Stu is the Founder & Managing Director of Green Circle Capital, providing investment banking and advisory services for exceptional growth-stage and lower middle market health & wellness companies. His novel, the organ broker, was published by Skyhorse publishing in May of 2015 and named one of five finalists for the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing. www.theorganbroker.com
From 1990-2005 Stu worked in private client group environments at major Wall Street firms (including Paine Webber and Oppenheimer & Co.) holding the titles of Director - Investments at Oppenheimer, and VP - Investments with two firms prior to that. In 2006 he founded Snow Beverages to make a natural soda, and served as the company's CEO for six years. At Snow Stu raised over $3.5MM in early-stage financing and sold in the product line to Whole Foods, Super Target, Stop & Shop and many other leading retailers and distributors. He also co-founded Tengrade, the internet's social rating tool. He has been featured on the WPIX morning news, on the cover page of the money section of the NY Daily News, in a six-page article in Forbes ASAP, in Crain’s NY and Timeout NY Kids (with his twin sons.) Stu has also been mentioned in the NY Post, Metro NY, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and been a speaker at NY Entrepreneur Week, Bevnet Bootcamp, Baruch, Columbia U., Pace, and the Stern School at NYU.
