Passion… Experience… Integrity…
Independent and Client-Driven
Business owners seek objective advice. The timing and financial pressures of outside ownership sometimes prevent larger capital markets firms from giving their best advice and execution. As an independent firm, we are solely driven by our clients’ success. We have the flexibility to stand by our clients and patiently navigate the unique circumstances that sometimes complicate projects.
Leadership
Richard Bartolo
Richard Bartolo, Founder
Richard (Rich) Bartolo has over 20 years experience in private equity, investment banking, corporate banking, and consulting. He has a broad background in corporate and real estate finance and has also spent significant time assisting financial institutions in navigating their opportunities and challenges. He has been involved in transactions valued in the tens of billions inside and outside North America.
Prior to founding FSC, Mr. Bartolo served as a Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group and BRG Capital Advisors, where he specialized in bank regulatory services and private capital placements. He previously focused on opportunities stemming from the 2008 financial crisis, as Senior Managing Director of a global real estate services firm, and as Managing Director of a New York private equity firm. His earlier experience includes depository investment banking and large corporate syndicated lending. A past president of CFA Society Atlanta, Mr. Bartolo currently serves on the board of UGA’s Student Managed Investment Fund. He is also Chief Investment Officer and a director of The Littlestone Company, a non-traded REIT.
Mr. Bartolo graduated from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) with an MBA in finance and from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) with a B.A. in chemistry and economics, and is licensed by the Georgia Real Estate Commission and by FINRA (BrokerCheck).
Professional Designations and Affiliations
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®)
Constantine Korologos
Constantine “Tino” Korologos, Managing Director
Constantine “Tino” Korologos CRE, MAI, MRICS, has worked in the real estate industry for 35 years, and has held several senior executive and managing director positions at Wachovia Securities, Bear Stearns and Co., GE Capital Real Estate, Moody’s Investors Service, Equitable Real Estate Investment Management and Deloitte & Touché, where he focused on the capital markets, valuation, structured finance, consulting and investment banking. Complementing his professional experience, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor, teaching graduate real estate finance, capital markets and portfolio risk courses in the New York University Schack Real Estate Institute, where he has been on the faculty for over 25 years.
Mr. Korologos has participated in the structuring, ratings, origination, securitization, sale, valuation and asset management, of approximately $100 billions of capital market & commercial real estate transactions. He has worked on regulatory advisory engagements for several of the Top 50 commercial banks, assisting with the development of CCAR and DFAST stress test models. He has testified as an expert witness in several real estate securities and valuation litigation matters.
Mr. Korologos graduated with an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York, is a Member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE), and is licensed by FINRA (BrokerCheck).
Professional Designations and Affiliations
Member Appraisal Institute (MAI)
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
Julia Steinweg
Julia Steinweg, Managing Director
Julia Steinweg, based in Los Angeles, CA, US, is currently a Chief Financial Officer at EXCELSIOR (EOE, Excelsior Preschools, others of Excelsior Group), bringing experience from previous roles at SEP Capital, LLC, Steinweg Emotion Pictures, Bitfury Surround and Novus4Life. She brings a wealth of experience in Digital Media, Television, Film Production, Video Production, Film and real estate.
Ms. Steinweg holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Investment and Finance / Strategic Management / Marketing @ Technische Universität Berlin / TU Berlin, and a PhD in Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurial Studies @ UAB Barcelona. and is licensed by FINRA (BrokerCheck).
Derrick Williams, Managing Director
Derrick Williams
Derrick Williams has been involved in finance for over 20 years. He joined FrontStage Capital in 2019 to provide financial analysis and other strategic advisory services as well as execution of public and private capital offerings and mergers and acquisitions transactions to small and middle market clients. Typical client assignments have included development and analysis of business plans and financial models; company and ESOP valuations; capital management projects and assessment of capital adequacy; sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions advisory; recapitalizations; and the impact of potential capital offerings and merger and acquisition transactions.
Mr. Williams also serves select clients, as interim CFO, to align finance, strategy and operations and address financial growth issues. He serves on the selection committee for Venture Atlanta, the preeminent Southeast venue for entrepreneurs and venture investors, and is also very active with several angel investment groups and advisory boards including the RAISE Forum, an Atlanta-based funding initiative held twice-a-year in partnership with Emory University to promote early stage investment opportunities to venture funds, angel groups, high net worth individuals and family offices. He began his investment banking career at UBS Securities as an industry and product generalist and has evolved to execute transactions in the business services, distribution, financial services, financial technology, healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, restaurant and hospitality and technology industries.
Mr. Williams received his MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and BA in Political Science from Yale University. He is licensed by FINRA and has also served as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer in Finance and Entrepreneurship.
Elizabeth Kunetz
Elizabeth Kunetz, VP & Head of Execution
Throughout her career Elizabeth has worked working primarily with small privately held businesses. She has assisted with and initiated a wide range of financial transactions over her 20 plus years of experience. Her work has spanned efforts to raise private and bank funding for business expansions to full scale sell side engagements and back to valuation work for estate and corporate purposes. Past clients and industry work include consumer products, banking institutions, restaurants, beer distribution and natural mineral extraction efforts among others. Before she arrived in Atlanta, Ms. Kunetz worked in St Louis Missouri and Washington DC. She holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Ms. Kunetz received her MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University with a concentration of Finance and her undergraduate degree from Duke University with a double major in Economics and English.
Professional Designations and Affiliations
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®)