John Stein
John has over 20 years of entrepreneurial, private equity and mezzanine, operational, and investment banking experience. He is a founding principal of Fidelis Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor based in Birmingham, Alabama.
John has over 20 years of entrepreneurial, private equity and mezzanine, operational, and investment banking experience. He is a founding principal of Fidelis Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor based in Birmingham, Alabama.
John is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Raycom Media, a broadcast company that owns and/or operates 46 television stations in 36 markets and 18 states. He is also a Board member of Wise Metals Group, the world’s third-leading producer of aluminum can stock for the beverage and food industries, Golden Enterprises, a premiere producer, marketer and distributor of a full line of high quality salted snack items throughout the Southeastern United States, SiO2 Medical Products, a company developing novel parenteral containers for the pharmaceutical industry as well as the Chairman of IntraMicron, Inc., a company formed to commercialize the technology of a chemical engineering professor at Auburn University.
From 1996 to 1998, John co-founded and was Co-Managing Partner of Petra Capital LLC, a private subordinated debt fund based in Nashville providing growth capital to small businesses. From 1995 to 1996, John was with Windward Capital Partners, an $875 million leveraged buyout fund based in New York. From 1991 to 1995, John was an Associate in the Investment Banking Department at the First Boston Corporation, a global investment banking firm.
John received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, an MBA from Auburn University at Montgomery, and a BS in Business Administration from Auburn University. Mr. Stein is a Chartered Financial Analyst.