A career entrepreneur, Stephen Greer founded Hartwell Pacific, a scrap metal recycling company, in Hong Kong in 1994 at the age of 24.

Hartwell Pacific developed a successful business trading and brokering a broad range of scrap metals as well as stainless steel sheets and coils on a global basis.

He subsequently lived in Hong Kong for twenty years and built Hartwell Pacific into a global business with operations in seven countries and revenues of $300 million.

In July 2003, Hartwell Pacific sold a 50% stake to Australia’s Smorgon Steel Group to create a joint venture company called Smorgon Hartwell Recycling. The Smorgon Steel Group was a top 100 publicly listed company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), a leading steel maker, the largest distributor of construction steel and the largest domestic metal recycling company in Australia.

In March 2005, Smorgon Steel purchased the balance 50% of Smorgon Hartwell Recycling creating a 100% subsidiary of the Smorgon Steel Group and Mr. Greer stayed on as Chief Executive for Asia for Smorgon Steel Group’s Recycling division and served on Smorgon’s newly created Asia Board as part of the terms of the acquisition.

In 2008, having fulfilled all his obligations under the acquisition, he resigned his position and became a senior advisor to Oaktree Capital, the distressed debt and private equity investor. Later in 2010 Greer authored the book, Starting From Scrap, which chronicles his experiences as a start-up entrepreneur in Asia.

In 2011, Mr. Greer moved to Washington DC to take advantage of what he believes are great opportunities created by the re-structuring and resurgence of industrial America as well as to help companies who are looking to get involved in Asia and emerging markets. During this period Greer advised private equity firms TENEX Capital and Audax on US based investments in the industrial sector.

Stephen is currently the owner and CEO of SONCO Worldwide, a Maryland based distribution and service company of perimeter security and mechanical tube products that was founded in 1976. He acquired the struggling business in 2014, conducting a major restructuring which included strategic business exits and refocus converting into a profitable, diversified industrial holding company nowadays.

Stephen is a Trustee of Chatham University in Pittsburgh PA, of Historic Fort Ligonier and an active of member of the Washington Capital Chapter of YPO, Young Presidents Organization.

He holds has a degree in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1991.

Stephen and his wife Mei Greer live in Washington DC and have three young children.