Everything you need to feature Esther.
Portfolio CEO. Author. Speaker. A woman of faith building across real estate, home services, and software from Utah. Bios, fast facts, high-resolution photography, video, and brand assets, ready to publish.
The essentials.
Utah Business, Women to Watch.
A short film on Esther’s story, produced by Utah Business for the 2026 Women to Watch honors.
Ready-to-use bios.
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Esther Jackson-Stowell is the CEO of Ekot Group, a woman-owned holding company building tech-enabled service, software, and real estate companies from Utah.
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Esther Jackson-Stowell is a Portfolio CEO, author, and community leader based in Utah. As founder and CEO of Ekot Group, she builds and operates a portfolio of service, software, and real estate businesses, from Wasatch Cleaners, a residential cleaning company run like a technology company, to Tidumo and Akovex, the software platforms born from its operations. Her real estate teams manage hundreds of units across Utah and California. A woman of faith and a published author, Esther is committed to building serious, scalable companies in overlooked industries, and to lifting the communities around her as she rises.
Full profile
Esther Jackson-Stowell is a Nigerian-born entrepreneur, real estate investor, author, and community leader with more than 15 years of experience in real estate, business, and leadership. She is the founder and CEO of Ekot Group, a woman-owned holding company that builds and operates service, software, and real estate businesses on one belief: the unglamorous industries are exactly where good management and technology create outsized returns.
Her journey began in 2010 with Ekot Properties and Ekot Real Estate, where her teams now manage hundreds of units across Utah and California. Her portfolio also includes Wasatch Cleaners, a residential cleaning company operated like a tech startup; Tidumo, the operating system built to run it and now productized for the industry; and Akovex, an AI operations platform. She co-hosts The Broker’s Table, a podcast on entrepreneurship, faith, family, and the real mechanics of building generational wealth.
A devoted woman of faith, wife, mother, and foster parent, Esther is a contributing author of The Not-So-Secret Lives of Real Mormon Wives (Cedar Fort) and has been recognized as a Utah Business Women to Watch honoree and among IMPACT Magazine’s Women of Impact. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and is driven by a simple mission: to empower people to uncover their gifts, build generational wealth, and leave a legacy of purpose.
Quotes you can pull.
“The unglamorous industries are exactly where good management and technology create outsized returns.”
“I’m not an investor watching from a distance. I’m in the business, building the process, hiring the team, and answering the phone when it matters.”
“Love without a system is just sentiment. The most loving thing I can do is build something my family can actually inherit.”
“When we lift others, we all rise together.”
What Esther speaks on.
Real Estate Investing for Women
Building wealth through property, around a full life, faith, and family.
Generational Wealth & Legacy
A faith-driven framework for building wealth that lasts beyond one generation.
Turning Service Into Software
How an overlooked industry becomes a scalable, sellable technology asset.
Building While Woman-Owned
The real playbook for building a portfolio as a woman and minority founder.
Faith, Family & Ambition
Holding all three at once, and leading from conviction without apology.
Systems That Scale
Turning manual, local operations into repeatable, durable systems.
Suggested interview questions.
- You run a cleaning company “like a tech startup.” What does that actually mean?
- How did you go from a single real estate office to a portfolio of companies?
- What is your framework for building generational wealth?
- How do you integrate faith and business without compromising either?
- What do you wish more women knew about investing in real estate?
- What does being woman-owned really change about how you build?
- Why do you believe the “boring” industries are the best place to build wealth?
Highlights & honors.
Utah Business, Women to Watch
Selected among Utah’s women leaders trailblazing new paths, featured with an original short film.
IMPACT Magazine, Women of Impact
Honored at the Women of Impact Gala celebrating resilience, vision, and leadership.
Published Voice
Contributing author of The Not-So-Secret Lives of Real Mormon Wives (Cedar Fort).
High-resolution headshots.
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