ABOUT US
History
Family

Stetson Family Office was created in 1919 by Eugene W. Stetson of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York when he organized and arranged for the public offering of the Coca-Cola Company. Stetson also ran the Illinois Central for Averill Harriman at Harriman’s request. He merged the well-capitalized Guaranty Trust Company with the much smaller J.P. Morgan bank. The Stetson School of Business at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia was established in his memory. 
Eugene's son Charlie Stetson was one of the founders of the third market trading of public stocks away from the New York Stock Exchange in the early 1950s, which became a major business.
Chuck Stetson is the third generation to run the family office. He is focused on private equity investments and leases with family offices around the globe in his role as the head of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Global Family Office Council. He has also set up a philanthropic organization, Essentials in Education, which provides world class educational content on Flourishing Through Business.
Team
Chuck Stetson, CEO
In 1999, the Bible Literacy Project www.bibleliteracy.org was established and co- published with the First Amendment Center “The Bible & Public Schools, A First Amendment Guide” which had 19 other endorsers including the National School Boards Association, America Federation of Teachers, National Education Association and the People for the American Way among others. Essentials in Education – www.essentialsineducation.org was added later as the efforts included producing U.S. Constitution Social Studies Reader. In 2017, the Stetson Family Office started Healthcare Impact Foundation, a 501(c)(3), to bring capital and management expertise to life science companies at all stages and to build and maintain an efficient life science eco-system. The Foundation also works to advocate for disease prevention as a strategy to drive healthcare savings. Stetson Family Office has set up a unique Global Family Office BioForum to facilitate collaboration between family offices around the globe and healthcare innovators. Family Offices are responding with excitement. Study groups on Alzheimer’s, Cancer and Diabetes/Obesity have been set up to help Family Offices understand these chronic diseases and where the best investment opportunities might be - See Philanthropy.

Grace Mathew,  Managing Director  
Grace is responsible for the Indo Asia- Pacific Region Selected as one of Australia’s 100 Brightest Young Minds in 2010, Grace has applied her strengths in communication, leadership, and strategic relationship management to roles in business, philanthropy, and media, regularly presenting to audiences of up to 60,000 since age 15. She was awarded the Goldman Sachs Global Leader Award in 2008, in recognition of her international achievements in the community and international leadership initiatives. While earning a Bachelor of International & Global Studies and Master of International Relations from the University of Sydney, Grace also completed postgraduate courses in Political Science at George Washington University.

Raimondo del Balzo di Presenzano, Vice President  
Raimondo curates the Oncology unit of the Healthcare Impact Foundation. Raimondo started his career on the LATAM desk of HSBC Private Bank and then became a portfolio manager and financial analyst at Dromeus Capital, a Hedge fund, and subsequently at SterWen, a multi-family office based in Switzerland. Raimondo is a CFA Charter holder and was awarded his BSc and MSc in Business Administration from HEC Geneva, University of Geneva, where he served as a Council Member for the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences.

Maria Makela, Vice President  
Maria brings 20 years of international market expertise in healthcare and life science, where she leads a Women in Family Offices initiative to advocate for gender parity in private investment offices. She worked as a business strategist and management consultant to Business Finland (previously Finpro). Maria lead projects on Future Trends for Service Design and was part of all of Finpro’s healthcare and life science engagements and business development initiatives. After Finpro she led the business development efforts of a consortium of Finnish Clinical Research Organizations which were expanding their businesses into the US.Maria has her Masters in Social Science from the University of Turku, in Finland and a MBA (International Business) from Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. She is a Board Member and Senior Vice President of Finlandia Foundation’s New York Chapter.