Joe has over nine years of Wall Street experience at firms including Morgan Stanley and UBS. In addition to his role with Adagio Institute, Joe maintains his position as Vice President in Middle Markets at Morgan Stanley working closely with institutional clients and ultra high net worth families in coordinating investments across all asset classes, including alternative investments; additionally, Joe advises middle market institutional clients providing equity sales coverage. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Joe worked in middle markets at UBS advising both institutions and ultra high net worth families.

Kurtay is responsible for academic initiatives under Adagio Institute. He is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies & Research, Director of the Asset Management Academy, and Director of the Quantitative Finance Club in the department of finance at LSU.

In addition to his academic career, Kurtay has served in the public and private sectors over the last three decades, most recently as the Senior Investment Officer for Risk Management and Asset Allocation in the Mayor’s Office for Pensions and Investments at the New York City Retirement System. Additionally, Kurtay served as the first investment manager for the LSU endowment.

Kurtay received his PhD in Decision Sciences (Asset Management, Stochastic Processes and Econometrics) and Master of Applied Statistics (Binary Choice Models and Bayesian Theory) from LSU and his MBA in Finance from Western Michigan University.

Stephan is responsible for community outreach and educational initatives under Adagio Institute. Stephan has built extremely powerful information distribution infrastructure that has the ability to directly communicate with millions of investors and investment professionals.

Stephan began investing in real estate as a teenager flipping $300 lots in New Mexico online. By age 23, he owned a portfolio of rental properties in California and Nevada. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, Stephan traded more than 200 single-family homes on eBay! learning how to profit across market cycles. Stephan's passion to pass on what he learned led him to build the largest real estate community on LinkedIn The Real Estate Networking Group and the website ListedBy. Stephan uses his massive platforms to share his knowledge and access with the millions of members in his networks.

Arne received his law degree from the South Texas College of Law and both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Texas Tech University.