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Leadership

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Stephen A. Smith

Partner

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Partner

Stephen A Smith is a partner of Augustus Global Holdings LLC and is President and Chief Executive Officer of GlenArbor Partners Incorporated, a private equity, and real estate investment firm. Prior to his current roles, Mr. Smith co-founded Bryanston Realty Partners LLC in 2004 with two other partners and served as a Principal and it’s Chief Operating Officer until 2011. The firm invested through its institutional funds (Bryanston Retail Opportunity Fund LP and Bryanston Real Estate Opportunity Fund II LP) in restructuring opportunities in the retail segment, acquiring operating companies, portfolios and single assets with its venture partners Lubert-Adler, Cerberus, Acadia Realty Trust, Kimco Realty and several other private equity firms. Over that period the firm invested in the acquisition of a number of retailers including Mervyn’s, Albertson’s, ShopKo, and Marsh Supermarkets.

Prior to co-forming Bryanston in 2004, Mr. Smith was a Managing Director of LaSalle Investment Management, and an International Director of its parent Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. He was a member of LaSalle’s Global Management and Investment Strategy Committees. From 1996-2004 he was responsible for the firm’s domestic and international investment clients through offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London, and Munich. Prior to 1996, he held a variety of transaction and relationship management positions within LaSalle Partners Inc., the firm’s predecessor.

He joined LaSalle in 1985 from The Quaker Oats Company in Chicago where he served as a brand manager in the US foods division for five years. 

He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, MedProperties Group, and was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of Albertson’s LLC, Prescient Edge LLC and Mervyn’s LLC. He was formerly a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and Urban Land Institute (ULI).

He received an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Evanston, IL in 1985 and an A.B. in Economics from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1980.

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Eugene Carpino

Partner

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Partner

Eugene Carpino brings more than 30 years of high-level participation in local, state, and federal government and politics. In addition to his domestic public & private sector experience, Mr. Carpino has built an impressive track record of international client successes and a global network of contacts. He has helped conceive and manage projects across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Caucuses, Asia, and South & Central America ranging from establishing NGOs, infrastructure development, and US federal government defense contracts. Mr. Carpino’s extensive experience in the national security sector comes from more than a decade of overseas risk management projects, and experience in the service to local and federal government agencies, supporting counterterrorism and US Intelligence initiatives.

Mr. Carpino worked in the campaign apparatus of three US presidential candidates and over 200 local, state, and federal office campaigns. He has worked effectively with both parties in the US Government and has a contact base that spans more than 20 countries outside the US.

Mr. Carpino also possesses a deep knowledge of real estate development and the construction industry from his serving as a partner at a prominent residential & commercial real estate development firm in Chicago.

Mr. Carpino has served on various boards, including the University of Chicago Dean’s International Council, the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, Argus Fire & Property Casualty, and the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation’s Private Detective, Security, Alarm Contractor, and Locksmith board.

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Steve Kim

Partner

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Partner

Steve Kim is a partner and General Counsel of Augustus Global Ventures. As an international attorney, Steve Kim has over 25 years of executive-level experience working with both the private and government sectors, including serving in senior leadership as general counsel for several international companies where he led and directed the organizations’ legal, regulatory, and international government relations and global business development activities.

Prior to his current role, Kim was a partner at RKF Global PLLC, a boutique international law firm, where he advised companies both domestically and internationally on regulatory and government policies, international trade, financing, and general corporate issues. Prior to his work in the private sector, Kim served in a multitude of roles in the public sector, in both elected and appointed positions.

Kim’s public service began when he was Special Assistant to former Governor Jim Edgar where he advised on international trade, economic development, and Asian Affairs issues. Kim also served as International Trade Specialist at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs, and as Director of Export and International Trade for the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce. Kim served on the United States Department of States Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) and on the steering committee for Basra, Iraq.

In 2012, Kim was elected as a delegate for Mitt Romney for President and served as the Illinois delegate for the Republican National Convention Platform Committee. In 2015, Kim was appointed by Governor Bruce Rauner, and confirmed by the Illinois State Senate, to serve as Commissioner of the Illinois Human Rights Commission. As Commissioner, Kim has adjudicated hundreds of complaints of civil rights violations filed under the Illinois Human Rights Act. In 2016, Kim was appointed by the Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court to serve as a member of the influential Rules Committee of the Supreme Court. Kim was re-appointed to the Rules Committee in 2019. In 2017 Kim was appointed by the Lake County Chairman to serve as a member of the Lake County Government Reform and Accountability Commission.

​Kim was chairman of Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford’s Performance Audit Committee and served as the Treasurer’s Business Advisor. Kim served on U.S. Senator Mark Kirk’s Small Business Advisory Board and was also chairman of Senator Kirk’s Asian American Advisory Board. Kim was also a trustee of Northfield Township.

Kim also has executive experience in Fortune 500 companies, previously serving as Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at Time Warner Cable and Director of External Affairs at & Illinois. Kim was selected to be one of Chicago United’s Business Leaders of Color in 2015. Kim was also the recipient of the 2011 Pan Asian American Ping Tom Memorial Award presented by the Asian American Coalition of Chicago for grateful recognition of outstanding achievement in the Pan Asian American community.

Currently, Kim is on the board of the United State Chamber of Commerce’s US/Egypt Business Council, US/GCC Business Council, and the US/Iraq Business Council. He is also on the Business Leadership Council for the International Republican Institute where he was part of a US-based delegation to monitor the 2019 Ukraine Parliamentary elections.

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