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.
