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Mr. Stewart joined the board of directors on December 19, 2001, when he entered into an agreement with Arête to take over the operations and business plan of Eagle Capital Funding Corp. in order to pursue capital funding projects, including projects pursued by Arête and for other private and/or public ventures.
Mr. Stewart serves as a business consultant relating to corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Since his appointment on December 19, 2001, he has served as Company Secretary and as an outside director of Arete.
From 1986 to 1994, Mr. Stewart worked in the brokerage industry as an NASD licensed registered representative. He started his career with Boettcher and Company of Denver, Colorado and left the Principal Financial Group of Denver, Colorado in 1994 to open his own small-cap investment firm, S.W. Gordon Capital, Inc., where he has served as president from 1994 to the present. He has consulted with many small companies, both public and private, on capital formation and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Stewart is the CEO and co-owner of Larimer County Sports, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company, which owns the Colorado Eagles Hockey team franchise of the Central Hockey League which is located in Windsor, Colorado, 40 miles north of Denver.
Mr. Stewart was born in The Pas, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of Denver on a full athletic scholarship where he played ice hockey from 1979 to 1983 as right wing and served as assistant captain during his senior year. Mr. Stewart graduated with a BS, Business Administration from the University of Denver in 1983, with honors as a Student Athlete (ice hockey). | 