Principal & Special Advisor
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Stephen has been CIO of LBCW Investments since 2009, managing the SFO for Clay W. Hamlin III who is the founder and longtime CEO of Corporate Office Properties Trust (NYSE: OFC). In 2012, Stephen founded Acrewood Private Holdings to focus exclusively on providing structured solutions to successful entrepreneurs seeking to invest in their own highest conviction ideas, and currently manages a series of nine funds as well as the Acrewood Bridge Credit Fund for real estate entrepreneurs. Acrewood Funds include over 30 first-generation wealth single family offices, and in 2016, Stephen was named one of Trusted Insight’s Top 30 Family Office Investors. Prior to LBCW, Stephen spent 13 years focused on M&A and structured finance at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, and prior to investment banking, he founded and sold two software companies to public acquirers. Other than serving as a partner and advisor in Rizk Ventures, Stephen serves on numerous boards including: the Elegantree reg-cap sleeve for $6B hedge fund Orchard Global; Blackstreet Capital, a distressed and turnaround private equity firm and Cendana, a $400M seed VC fund of funds. Stephen has an AB cum laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, and an MBA in Finance from Wharton.
