilitated equitable settlement agreements prior to entering litigation - for municipalities, owners, developers and contractors. He has been retained over 35 times as an expert witness specializing in DIRT - mass excavation and land grading issues and disputes. He has made appearances in twelve trials - jury trials, bench trials and binding arbitration.