Bio

Stephen Largan started his career in Yorkshire, England in 1984, when he left high-school at the age of 16 and started work as an apprentice accountant. Over the following ten years he held accounting, finance and operational audit positions in various industries including construction, building products, engineering and food manufacturing. During that time Stephen qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and subsequently graduated with an MBA from the University of Wales (Manchester Business School). In 1993, Stephen was recruited by the Ford Motor Company to implement business and financial systems for the European subsidiary of Ford’s $800M outsourcing services subsidiary. Three years later, Stephen was promoted to Director of Finance and relocated to the United States, where he graduated from the UCLA Executive Program in Management. In 1998, Ford sold the outsourcing business and Stephen left the company. In January 1999 he joined MacDermid Inc, a NYSE specialty chemicals and materials company with revenues at the time of $300M. Stephen was recruited as Vice President of Finance, the company’s senior financial officer. In 2001, Stephen became President of MacDermid Printing Solutions, a $300M division and acted as interim CEO of the company’s Colorspan division. In 2003 he was promoted to President of the entire $800M corporation. As President, Stephen led twelve general managers and global operations spread over North and South America, Europe and Asia. MacDermid was “taken private” in a $1.3 Billion leveraged buy-out in December 2006 and Stephen left the company. After leaving MacDermid, Stephen was a Managing Director at a Denver-based family office with revenues under management of $500M in the packaging and building product sectors, before founding Yorkshire Equity. Stephen currently serves as Chairman of Distributors Solutions LLC, Chairman of Dry Systems Technologies and Chairman of Full Tilt Performance.