[1] Kettler got his start in real estate remodeling apartments while still a student at George Washington University in 1974.

Kettler has developed many of the largest planned communities in the Washington D.C. Metro Area, large mixed-use commercial properties and several country clubs/golf courses.

The company has developed more than 5 million square feet of mixed-used commercial space, including the 1.2-million-square-foot Trinity Centre mixed-use office park in Fairfax County, Virginia, and the 1.3-million-square-foot Village at Leesburg Town Center in Loudon County, Virginia.

Over the last five years Kettler's condominium communities in North Bethesda, Maryland, and Reston, Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, were the Washington, DC Metropolitan area's top selling projects with gross sales in excess of $700 million.

Additionally, Kettler is the largest developer of affordable housing in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan area.

[4] He has also received numerous awards from Fairfax County, the Urban Land Institute, and various community and industry associations.

The wholly owned subsidiary manages more than 19,000 apartment units in 85 communities and over 1.7 million square feet of office and retail space.

Since 2003, Kettler and his wife, Charlotte, have served as co-chairs of a $50 million capital campaign that led to a transformational redevelopment of the Potomac School.