Greg Porto advises shareholders and management teams regarding raising capital, financial restructurings and mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on debt financing. He has assisted clients with raising debt and equity, mergers and acquisitions and operational and financial restructurings in a breadth of industries in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is also a Senior Advisor with Ion Partners Investment Bankers in New York City and headed the firms Chicago office prior to joining Stone Carlie.

Gregs previous experience includes serving as a Managing Director and Principal of Akin Bay Company, a New York City based investment bank where he completed numerous investment banking assignments in Asia and before that, eight years in the investment banking group at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. in St. Louis where he was a Managing Director focused on private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and public debt and equity offerings for middle market companies. He has run his own advisory firm, providing strategic, operational and financial consulting services to executives of middle market companies, has served as the CFO of Strike Holdings, LLC, a rapidly expanding New York City based entertainment company and as a Managing Partner of Four Star Hospitality Group, LLC, a branding, marketing and public relations agency in Chicago. He began his career in New York City in the investment banking group at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc.

Greg received his BA in Economics from Duke University and received his MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Heartland Alliance, a service based human rights organization in Chicago and resides in St. Louis with his wife.