Most of our Investors are not aware that Steve Roy has acted as an advisor to FDL for several years. As a well-known business executive, Steve’s knowledge will bring additional value to the company and therefore, all of our LLC Members.
Steve has spent 40 plus years in the financial services industry. He began his career in commercial banking with the former First National Bank in St. Louis. After several years as a successful commercial lender Steve joined A.G. Edwards & Sons as an early member of their Investment Banking Department. Here and later at Prudential Securities he honed his financial analysis skills and developed corporate relationships that included assisting CEO’s, CFO’s and business owners in raising private and public capital, equity recapitalizations, Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s) of common stock and mergers and acquisitions. In 2002 Steve transitioned from Investment Banking to Merchant Banking where in addition to assisting smaller corporate clients raise capital and execute mergers and acquisitions, he has also invested his own capital in selected private companies.
Steve and his wife Mary have been married for 42 years and they are blessed with four children and seven grandchildren.