Stephen Master

Investment Professional at GTCR

📍 DuPage County, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Sep 2025
From day one, we’ve been dedicated to helping financial advisors build their businesses, expand their influence, and strengthen relationships with customers. Our digital marketing tools and award-winning content are unparalleled in the industry. We currently provide over 40,000 advisors and insurance agents with websites, multimedia content, and the industry’s best communication tools. FMG Suite was born in San Diego, CA in 2011. We started with a handful of advisors and creative thinkers who dared to ask the question, “How can we make a remarkable difference for advisors?” Since then, our offerings have grown from websites to a sophisticated, automated “suite” that supports advisors’ success, day in and day out. Today, we are a hardworking, fun-loving team of experts from around the world, with experience encompassing finance, law, compliance, graphic design, web development – and nearly everything in between. We love putting our creative skills toward helping your business flourish.
Board Member
Jun 2023
We are passionate about creating software that empowers brands to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers. The key is harnessing the explosive growth in data that is generated and used throughout the enterprise. We are dedicated to cultivating successful partnerships with B2B2C companies, working hand in hand to enhance the lives of individuals and make a positive contribution in an increasingly dynamic world.
Board Member
May 2020
At Guideline, were defining the future of how the world buys and sells media. We combined the leading media planning and data companies to create the world’s most trusted set of solutions to help shape mission-critical advertising decisions. Though we already provide guidance to the world’s leading brands, agencies, and media owners; we are just getting started. We are innovating, expanding existing capabilities, and leveraging cutting-edge technology to offer automated, intelligent solutions to age-old industry processes.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Who We Are: We’re the Advertising Success Platform–helping marketers and advertisers achieve maximum relevance via best-in-class adtech, programmatic, and workflow software solutions. What We Value: 1. We are collaborative. 2. We are inventive. 3. We are inclusive. 4. We are honest. 5. We are fun. What Makes Us Different: We’re more than a programmatic advertising platform. We offer best-in-class advertising technology solutions from programmatic to omnichannel to workflow software. We also differentiate ourselves as a unique demand-side platform (DSP) by operating on our own data management platform (DMP), distinct from others that rely on third-party data integrations for audience targeting. This empowers us to deliver data-driven advertising solutions at a granular level, enabling precise campaign optimization. We allow advertisers to leverage a comprehensive array of programmatic advertising options to effectively target audiences with tailored ads, supported by various data types, and offer flexible service models for transparent cost management. About Simpli.fi: Simpli.fi is the leading Advertising Success Platform, providing programmatic advertising solutions and workflow software to over 2,000 media teams, agencies, and brands. Simpli.fi empowers advertisers to maximize relevance, in what they do, in the connections made, and in the results delivered across CTV, mobile, display, and other media types. Our platform delivers performance on budgets of all sizes, executing over 140,000 campaigns for 30,000 advertisers in a typical month. Simpli.fis investors include leading private equity firms Blackstone and GTCR.
Board Member
May 2014
Cision is the global leader in consumer and media intelligence, engagement, and communication solutions. We equip PR and corporate communications, marketing, and social media professionals with the tools they need to excel in today’s data-driven world. Our deep expertise, exclusive data partnerships, and award-winning brands and products, including CisionOne, Brandwatch, and PR Newswire, enable over 75,000 companies and organizations, including 84% of the Fortune 500, to see and be seen, understand and be understood by the audiences that matter most to them. Interested in working for Cision? Visit cision.com/careers for available opportunities!
Experience · 11 entries
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2026
Board Member
Mar 2026
LiveBarns fully automated broadcast system live streams amateur and youth sporting events. LiveBarn is installed in ice hockey rinks, indoor court sports (volleyball & basketball), turf venues (soccer, lacrosse, football) and baseball/softball fields, gymnastics and aquatics. LiveBarn is installed in thousands venues across the United States, Canada and Sweden.
2025
Board Member
Sep 2025
From day one, we’ve been dedicated to helping financial advisors build their businesses, expand their influence, and strengthen relationships with customers. Our digital marketing tools and award-winning content are unparalleled in the industry. We currently provide over 40,000 advisors and insurance agents with websites, multimedia content, and the industry’s best communication tools. FMG Suite was born in San Diego, CA in 2011. We started with a handful of advisors and creative thinkers who dared to ask the question, “How can we make a remarkable difference for advisors?” Since then, our offerings have grown from websites to a sophisticated, automated “suite” that supports advisors’ success, day in and day out. Today, we are a hardworking, fun-loving team of experts from around the world, with experience encompassing finance, law, compliance, graphic design, web development – and nearly everything in between. We love putting our creative skills toward helping your business flourish.
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
We are passionate about creating software that empowers brands to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers. The key is harnessing the explosive growth in data that is generated and used throughout the enterprise. We are dedicated to cultivating successful partnerships with B2B2C companies, working hand in hand to enhance the lives of individuals and make a positive contribution in an increasingly dynamic world.
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
Lexipol is the leading provider of policy, training and wellness support for first responders and government leaders, helping address public safety challenges and improve the quality of life for all community members. Our solutions encompass state-specific policies, online learning, behavioral health resources, funding assistance, and news and analysis, including the online digital communities Police1, FireRescue1, EMS1, Corrections1 and Gov1. Lexipol serves more than 2 million public safety professionals in 8,100 agencies and municipalities across the United States.
2020
Board Member
May 2020
At Guideline, were defining the future of how the world buys and sells media. We combined the leading media planning and data companies to create the world’s most trusted set of solutions to help shape mission-critical advertising decisions. Though we already provide guidance to the world’s leading brands, agencies, and media owners; we are just getting started. We are innovating, expanding existing capabilities, and leveraging cutting-edge technology to offer automated, intelligent solutions to age-old industry processes.
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