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Family owned businesses are in Alistair Stewart’s blood. Being involved in his grandfather’s business gave Alistair early insights into what must go right if a business wants to attain lasting success. Much of Alistair’s professional career has been spent helping the owners of small and medium size manufacturing businesses clarify what success means to them so they can achieve it.

After graduating from Plymouth University (U.K.), Alistair worked as an accountant in a variety of large corporations. His work there led him to a position in the US, and then to the US Department of Commerce’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), with an intense focus on growth, profitability and value creation for small and medium-size manufacturers

Throughout Alistair’s career, business owners contemplating the third stage of their lives have relied on him to help them clarify their motives, support their personal journeys to transition readiness and increase their business’s transferable value.

 Alistair holds a Master of Science degree in Communication from Northwestern University, and he is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), and a Master Business Innovator, with additional professional credentials in Lean and Six Sigma. Alistair served as a Senior Advisor at an investment banking firm and currently serves on the advisory board of a manufacturing business.