Steve Curnutte

About Steve Curnutte

Prior to founding Tortola and Capstan in 2009, Steve spent 20 years as an entrepreneur in industries ranging from music publishing, mortgage and SBA lending, and financial services. Steve has navigated operational and financial restructurings of hundreds of companies in a wide range of sectors including retail, printing, aluminum smelting, entertainment, manufacturing, real estate, construction, trucking, scrap metal, automotive, healthcare, oil and gas, and financial services. He has assisted with the sale of multiple going concern businesses, and the disposition of many kinds of assets including inventory, accounts receivable, commercial real estate, farmland, heavy equipment, industrial/medical/manufacturing equipment, and rolling stock, Steve has served in financial and executive C-Suite roles dozens of times, assisted law firms in investigating cases of fraud and check kiting, and provided expert testimony in State and Federal cases. He has also advised investors who have deployed capital into circumstances that have fallen into distress and worked through multiple distressed acquisitions. At Capstan, Steve has sourced, negotiated and led private equity investments in the manufacturing, retailing, consumer products and other sectors. Steve is a graduate of Wake Forest University.

Experience

1. Part Owner, Board Member

   Allen Printing, Inc

   Oct 2010 — Present · Nashville, TN

   Founded in 1931, Allen Printing is a Nashville based full service printing company that services the wholesale broker market primarily. Allen offers a full range of printing including a complete bindry.

Education

• Wake Forest University

  BA English, Double Major English and Philosophy

  1986 — 1991