Stephen has over 40 years of experience in business leadership, operations, financial, and strategic management. He has been a serial entrepreneur for most of his career. Stephen started his industrial manufacturing career in 1986 with a Canadian manufacturing company and purchased the company in 1994. He has held positions of Marketing Director, Chief Operations Officer, and, CEO & Chairman. His second career began with Stone Lion Capital Partners founding in 2002, a boutique investment banking and consulting firm with clients across the southeast. The firm provided services in financial structuring, business turnarounds, technology transfer, and M&A negotiations. In 2021, Stephen became the director of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at Roane State Community College, where he shares his business experience with a range of clients.
Stephen was a founding board member and two-term president of the non-profit Appalachian Bear Rescue, an effort in collaboration with TWRA and the National Park Service.