Steve Marton Bio

Before co-founding VisioCap, Steve was a senior operating partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, a middle market private equity firm with approximately $2.2 billion in assets. He led the firm’s efforts in talent acquisition and assessment, organizational structure and design, strategy, goal alignment, financial reporting, and board composition, and also served as board chair and chief executive officer of Halo, Purely for Pets. Prior to Pegasus, Steve worked at Newell Rubbermaid, where he was a corporate officer and group president of the office products division. Previously, he had worked for Colgate Palmolive, where he was most recently the president and chief operating officer of Hill’s Pet Nutrition, one of the world’s largest specialty pet food brands. Steve has served as a member or observer on the board of directors for each of VisioCap’s investment companies, including serving as board chair for Nature’s Logic. In addition, Steve serves on the board of the JPMA Cares foundation and the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and is a Board Member Emeritus for The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Steve was also a board member of PetSmart Charities for 12 years, including serving as board chair during his last three years of service. In 2021, Steve was named by Pet Age to its inaugural Pet Industry’s 2021 Power 50 List.