Mr. John Stein is a Co-Founder and serves as Manager, President, Principal, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief Operating Officer at Five Stones Investment Group. He also serves as Principal and Trustee at Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati. Mr. Stein served as a director on various public and private bank boards from 1998 through 2010 and is a founder of Trapeza Capital Management, LLC, a provider of capital to community-based financial institutions. Prior to founding FSI, Mr. Stein served as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in the Market Risk Analytics Group of Bankers Trust Company, and as a Commercial and Investment Banking Consultant in the Financial Services Strategy practice of The MAC Group/Gemini Consulting. Mr. Stein received his Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 1988. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.