Stuart LucasSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

From 1995 to 2001, he managed the family's investment office; today, he delegated that duty to other family members. Under his supervision, the family reorganized the family office, gave it a purpose and a strategic direction, rebuilt the economic engine to increase family wealth, reorganized advisory relationships, enhanced family communications and wealth education, and reinforced estate planning.

At the Chicago-based Bank One, Stuart Lucas formerly served as Senior Managing Director of the Ultra-high Net Worth Group under Private Client Services. About 150 private clients with assets at the bank exceeding $25 million were handled by this group.

He worked for Wellington Management Company, a wealth management company, in the 1980s, first as an assistant portfolio manager for a mutual fund that was on the Forbes Honor Roll and then for three years as general manager of the company's European commercial operations.

He also worked in the private equity industry between 1989 and 1994, both in Europe and the US. Along with his work with families, Stuart Lucas has a long-standing dedication to public service. In Washington, D.C., he serves as Vice Chairman of the National Public Radio Foundation. He serves as vice chairman of the San Francisco-based Stuart Foundation.

He is on the investment committees of both foundations investment committees, where he manages investments totaling around $700 million that he sits on the committees He participates in both the Development Committee and the Board of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

He formerly held positions on the Auxiliary Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Board of Visitors of the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. Stuart Lucas is a fourth-generation heir to the Carnation Company, which is best known for producing all-American foods like Carnation evaporated milk and Friskies cat food. E.A. Stuart founded the company.

The Stuart family gave Carnation to Nestlé in 1985. Stuart Lucas is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a 1981 alumnus of Dartmouth College with High Honors. He also earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1989. He is married and has three kids.