Stu Strumwasser

Founder & Managing Director

2012 - Current

Green Circle is a boutique middle market investment firm with an investment banking advisory division that focuses on serving companies within the world of natural products (www.greencirclecap.com). Our clients typically generate between $10MM to $100MM in revenues. Our venture capital division, Green Circle Foodtech Ventures (www.gcfoodtech.com), invests in tech-enabled businesses disrupting the way that we make and/or distribute food, primarily in Seed or Series A rounds. Green Circle professionals provide sophistication and transaction experience to small and mid-sized companies that are often family-owned or led by bold entrepreneurs. The Principals of Green Circle Capital Partners LLC (DBA Green Circle Capital Advisors) are registered representatives of BA Securities, LLC. Securities and Investment Banking Services are offered through BA Securities, LLC Member FINRA, SIPC. Green Circle Capital Partners LLC and BA Securities, LLC are separate and unaffiliated entities.

CEO

2005 - 2011

Snow Beverages is a boutique natural beverage company with a secondary agenda regarding corporate responsibility, founded in 2005. The first line of products (sparkling mint beverage) garnered major wholesale and retail distribution (i.e. Super Target and Whole Foods) but failed to gain necessary traction at the consumer level. The company then manufactured a line of natural soda that came in traditional flavors like cola and lemon lime, with no-calorie versions of those products. Snow raised over $3.5 million in agnel financing and the products were sold in approximately top chains up and down the east coast including Stop & Shop, Giant, Duane Reade and many more.

Director - Investments

2001 - 2005

Managed portfolios for high net worth individuals and small and mid-sized companies by way of utlilizing asset allocation and employing third-party, institutional money managers. This was a highly consultative sales process and my use of third-party managers and asset-based fees in lieu of transactional commissions--which I transitioned to in the mid-nineties--was well ahead of the curve for what is now the norm in the business of wealth management.

Vice President - Investments

1996 - 2001

Musician

1995 - 2000

I was the primary songwriter and drummer in a smart pop-rock band called Chaneling Owen. The band mainly existed from 1995 until 2002. Channeling Owen had a song featured on the hit TV show Dawson's Creek, was featured in a six-page article in Forbes and received radio play on over 300 college radio stations. But alas, rock stardom wasn't meant to be....

Account Exec

1990 - 1993

I was the top broker-trainee in the country out of a class of forty new reps.