Meet The Team

Our Leadership

Klaus Hasbo CEO

Klaus Hasbo brings a wealth of expertise to Solomon Hills, combining over 15 years of senior management in private equity, specializing in global mergers and acquisitions, with more than 30 years in oil and gas production and field development. He holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering and an MBA from Heriot Watt University.

Ben Humphrey Director of Community Development

Ben Humphrey is dedicated to addressing the region’s critical housing needs. He actively engages with local residents, business leaders, and NGOs to raise awareness about the Solomon Hills project and incorporate community feedback. He brings extensive experience from various California real estate firms. Ben earned a BS from Chapman University and a Master’s in Real Estate Development and Design from UC Berkeley.

Peter Kiesecker Director of Operations

With over 35 years of experience developing master-planned communities across the western U.S., Peter Kiesecker focuses on sustainable, mixed-use projects. He leads the Solomon Hills project’s development, permitting, and entitlement processes. Peter holds MBAs from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and Thunderbird School of Global Management.

The Solstra Promise

Creating Connected Communities

Solstra is a U.S.-based company backed by private investors dedicated to creating thoughtful, sustainable communities by repurposing and revitalizing unique properties, such as Solomon Hills. Solstra has been outlining the vision for Solomon Hills since 2019.

We are committed to creating a thriving, sustainable, and socially connected community that is within reach for working families, through repurposing oil and gas land, implementing innovative environmental practices, and creating community connectedness.

Expertise

A Local Team to Lead the Way

Committed to honoring Santa Barbara County’s roots, Solstra has engaged a local project team of trusted consultants who have lived and worked in the area for decades. International sustainability experts have joined the local team to provide guidance in creating a model sustainable community.

Partners Committed to the Success of Solomon Hills

Why Solomon Hills

The opportunity before us is rare. The land is here. The need is real. And the time to act is now.

Why Solomon Hills

Every family deserves a place to call home, a neighborhood where kids walk to school, where the coffee shop is around the corner, where a first house isn’t just a dream deferred. For too many working families in North County, that reality feels out of reach.

Solomon Hills exists to change that.

For more than a century, 1,900 acres of land just west of Highway 101 has been in oil and gas production, out of sight and out of the community’s future. Now, for the first time, there is a real opportunity to transform that land into something lasting: a walkable, thriving community where 70% of homes are designed to be attainable for the teachers, nurses, tradespeople, and first-time buyers who are the heart of North County life.

This is more than a housing project. It’s a chance to build the kind of place people actually want to live, where trails wind through open space, where neighbors gather at a village center, where jobs are close and commutes are short, where kids walk or ride their bikes to school, and where the land itself is stewarded with care for generations to come.

North County is growing. The question isn’t whether change is coming, it’s whether we shape that change with intention and purpose.

Solomon Hills is our answer: a bold, hopeful vision for what a community can be when we design it around people, not just parcels.

The opportunity before us is rare. The land is here. The need is real. And the time to act is now.